Oh for a peaceful sleep!

Last night I was rudely awakened twice by toothache. I was in pain but as I'm prone to bruxism (grinding my teeth), I just relaxed for ten minutes and the pain passed allowing me to go back to sleep. I was up fairly early and popped into work for a couple of hours to do what I couldn't get done yesterday because of some IT issues.

In the afternoon the pain returned worse than during the night and it was agony and showing no signs of going. I have had an abscess in the past and this was what it felt like so after listening to instructions on my dentist's answering machine, I phoned for an emergency appointment. I have one tomorrow afternoon with the out of hours dentist at the Borders General Hospital.

Within twenty minutes of securing the appointment, the pain just disappeared of its own accord but has been coming and going ever since. I'm ok for maybe half an hour then I'm in agony for ten minutes before it gradually subsides again. I can't pin it down to a particular tooth either, it affects my teeth, jaw, ear, eye, neck and temple. I hope I can sleep as soundly as KK when I go to bed.