Topic: The pain, the sheer pain

[PyroMenace]

So a couple days ago, I bit the living crap out of my upper lip. I dont know my my mouth decided to snag some nice lip while I was chowing down a burger but now I have an awful canker sore from hell. Then just a couple minutes ago I was eating and I snagged it again, THE PAIN!!! Now its all swollen to shit and Im probably gonna end up biting it again and the sore will never heal.

[scottws]

Yeah, canker sores pretty much suck.  It's amazing they have the ability to heal at all.

[idolminds]

You know what works for canker sores? Alum. You can find it in the spice section of the grocery store. Its a white powder and you just apply some to the sore and keep it on there for a few minutes every day. It clears up after a couple days depending on how large the sore is.

Warning, it will hurt like a sonuvabitch. But it works.

[gpw11]

Brtual, nothing worse than when your mouth decides to fuck up on all it's own and you end up chewing your lip or cheek.  Kills.

Personally, I almost never have canker sores, but when it gets dry in the winter (mind you, that's like 2 days a year here) my lower lip splits like a bitch without fail.  Pure pain.  The worst part of it is that the uneducated may think it's some sort of cold sore, so I walk around worrying about looking like a disease carrying freak....even though I'm totally herpes free.  Well.......up there.

[Quemaqua]

I almost never get canker sores either, but I get the split thing every winter too.  Though I don't think anybody confuses it for anything, it never tends to be noticeable.  It just hurts like the dickens.

[poomcgoo]

Mouthwash.  Whenever I get a canker I rinse with some listerine once or twice a day.  Will be gone in 2-3 days, guaranteed.

[PyroMenace]

Listerine eh? I think I'll try that. Ive done the Alum thing Idol. I just dont see how that works. It hurts like a bitch and I felt that aggravating the sore just made it stay longer.

I get canker sores a lot. Well more when I was younger, it was ridiculous how bad it was sometimes. I'd go for months with canker sores, some would finally start to heal as another would grow, I was miserable whenever I ate. The ones near the lips are always the worst. But yea, this fucker is getting bigger, theres 2 of them actually right next to each other, they are actually combining forces to form one huge bitch of a sore. Damn I wish they would go away a lot quicker.