Reply #4: Well, that puppy is gone now.

[OnionPatch]

I had it pulled and prepped for an implant yesterday. And guess what.....it had a big crack in the root, a cyst at the tip of the root and there was an area where a little part of the root had been "reabsorbed" from my body trying to get rid of the irritant! I also lost bone around the area. Unbelievably, none of this was apparent on the x-ray! Another apicoectomy would have been completely useless.

So, for three years I've been walking around with this, getting procedure after procedure while my body was constantly fighting off infection leaking from that tooth. I've been feeling crappy for the whole time, catching every cold that goes around and having chronic sinus congestion and infections, which triggered migraines and on and on. The dentist agrees with me that the tooth was probably the main culprit in most of that, causing the sinus to be swollen and irritated. The infected tooth root was nearly touching the bottom of the sinus. All of this was also taxing my immune system. I'm hoping my health will start to improve a lot now. There's still the bad back, but hopefully soon I'll have more energy to do the exercises and walking I need to do for it.

Thanks for letting me rant and I wish everyone on this board will have some success, as well, in dealing with their health problems. It really sucks to have chronic health problems. There are very few places to vent without the fear of being labeled a hypochondriac.