Can a tooth abscess make you weak and sweaty? Flu like symptoms? I have had seve!
Question: Can a tooth abscess make you weak and sweaty? Flu like symptoms? I have had several flare ups.?
I have had trouble with a tooth abscess and am having two teeth root-canal'd tomorrow so hopefully that will take care of the problem - abscess is above an upper bridge with a pimple sore on the gum.
What I am asking is I have had periodic weakness of muscles, have been overtired. The gum is swollen and tender and dentist confirmed abscess by x-ray last week.
Can you get flu symptoms from an abscess? I seem to remember I complained of this flaring up periodically as long as six months ago (abscess is under a bridge) I believe dentist wanted to see if it cleared up on its own but don't quote me! (I get sedated during all treatment so memory is hazy).
Answers:
Oh yeah it can! Especially if it leaks or bursts. It's actually what killed the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut!
I had a small one that burst one day. It started out as just a sensitive spot on my cheek, but the next day the sensitivity had sprawled out to half-way down my neck, and up my cheek into my ear canal! The day after that, my whole body was weak, achy, and tingly. I broke out in a little fever too! I could have sworn I had the flu! I made a doctor's appt. for the day after next, but by the time I went to the doctor, all that was left was a slight ear ache. My chills, fever, weakness, and sensitivity (besides my ear) disappeared in a day and a half after my fever broke. My doctor looked in my mouth and told me there was a spot on my gum where an abscess had burst and that was most definitely the cause of my problems!
She explained it like this: infection and pus swells up in a pocket of fluid known as the abscess. When it bursts, a huge concentrated flood of infection flows straight into the blood stream. It can cause flu-like symptoms, or otherwise just yucky feelings. Depending on the size of the abscess, antibiotics may be needed to help the system fight off the rush of infection. Some people are even hospitalized when a big one ruptures by itself! It's a pretty nasty thing.
On an interesting note, like I said earlier, Queen Hatshepsut died from one! The Egyptians obviously didn't have antibiotics, so when her tooth started to get painful, swollen, and rotten, they just pulled the tooth. Unfortuately, this immediately ruptured what was probably a huge abscess, and she couldn't fight the infection, so she died. Egyptologists found the infected molar in one of the organ chests they CAT scanned in her tomb and matched it to the 3D model of her mummy. (The History Channel is fascinating sometimes lol.)
Anyway, good luck with your root canal! Have fun on the loopy meds lol!
you can have all kinds of symptoms. The abscess makes you feel like crap. So anything goes. Good luck tomorrow, root canals are not fun. Not painful, but you have to go back a couple times.
personal experience