tongue pain?

does anyone else get weird tongue pain? for me, it's pretty random and comes and goes, but when i get it (like i am tonight) it feels like i burned it on a hot drink and when i go to eat or drink something, it feels like i have a bunch of pop rocks candy in my mouth.

just wondering if anyone else gets this weird symptom, too..

hope you're all having a pain free sunday evening:)

{{{hugs}}}
~danielle

Yeah...I get tongue pain, like my taste buds are sore and sometimes along the sides.  I think we should all 'swish and rinse' with Sherrine's 'medicinal rum'.  She claims it gets ride of the soreness but I haven't tried it yet.

donna

Oh yeah. I have the burning tongue. It cycles on and off. I have red spots that form on my tongue with white rims. It burns quite badly, and I've tried everything I can think of to treat it. Nothing works so far.

This may help I also have Lupus and posted about the pumps on the toung. Here is what i got for more gotolupus and go to 3rd page this was the most helpful.

 

Hi tink, I'm sorry I was so busy earlier I hope you got some releif by now. If not there are a few things you can do without a perscrption. Go to the pharmacy and get yourself some mylanta or malox. Swish it around in your mouth and spit it out. do that every for hours. it helps with the pain. When you can get to the dr. or call or what evrer you can do on christmas tell them you need some nystatin swish and swollow. it's basically 3 drugs in 1 and one is mylanta and one is an antibiotic not sure on the other probably a pain killer. I keep it around all the time. I have 2 huge bottles here I wish I could help ya. That's the thing with this disease it doesn't have to have a reason to beat ya down. but what the heck christmas is as good a reason as any right? (sarcasm). If you can get into an all night walgreens and as the pharmacist iff you can get somthing to mix with malox that you can just swish around until you can see your dr.

I'm praying you have a nice christmas and the pain eases up.

hugs

carol

definatley get the weird tounge thing....burning,phantom bumps and such.very strange...

Hi...Sherrine, one of the moderators, told me that she has always rinsed her mouth with rum when it gets sore and when her kids were small and got canker sores, she had them swish with it.  I hope she wasn't kidding (don't think she was) because I had the hubby buy me some Bacardi as I am very prone to cankers and a sore tongue.  She swears it works!

donna

I tried the rum, and it HURTS! OUCH! YIKES! Intense pain for about 15-20 seconds. Has only a little numbing quality. The sides still hurt.

Here's the thing:

I was too scared to swish, so I dipped my tongue in the rum. I WAS RIGHT TO BE SCARED! Woooo hoooo!

I can SO relate to this!! My mouth (especially TONGUE) is driving me crazy. It all started with increased thirst and a slight white coating. I thought it was thrush due to my asthma and allergy meds...and an antibiotic I had just finished. This has been going on for well over a month now, maybe even two? Anyway, I've been to three doctors and a dentist. All of them conclude that it is NOT thrush (though they didn't culture me even when I asked), or diabetes, but rather due to GERD. My GERD is something awful right now, I'll admit. I'm seeing a Rhuemy (sp?) tomorrow. Hopefully she'll have a few tests for me, as I know that GERD doesn't rule out everything else, but I'll try not to go into the office with a disease set in mind. Know what I mean? Doctors are only human and go on what you tell them (or so I've experienced). I have the "magic" mouth wash (3 meds), but find that it is a little too harsh. The dentist told me to lay off of it for a while because it is causing some gum annoyance. Other than that, she said my mouth looks fine. My throat is a little red, but again...she said her gut feeling (no pun intended ;)) is that it is GERD or a GI problem.

I can say that plain yogurt helps a little. Also, biotene mouth rinse and tooth paste. I do have an RX for Xanax and find that it does help when I am in a lot of pain. The mind kicks into over gear when the pain increases... The xanax takes the edge off. Traditional pain killers (vicodin)? They do nothing for the tongue pain. Nada.

Anyway, I hope you are feeling better! I've had to cut out soda and coffee. Just the mention of rum makes me jealous. I want some.  You always want what you can't have!

Stef, you don't drink the rum.  You just swish it around in your mouth and spit it out.  I can't drink alcohol but do this.  Plus, I like the taste of rum! 

 

Sherrine

Omygosh! Me too! I hope the researchers figure out fibro soon cuz it is so wierd!

BTW: I used to keep a small bottle of rum in our babies' diaper bags to rub on the gums for teething. I swear, it worked. A friend told us about it when the baby was teeny tiny. Some people would raise their eyebrows when they saw the rum, but seemed to understand after we explained what it was for. Sometimes we would tell people that we put it in the baby bottle to help baby sleep! hahaha

I always thought the rum swishing was a joke, too!

Sherrine, thanks for the rum. It was delicious. I thought we cleaned up the house well enough that you couldn't tell we were there. But the bras hanging in the trees probably gave us away, huh?
Sue

From all the posts on here, it sounds like people are experiencing a few different things. For those who are dealing with the burning tongue/scalded type feeling, you may get some more info if you google "burning mouth syndrome" or "burning tongue syndrome". The Mayo Clinic website (www.mayoclinic.com) has some good information.

When mine is at its peak, I usually try a baking soda and water rinse. It dulls the pain for a short time, but sometimes that's enough to help me get to sleep because it usually gets worse in the evenings.

I also get the white coating, burning and cracked looking tungue.  A mix of maalox and benadryl helps and I also chew acipopholis (sp)

I have been checked for yeast overgrowth and Hpylori.

about a month ago I got a new grind and brew coffee maker and thought I burned my tongue......nope a flair of the tongue thing