No wonder healthcare cost in the US is as it is if something benign as this can't be resolved without involving lawyers.

My guy/gal/nonbinary pal, it's the antibiotics you need. I don't want to terrify you with why because there is a tiny, tiny chance of it happening, but trust me on this. Get those first.

urgent care. like asap.

you need those antibiotics. infections in the mouth can set in within the first 48 hours.

that surgeon could have been looking at a malpractice suit, but you decided to tell them not to worry about it, unfortunately for you. though it could still be argued by a lawyer.

urgent care can prescribe medication or at the very least get in contact with an emergency contact at the office you had the operation done at.

having an abscess or infection in your mouth is one of the worst pains I have ever felt. I would rather have my dick ripped off than feel that pain ever again, and my tolerance for pain is "concerning", as I have been told by several medical professionals.

I've had a tooth extraction or two before. The following advice is based on my memory and experience with that kind of surgery and being poor. I'm not a doctor. It's highly negligent for the surgeon to abandon you over the weekend after a surgery.

You may not need pain meds beyond ibuprofen (you can take more than the recommended dose on the bottle for a short time). Acetaminophen is useless for treating the swelling and dental pain in my experience. Continue your other after care while you figure this out: rinse with warm salt water regularly, avoid foods with seeds, no drinking through a straw, apply ice packs regularly at intervals to keep the swelling down (ibuprofen will help with this also), whatever else they advised. Keeping the swelling down with ice packs, ibuprofen, and drinking cold water will do way more for your pain than whatever pain meds they prescribed. Sometimes I'd just keep a big glass of ice water nearby and hold the ice cold water in my mouth.

You will absolutely need the antibiotics ASAP though! Call a doctor, any doctor, urgent care, ER, whatever you have to do to get the antibiotics. I wouldn't even mention the pain meds. When I've taken those pain meds, they did nothing for the pain in my mouth, but they did mean I didn't notice bumping into a table and cutting my leg badly. And there is the non-zero chance that as soon as you mention painkillers, you'll be labeled as drug seeking. Stay focused on the antibiotics, that's the important med. Oral infections can go from "Do I have an infection?" to life threatening emergency in a surprisingly short time.

Ugh, your dentist and your pharmacist sucks. Do you have any other pharmacies in the area that you could consult with? Honestly, a pharmacist should be happy to give pharmacological input, especially about dosage and any potential medicine conflicts or hazards, prescription or no. Jesus, what a tool

My personal method when I have a gout flareup, kidney stones, or other intense pain, is to stagger nsaids and acetaminophen on a two hour cycle. 600mg acetaminophen, two hours later 500mg aspirin or 400mg Advil. Each medicine reapplied at 4 hour intervals. I try to time the nsaids with meals to help ease any stomach issues the nsaids may cause. At 600mg my acetaminophen dosage over 16 hrs (assuming I can sleep) is limited to 2400mg, and 2000mg for aspirin. This allows for a small increase in dosage for breakthrough pain, or a couple additional doses if I can't sleep. Honestly, it only keeps the pain from increasing, especially with gout. Very effective for caffeine withdrawal headaches tho

Yah, nsaids are hard on the stomach long term, but great for short term pain. Acetaminophen is fantastic to around 4000mg/day. Above that there's a very real chance for liver damage, depending on the person and duration of treatment. And it's lethal in the 8-12g range. That being said, I'd totally take 800mg every four hours if I had to. Except for the worst pain 600mg is enough to make life tolerable for most people

That was a lot of words to agree with you. Not deleting it tho

I'm glad I could help, and I hope you're doing well.🩹🖤

Exactly. I mean, this is probably just some office worker that made a mistake, but the problem here is that there's nothing this person could have done except maybe going to the emergency room and then incur fees because of that. If it was a single payer system, it would just be a matter of contacting some urgent care that's over open 24 hours or something like that, a low-level thing, and then just getting the prescriptions written. Done. No problem, no infection, no complications.

Most importantly, no fucking lawyers.

Terrible mistake to make and shit like that mustn't happen, especially after a follow up call and a promise to get it sorted.

That office should be covering any additional cost to get the prescription via tele doc or urgent care and apologise to OP. I don't see malpractice or a need for lawyers to 'get them'

I see where you're coming from, but there's probably not a snowball's chance in hell that the clinic would make it right. It would be appropriate to ask, but unrealistic to expect.

Also, if it doesn't qualify as malpractice according to US law, the lawyer would 99% likely recommend what you suggested. The biggest concern is a quick infection and severe pain. Being so close to the brain, that can go bad fast.

How'd you make out?

Hope you're doing good.