BrotatoChip
20-02-18, 14:16
Hello, haven't posted here in a while since I haven't had many health related problems to flare up my hypochondria but things have changed over the past two weeks. I'm a 22 year old fairly healthy male.
A few weeks ago I suddenly got really painful ulcers under my tongue. On and under the "flap" that's under your tongue that made eating, speaking and generally moving my tongue really hard. Then I got one more extremely painful ulcer behind lower lip, but this one didn't look like an ulcer, more like a white crater. So I had around 5 ulcers simultaneously.
As the ulcers healed pretty well after using some medicinal gel on them for a week, a new problem arose. The left side of my tongue started hurting. It hurts to touch and I can feel it get chafed on my teeth just by having my mouth closed. Upon closer inspection in front of the mirror I noticed the sides of my tongue have become sort of "ribbed" and whitened.
At this point I'm definitely 100% convinced it's oral cancer. The rational part of me tells me to wait at least a few days but the hypochondriac part of me wants to rush to the hospital to get it checked out. Reading about oral cancer survival rates also hasn't done me any favors and already caused me a few sleepless nights.
A few weeks ago I suddenly got really painful ulcers under my tongue. On and under the "flap" that's under your tongue that made eating, speaking and generally moving my tongue really hard. Then I got one more extremely painful ulcer behind lower lip, but this one didn't look like an ulcer, more like a white crater. So I had around 5 ulcers simultaneously.
As the ulcers healed pretty well after using some medicinal gel on them for a week, a new problem arose. The left side of my tongue started hurting. It hurts to touch and I can feel it get chafed on my teeth just by having my mouth closed. Upon closer inspection in front of the mirror I noticed the sides of my tongue have become sort of "ribbed" and whitened.
At this point I'm definitely 100% convinced it's oral cancer. The rational part of me tells me to wait at least a few days but the hypochondriac part of me wants to rush to the hospital to get it checked out. Reading about oral cancer survival rates also hasn't done me any favors and already caused me a few sleepless nights.