The War of the Spacers and the Wisdom Tooth

Well, in less than 24 hours I'll be sitting in my orthodontist's waiting room, hoping and praying that my braces will still be able to go. I'm beginning to have doubts as, ever since Friday evening, my bottom-left wisdom tooth 

a) wants to come through;
b) is getting tired of all of the pressure caused by the spacers, or;
c) all of the above.

As you can probably imagine, the level of pain is quite high (to put it mildly). I used to think that normal wisdom-tooth pain was bad, having had my bottom-right one removed earlier this year. Not anymore. This pain is at least twice as bad, causing me to wake up in tears in the middle of the night when my Nurofen Zavance wears off, and counting down the minutes to being able to take another Panadol Rapid.

Because of this pain, I'm basically unable to open my mouth at all. My only hope is that it is the spacers that are causing this immense discomfort and that the pain will go away when they're removed, shortly before my braces are to go on. My worst fear is that my braces appointment will be postponed and that my wisdom tooth will have to come out and heal before I can get them on. The surgeons are planning on removing the rest of my wisdom teeth during my maxillofacial jaw surgery regardless, so I know that they can be removed during my braces treatment (as they're doing the surgery with my braces on), but, if the pain is caused by the wisdom tooth pushing through on its own accord and not the spacers, I don't know if I'll be able to hold off until the operation even if my braces do go on tomorrow.

High levels of anxiety today! I'll keep you posted.
<3