Our little guy has really suffered with teething pain, he's just on nine months and his bottom two came through about a week before 8 months old, his left canine came through just in the last couple of days, and the next one is on the way (and Kazbah is right, the canines are EVIL). Poor little guy gets a few days break in between teeth and then he's onto the next one. He's been experiencing pain from teething since he was two and a half months old though, so teeth have become my absolute nemesis.

I very rarely take pain relief for myself, and had hoped to avoid medicating my son if possible. I have used almost every teething remedy under the sun (although haven't got a teething necklace, that will be next on the list). If he's grizzly I'll start with distraction, then teething toys (the ones that you put in the fridge), homeopathic teething tablets, teething gel (bonjela does nothing for him, only sm33 has any effect) then finally onto nurofen and/or panadol. For someone who is very wary of medicating, we have gone through an entire pharmacy but at the end of the day I would rather have him medicated than screaming in discomfort or literally unable to sleep. It does concern me that we have had to rely so heavily on medication though.

My philosophy is to not deny him pain relief if he needs it, but to start small and work up to the heavy stuff only if nothing else is working.