I’m travelling overseas in Asia and have developed a dental abscess. I have had one before and am a waiting list to have the tooth pulled.
The country I’m travelling in doesn’t require prescriptions for antibiotics so I’m taking amoxicillin. I took 500mg 4 times a day and it got worse and the pain unbareable.
After looking online, I found that amoxicillin is the way to go. So I upped my dosage to 1g, 3 times a day. This worked and within 24hrs the pain was gone and on my gum there was pimple looking thing. It popped so I used mouthwash and went to bed feeling heaps better.
Only problem is now I’ve worked up, not with any pain but with a swollen cheek/side of my face that was originally causing pain. It almost feels numb. Will this go away if I keep taking amoxicillin? It’s fairly swollen just overnight...
I have just gone through a similar problem. My upper molar abscessed again recently, I waited a couple of weeks before going to the dentist. In the meantime, my gum area above the abscessed tooth formed a "fistula" in the gum next to the tooth in the roof of my mouth. This is a hole in my gum - nature's way of draining the infection (yuk). It continued to drain for a couple of weeks till I could get it pulled. The dental hygienist said that was my body's way of draining the abscess and preventing it from going into my bloodstream instead. I had to take antibiotics (Keflex) to treat the abscess before getting my tooth pulled. If you take the wrong antibiotic, it might not treat the particular bacterial strain that caused your abscess. Time to go to the dentist and let him tell you the correct antibiotic to treat your abscess. You need to get it treated! I, at the same time, developed a staph infection in my left ear (same side as the tooth). Had to use antibiotic drops for it. It got swollen and hot and I could not hear a thing out of that ear during the infection. It hurt, really badly! Then I developed a UTI (another bacterial infection), had to be prescribed yet ANOTHER antibiotic to treat this infection. Now I have developed a boil on my neck and my outer ear (same ear). All of this within 2 months time. Go get your abscess treated with the proper antibiotics or you might be in for more infections! Let us know how it all turns out.
