Tooth pain with temp crown?!

Tooth pain with temp crown?

I had a temp crown put over a lower molar tooth last tuesday, as well as general cleaning, and then on thursday they were bleached.

My teeth were pretty sore from the bleaching, but the temp crowned tooth was fine. Then on Friday morning after brushing my teeth with the temp crowned tooth started aching.

Now, this pain isn't REALLY bad, I can take Tylenol and it will go away in about 2-3 minutes and stay that way until the medication wears off (with liquid tylenol since it works faster), But after 4-5 hours the pain just returns. It is kind of a constant, throbbing pain, that DOES wake me up at night at around 4-5, depending when I took the last round of medication before going to sleep.

I assume that I need to contact my dentist, but it's memorial day weekend and he won't be back until Tuesday.
I did not a have a root canal done on this tooth, since I never had any pain on it (had a crown on it for about 8 years before it broke, which promted my visit.)

Is this normal?

2 months ago
If the only problem was the bite, wouldn't it only hurt when I was biting down?

Also, I know I grind my teeth at night and I can't help it. I've started getting clicks on the right side of my jaw (same place where the crown is..), but the dentist said he would send me to a specialist once the treatment was finished (he still needs to make a crown for that molar tooth i'm talking about, and another one on one of my front teeth..)

Also as far as I can tell, when I bite it feels like the crown is in place... could it feel like it's in place and still be too high to the point where it's causing damage? If so, am I just driving that temp crown into my gums, and that's the reason it's creating the pain?

I figured that if it was pain from the root, it would have hurt a hellova lot more, and since tylenol takes the pain away after a couple of minutes something else must be wrong.

I agree with the answer above that you may be grinding your teeth at night. If you broke a crown, that is a pretty good sign. Another answer, and I hope not the case, you may have a fracture down in the root. You need to realize, teeth are getting very extreme pressures put on them all day long. (Hopefully you don't chew on ice. lol) Dentistry unfortunately is sometimes a trial and error type of treatment. The initial treatment is to aim for the most simple procedure that should resolve the problem. If more symptoms occur, another treatment is tried. NORMALLY a tooth is fixed at the initial treatment, but on occasion more steps are required. Hopefully, all you need is an adjustment to your bite and then consider a night guard appliance to wear during sleeping.