Poor Me!

[Doc Alan]

I sympathise, Arthur, and wish you a full recovery with pain relief as soon as possible.


As I explained to Slip in a previous thread, the usual way to cure a dental abscess is by the dentist or dental surgeon cutting into it to drain away the pus ( fluid containing the bacteria / bugs ). Indeed, antibiotics may not always be needed for dental abscesses unless there are complications ( like local spread ). If they were needed, amoxicillin ( a type of penicillin ), as prescribed in your case, is appropriate.


Hopefully the antibiotics will “ kick in “, as you say, but presumably this is prior to your dentist / dental surgeon draining the abscess.


Get well soon !

[Arthur Little]

I sympathise, Arthur, and wish you a full recovery with pain relief as soon as possible.

As I explained to Slip in a previous thread, the usual way to cure a dental abscess is by the dentist or dental surgeon cutting into it to drain away the pus ( fluid containing the bacteria / bugs ). Indeed, antibiotics may not always be needed for dental abscesses unless there are complications ( like local spread ). If they were needed, amoxicillin ( a type of penicillin ), as prescribed in your case, is appropriate.


Hopefully the antibiotics will “ kick in “, as you say ...

Get well soon !

Thanks too, for your sympathy, Alan. Alas my dentist didn't offer to drain the abscess ... preferring instead to prescribe antibiotics - which, frankly, aren't helping a great deal to relieve the almost constant dull ache - when I wish to God he'd just yanked the tooth out in the first place. Indeed, the Amoxicillin capsules proved so ineffective that I was forced to walk 3/4 of a mile each way to the 24-hr Tesco store in order to replenish my stock of painkillers late last night. Oddly enough, doing this did bring a modicum of relief ... even if it was short-lived.

[Arthur Little]

... but presumably this is prior to your dentist / dental surgeon draining the abscess.

... 'fraid NOT ... his parting shot was, "see you in six months' time - unless, of course, the tooth gives you any more bother".