Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Hello again and major hair loss

As usual I have not been lucky.
I was fine until the 3rd day after the extraction.
DRY socket but I did not display the exact symptoms they expected. I went to the my pCP doc to see if it was a sinus infection. So the Nurse practitioner wanted me to have an X-ray or CAT scan but it was too late in the day on a Friday.

So on Sat when oral Demerol which I have taken for 2 invasive rotator cuff/shoulder repairs did not stop the pain which relayed around my head over my sinuses. I called the doc, and the one on call said it did not dound like a dry socket.
I called my PCP who was on duty and whom I love, he sent me to the ER and one CAT Scan later I knew I had dry socket.

Same doc was on call and after finishing his lunch, he met me and packed the hole to the middle of the earth they had left in my bottom jaw.
Next day doc who did the extraction repacked it and said come back, Thurs.
Thurs--he says you are OK because the med is only there 2 days.
NO ONE INSTRUCTED ME TO IRRIGATE THE HOLE WITH A SYRINGE NOR GAVE ME ONE TO USE. ALL IT SAID WAS TO RINSE WITH WARM SALT WATER. I called on Friday when 2 Vicodin did not stop pain, and AFTER I had been on augmentum for 7 days FOR POSSIBLE SINUS ---oh the lady is at lunch. She called at 1:30, and says we close at 2:00 on Fridays --I say no way I can get there, I'll get one from my dentist--called and my dentist was closed--so I went to my VET of almost 20 yrs (AROUND THE CORNER FROM HOME) and got the syringe. I went to health food store and bought Oil of clove just in case as it is part of packing.......Next day Sat again we go to eat and food gets in hole, and I nearly go through the roof of the car with pain--after last week I called my regular dentist. I just could not deal with a doc who does not know me and might not believe me again.

My dentist of 20+ years tells me what to do including rinse with 50:50 peroxide and water, and he will meet me in his office. He checked, there is bare bone so he packed it as full as possible and I made it to yesterday--they repacked it and fine, except this am a bunch came out--so off I am going again---it is better, but after dinner I am afraid it will go bad so I am getting dressed and we will pack one more day......I am in such poor nutritional health that I do not heal properly. I only stopped 5-6X a week diahrrea in late Nov.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS AND LIFE GOES ON...........
BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

I'll report on hair later--
G

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