So I went to have a tooth extracted back on October 5th. Well what an experience it was. My simple extraction took nearly and hour and a half and I have had nothing but problems since. Because it took so long I ended up with a dry docket because the clot was destroyed and disappeared. Apparently the roots wrapped around the bone, which I might had I was not expecting nor have I heard of this before. Secondly I put on Clindamycin,Ibuprofren, and Vicodin.
Well it was a nightmare. After taking the antibiotic to the very end, on the last day I go to take the last pill and it goes down and it feels stuck. I can’t get it to go down and it wont budge. After a little bit I start feeling really sharp chest pains, and it continues on to then include difficulty swallowing. It really begins to get worse because I am really hungry and after conducting research on line about what it could be it sounds like my esophagus is irritated so I try some toast like the websites said and that did not go over too well. Let say it really hurts to swallow it and when it hits the esophagus or what I think is my esophagus it sends to my knees in pain and the tears are just streaming down my face. So I try to manage it with Prilosec and Mylanta with no improvement.
So I finally go to the doctors and do to the amount of damage the clindamycin and ibuprofren I may have gastric problems forever. Apparently the antibiotic or should I say my reaction to it caused my body to lose all its healthy bacteria and no I am prone to infection because my immune system can’t fight all anything. Also my esophagus is ulcerated and there is a possibility that I may now have a gastric ulcer……….So I go home with three more medicine which I am now completely afraid to take anything else at this point. The tooth extraction side still has not healed………….Moral of the story know the dentist really well and do your research and pay close attention to the fine print on the printout of side effects the pharmacy gives you.
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=1599
its a thinking thing 