The good thing is that relief is often very quick. The first step is antibiotics. It may seem that antibiotics won’t offer much in the way of pain relief, but you should feel substantial relief within 24-48 hours after starting them (amoxycilin or clindamycin), sometimes even sooner.

The second thing you need to do is get the pus out from underneath your tooth and let it bulge out through your gum - a little gross, but the sheer pain relief is worth it. Alternate 20-30 minutes of warm salt water gargles with a poultice made of activated charcoal, this will encourage the pus and bacteria to find an exit route through your gum. Within about 24 hours of doing this, you should have a nice beg abscess on the inside of your gum and be in much much much less pain (back to cavity pain and tenderness, not the throbbing excruicating pain that makes you want to pull your own teeth out with pliers)

it is a hellish 24-48 hours no doubt about it, but the key is to get on antibiotics as soon as possible and do the salt water swishes and charcoal poultices. you can try the gamut of other remedies, from clove oil to hardcore pain meds to tea bags to ginger, but in my experience those simply don’t work once you reach the point of mindwarping pain.

Best of luck to any fellow abscess sufferers. I made it through the last 48 hours and am feeling much better - having one root canal and one extraction this week to hopefully fix it for good

I want to pull my teeth out to get rid of the mercury they emit into my body every hour of every day. I have eight back teeth with “silver” amalgum fillings that have NO silver in them whatsoever. Instead they are a composite of metals which contain MERCURY! That’s right these rascalls are putting toxic materials in our mouths.

Dentists need to be sued, hog tied and put in stocks in the middle of town so people can spit in their faces for the stupid things they have done to us all.

Don’t use flouride toothpaste either. It’s bad for your brain and your teeth.

Flouride is even in some of your vegitables. The military is dumping white clouds of sulfer hexa-flouride into the atmosphere.

I don’t want to pay exhorbidant fees for getting mercury removed from my teeth, so I’m thinking of making some rubber coated pliers to wiggle and pull out those teeth.

Pot might be good for the pain.

Most importantly … people should take a daily dose of colloidal silver. This amazing stuff kills viruses, bacteria and fungus. To have the power to fight bacterial infections in your mouth in this way is a great preventative way to reduce the paiin which accompanies infections.

By my honor,
Joseph-William:Baker
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