Hello,
i am a 23 year old male. I have had depression and anxiety from 14 and been on meds for them. I am on effexor xr 300mg, klonopin 1 mg 2 times a day, ambien for sleep. Synthroid .05mg, remeron 30mg 2x day, tricor 140mg, and prevacid 30mg for an ulcer. This also makes motrin 800mg hurt my stomach sometimes I throw up. Due to so many diff meds I have been on (been on a lot) I have had very bad dry mouth. I didn't see a dentist till like 6 months ago. I lost about 4 teeth in the lower back side of my mouth on both sides wisdom teeth also. I also lost about two teeth on each side on the top. The other teeth where saved. I have no coverage for root canals. I was fine until 2 months ago I had a bad bad tooth and my dentist could not remove it so he got it half out and then I went right away to an oral surgeon. Then 2-3 weeks after the tooth next to it split and had to be removed along with a root tip from the last split tooth and left over root tip I had removed.( also both these teeth where fused to the bone ) I started to get a headache really bad when he was almost done. I have bad pain from my right side of the jaw up into the ear and bad headaches that don't go away. Motrin 800mg is not helping. I have had about 5 scripts for vicodin from the oral surgeon to get rid of the pain ( from the 3 surgeries I have had and a dry socket I smoke). He said I looked like I might be a drug seeker cause I went to see him so much and said go to the dentist I think you need another tooth pulled ( he took x-rays and saw a cavity under the filling ) and I wont help you with the pain anymore because I am afraid of the fda and I am acting like I am a drug seeker and i'm not! The 5 scripts for like 12-20 pills each time with 2 scripts having refills are over about a month and a half before and while I had the headache. The root tip he took out 2-3 weeks ago was from the tooth the dentist could not get out and the oral surgeon did half of it for him. I had bad ear pain from that and they reopened it and flushed it out and re stitched it without x-rays. The only way the found the root tip was left in was when I went in for the split tooth next to it. I had asked for x-rays when I went in about the pain before he re opened the socked and he didn't do any so he never found the root tip till after the one tooth split. Also due to the extreme amount of bad teeth I had my dentist also gave me like 5-6 scripts over six months and has now said he cant help . I just lost that tooth the bad one yesterday and i'm in bad pain still headache and jaw pain that goes up to my ear ( gave me 8 tylenol 3 but they did very little to help maybe 25%). Tylenol also seems to do nothing. I told my oral surgeon and asked if I could have tmj he said "i don't know" and sent me on my way. My dentist said if I still have pain go to the oral surgeon again but he doesn't want to help as he says he sees no problem except for the tooth that I just had pulled but I have not spoken with him after it got pulled.. He is the only oral surgeon that takes my medicaid around. Same with the dentist I feel like i'm dirty and in shame for how bad they think I am. I told them just get rid of the pain and I wont need to ask for meds. What do I do the doctor my regular doctor says he cant help cause he is not a dentist. Do I sound like I am doing something wrong the pain is so bad I mean before 2 months ago I had bad pain but this is nothing like that I cant sleep good at all. Also all my other front teeth that where saved had about 3 cavities in them each. So that is like 24 cavities in the past 6 months ( most where filled in 2 visits ) I have had filled. However those teeth are fine thank god. My dentist said he had never seen a case like mine before and invited all the staff to see because I was 23 and to young for this. He told me my meds caused dry month and I should not be this bad. He told me to try and change meds but I cant. I almost sure medicaid does not cover tmj treatment. Do I sound like I could have it I would like some advice. It hurts to chew on the side where my jaw hurts but no jaw clicking or no pain when I open my jaw. I see and understand from what I have read online that vicodin are not the best choice for tmj and I understand but what do you do when nothing else helps and the doctors aren't fixing the problem any other way. I'm scared very scared now that I feel shunned and that I really have no hope. My pain on a scale from 1-10 I feel is like a 8:(. Thanks for any advice you can give