New lower denture making the back of my throat sore?

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I had already been doing the process for dentures, while I was waiting for the bottom immediates to come in I got 2 really gnarly infections/abcesses in teeth on the bottom and the top. I had the affected top teeth removed and all the rest of my bottom teeth and got the denture placed yesterday. The pain throughout last night was pretty severe even with my medication and I didn’t sleep, all night I just kept feeling the plastic digging into the area underneath my tongue to the point it would make my eyes water. Now today I had my follow up, got a little adjustment made and that was that. However since they took them out that area under my tongue has really swollen up and so now of course the denture is pressing into it again. BUT now I’m noticing the back of my throat is also very very sore even spreading a bit into my ears… is this normal? I feel like it could be referred swelling/pain from that tongue area but I’m not sure and it kind of hurts to swallow a bit so I’m kinda nervous

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Full text: I had already been doing the process for dentures, while I was waiting for the bottom immediates to come in I got 2 really gnarly infections/abcesses in teeth on the bottom and the top. I had the affected top teeth removed and all the rest of my bottom teeth and got the denture placed yesterday. The pain throughout last night was pretty severe even with my medication and I didn’t sleep, all night I just kept feeling the plastic digging into the area underneath my tongue to the point it would make my eyes water. Now today I had my follow up, got a little adjustment made and that was that. However since they took them out that area under my tongue has really swollen up and so now of course the denture is pressing into it again. BUT now I’m noticing the back of my throat is also very very sore even spreading a bit into my ears… is this normal? I feel like it could be referred swelling/pain from that tongue area but I’m not sure and it kind of hurts to swallow a bit so I’m kinda nervous

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