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Dry socket

Help!! This is my story, I had a RT upper molar pulled in Feb 11, 2016 by the oral surgeon. 1 week later I was having a lot of pain and bleeding. It Turned out that I had a dry socket. Returned to the oral surgeon to have it packed several times. It started to heal, but continued with the pain. I returned back to him, he put me on four rounds of different oral antibiotics. By this time, it was the middle of March and I was still having pain to the extraction site, my right ear and to top it off my jaw was swollen. Went back to the oral surgeon, he insisted that everything was fine. However by the end of March, I woke up with my RT eye swollen, returned to my regular dentist once again and he referred my back to the oral surgeon. Here we are in April and the site has not healed completely, the gum on that side is swollen as well as my eye. Went back to the surgeon last week, he insisted that it was something " Medical" and not "Dental". he also went on to say, that since I have lupus, that it may be causing the swelling to my eye.  I saw my primary MD, rheumatology, ear nose and through specialist, ophthalmologist as well as an oculoplastics. ALL of my doctors have run blood work, cultures and eye exams and everything is fine on that end. My doctors insist that the RT eye swelling and pain to the extraction site have to be related, but it seems to me that the oral surgeon does not want to be bothered. We are almost in May and I am still having pain and discomfort to the site and my RT eye is swollen. HELP ME!!! This is taking a toll on my life, I am at the end of my rope. PLEASE HELP ME!! Any suggestions are welcome.
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