Hi, everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

A few days ago, I posted about my health worries and was directed to resources that helped me take care of my problems (Dentistry From the Heart).

However, I'm now worrying once again about my health. Because the dental care was only free for one day, there was really no time for prescribing antibiotics before the procedures, which in my case was the extraction of a very infected, decayed upper back tooth. I had never had a procedure like that done before, so I don't know what they're supposed to feel like. However, I feel in my heart there was something wrong about pulling out a sick tooth without first giving antibiotics. Anyway, the dentist prescribed me a huge dose of antibiotics afterwards (well, what I think is a huge dose). I'm now on 875mg of Amoxicillin twice a day for one week. I had the procedure done on Saturday afternoon, and it is now Monday and I'm worrying myself sick about having the infection get into my bloodstream or a brain abscess.

I resumed the bad habit of looking things up on google (like I said, I couldn't shake that feeling of WRONGNESS when the dentist pulled out my infected tooth) and the stories haven't been very reassuring!!! Everything I've seen has said it is ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!! to pull an infected tooth! Now I'm waiting for my head to explode or for me to collapse or have a heart attack or something. I don't know how bad the pain is supposed to be (it's at a 4/10 right now) but it definitely hurts worse now than it did yesterday and I am really, really making myself nervous here. I can't go back to the dentist because I DO NOT have health insurance (neither can I afford it) and it was only free for ONE DAY.

I don't think this is very good for my healing process, either! Is my pain normal?! Will the infection spread?! Will the antibiotics work?! Was the dentist right?! I don't know! My thoughts are racing and I'm going insane.