General Medical Question - Urgent - Dental Abcess (sp?)

[Leann]

Hey,
I am really worried ATM. Last night I had a wierd tingly numb feeling in the right lower (jaw) side of my face. Almost as if I had been injucted with novocane or something. Well today I woke up with my right side of my face really swollen. It's gotten worse as the day has progressed. I was researching it on the web and I am pretty sure it is a Dental Abcess. Vertically it travels from my cheek bone down to the top of my neck. It's sore and warm to the touch. It's gotten to the point where opening my mouth a little sets it off. I will be the first to say that I have really bad teeth, so this is probably what it is. Maybe this is just wishfull thinking, but is it possible for these things to just pass on their own? See, I absolutly do NOT want to go to a doctors/dentist to get it checked out, because I have a lot of fresh SI in pretty obvious places ATM, and I can't let people know. I'm terrified about it! Is there any way to fix this abcess on my own? Does iceing it help? I'm really worried! Today my supervisor and other employees were saying that I should have called in sick today and that I need to get it checked out. I am scared that they are gonna make me take time off tomorrow and get it looked at.

I hope this wasn't too jumbled up... any advice would be really appreciated!

Thanks

[Animad]

There isn't anything you can do except go to your dentists and get it checked out- to me it does sound like a tooth root abscess. They probably will focus at the problem at hand and dentists don't tend to deal with SI anyway. But yeah, it needs to be looked at so that you can get it dealt with before it worsens and they can do pretty bad things to your teeth and jaws as well as spreading into your bloodstream and making you feel really ill. I really would advice you getting it looked at, sorry that's not really what you want to hear

[cest.la.vie]

Just wanted to second the advice given already.
I had abcesses recently, and it sounds like you could have one. If it is that, then you really need to see a dentist. It won't go away on it's own, and if it's not treated, like said above it can have pretty bad consequences.
Honestly, they won't be worried about the SI. I had ED-related dental work done recently, and had quite obvious scars on my arm where they did the anaesthetic, and they didn't comment at all about the scars, and only briefly touched on why my teeth had to be done. They're job is to help you with any dental problems, nothing else.
Hope you get it sorted out soon. Dental pain is awful.
xxxx