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Sores in your mouth

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miyuru

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I hate these! Not really a cold sore, but it's when you bite the inside of your mouth and it swells, which leads to more accidental biting or whatever and you get a cold sore type thing. Canker sore I think they call it if it's not viral?

Anyway I have one UNDER my tongue right now, it hurts to swallow/drink out of a straw/drink in general.

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borghe

Loves the Greater Toronto Area
canker sore..

and it is basically the same thing as a cold sore/herpes, only on the inside of your mouth.
 

miyuru

Member
Is there a term for the one where it just appears from mechanical strain (i.e. biting your lip, grating against your teeth), not a viral thing?
 

borghe

Loves the Greater Toronto Area
miyuru said:
Is there a term for the one where it just appears from mechanical strain (i.e. biting your lip, grating against your teeth), not a viral thing?
ehh.. probably just a bruise of callous or something.
 

miyuru

Member
Hmm....I guess there's no where else this thread can go...

:lol

Any ideas on how to get rid of it faster? I've just been washing my mouth with salt water, Listerine, etc.. I figure those just numb it temporarily, but don't really help it go away.
 

Ferny84

Banned
I know a way of getting rid of a canker sore, tis painful though.

Mix salt with lemon juice, stir together, dab a qtip in it and rub it on your canker sore.

Repeat over and over, don't use the same qtip.

Mine always goes away in a day when I do this.
 

Boomer

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I don't think what he has is a canker sore. I've accidentally bitten my cheek and it swells up for a couple days. I thought a canker sore was something else.
 
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not enough vitamins etc can also give you mouth ulcers etc.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
It's a mouth ulcer/blister,I sometimes get them after going to the dentist,if I bite my lip real bad,or if I have an upset stomach....keep rinsing your mouth with warm salt water to help with the pain and to speed up the healing,thats about all you can do with those little bitches.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
Yao Ming is having some mouth issues too :p

No problem man :)
 

AzN_F15h

Neo Member
ouch, ive gotten like 2 of those at the same time, but they were in the back of my mouth by my tonsils so it hurt like fuck! esp. when eating or w/e
 

marsomega

Member
No, no, no. Shut up all of you. Miyuru, best away to identify the sore or what not is just see a doctor.

I know the sore you are at least referring to. It is a sore you get when you have some type of major tramatizing gash, that is what I remember from it. I went to my doctor to find out. I was curious as to why now when I use to bite and cut the inside of my mouth all the time earlier in life. Mine was genuinely just that, result from a gash. To me it didn't look like a sore at all, (nothing like the ones on google.) It was a red, red, red spot that looked like the inside of a bad cut. At first when I discovered it I thought, "ok, no blood and no hanging flap of flesh, what gives?". I figured the must of cut right through. Then it just began to hurt really bad when anything touched, like an irritated wound. I have never had any sores in my mouth of any type or anywhere till this time (which happened 3 months ago.)

I do know that this happened in my sleep. Which wasn't uncommon for me; I just woke up and thought nothing. I get fewer gash and cuts in my mouth because during some dental work a little over a year ago the dentist used a tool to smooth out the sharp parts of my teeth responsible for it. My molars were very sharp and the dentist was well aware of this. He was surprised at the scarring inside my mouth. I've never seen them but he said I have some deep scars in there and decide to do that favor for me. He was disturb at it all and at the same time impressed.

Best thing to do is just go see your doctor.
 

scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
and if you're too lazy to go to the doctor, use listerine. it seems to do the job for me, though it burns a bit at first.
 

soma27

Member
I get these all the time in the winter/spring - especially since I am constantly traveling to different climates for work.

Colgate makes a good product called Peroxyl. It can be found at any CVS / Walgreens type stofe near toothpaste. Use this stuff right away, and 3-4 times a day when you get the sore and it goes away after 24-48 hours, and is much less painfull.
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
>>>Colgate makes a good product called Peroxyl.<<<

Interesting. That wouldn't have hydrogen peroxide in it, would it? That's what I dab on mouth cuts.
 
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Deleted member 1235

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normally I side with the person recommending you see a doctor in medical advice threads, but you don't need to see a doctor for either a mouth ulcer, a cut, or "good old oral herpes" the doctor will take your money and say "Nothing you can do about that".

Just wait till it goes away, I use antiseptic mouthwash as well. if it doesn't go away for a while, see the chemist. I got something called "Kenalog" from a chemist for a mouth ulcer and it helped.
 

miyuru

Member
Yeah it's not very serious, I get these quite often though I think. I got a HUGE swelling in my cheek from finals in December - it's all about stress (I was working during finals :S).

Anyway yeah I'll probably use a combination of lemon or lime juice, hydrogen peroxide, salt, listerine, and some CLR to get rid of this thing.

Thanks guys! :D
 

Great King Bowser

Property of Kaz Harai
I'm proned to getting mouth ulcers, the white blister things.

I swear I get them when I eat a lot of salty/chili/savoury type foods, or from cuts. Dunno if it's the same thing or not, but they stay for a good few days up to a week and they hurt like hell.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
LMAO :lol @ going to a doctor to get a small mouth ulcer/blister checked out.
 

Drey1082

Member
Wow, talk about timing... I have two of these right now from biting the inside of my mouth. Extremely painful. People at work must think i'm strange because i've been avoiding talking or smiling due to the pain both cause.

And to the guy who said rub lemon juice and salt on it.... Are you serious? That sounds like pure torture.

Listerine and Kanka are my recommendations, although neither work well enough.
 

isamu

OMFG HOLY MOTHER OF MARY IN HEAVEN I CANT BELIEVE IT WTF WHERE ARE MY SEDATIVES AAAAHHH
soma27 said:
Colgate makes a good product called Peroxyl. It can be found at any CVS / Walgreens type stofe near toothpaste. Use this stuff right away, and 3-4 times a day when you get the sore and it goes away after 24-48 hours, and is much less painfull.

I like this advice the best
 

SickBoy

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For a while, I was getting canker sores fairly frequently... here's my 2 cents.

- Diet has a lot to do with it
- So does stress
- Someone else mentioned Kanka - decent product and custom made for these sores. Best part about it is it numbs the pain.
- There's another product called Orajel, which I think does a better job of healing them and also offers some numbing...
- I think anything citrus/salt or stingy in any way is more self-torture than anything. I used to do that sort of stuff, because if you're making it sting like a sonovabitch, you must be doing something right, right? I don't know about that. I'd rather use something that makes the discomfort go away and actually does work...
 

CrunchyB

Member
SickBoy said:
- Diet has a lot to do with it
- So does stress

I think I can confirm this. I usually get them in stressful periods of my life. Like now, I have a test tomorrow which I must not fail. Seriously, I'm totally fucked if I fail this. So now I don't sleep and eat regulary (which sucks).

It's the lowered resistance, I also get some minor acne in tiem slike these. But everything clears up when I start eating well and take some rest.
 
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