It had gotten progressively worse. Then I found some magic dental pain reliever (the land of the free is a great place for medications!).
So, I used this in conjunction with the ibuprofen. Over the last 3 days I’ve hardly needed either at all. I’m still not chewing on it though.
I may have just become better at keeping food away from it, or perhaps it is starting to settle down.
I expect I will need root canal which I’ve had before. This followed 6 months of pain (after my first crown). I found the procedure possibly the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. This was after 4 injections into the jaw and 2 directly into the nerve through the top of the tooth. The dentist believed I may have had an infection which lessened the effectiveness of the anaesthetic.
So, fingers crossed it’s settling down now and I won’t need any further treatment.