TLDR: terrible mental health led me to ignore a rotting tooth in my mouth (except for the foul taste I noticed when using water pik)

Turns out that foul taste is bacteria and toxins.

But it’s worse: infection has burned through the entire tooth, and it’s draining into my blood.

The oral surgeon MD explained that I have neurotoxic bacteria and waste toxins draining into my system 24/7 which are going to make someone feel awful.

He was dumbfounded my doctor ran all these tests but didn’t point to this.

So surgery in one week. Unfortunately antibiotics won’t reach the infected tooth so I have to live with it until then.

He told me that a lot of people come in with similar complaints- thinking they have mono or west Nile and it’s an infected tooth that runs deep.

I never knew tooth bacteria and waste could be neurotoxic.

Scary!!!