I have continued taking high doses of vitamin C. I found a liquid vitamin C from a company called Buried Treasure. I hold it in my mouth for 30 sec to a minute and hope it is absorbed in. I have this issue where thick liquids like salad dressing seems to absorb into the bad areas of bone and cause something to swell, the bones or gums. Not sure but it causes pain. So if salad dressing can absorb in, I think liquid vitamin C should also. The bad spot on the right maxilla is significantly smaller now, but I am having increasing problems in the right mandible and now the left too.
I went to see my family doctor since my ID doctor no longer knows what to do with me. (I'm still on 3000 mg of Amoxicillin a day monitored by the ID doc). My family doctor told me that the pain in my left jaw area is "somatic". He was kind enough to leave the word psyco off the front, but whatever. I think he thought I didn't know what somatic meant. So he is now telling me it's imagined. I'da really liked to give him some unimagined pain about right then but I doubt jail dentists take care of OM either...lol.
So I am nearly back to square one. My right maxilla is a lot better since the debridement, but still has problems. The swelling in the right side of my face is significantly better. My right lower and left lower are getting worse, although some days I think the vitamin C may be helping the right lower. Left lower is definately worse, but I have no doctor. I called Mayo. Very nice but out of network with my insurance. I emailed Shands here in Florida. They didn't respond. I called and left a message with the Oral Maxillofacial Clinic at Shands on Thursday and haven't heard back. May be they aren't open on Fridays. Not excited to have students working on me. Can't afford to fly to San Diego or have time to...but it's all in my head anyways....I'm still dizzy, have trouble focusing, have trouble answering questions, have minimal memory...probably side effects from the amoxicillin. I swear what comes around goes around...every *&^*^ doctor that says stupid things will be adequately rewarded.
I meet someone recently that went sky diving with one of the local oral surgeons that I saw (that dismissed it as neuralgia), Dr. Streeter. He told me that Dr.Streeter was so terrified that he whined a lot before and after the jump. Actually he said he, cried! I would have loved to see that!
Anyways, enough of that. A patient sent me an article on "Oil Pulling". Some people dismiss it as hogwash, but according to the doctors I'm crazy anyways........., but they don't have any idea what to do with me and I don't want to loose any more teeth or have any more surgeries, I'm not ready to die from the infection spreading, so I am willing to try safe hogwash.
With Oil Pulling you swish vegetable oil around for 20 min in your mouth. It's supposed to be sesame or sunflower, but the article I have suggests coconut oil. You shouldn't swallow it, but just swish it around, spit it out and discard it. I tried yesterday and today. I'll have to work up to 20 min. Also trying olive leaf extract and a couple other natural remedies that are considered antibacterial and anti-fungal and continuing the Vitamin C at 2000-3000 mg a day.
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