NE21 worrier
09-06-13, 15:21
Hello everyone,
This is written in as part of another thread (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=136258) but I fear it would get a bit lost there due to the board/subject title so I am reposting here, if that is OK.
I am due to go on quite a convoluted holiday in a few days on Thursday, which encompasses three different capital cities in east Europe before a visit to the Glastonbury Festival. By now, normally, I would expect to have a bit of anticipatory anxiety about my adventure - but, without wanting to tempt fate, I seem to be in a really good mindset at the moment, and really proud to have made it back to work last week.
The only thing that is really troubling me at the moment is right at the back of my mouth. On Thu night, I must have cut the inside of my gum with the very last of my sharp upper teeth and the gum has swollen up really very badly around the back of my very last lower molar - so much so that I'm eating on a quite rudimentary basis at the moment. Normally, this would be because of anxiety but it is definitely a physical problem this time as it really hurts to eat anything much harder than a mousse or squished banana.
I can't really get to the swollen area with a brush so I'm washing my mouth out thoroughly with mouthwash (Corsydol) and taking Ibuprofen for the sharp pain. I really don't want to have to go back to the doctors, or even the worse the dentist - which I have avoided for years - and I only have three full days before my holiday.
Any tips greatly appreciated as this really does have the potential to affect my holiday, or my anxiety which will affect my holiday as well? Thanks,
Peter x
This is written in as part of another thread (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=136258) but I fear it would get a bit lost there due to the board/subject title so I am reposting here, if that is OK.
I am due to go on quite a convoluted holiday in a few days on Thursday, which encompasses three different capital cities in east Europe before a visit to the Glastonbury Festival. By now, normally, I would expect to have a bit of anticipatory anxiety about my adventure - but, without wanting to tempt fate, I seem to be in a really good mindset at the moment, and really proud to have made it back to work last week.
The only thing that is really troubling me at the moment is right at the back of my mouth. On Thu night, I must have cut the inside of my gum with the very last of my sharp upper teeth and the gum has swollen up really very badly around the back of my very last lower molar - so much so that I'm eating on a quite rudimentary basis at the moment. Normally, this would be because of anxiety but it is definitely a physical problem this time as it really hurts to eat anything much harder than a mousse or squished banana.
I can't really get to the swollen area with a brush so I'm washing my mouth out thoroughly with mouthwash (Corsydol) and taking Ibuprofen for the sharp pain. I really don't want to have to go back to the doctors, or even the worse the dentist - which I have avoided for years - and I only have three full days before my holiday.
Any tips greatly appreciated as this really does have the potential to affect my holiday, or my anxiety which will affect my holiday as well? Thanks,
Peter x