First I want to say I’m sorry my blogs have been down. I’m not exactly sure how long they were down, but I know it was over 24 hours, so I’m sorry. It was definitely my bad this time. One of my domains was up for renewal, and I forgot to update my payment info when my new card arrived in the mail. When the auto-charge for the domain happened the payment was denied thanks to it being an outdated card on file, and that caused my account to go into lock down.
I hadn’t been online much thanks to a massive toothache/earache/TMJ issues I’ve been having the last few days, so I had no idea what was going on. My bad. I should have at least checked my email while I was sitting at Urgent Care for 2 hours waiting to be seen. Then I would’ve seen the issue and rectified it immediately. All is well now, though…well, as far as my blogs are concerned.
I’m still whining like a baby about my ear/tooth. I felt bad today because I was talking to a friend and trying not to complain about how horrible I feel because I know he’s dealing with far worse pain. He’s had multiple spinal surgeries at a place similar to the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, but he’s still in a lot of pain. His chronic pain has him on 30 different medications a day plus a pain implant, so complaining about my pain that’s small compared to his seemed wrong.
The truth is this seriously hurts, though. I’ve got a pretty high pain tolerance, and I normally don’t go to the doctor when my TMJ causes pain like this. It happens a lot during allergy season, but it’s happened so many times this year with the flip flopping weather I’ve lost count. Normally I can pop a few OTC pain pills, do a few home remedies, and follow up with a few TMJ exercises to make it all go away. Not this time. The pain was much more than I could handle. OTC pain meds weren’t cutting it, so I knew this wasn’t just my normal TMJ stuff. I headed down to Urgent Care, and yep, I’ve got a pretty nasty sinus and ear infection to go along with it. The TMJ intensifies the pain because the pressure is pushing on that joint.
The good news is I got some antibiotics, and they should start kicking in within the next day or two. The bad news is he couldn’t really give me anything for the pain. That’s because we’re trying to expand our family, and that complicates my treatment. My period should arrive Monday or Tuesday. That means I’m basically in that limbo period where a pregnancy test may or may not pick up a pregnancy. A negative could be a false negative right now, and since we are trying to conceive it’s best to treat me like I’m pregnant until we know for sure either way. That means no strong painkillers, I’m stuck with Tylenol that barely manages the pain, and that also narrows down the types of antibiotics I can take. If it turns out I’m not pregnant and the pain persists we’ll move on to something stronger.
I don’t care what it takes to make this pain go away. I just want it gone. I’m ready to get more than 2 hours of pain free sleep, and it would be nice to eat again without my jaw feeling like it’s going to lock down on me. I’ve had 1 1/2 days of antibiotics so far, so I’m hoping they’ll start to give me some relief by tomorrow.
