Shannon's Journal, Volume 3

[Shannon]

My dentist doesn't seem to think that an infected tooth requiring a root canal to repair - and which hurts enough to force me to only ingest liquids, requires constant pain management, alters my dreams, prevents me from falling asleep without chemical assistance and wakes me up in the morning - doesn't require any prescription antibiotics or anything for pain management during the 10 days I have to wait for a root canal. I get the pain management. So far, Ibuprofen works for that, no biggie. But no antibiotics for a 10 day wait after 4 days of waiting and seeing the infection noticeably grow increasingly bad during those 4 days?

So I am going to have to stop using OFv3 and use MIRv3 24/7 instead. I started using it last night, and this morning was the first time since it started hurting that the pain was actually reduced instead of increased when I woke up (~15% less than yesterday morning) and I was able to sleep longer. Let's see how well MIRv3 handles a potentially life threatening and previously rapidly growing infection, since my dentist doesn't seem to see an issue with leaving it untreated for a total of 14 days. This should be very interesting.