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I Need Serious Help! -please!

Lexi

By Lexi
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Lexi Enthusiast
Lexi
Posted

I'm writing this in desperation. I don't know where else to turn. I don't even know where to start at this point. I have Celiac Disease (and a ton of food allergies and problems to go with it). I also found out I have Candida, and lots of people have given great advice about treating it. However, every time I decided to start getting serious about treating it, some other problem comes up. Last month I got the flu really bad, and it took me several long weeks to recover. Right after that, my teeth really started bothering me. On Friday I ended up having all 4 wisdom teeth, and two others pulled. I was (and still am) in so much pain that I cannot stand it. The pain is really unbearable. The oral surgeon keeps telling me that I will feel better soon, and not to worry about it. However, today is going on the 5th day. I'm on pain medicine, but it's not doing much. It hurts to eat ANYTHING, and I am basically starving. Plus, I am having unbearable headaches to go along with it. I can't help wondering if the untreated candida is preventing me from healing. I'm scared because I think about dying all the time. I am so tired of dealing with pain and illness in my life. I cry 10 times a day. My husband has no idea how to handle this. My kids seem really confused as to why their Mommy seems so crazy. I JUST want the pain to go away, and I don't know if I should go ahead and start treating for Candida while in the middle of healing from my teeth. I feel like it is just going to make me feel sick again because I keep reading about the die-off phase. I'm AFRAID that more pain and illness might just put me over the edge. I'm SCARED!

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ravenwoodglass Mentor
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You need pain relief most of all. If you have already called the dentist call your GP and ask for help. Another thing you could try with the dentist is having your husband call and ask for something stronger. He can tell them that the pain is at this point incapacitating and if they still are of no help call another dentist for an emergency appointment. The dentist will be able to tell if you have an oral candida infection so tell him you are concerned that might be impacting your healing. You need to be able to eat and sleep to be able to heal.

I would hold off on the candida treatment until your teeth have healed a little bit.

I hope the pain eases soon.

Edit, after rereading my post and thinking a bit this would be my first step-

"call another dentist for an emergency appointment"

chasbari Apprentice
chasbari
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Are you sure your pain meds are gluten free?

RiceGuy Collaborator
RiceGuy
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I know first-hand that candida can infect far more parts of the body than just the intestines. It may be that treating the candida is the best/quickest way to get relief. If it were me, I'd start the caprylic acid capsules - one per day. Maybe the time of day you choose to take it will help too. Go slowly, and the die-off shouldn't be anywhere near as noticeable as the relief. After you've worked up to the full dosage, you can start implementing the dietary changes, one at a time. Go at your own pace.

You can do it. When I found out about candida, I was determined not to let it win. Just the thought of something having any control over me like that was all I needed to forge ahead and eliminate it.

ang1e0251 Contributor
ang1e0251
Posted

If you have this much pain this far in, your dentist should have seen you immediately and checked for dry socket. I had this after an extraction and it's incredibly painful. You also run the risk of infection with it. It's a common occurance with an extraction. It's so serious that my dentist saw me on a Sunday to take care of it.

Get to a dentist!

YoloGx Rookie
YoloGx
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I agree with the above suggestions--call and see your dentist again! You could indeed have dry socket and/or an infection. gluten-free Pain medicine also seems de rigeur.

Meanwhile since you are eating so little it may already be you are having candida die off too. No food means no food for you or the little beasties! Besides the caprylic acid you might consider also taking enterically coated acidophilus.

When you do start eating again I suggest you go on a cave man diet, i.e., no grains or sugars It is the best way I know of to get rid of candida plus it way helps against all those other food allergies.

Eating non fat, no sugar etc. plain yogurt might be OK for you now. Set it out a while so its not too cold.

gluten-free broth could also be good. Make sure its warm not hot. You or your hubby could make it by cooking up some chicken in water and just drink the broth... Later you could at first eat soups...

Meanwhile drinking warm (not hot or cold!!) yarrow tea will really help your mouth heal safely and faster...

