Oh mouth ulcer, how I haven't missed you!

sted

Rising Star
So I quite often seem to be inflicted with mouth ulcers, I know burning your mouth, cutting your gums or the walls of your mouth in any way, whether accidentally biting while eating or any other means there may be can and most likely will cause such - but I quite often find myself getting them even when I haven't done anything myself to cause it.

I'm also no stranger to having multiple ulcers form around the same time and to put it plainly, it is simply not convenient nor is it pleasant.

Now, I've heard and also read that feeling run down or being stressed often can cause these infernal sores to appear, which is very relevant to me as I have a million and one things that stress me out all the time, I'm a bad stress head and almost everything will induce its merciless ways upon me - but it was brought to my attention that in some cases, frequent development of ulcers in the mouth can point to other, underlying issues.

So realistically I should go and see if there is anything more to me getting them quite often and actually should have gone long before today, but I just can't seem to bring myself to make an appointment, I hate going to see the doctor in General, for any reason, whether it be for a routine checkup, update of records, or the annoying blood tests. But in this particular case I find myself not wanting to know if there is something more sinister possibly behind them! Because as Stated above I am a major ball of stress and could do without any additions to the list of things that get me stressed.

So I was wondering, does anyone else suffer from frequent ulcers, do you have any preventions or possible solutions to stop them forming or even ways to speed up healing? Sure, I could use bonjela, but at this point it doesn't seem to have any effect on them for me if any at all, as I suspect they make it much less in terms of strength now as opposed to when it had first been released. I know keeping your mouth as clean as possible is also helpful, with use of mouthwash usually, it doesn't always help as well as you may like it too, especially if a particular ulcer is a larger one, which can take a considerably long time to heal and often leave a scar in your mouth, regardless of whether you rinse out your mouth with the wash regularly throughout each day.
 

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
No one likes going to the doctors,but that really is what you should force yourself to do.
 

DeadEyeDuk

Superhero Level Poster
Pretty rubbish sted.

There is always a silver lining though...more ulcers means more BONJELA!

(Just me? I was forever getting in trouble as a yooff for licking it off the inside of my mouth...oddly addictive stuff! :D That and Tixylix :) )
 

sted

Rising Star
Thanks Kruppsy, though you aren't the first to call me that. It is appreciated nontheless. :D

And no, DeD, it is not just you! I happen to find bonjela addictive too.

I know, Vanthus, but it seems to feel harder to go after each time I have been. That said I will attempt to force myself to go, as although I don't particularly want to hear what it could be but it's also not entirely a good thing to ignore it if it is something worse where it won't be treatable until the problem is located and recognised. Thanks for zhe replies.
 

Flucky

Well-known member
Yeah I get ulcers pretty badly, not fun. Sometimes it'll be weeks of only eating with one side of my mouth, or drinking orange juice looking like Stephen Hawking. I've found that the gels are usually pretty useless. The only stuff I would recommend is something I don't know the name of, so this is a pretty useless comment. It came in a tiny bottle, and you put a small amount of liquid on a tiny spoon thing then onto your ulcer. It stung like a mofo but pretty much numbed the ulcer after a minute or so.

A thing I do is half fill my mouth with water, and swish it around the ulcer with some force. It hurts a lot whilst you're doing it but tends to help eating a little.

I get so fed up of them now that I just leave them to it and bare through the pain. If I'm lucky they're gone within a week and food is enjoyable again.

Feel your pain ;(
 

lewishollings

Bright Spark
Yes actually, a lot of my family suffer for ulcers (Yes we have good dental hygiene) and we've all gone to the doctor's about it, all we get offered is a bottle of corsodyl, my brother was suggested to take vitamins and they worked for a little while but not for long, it seem's genetic in my family for some reason, whether it's what we eat and drink I don't know but too everyone else I know, ulcer's seem like this rare thing, to me they come along very very often, haven't found any cure for them as of yet but hey ho, looks like I'm stuck with em!
 

Bsrz

Rising Star
haha oh the days of bonjela now theres an age rating of 16+ on it for some reason :) I get cold sores so I know what your going through as far as I know its just something we have to live with and take in our stride, stress is the main factor in getting cold sores or ulcers thats why I try not to get upset and stressed :)
 

rickne

Master Poster
I get em alot too. Mainly due to some stress or the wrong kind of diet. :) I use bonjela but have used light antiseptic gels too. Orajel is very handy which is usually used for toothache. Anbesol too.

Anbesol - http://www.boots.com/en/Anbesol-Liquid-15ml_1016835/

Orajel - http://www.boots.com/en/Orajel-Extra-Strength-Dental-Gel-5-3g_117242/

Rinsted pastilles -http://www.boots.com/en/Rinstead-Sugar-Free-Pastilles-24-Pastilles-_1926/


Usual dental advice is anything lasting over 7 days , ring it in. My friend at work had part of his jaw removed recently due to the removal of an advanced tumor in his lower mouth. Luckily (and I use that term loosely) it was benign. I believe it ended up causing some kind of Mass effect on his jaw and now has a plate and lacks a few teeth. But hey he is otherwise clear.

Sorry to go extreme on this but its better to educate and prevent.
 
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sted

Rising Star
Don't worry Kruppsy, I knew you meant the herb.

Well in that case, Rickne, I seem to be tag teamed with those two as I have both a not very good diet and as earlier stated more stress than what I would consider ideal.

Haha, yeah Bsrz, it is completely daft! They make it weaker, yet put a minimum age for use...

Flucky and Lewis, we should become the Ultimate Ulcer Trio!

Note to self, fight any cravings for spicy foods when having an ulcer!
 

Flucky

Well-known member
Actually somebody said earlier in the thread (sorry can't credit b/c too lazy to return to previous page) but Corsodyl is really good for them. It took me a while for my mouth to adjust to it lol, as the first time I used it my tongue when weird for days (kind of like the feeling you get when you burn it with tea). BUT, if you wash it around in your mouth and properly focus it on the ulcer it really reduces to the it takes to heal. Main thing I genuinely recommend.

Sted, if you find a way to fight crime with ulcers I am 100% in the trio.
 

lewishollings

Bright Spark
Actually somebody said earlier in the thread (sorry can't credit b/c too lazy to return to previous page) but Corsodyl is really good for them. It took me a while for my mouth to adjust to it lol, as the first time I used it my tongue when weird for days (kind of like the feeling you get when you burn it with tea). BUT, if you wash it around in your mouth and properly focus it on the ulcer it really reduces to the it takes to heal. Main thing I genuinely recommend.

Sted, if you find a way to fight crime with ulcers I am 100% in the trio.

Yes, my doctor always recommends it, got it for free once ... haha
 

sted

Rising Star
I'll look into all these suggestions at some point, but my current slave.. Ahem, I mean payed assistant is currently in no condition to work or otherwise get them for me.
 
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