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― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a pinky-nail sized one below my bottom lip and one half that size on the top right side of my mouth. i have to eat and kiss with the left side of my mouth & it hurts like a mudderfuker¡

i require sympathy.

& perhaps advice.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The bane of my existence in ways. I seem to get one every two or three months, and have since I was small. They are obnoxious bastard reminders of the frailty of life.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

someone told me once that if you hold a (unlit!) matchtip to the cankersore it will go away (something about the sulphur).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i would be willing to try a lit one at this point.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, swish around with warm really salty water, it works! (not instantly but it definitely speeds the healing process cuz the salt draws out the fluid from the sore) then swish around with cold water. but maybe you already know this

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, i tried that 2 days ago and by days end it doubled in size.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

keep doing it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

no¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, canker sores or herpes? Because the latter is a freakin' virus, the former, well, the doctors haven't figured it out yet. Went to the doc in a cold panic that I'd contracted something nasty, he said no, it's just a canker store, probably started as a small cut and your immune system wasn't doing it's job. Gave me, ummm, Triamcinolone Acetonide (nope, i don't know what it is either) to put on it and it went away.

― mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i know it's canker sores - they are on the inside of my mouth - i've gotten them since i was a kid. (but thanks for suggesting i am an std prone man-whore¡) & my "doctor has been pretty useless in suggesting any sort of remidy.

the pain is bad enough that i was contemplating drinking my coffee from a straw this morning.
i am in hell.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry man, didn't mean to imply any such thing. Go to your doctor and get some of the same goop they gave me. Seriously.

― mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that's alright - i wasn't really offended.
and i hate my doctor - he is a worthless piece of shit who hasn't helped me at all to date. i'd find a new one if it wasn't next to impossible.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

:-(

― mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

oh right, so this thread isn't about cold sores then?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, took me a while to work out they're talking about the common or garden motuh ulcer. They're a bitch.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ouchie, no eating the tomato!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

bblllaaarggghghhhh this thing it makes me crazy - cannot stop tonguing it¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have had these recurring in waves since I was little. Usually immediately after a stressful period. Really the worst.

To any of you I highly, highly, highly recommend Zilactin. I like Zilactin plain more than the Zilactin-B, which kinda hurts when you put it on and does not seem to do any better. Key: you must dry the affected area before application for it to adhere well. If I use it immediately, it 1)seems to arrest the spread of the ulceration and 2)creates a durable film over it that is good for about 6 hours or so. I only found the stuff a couple of years ago, it is far better than stuff like Kanka.

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

tough actin' Zilactin

― dan i, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought it was "chancre"?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

roxy all on her high horse with her correct spelling and shit.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i believe these are two similar types of afflictions which affect two vastly different areas of the body.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

chancres are syphillis! are they similar though? are canker sores MOUTH SYPHILLIS? no way!

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd always thought it was an alternate spelling, but the dictionary agrees with gygax!.

― mouse, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

she's fuckin with our heads, yo

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Two things to apply directly to a canker sore:

1. vitamin E oil: tastes nasty, fairly gentle and soothing, may take a while for sore to go away

2. baking soda: tastes like toothpaste, hurts like a motherfucker, sore goes away pretty fast

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

club soda and p0t kills the pain quite well
i am scared to try baking soda as toothp[aste hurts real bad

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother got a huge ulcer that swelled so much that he could not close his lips properly and it turned out to be a saliva gland that had become infected and he had to go to an oral surgeon to lance and drain it. ugh.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they have Kenalog in Canada dys? Its a mouth ulcer paste with some kind of steroid or something in it, it reduces the inflammation and pain. It is very effective, but difficult to apply cos you have to paste it over the ulcers and then let it kind of "set", so its best used before bed. Feels gross, but works (its like this thick chalky paste).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(it could be the same as the zilactin hunter mentioned upthread now i think about it)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Zilactin is like a translucent brown goo that becomes a thin white film once applied. It stings a little upon application (actually the Zilactin-B hurts for a couple of seconds).

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

So you are talking about mouth ulcers? Don't you have bonjela or anbesol where you are?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I have one of these...it started a couple days ago on the inside of my mouth, back by the molars, and it hurts like a bitch. When I was a kid I would get a cold sore on my lip for a few days every couple of years, and whatever I put on it (Zilactin, or Viractin maybe?) worked. Surely you can't put that on the inside of your mouth, though?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, tube of Bonjela, eat it all, mmmm.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm tasty bonjela!! U can't put cold sore treatments on the inside of your mouth!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i've used anbesol before - all it does is numb the little fuckers, doesn't really get rid of 'em.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe if you use it in conjunction with something else so that you don't have pain in the mean time?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea what one should do in this situation so I'm going to make ludicrous suggestions until someone tells me I'm ruining ILE:

- Buy a parakeet and train it to live inside your mouth and peck off the canker sores.

