Good thread! We have a spritied one here. How do we know it's teething? Up for two hours at night with nothing to help. He does respond to Motrin though. Ok, nothing to help is not quite accurate, patting will help sometimes, but most often it won't.
Generally, we had a really rough month. He is normally happy in the day care, but at home he has been quite fussy and edgy, with often night wakings. We were wondering if we were doing things wrong to cause him such an unhappiness at home. Granded he got 5 teeth out in that period, but we really didn't it can go on for that long. Then suddenly, after his first molar came through, he was a new kid. We just had four most blissful days (and nights).
Ineresting thing is that his bottom right molar has been on the verge of coming out for several weeks now, but he wasn't responding to the teething gel. To my surpise, on Thursday, I noticed that his left top molar came out! I had no idea that one was coming. No wonder the teething gel didn't work.
Per doctor's advice, when he is irritable in the evening, we give him preventive Mortin before bed. That gets him through the lighter sleep in the evening and usually makes it through the night, although he wakes up early. I'm now starting to think that his early wakings are due to the teething.
Also, the doctor said, that sometimes they don't have sympthoms during the day, it just shows up at night. I guess, it's because there are other distractions during the day.