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countrygirl
01-12-07, 22:32
I vaguely remember about 10 days ago taking a drink of coffee with boiling milk in it just as it had been handed to me and yelping that I had burnt my tongue and everyone laughed and said what did I expect! A day passed and I forgot about it but then next day I had a very sore tongue with a round deep red patch on it and some of the raised blobby bits of your tongue in the area were tinged with white. After about a week the white has gone but the red patch is still there and very sore. In the morning you can hardly see the colour difference but as soon as I have eaten or drunk not overly hot drinks! the bright red patch comes back.
Now the normal part of my brain says that if I scalded my tongue then it will take long time to heal up but the hypochondria but is saying tongue cancer:huh: , How long should I expect it to take if I did scald my tongue on the hot coffee for it to heal up and the red sore patch to go away????
Burns and scalds in the mouth can heal fairly quickly unless you aggravate the damage by eating spicy or acidic stuff, like salt and vinegar crisps, curry, chilli , even alchohol, and so on. Why don't you get some advice from your doc to put your mind at rest then you can relax. Take care.
Some people just heal slower. I know if I have a canker sore it takes along time because I always have my tongue playing with it. I am sure it will be feeling better in no time!
Hi,
About 2 weeks ago I had a red sore appear on the end of my tongue and the roof of my mouth felt really painful like it was bruised. I don't remember burning my mouth at all but I did eat a crunchy oaty breakfast which was quite rough on the mouth.
Anyway, like you I expected it to heal overnight and it didn't and I started thinking its cancer of the mouth. My husband got very annoyed and said every time I ate something acidic or rough like crisps etc which I do eat a lot of , I was adding to the soreness, so I cuts out the crisps and just stuck to cold drinks, yogurts and soft things and about a week later I woke up one morning and my mouth was back to normal.
I hope this makes you feel better.
Nikkix
countrygirl
02-12-07, 23:43
thanks all. Nikki you are right about sticking to cold drinks and soft food as as soon as I drink a hot drink the redness and soreness increase.
I will give it a few more days before bothering my Dr. I have to admit to looking on google at pictures of tongue cancer and they look nothing like my deep pink patch so for once it reassured me a bit.
Hi
Please try not to google hun, I used to all the time and get myself so worked up that I would start imagining that symptoms were there when they weren't.
Let me know how your tongue is in a few days.
Take care
Nikkixx
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