I have an abcess and need to have a tooth removed Been feeling run down for a couple of weeks now - and been getting really bad headaches - and it seems like this is the reason why. The pain comes and goes in waves and really is unimaginably bad at times...been putting off going to the dentist for a week because of work stuff - but woke up at 4am yesterday morning in total agony and decided I really needed to do something about it. Phoned NHS Direct to get a referral to the emergency dentist in Whitechapel - phoned work and told them I’d probably not be in - went down to Barts to find they had no more space for people either morning or afternoon. Told work I’d not be working from home and just wanted a sick day - was pretty sure at this point I couldn’t concentrate at any rate Went home and watched telly some. Didn’t manage to sleep as it hurt too much. Had been told there was an evening clinic at Whitechapel opening at 7pm - got there for 6:30 to find a huge queue...given ticket 63 when I eventually got through the door so I wandered off for a bit. Got in to see the dentist at about 8:30 and he told me I had an abcess - poked my teeth and asked if it hurt and it didn’t, which I thought strange - he offered to remove the tooth there and then but said it’d be less comfortable than letting a proper dentist do it, so I wussed out. Home, then sleep with painkillers. Did have shite dreams. Didn’t have as shite dreams as the night before, which involved bugs invading my flat and covering *everything* and no-one else giving a shit. My head is fucked up