About 2 months ago I had a problem with a wisdom tooth. It was strange because I’m 52 years old and I have never had any problems with my wisdom teeth. Anyway, like a lot of health issues that I have there seems to be a connection between Meniere ’s disease and dental problems.
It started out as just a regular toothache, whenever I tried to eat anything my teeth and my gums would ache to the point that I didn’t want to eat anything. Unfortunately the pain went from my mouth to the side of my face and this lead to an earache. And an earache is the last thing that I need with my meniere’s disease. I went to a oral surgeon who was recommended by my dentist. He had no problem pulling the tooth; it only took 20 minutes to get the tooth out. I thought my dental troubles were over, but I was wrong.
After the initial gum bleeding during the next couple of days, everything seemed to be going fine. Then a piece of the bone cut through my gum, no problem I worked it loose and it eventually fell out. a few days later another piece of bone cut through my gum. Once again I worked it out. this kept happening over and over again for about a month after the wisdom tooth was pulled. All the while my jaw, my gums and my ear were hurting.
The past few weeks I haven’t had any problems with my teeth until yesterday when I bite down on something and I felt the familiar pain of a toothache again. I will be making another appointment to the dentist on Monday hopefully I won’t have to have another tooth pulled.
All during this time of my dental turmoil my meniere’s has really been acting up. Maybe it was the stress or maybe it was the earache, I’m not sure. Although I did find something on the web about a link between meniere’s and dental problems, it’s pretty interesting you might want to check it out.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
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David,
I'm 48 with bilateral meniere's and when it all started 3 years ago I had terrible tooth pain on the upper right hand side of my mouth. The pain would start in one tooth and radiate outwards until I couldn't tell which tooth it was. This lasted for 3-4 months before I finally had the full blown meniere's episodes in both ears. No doctor or dentist believed these were related events and the only advice was to start pulling teeth after nothing was working. I was put on antibiotics - which helped for a while. Then I was on prednisone for 30 days which killed the pain. But it always came back. It wasn't until I went on 600 mg of l-lysine per day (200 mg spread equally throughout the day after 2 hours without food) that I began to feel better. Coincidentally, my tooth aches and meniere's symptoms subsided at the same time. My theory is that it was a virus that affected both my ears and the nerve above my teeth. L-lysine may have helped knock it back. Just a theory but it might be worth trying instead of loosing more teeth.
take care,
Paul
Around the time my meniere's was starting I was having problems with grinding my teeth at night. It may have been stress related or it may have been a reaction to the tinnitus that I already had. The dentist fitted me with a gum shield to wear at night, which dissipates the grinding effect and also discourages you from doing it at all. After a few weeks it got better (my teeth weren't sore!) and I could stop wearing the shield.
These past few days have been tough, not only with the toothache and add to the fact that I have been getting more meniere's attacks.
I need to get some relief soon at least from this tooth.
David
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