Jaw osteomyelitis

Are you seeing a disease specialist in the meantime?? And also are you taking antibiotics orally on a daily basis?? If you're not you probably should be! I have osteomyelitis in my spine and I also went through the pic line antibiotics and dibridement surgery. They did 8 spinal fusions to get rid of all the infection. Now I'm home after spending 105 days in the hospital learning how to walk again. The surgery almost paralyzed me! Now I take antibiotics on a daily basis. They say I may have to take them forever it just depends on how my body does I guess. If I try to go without taking them for several days my body gets real sore again and then I start back and the soreness almost goes away completely! I don't think I will ever be without a little soreness!

Hello.

I’ m so scared that I have osteomyelitis in my maxilla. I had a root canal treatment October last year on my left upper 1 because of abscess. After RC I had horrible time ( my gums they were swollen, low grade temperature, mimics of sinus infection) I was treated with metronidazole and penicillin for 1 week. Tooth got better I had check- ups with few dentist and every single one confirm that tooth is fine.

This year in August I developed cough , then sinus infection- antibiotic for a week. Starting having pain in my right eye for nearly 2 weeks – again antibiotics for two weeks. Then my UL1 start annoying me so few dentist’s trips , x rays only to be told that my teeth is fine. After few weeks I had relief with teeth but I started having sinus pressures in my forhead.

After 3 months I still have sinus pressure, my teeth is still sore and so my jawbone. My upper lip is a little swollen and I have strange sensation in my nose. I had a panoramic x-ray, 3 days scan, blood work everything is OK- the only thing what they found is thinning of bone between my upper on left & right- place where I had abcess.

I don’t know what to do – no one wants pull up that tooth because looks good ( 3 weeks ago I had reendo – still painful 24 /7 ) . I went to my gp and told her that I my have osteo – she nearly laugh at me and said there is no chance- I look healthy my teeth looks good as well so not worry but when you are in pain 24/7 for few months and something like never happened to you before you just KNOW that something is not right. Also notice that my upper lip is a little numb and swollen.

I hope you’re better now.

So sorry for my grammar but English is not my first language.

Best of luck to everyone suffering

Aga