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Angelique05880 · Sep 18, 2012, 09:46 AM

The smell has progressed. I have no health insurance. Costs too much from my job. Was wondering what my options are? Anyway,I have a stuffy nose mostly one side more than the other... it's really red in there. I have drainage and blowing my nose for a while now its getting worse. My head hurts more than it used to and stuffy-like. I taste a nasty oder in my mouth and a dying smell through my nose. Others can clearly smell this. It's so darn embarrassing. I just want to climb under a rock and hide! P.S.I have a few bad teeth one uptop in the back my nerve is sticking out but you can't see the hole unless I open my mouth and turned my head upwards .The other is on the side at the bottom its turned dark colored in the roots.. both of the cracked teeth happened by biting into dungness crab leg. This happened in 2009.combination

smoothy · Sep 18, 2012, 09:48 AM

Either find a dental college, or suck up the money to pay for the medical coverage...

That's being blunt... not rude... things like this can lead to death.

Angelique05880 · Sep 18, 2012, 09:52 AM

So do you think since years have passed without getting teeth treated not including my year round sinuses infections. With the combination is it two infections going on at the same time.. Is that why its so potent and horrific. Please someone help me!

joypulv · Sep 18, 2012, 10:05 AM

Yes, it's probably your teeth.
You probably need antibiotics for infection, plus teeth extracted.
Do not let a regular dentist extract teeth. An oral surgeon is needed, and might cost $250 - 300 per tooth.
Although a dental school is cheaper, it still isn't free.
Some states have little-publicized health plans for the working poor, but they often take months to get accepted into.
Look closely at your expenses each month. All of us have unnecessary expenses we can give up. I'm retired and still track what I spend by category, and have a budget. I buy maybe 5 coffees a year out, and my Starbucks at home costs me about 10 cents a cup. And so on.
I'm not trying to gloat while you suffer, just want you to save some money to pay for this - and you CAN. No makeup, no new clothes, no movies, drinks, no restaurants, no HBO, no smart phone, no texting.

smoothy · Sep 18, 2012, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Angelique05880

So do you think since years have passed without getting teeth treated not including my year round sinuses infections. With the combination is it two infections going on at the same time..Is that why its so potent and horrific.? Please someone help me!

Well, for one thing, consider your nasal passages and throat connect at the back of your mouth... and that your nose is a mere inch above your mouth.

If you are that close to the sorce of an odor, its going to seem that much stronger.

Your inner ears connect to your throat as well... these problems are likely linked to each other.

THink this isn't serious.. and that you don't need to make sacrifices to pay for a dentist... here is a very real example of something that happened in my general area a while back... parents expected it free, yet everyone had their own cell phone... etc... (yes parts of the story that may not have made it to every article that I know being it was a local story)

http://idiggi.blogspot.com/2007/03/1...of-dental.html

Angelique05880 · Sep 18, 2012, 11:11 AM

But another thing is I went to the doc around that Year of 09 to get my stomach checked out for hurting pains in my stomach well they ran tests and they checked for one specific bacteria and it was not that... I had another apt.. to get more tests and my policy canceled... never got a chance to see what was the problem because the doc told me it might be a bacteria infection in my stomach or cancer/cancerous. They stuck a camera in my throat and didn't get to get the stomach thoroughly checked.. So it could be a number of things.. all I know is its painful in more ways than one.. All these people not trying to work or do anything with themselves or their lives can get all the assistance they need.. including my hard earned money going to the state to help people that don't desire a retirement check... It's just totally unfair and just wrong.

smoothy · Sep 18, 2012, 11:15 AM

And this is related to WHAT post? You should have posted it up as an answer that post wherever it is.

Angelique05880 · Sep 18, 2012, 11:30 AM

Sorry smoothly... Im new up here... I thought I was referring to the last post.. thnx

smoothy · Sep 18, 2012, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Angelique05880

Sorry smoothly...Im new up here...I thought I was referring to the last post..thnx

I requested it be merged... when the mods see the request it will be.

joypulv · Sep 18, 2012, 11:46 AM

And yes, your sinuses are related.
I have twice in my life had what I thought were 'medical' problems that were both tied directly to a tooth - how is dentistry not medical too?
It boggles my mind that MDs totally disregard the teeth. I had a top ENT specialist examine my chronically painful ear and give me some good facts about the eustacian tube collapsing, and another MD tell me I needed surgery on a deviated septum (not true), but the pain was really from a bad molar under my ear. That pain had bothered me for years.
Another time I had bronchitis for 10 months and couldn't even climb stairs. No antibiotic, even the newest ones, worked. It was gone within 2 - 3 days of having an infected tooth removed, from a cracked tooth under a crown.

van666 · Nov 24, 2012, 07:19 AM

I have exactly the same phantom smell of garbage and burnt coffee and a rotting upper molar; as well as a lack of insurance. In Tacoma Washington, there was something called ProjectHomelessConnect. In January they will be back and should have free dental examinations... wouldn't recommend a college however for surgery. I had a tooth extracted at U of Washington's medical center and they really butchered me. It took them two visits to extract one tooth and I'm pretty sure all the hydrocodone I took f***ed up my liver!