Last year I had a sinus procedure through my mouth- (biggest mistake!). I developed swelling lower jaw area. Ent states it not infected not sure how I got that swelling as he would expect swelling above lip area not lower jaw - weird something happened. Had a lot of pain inside mouth after from a canker sore and ent thought since I had a cold sore at some point after procedure that maybe it settled on a nerve inside mouth- canker sore was along cheek flesh. So I went to different specialists all types for this swelling. It’s not infected over and over I am told. It’s sensitive to the touch that area of flesh and I get bone pain at times underneath the swell like along the last 3 bottom teeth. Where wisdom tooth was and 2 teeth infront of it. And one area in particular it is tender when I touch that part.
Amox/clov did not help, levaquin no help, doxy no help, I was on a short dose of clindamycin and feel it did help don’t recall it help with swelling I thought by day 5 of med that when I touched swell it wasn’t as sensitive but hard to say. Cold weather aggravats that area of flesh. I remember walking on a cold day and it was just pain in the flesh area. Had MRI/CT scan all clear yet I completely know if it was a bone infection you have to have a certain amount of bone loss to show up on it. Dealing with issues with my upper maxillary sinus area- bone pain up there- ent and dentist back forth nightmare $$$ and teeth extracted and pain still there if not worse. Sinus feels puffier since last extraction so yeah me with trying to figure sinus upper jaw crap. So nuclear bone scan I guess is next but I just had 2 teeth extracted and not sure how long to wait until it doesn’t light up since I heard after a procedure it will light up. Heard of gallium scan as well. Live near John Hopkins and have been tempted to go to hospital there. Not sure if they would just blow me off and wonder if some freaking dr would say gee that swelling isn’t normal we need to investigate! But no I just get shrugged shoulders and told don’t know! Told since mri came back fine I need to accept it’s nothing. I once went to my local hospital back in January and in triage I explained my pain she just it’s not an emergency and didn’t put me back through and that I had an mri and that since it came back fine here is a prescription for naproxen and have a nice day! Getting another mri this Friday. My primary dr turned down my nuclear test going way back to Jan. So he ordered mri instead.
So meds on now no effect.
Anyone from around VA/DC /Maryland area that recommends a dr that could help? Should I go to John Hopkins if mri comes back fine?
I had dental conebeam CT’s and the last oral surgeon said he didn’t see anything on the ct scan. I just had another cone beam today and I asked about it because he didn’t take time to really look at scan he was focused on issues I was having in upper jaw. Not sure if there is someone out there that can really look at these scans and really take time in doing so- oral surgeon stated osteomyelitis is a late diagnosis so obviously it’s never taken seriously so this is why people get screwed.
Thank you...