What's the best medication to take for a toothache. Can't get a prescription til next week!!?

Answer 1

Hands down, it's ibuprofen. It reduces swelling as well as killing the pain. A lot of your pain right now is caused by swelling, so give it a try. It always works wonders for me! I also recommend gargling with strong salt water as this helps draw out the infection.

Answer 2

I have had some bad experiences with my teeth as well, so maybe I can help you out. First it depends why you have the toothache. If you have a cavity, the easiest thing to use is clove oil. It taste like crap, but it will help. When I had a tooth pulled, I got a dry socket, because the blood clot fell out and the nerve was exposed. It hurt like hell. I finally got back into the dentist and instead of telling me how to fix it myself, he made me wait 2 days and pay 60 bucks for another visit. Basically, all he did was cut a gauze pad down into a small strip, soak it in clove oil and stuff it into the hole in my gums, where the tooth used to be. The dentist has a stronger version of clove oil in his office, but store bought will work just fine. If you have a small cavity, I would just soak a small gauze pad in clove oil and bite down on it where it hurts. Change the pad when the ache comes back. Trust me on this, it is instant relief. Oral Gel Maximum Strength will help alot with this also. If you have an infection of the nerve inside the gums, then you are in trouble because not much will help with that until the infection is gone except narcotics. Visit your dentist office, or hospital, if it bad enough, and if you are lucky they will write you a script for enough to last until your appointment. If they won't you could always try and score some from a friend. I had to go this route once when my tooth was killing me and the dentist wouldn't write me a script for anything. Darvocet, vicodin,percocet, lorcet, lortab, oxycontin, roxycet, are ms contin are a few drugs considered narcotic and prescribed for pain. I am not advising you to hunt them out on your own because you could overdose or become addicted to them. I also know how bad a tooth ache can be and what it can drive you do. I have had everyone of mine pulled because in the course of a year or two they just went down hill, and I was gettin one cavity after another for no good reason. So if you do go this route be careful and always look at the amount of narcotic in the pill. You can tell this by the numbers on the pill container. The drugs mixed with tylenol or asprin will have two numbers, something like this 05/500. The smaller number is usually the narcotic and the larger is the tylenol. Some pills will only contain one number because they are strictly narcotic. Either way, never take anything over 2.5 of narcotic to start. If the narcotic is a 5 break it in half to see if that is enough. If not take a 5 next time. I have a long history of drug abuse when it comes to narcotics, because of some bad decisions when I was younger. So I have a pretty good idea of what I am talking about. Again though, I wouldn't advise you to go this route, but if you do I hope this will help to keep you safe.

Answer 3

Any form of Ibuprofin, such as Advil or Motrin, and it is safe to take up to 800mg., as long as you don't do that long term. Ibuprofin is an anti-inflammatory drug, so not only will it kill the pain, but bring down the swelling from your infection.

Answer 4

Go to the health food store and buy some pure Aloe Vera gel and place in your mouth..hold it next to the tooth. It works wonders, it will take the pain away in minutes. I told this to friend and he didn't believe but tried it and was amazed.

Answer 5

next week?
what planet do you live on
pharmacies are open 24/7
if you mean your dentist cant see you until next week either call back and demand an appointment or see another dentist

Answer 6

Next week? Never heard of such a thing. Get a new dentist.

Answer 7

try topical lidocaine sold at the pharmacy in various names. Read the label and look for something that ends in --caine; Novacaine, lidocaine, etc. Good luck!

Answer 8

3 ADVIL GEL CAPS.