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UGH! I have been suffering with mouth issues for the past week! A week ago Sunday I could feel that I was going to get one of those things I call tongue zits...those little white raised bumps that hurt like h3ll! So I was prepared to deal with one... ONE. But no, something must be wrong with my chemistry at the moment, because come Wednesday, I'd say there were 4. And the next day, one would be fading and another one would pop up.
Yesterday I counted 5 on my tongue and a canker sore on my upper gum. They make it very difficult to talk and the tip of my tongue feels kind of burnt and raw. I had some aloe juice drink at dinner last night, and that was just lovely on my tongue, but then the drink was gone and the darned spots weren't.
I tried that liquid that stings then makes all the pain go away. That helped for a few minutes. And I tried a gel... but the gels don't really stick to a saliva producing machine like a tongue. I've been gargling with diluted TCP for the past couple days, but that just tastes nasty and makes me smell like TCP... yeck.
I just got another gel today, Bonjela and that is definitely working better on my canker sore and slightly on my tongue. And today my tongue feels like they are all starting to fade. Was it the vitamins I took last night? If so, I have GOT to remember to take them nightly! I sure as heck hope it's not in response to the new Tesco diet I'm on! I'm going to guess that it's not as I started that on Wednesday.
But even as I feel the tongue zits fading, I can feel another canker sore popping up RIGHT NEXT to the other one! REALLY!?!?
Has anyone else ever had this happen to them? If they're not gone totally in the next few days, Dr. H will be receiving a visit from yours truly. Of course she'll probably say to keep doing what I'm doing and then bill me 70 euro. Ugh. Please send on your mouth healing vibes!
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I hate those!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis happened to me just before the Oxford Jaunt this year. Two of the little blighters in two days, a cold sore and very sore gums, boy was I miserable. I have no idea why it happened, perhaps I ate something poisonous, if anyone knows what deficiency causes it I'd like to know. I was told ulcers are often caused by iron deficiency and when I had iron problems I used to get a lot of ulcers but the little white ones? Are they the same thing?
ReplyDeleteI've done a lot of reading on these buggers this past week. I've heard mouth trauma, vitamin B deficiency, herpes (Eek! Well cold sores are herpes anyways) and oral thrush quite a bit. I hadn't heard iron, though. I don't think mouth ulcers are the same as the pimples, but then maybe whatever is going on in my body is making both of them?
ReplyDeleteI used to get these! It actually (if they are the same as yours) is an inflamed taste bud at the tip of your tongue caused by 1 of 2 things. 1: Irritation by eating too much of one thing (like a hard candy) or 2: a lack of L-Lysine. You can buy that amino acid at any good pharmacy. Good luck!!
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