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[Yoink]

Bloody hell, my anxiety just does not let up these days.   

[Yoink]

Double-posting because I have a new Terror and I feel it is frightening enough to warrant a new post.

Spoiler: This isn't nearly as horrifyingly gross as my last Terrifying health concern, but it's still rather nasty. Also oddly symmetrical to the last one, come to think of it. As below, so above? Something like that I guess. (click to show/hide)

In the past few days my gums have been bleeding. Just mildly, usually when pressure was put on them due to facial expressions or eating or w/e.
My first thought was possible scurvy, so I smashed a heap more vitamin C into my diet. Then I did a bit of googling and was told that it can also be a symptom of jaggedy-ass bits of built-up plaque. Okay, sure, I try to brush thoroughly but I don't do it as often as I should, and I can't remember the last time I flossed. I buy that.
So I made vague, non-commital plans to arrange to see a doctor at some point in the future, once my current causes of stress have died down and my schedule freed up - whenever that may be.

Today, though, it's been seeming to happen more, plus I think I've noticed a bit of shifting in some of my teeth when I flex my jaw certain ways.
Just a little while ago tonight, I'd been probing around over my gross-ass teeth with my tongue and discovered what felt like a patch or two of ragged gums. This discovery was preceded and accompanied by increased bleeding.

Just now I went to have a go at brushing this mess (I've been a bit more diligent than usual with my attempts at dental hygiene since this started, funny how that works innit) only to discover the bleeding has become quite pronounced, seemingly coming mostly from a point on the outer right side of my gums, where I felt those ragged parts.

I had a peek in my gob, shining a torch (flashlight) in there, and hoo boy there is quite a bit of blood. And weirdness. I'm not even really sure quite what it is I'm looking at, there.

I had been thinking it'd be worthwhile seeing a dentist at some point for the first time in years, now I'm starting to wonder if I wouldn't be better off running to a doctor about this first chance I get.

If any of y'all with medical knowledge would like to chip in and offer suggestions as to whether I should chill out and calm down or raise my current state of freaked-outness into a full-blown panic, that'd be swell.

I hope blood doesn't leak out of my face as I sleep and ruin my mattress.


Edit: I think perhaps it's trench both.
I looked through a bunch of unsettling images via Google and a lot of them feature similar black gooey bits to what appears to be going on in my mouth.

The one thing none of these articles seem to mention is what to do if your mouth-bleed symptom reaches the point of ridiculousness like this has.
Oh, tell my dentist? Sure, yeah I'll get 'em on the pho-- my dentist?! What kind of bourgeois, 1%-er bullshit is going on in these so-called health websites?!? I don't have a bloody dentist! In this country unless you're rich af you're lucky if the waiting list to see a trainee dentist clocks in at less than a year.

I don't wanna go bugging my GP for some silly dental issue, much less barging into the ER about it. That said, drooling a bunch of viscous bloody every time I open my mouth for the foreseeable future doesn't sound terribly pleasant, either...

Argh, I wish all the other shit that keeps me perpetually stressed out would just BACK OFF for a while so I can focus on preserving/improving my health. Physical and mental.
They've both been racing each other down the toilet lately.

[Arx]

All I can say is that you should probably still see a dentist, rather than a GP, and you should probably see them soon.

[ChairmanPoo]

All I can say is that you should probably still see a dentist, rather than a GP, and you should probably see them soon.

I *strongly* disagree. I think first of all you need a full blood count and a coag at the very least. And you should do it soon. As in, I dont know your exact circumstances, and as usual it's nigh impossible to remotedly assess someone. But I'd consider sudden onset bleeding gums a VERY good reason to head to ED. As in, if I was called by a GP right now saying the exact same things you're saying, I'd tell him to refer whoever was suffering from that to ED to get assessed, because I'd rather deal with an overreaction/false alarm than missing out on something more serious

[Arx]

Oh, good to know! Thank you for chipping in, then.

[Hanslanda]

IIRC Poo is a medical professional so go see a doctor like right now Yoink.

[Yoink]

It's 2am here but I guess I'll do that as soon as I get a bit of sleep.
Ugggghh I had enough stuff on my plate today already


Thanks for the responses and information, guys!

[LordBaal]

I agree with chair. Doctor first and then maybe dentist. Specially if you haven't had pain.

[TD1]

Oh, that sounds horrible. I'd give advice, but the sensible option has already been proposed.

I hope it's nothing too bad. Keep us posted on how it turns out.

[Kagus]

Fuck it, rip 'em all out and get some titanium dentures made up, in whatever style you like!

[Hanslanda]

I personally went with the Tiger Shark design. My tongue is scarred to hell but you should watch me eat a whole chicken.

[Kagus]

I personally went with the Tiger Shark design. My tongue is scarred to hell but you should watch me eat a whole chicken.

Dentists Fuckin' Everyone Hates Him!

[Bumber]

I personally went with the Tiger Shark design. My tongue is scarred to hell but you should watch me eat a whole chicken.

For classic James Bond fans, I recommend the Jaws design. Useful if you find yourself needing to bite through thick steel cables.

[Yoink]

Apparently, instead of doing anything that might in some way help me in my efforts to improve my mental health and by extension my employability, my employment agency has decided to book me into yet another series of these group appointments that tend to leave me panicked, traumatised and emotionally exhausted all at once.

This one's a "retail course". What, exactly, is a retail course supposed to teach me? What little work experience I have is mostly retail. All you need to learn for any given job is the quirks of your particular workplace and how to operate whatever POS (Piece Of Shit) system they use.
My inability to get a job is purely due to mental illness, not any lack of technical ability. Mental illness which these toolbags seem bent on making worse.
I swear, most of them seem like they've never even looked at my file, let alone wondered as to why I am unemployed.


On a happier note, I called up the head-shrinkers I was referred to last year (after not having heard from them since) and learned that I do have a set date for my appointment with them. Yay.
Now I just have to make it through the impending onslaught of stress resulting from this daft "course" being piled on top of my existing obligations and get through my birthday month without accidentally stepping in front of any trucks.