Bea

Lexi Enthusiast
Lexi
Posted
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Went to Oral Surgeon today, and he insists that I just need a few more days of healing. He keeps giving me more and more pain medicine. The first one he gave me made me CRAZY and I was having hallucinations. The pharmacist says that all my medicine is gluten free. Anyway, I also stopped at Native Sun (and broke down crying to the lady who was trying to help me). I ended up getting Candex and some Aphidophilus to start taking. I just hope it won't be a problem while taking the pain medicine. I got home and read about the caprylic acid, and now I am wondering if I should have got that instead. I am PRAYING for some pain relief soon, so I can regain my sanity.

Rice Guy, or anyone who avoids nightshades, I have a question. I also avoid nightshades because they cause me terrible pain. If a medicine contains potato starch, is that still considered a nightshade/ I wanted to get the Healthy Trinity probiotics, but they had potato starch in them. Didn't know if that was safe or not.

All I can do now is Pray for Strength! Thanks for the support!!

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Takala
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Look, this is starting to worry me. Are you running a temperature? Is there swelling or drainage or do you have a puffy looking face that looks like the glands at the side of the jaw are swollen? Any redness ? When did the headaches start, after the tooth extraction? Do they get worse about an hour after taking the medication? Is your heart rate elevated ?

I've had my wisdom teeth taken out as a young adult, and could not stomach the painkillers at all, was miserable for 2 days, and even I didn't have this much trouble at that interval. Also had my biscupids (the smaller molars in front of the big ones) pulled out with not taking painkillers afterwards, just ibuprofen, again, no problem.

If you're running a temperature, there is puffiness and no drainage, go to the emergency room. Do not mess around if you spike a fever. Get antibiotics.

DON'T ADD IN any other medications at this point, because if you start reacting to other things, you will complicate finding the culprit. Who told you that you have candida ? If you want to fix that, don't eat a lot of sweets or junk food or dairy, esp. dairy with lactose ! "Candida" is a catch all culprit blamed for everything, frequently used to sell useless over the counter junk, when it's oftentimes something else that is causing the problem.

p.s. edited to add that reactions to medications are wretched and it sounds like you're not quite over whatever that was and it's causing you extra anxiety. I hope you feel better soon. Try putting frozen bags of peas or corn, or crushed ice in a baggie wrapped in a wet washcloth, on your jaw for 10 minutes and see if that helps at all. And you need chicken broth. (Pacific and Imagine have boxed broth with some gluten free on the labels ). If you have any powdered ginger try putting that into some green tea and drinking it. Try crushing an aspirin up and mixing it into some salt and warm water and swishing it around in your mouth, hold it for a bit, gargle, and then spit it out, don't swallow it. Repeat until the glassful is gone. Don't forget, if you have a temperature, seek medical attention immediately even if not from a dentist.

one more mile Contributor
one more mile
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I hope you are feeling better now. I can relate to what you wrote. I have a small mouth so when ever the dentist works on me he seems to pull muscles in my face. The last time he filled a molar I was in such pain that they ex rayed me and saw no infection. They told me they sprung my face by over opening my jaw. It was two weeks of pain that meds did not touch but I did get better.

For years I was like you. All I could think was how do I make this pain stop. I went from one thing to another to another. It never seemed to end. I even got tired of hearing myself. But there is hope. I went from doctor to doctor to the internet and am getting better. Today I am pain free about 27 days of the month. I do have pain on rainy days

( fiboromalgia made worse by the gluten that I was eating.) Getting better was like untangling a ball of yarn. When I stoped eating gluten some things got better, some got worse ( my big mistake was switching to soy products and getting real bad diarrhea). I also found a few things that the gluten pain was hiding. When everything hurt I did not know I that I was clenching my jaw, I had to learn to stop doing that so my face did not hurt and could heal.

But things then started to get better. My balance got better so I stopped bruising myself. Things were discovered and cured, and one day I was just sitting in a chair and realized that nothing hurt. It actually felt odd.

Just like you would untangle a ball of yarn it is about layers, learning and working on one spot for a while then moving to another and eventually you get it. Good luck!

( I also did a meditation sometimes just repeating over and over and over that "this pain is a gift from God."

some how when I accepted the pain and did not fight against it the pain was less. Or at the very least It made me laugh thinking how silly it was)

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