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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive September 2007: Mouth ulcers!!!!
Mouth ulcers or cancer sores whatever you want to call them, I have one on the side of my tongue and it is sooooo painful!! Eating is a torturous experience, I get these it this same spot every once in awhile, although its been a good while since I had one. I feel like I want to go through the roof!!! I've tried baking soda, and a over the counter product called kanka, it works for a time because it some what numbs the spot for alittle while but that it wears off. I mean this thing is like a huge pimple but on the side of my tongue and hurts like heck! Does anyone else get these? And if so what do you do??
Yup, I get them, too. Try putting some teething gel on them. It helps with the pain, at least.
I hate having canker sores! They can be soooo painful. I really don't do anything for them. I just look forward to the days when they finally don't hurt so much.
I've always had them all my life (since I was 6 months old) and severly. I just suffer and live it. I'm not nice during the days I have a loaded mouth (up to 8 a time is my highest count). I've never found anything to help. My swears by B12 or B2, I forget
Wow Dana, that must be horrible!!! Eight at a time?! I would want to go jump off a bridge if that were the case!! Just eating dinner last night was excruiating pain, and that was just with one!!! Oh your poor dd, I sure hope not!! Mine is being caused by work issues, I need to find a new job that I can work around my kids school hours. Currently I am working at a school in our district in the cafeteria, a new position from the last school I was at, it is a nightmare, something new each day with the people who work there and things that crop up. It is nice because I can work while the kids are in school, have off in the summer and because I've been there for starting on three years I get 15 days vacation, to be taken when school is off, ie: holidays and such. But the people there are driving me to the brink. And most places, want you to have a wide availability and I don't have that because my dh works shift work, and I really need to be home in the afternoons/evenings. Sorry ladies to unload but just had to do it!
Dana, have you always used the same kind of tooth paste? I have had cankers since I was a kid, and my mom always bought Crest. I moved out and started using a different brand, and had no cankers. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until I went for a visit to my mom's, used her toothpaste and got cankers again. You could be sensitive to whatever brand you use. I've started using one of the brands from the health food store, and so far so good.
I get them too, and my grandmom always told me to hold a Tums on it to neutralize the acid that irritates them, but I don't think it helps at all!! I just suffer through, and avoid certain acidic foods that trigger them for me, like pineapple.
Marcia, Crest is my main toothpaste, but has not always been the only one I've used. And since I've had them since birth, I doubt that is the problem. BUT, stress is absolutely my key factor. And somehow, just knowing that stress causes them, I am able to control the outbreak. Sometimes it gets as bad as 5, but they no longer last for over a month and no longer get as deep as they used to. I even had one NEAR the edge of of my lip (where the lips join to a point) and it go so deep it made a whole and cause my lip to get bigger. Talk about pain!!!! I still have the scar from it.
Crystal, too much pineapple gives them to me, too!
My MIL has been going through chemo for a year and a half and was plagued by those in the beginning. She put sage tea on them - I'm not sure if she made a paste or put the powder on it directly, but she swore by it.
Mine is getting some better, I am using Kanka mouth gel on it and that seems to be helping! I just need to try and relax at bedtime I guess, because besides this I sometimes grit my teeth in my sleep too. Wow Dana, that one you just described must've been torture! Kay, the sage tea treatment sounds interesting, I'm curious about that. Thanks everyone...
I always use zilactin B. It stings when you first put it on, but then it really helps. Also, just take some ibuprofin for the pain - that helps, too.
My dad is a pharmacist and we always used Kenolog with Orabase as kids when we would get ulcers. Now they have products with orabase over the counter. Definitely get some of that. It is gritty and sticky and it adheres to the ulcers and keeps it from getting irritated and allows it to heal. It's a medicine type of bandaid for an ulcer and really works!
Kenalog with with orabase is prescription, isn't it?
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