- Douse them in hot sauce.

- Put liver in your pants.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

- Douse them in hot sauce.

I did this over lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

- Sell them into canker-slavery.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

My final tiresome post on the subject:

Surely you can't put that on the inside of your mouth, though?

Yes, you can, and do. Canker sores only occur inside your mouth and are suspected to be some kind of auto-immune response to injury (think carelessly jabbing your gum with the plastic part of the toothbrush, biting cheek) or stress.

The ones that occur outside the mouth are cold sores. I think those are the ones that are viral.

- Sell them into canker-slavery.

"Send them on vacation to see the ruins of Canker-Wat"? "When their ship departs, play 'Cankers Aweigh'"?

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

YOU ARE RUINING MY LIFE! PLEASE JUST LET ME BE!

D :

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

If you haven't switched to toothpaste without sodium laurel sulfate yet, you might try that. Apparently, 4 out of 5 people who get canker sores are reacting to that stuff. It's what makes toothpaste foamy.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

worked for me - thank you rembrant for canker sore sufferers

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Man, I have this long national nightmare of a canker sore just killing me right now.

― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

cankles sores

― meta pro lols (libcrypt), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

I had a WebMD scare the other day where for a moment there I thought my recurring sores on my gums were a form of herpes. I was phewing like mad when I found out they were only canker sores.

Protip:

http://www.orajel.com/images/products/7165_mouth_swabs.jpg

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

Get an rx for aphthasol. Amazing shit right there. Rx-strength lidocaine gel is also sooo nice.

― kate78, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 05:42 (seventeen years ago)

cankles sores

― meta pro lols (libcrypt), Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:31 PM Bookmark

read this as ^^^

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 06:00 (seventeen years ago)

i have like 6 of them!

― goaty (harbl), Monday, 30 March 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

read as: cankles scores

― bnw, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

Eh I'd rather herpes sores than ulcers - at least you can kill coldsores within 38 hours with zovirax/virasolve cream, mouth ulcers just persist for weeks and hurt like fuck and I hate them.

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

hmm my exp is the opposite! ulcers go away pretty quick and coldies hang around for a week or so ;_;

― balls by titleist (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)

You have to get to the coldsore within hours w/virasolve etc or else it's too late, thats the only catch.

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

yo what did I ever do to you, cankers?

― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

I AM SO HUNGRY

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 02:27 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

i have the worst canker sore I've had since the time i had a 3 cm diameter one on my soft palate that left a scar after drinking high proof crotian vodka. it's on the inside of my lip on the left hand side and when i drink a beverage the fluid lands directly on it. anything hot, cold or acidic is hell.

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:20 (six years ago)

y’all getting enough fruit and veg?

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:24 (six years ago)

i eat lots of fruit and vegetables. I've always suffered from them. they only really happen if i hurt my mouth. i have quite fangy incisors and bit the same part of my inner lip twice in quick succession and i knew what was coming.

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:26 (six years ago)

This stuff is great for canker sores:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003AS74JO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2cIYCb624HZBN

― DJI, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:42 (six years ago)

I’ve suffered from canker sores most of life, often having more than one at a time. They always have gotten worse during times of stress. 5 years ago a new dentist suggested I might be allergic to sodium laurel sulfate, the foaming agent in nearly all toothpastes. I switched to one without it and I haven’t had a canker sore since.

― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:13 (six years ago)

Biotene PBF oral rinse might help. My husband gets them a lot so I did some research a few years ago and this was recommended. He noticed a marked decrease in the frequency of canker sores.

I think lysine supplements are recommended too, although he never tried them.

― just1n3, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:18 (six years ago)

yeah otm about biotene. Also salt water rinses. My spouse gets these a lot because of the alignment of his teeth. Regulate the high acid wines.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:26 (six years ago)

Biotene is the one commercial brand toothpaste that I know of that doesn’t contain sodium lauryl sulfate, it’s the one I’ve been using

― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:31 (six years ago)

i used to get em as a kid but haven't much since my late-20s or so.

lyseine tablets always seemed to help me. i'd take a couple orally and also break one up and mix w water into a little paste and put it directly on the sore. sounds crazy but it always did the trick and healed twice as fast.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:33 (six years ago)

good tips on this thread. thanks.
biting my lip or cheeks almost always causes a canker and stress is a huge factor for me as well. i’ve gotten them since i was a kid. SLS free toothpaste has helped. will try biotene and lysine since i have one coming in today

― sknybrg, Thursday, 2 May 2019 02:22 (six years ago)

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