If anyone can sympathize with teeth problems it's me. I've had problems with my teeth all my life despite the fact that I brush my teeth 3 times a day and floss all the freaking time----I just happened to inherit lousy teeth prone to cavities.
Just to make you feel better, I'll tell you what happened to me when I had my wisdom teeth out. I was sitting at work and it started to feel like someone had a sledge hammer and was smashing the back of my head. I (literally) went crying into my boss, the pain was so bad so she came running out and got one of my co workers to take me to the dentist. Seems that my impacted wisdom tooth was also pressing up against a tooth that had a cavity in it, so you can just imagine what that was like. So the dentist makes an appt. for me to get in the next day to the Specialist to have my wisdom teeth pulled. In the mean time, he gave me a prescription for Tylenol 3's for the pain. I went through the entire bottle that night and it did absolutely NOTHING for the pain. (Found out later I coulda died from taking all that).
Anyhoo, I go see the Specialist the next morning with my head ready to blow off and he asks me if I've eaten anything for the past 24 hours. I said yes I'd had a bit of orange juice that morning (no one told me I couldn't). He said that I'd have to come back the next day because they gas you, and you can't have anything on your stomach. There was no way I could handle the pain for another 24 hours so I said " Stick a needle in here and freeze me and pull these god damn things out!!" So he did. The roots on the one were twisted but other than that I had no problem. In fact, I had no swelling or anything---my gums bled a bit for about 15 mintues but that was it. In fact, I went to the Bookstudy that very night!!
It's far better that you have them out. If they're rotten, they can cause all kinds of bad problems down the road. Just make sure the dentist gives you lots of drugs and you'll be fine.....just try not to nash your teeth.
Best of luck!