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Tooth sensitivity to sounds

Tooth sensitivity to sounds

Since getting three amalgam fillings and two composite fillings a few months ago my teeth have become more sensitive.
I expected some sensitivity for a while after the work until it settled down, one of the amalgam fillings was large.
What's happened is the temperature sensitivity has subsided somewhat as expected but now I have a sensitivity to sounds which is weird. The sounds are ones people would consider annoying like nails on a blackboard, fork scraping a plate etc. I wasn't sensitive to these sounds before but now they make my teeth sore, some days are worse than other. Even thinking of a sound will make my teeth tingle. All or most teeth are effected.
Have you heard of this before, do you know any solutions?
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I've never heard of that before.  Are the sounds making you clench your teeth, resulting in pain?
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It's strange alright!
I don't clench my teeth. They aren't as sensitive to sound today but they feel 'on edge' as if any moment now they will be acting up again.
Can too many amalgams be known to cause discomfort?
I can feel metally kind of tingle taste sometimes.
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Are you getting any slight electrical pains?  Sometimes metal fillings can give off an electrical charge called a galvanic shock but that's usually with a gold filling somewhere near by and when they make contact, you get that shock.
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Well it feels like theres some tingling but I couldn't say for sure if its electricity.
I don't have any gold fillings. Would older amalgams from over 10 years ago be different to today's ones and possibly causing a charge?
I can say for certain that it's not a distinctive powerful shock.
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Probably not.  Have you called your dentist to ask what he/she thinks?
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Symptoms have thankfully started fading in the past two days. Same time as I finished aa course of nexium tablets, not sure if related?

Anyway thanks for your interest Jerome.
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540545_tn?1303677682
I can't think of a reason why the nexium would help but as long as the symptoms improve, that's great.  
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