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Brocklee
04-27-2007, 06:51 AM
So for the past say, week ive had a dental abscess.. about 3 days ago i went to see a dentist, he put me on 250MB Amoxicillin antibiotics, 3 times a day.

basically, the pain isnt as bad as it was but i woke up today with intense pain in my jaw, and my tooth next to the infected one is slack? im able to move it kinda :confused: and the infected tooth is VERY sensitive, i swallow, i get pain in my tooth, if that makes sense.. so im thinking about making it 4 amoxicillin pills a day, so i have one for when im sleeping at night.. basically i was thinking (one at 9am when i wake up, another at 2 pm (lunch basically ) then one at 7PM, then another at 11-12 when i go to sleep) do you think that would be alright?

im also taking paracetamol and ibrufeon for the pain, its helping a bit but its still coming back i guess, any help or advice would be great.

dustoffkid
04-27-2007, 07:51 AM
Take the dosage that the doctor instructed you to take. Antibiotics work because you keep a certain blood level of the medication (to over sumplify :) ), and taking more won't help. Plus then you run out of them before the prescribed course (of days) is done.

 
 
 




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