Im not gonna lie, after highschool I got into chewing tobacco due to playing college baseball. Since then I have not been taking as good care of my teeth as I should have, and don't like going to dentists because I have a phobia of someone rummaging around my mouth. (stupid I know) one of my back molars cracked awhile back and I never really got it fixed.

Just recently I started getting a little pain by that tooth. I thought I just ate wrong or something and bought some orajel to easy the pain. Well it got progressively worse throughout the day and by the time I got off work there was a nodule beginning to form on the inner side of my gums. Unfortunately it ended up popping on its own(which received a lot of irritation).

I woke up the next morning and now the left side of my jaw is hard and swollen with pus and the tooth has become slightly loose.

I have been doing a lot of home remedies but I've also read some scary stuff about abscesses and I am worried about it. I don't know where to start and what to do. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.