A few days ago my gums started hurting.
Really hurting…like stop eating hurting.
It came on pretty suddenly in the evening and by the time I went to bed I was in quite a bit of pain.
To keep my mind off the pain I watched Law & Order reruns.
The last episode that I watched was about a woman who fell sick quickly and within hours had disfiguring bumps all over her body which caused her death within a day.
Dioxin poisoning.
It turned out to be the ex-girlfriend of her dentist husband who got the idea because the dentist had murdered her sister 10 years earlier in this way.
By morning I was pretty sure I had been poisoned.
Except no one has any motive to kill me.
Oh, and dioxin isn’t the easiest thing to get your hands on.
Oh, and I wasn’t coverd with dioxin hives.
Oh, and I actually woke up.
I had blog-Stedman take a look at my mouth and he Googled a few things and diagnosed me with gingivitis.
Really?
Calling my pain gingivitis doesn’t have the dramatic flair that dioxin poisoning carries.
And I brush regularly.
The pain increased and I called my dentist.
He saw me yesterday and put some fancy dentist stuff on my gums.
I have some gum inflammation which pretty much means I have gingivitis and the lamest Law & Order episode in the making…
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maybe your dentist and blog Stedman are in it together & using something other than dioxin on you.
I wonder if thats what I have. I brush regularly too but sometimes when I eat bagels or chewy stuff my “teeth”? hurt when I bite down but then the pain is gone. But it REALLY hurts to bite down sometimes. But, again, stop eating, stop pain. For the most part. Sometimes it aches w/out eating.
My dental appointment is in September.
Maybe I should watch Law and Order tonight…
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I had that once, and the hygienist at the dentist’s office tried to shame me into flossing more often. I don’t respond well to shame. However, apparently my gums do. I have learned that if I floss at least a few times per month (the nights I can stay awake long enough to remember), and then every darn day if my gums start to hurt until they don’t any more, I can keep both the gingivitis and the irritatingly condescending tone from the hygienist at bay.
So you just had me spending the last 15 minutes surfing the web for the dangers of gingivitis…
Yeah, sorry I got nothing.
No law and order episode that I see
Isn’t dioxin one of the chemicals released into the air from bleach? Take heart! You may still have a mystery on your hands! Maybe dioxin causes gingivitis! (Just remember, when you accept the award for that discovery, where you heard it first
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I love your site, Law&Order, that cute pict ~ and you don’t have gingivits. trust me.
Have a splendid week-end! ♥
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