I am 33 weeks pregnant and yesterday morning around 2:30am I woke up with horrible tooth pain(the worst I’ve ever had and pain off of the scale) I normally take two extra strength tylenol and do salt/water when I get a toothache but that was NOT working, in fact i think it made it worse? Anyways it started to feel like the pain was radiating up into my ear, felt like I had a ear infection and pain radiating down to my neck as well, it hurt to swallow. The right side of my face literally felt like I had been punched in it, lots of pressure and it was red and hot to the touch. Around 6:00am I started having contractions (pretty consistent) and it felt like the room was spinning, I even passed out.
I called L&D and told them everything that was going on and they said to come in immediately, when I got there there were no rooms available and the nurse whom was checking me out in triage said kind of rudely “OH, you’re just having a tooth ache, you know that has nothing to do with baby, right?” I told her that actually it did because I was having consistent contractions(very painful compared to what they were earlier that morning) and I think I had a tooth infection that caused all of it. She said “oh ok” and checked the babies heart rate, and my vitals then sent me out to the waiting room. (Btw, I was already in crying pain for a couple hours at this point, the dental pain was killer and mixed in with the contractions I thought I was dying!) They finally got me in a room and put me on the contraction monitor and saw I was having consistent contractions going off of the scale, she started off with giving me IV fluids, which oddly enough seemed to have made them worse?
My husband ended up telling her they needed to give me something for pain and she said she’d call my dr see what she wanted her to do. And she came back and said she only wants to give me codeine with tylenol 3, I told her that I didn’t know what it was just give me something to STOP my pain, I also Expressed my fear of an infection and I was told kind of rudely that I was not hear for that. They gave me the tylenol 3 and it didnt help the contractions but it took the edge off of the tooth pain for maybe 45 minutes, well maybe 10 minutes after giving me my pain medicine they realized that the IV fluid was not stopping the contractions and decided they were going to give me a shot to stop the contractions (not sure of the name but it caused my heart to race like crazy and feel very off) I was in so much pain again at this point I was screaming.
She came in there and told me I needed to calm down I told her I was so sorry but the contractions were worse at this point and the tooth pain has came back, I had been up since 2:30am not ate any food or anything and no sleep and it was 4:00pm at this point. My blood pressure was also extremely high from the pain and was dripping swear. She looked annoyed when I told her and said ok well I will tell your dr, she talked to her and came in saying that my dr said she was going to be in here in 30 minutes (took an hour) and see if these contractions have done anything and see if I was dilated, and if I wasnt then they were going to send me home.
My dr she finally came in and checked me, i was not dilated, and told me she didnt see a reason to give me another shot to try and stop the contractions(that were pretty strong at this point) and she also didnt see a reason to give me anymore pain meds she said, I told her that I couldn’t go home in this much pain and I also Expressed my concern of having a bad infection and that’s what’s causing the contractions. She told me she knew nothing about tooth pain and would be sending me over to the ER department.
Now, the ER department where I live is extremely slow and I asked if there would be a room ready and she just said idk blah blah blah and good luck. I got there and was signing in and told them L&D sent me over there and they kind of looked really confused. I had to sit in the waiting room for probably a hour before i finally got back into a room and the dr came and checked on me immediately and he checked everything and I told him what was going on and he said as he was walking out to the nurse that he didnt understand what my DR was thinking, he told me he was going to give me something strong for the pain and get me out of this pain immediately bc my BP was also high. He said I did have an infection and he told me that I was being sent home on antibiotics and pain meds and he also said that my dr could have done the same thing, you could look at my face and see I had a pretty bad infection. I finally got some relief, still lots of pressure on my face and some contractions but no where near as bad as it was.
My question is, how do you guys feel about that? Was my dr really in the right? I feel like I was not taken care of properly and they made me feel stupid for hurting that bad and being in the condition that I was. 
