[TrudyM]

Thanks for all the advice. I hate to be a bother I guess I should have been more pushy as soon as I called back the dentist agreed to see me today.

Why is it these things always get weird at midnight. It is now 10 AM so I have followed all your advice and gotten help.


The dentist said because the hydro perox thing you suggested didn't have any effect it probably isn't dental.

I have an appointment today with my primary care anyway and I talked to both the dentist and the primary care this Am and it is possible it is a flare up of a thing called Ramsay Hunt and not the tooth as the symptoms have gotten weird.

Started on an antibiotic and will see what reg doc says if he says its not the Hunt thing the dentist will see me right after as an emergency.

Oh by the way Ramsay Hunt is a form of herpes zoster The sore (like a cold sore) is in the ear or roof of the mouth but can also be in the nose and it attacks the facial nerves. As the face has begun to sag that may be it. I had not had a flare up since 1990 and had frankly forgotten all about it.