So sick of always having aphthous ulcers

I have had aphthous ulcers sense I have been born. Seem like they don't ever go away. So painful and I have tryed few different medicines and nothing seem to ever help. I have magic mouth wash and it only helps for few mins then the extreme pain is back again. I was wondering if anyone knows anyone that specialist in ulcers? Also what to eat when you have them. Because seem like when I do live on nothing but mash potatoes and mac cheese. Get so sick and tired eating same old stuff. Not ever being able eat anything spice or acid or salt. My doctors they don't know how to treat them. My mom thinks I need be put on steriod but my gasterogist won't do it. So I don't know just so sick dealing with it. Even more extreme pain everyday...

I've had chronic canker sores since my Crohn's started in 2005. I mean, 5-20 at a time, ALL the time. Once I started on the 5-ASA meds they decreased in severity and frequency to the point that I don't have them all the time.

I just had a flare in Feb/Mar and those suckers are big and painful! Hard to eat, hard to talk. Miserable all around. I did use a dental paste called Triaminclone that helped but wasn't a magic bullet.

I find that if I eat sugar candy (M&Ms and skittles in particular) I can immediately trigger a huge canker sore. They seem to form where the food touches my mouth - the roof and in between my upper molars and cheek. They are deep pits. Each lasts about 2 weeks. I have permanent scars on the inside of my cheeks from biting them when my entire mouth is swollen.

What works for me: avoiding all sugar (especially those citrus type candies) and gluten, and staying on my meds.

Hope you find something that works.

The 5-ASA meds are the aspirin-like lower level crohn's drugs: Asacol, Colazal, Canasa, Pentasa, etc.

I took Colazal and Canasa for several years to treat my colitis until I developed an intolerance. My inflammation is the distal colon. It seems that if I treat that then my mouth gets much better as well.