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Canker Sores: Can a doctor help treat or limit the duration of a canker sore better than what I'm doing on my own?

palliser — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:26:32 -0800

Canker Sores: Can a doctor do anything or prescribe anything that will treat or limit the duration of a canker sore better than what I'm doing on my own? I'm in Day 4 of a cluster of 4 canker sores of the "why god why" variety, at the base of my tongue. (As distinct from a cold sore, btw, for those who have advice related to cold sores.) Eating and talking are near-impossible, and I'm doing as little as possible of either.

In response to the advice in these threads, I got some Kanka and some hydrogen peroxide last night and will be trying those.

If you have any other advice for canker sores, of the treat-the-pain or limit-the-duration or prevent-future-sores varieties, lay it on me.

My main question is, though: can a doctor do anything to help? I'm willing to see one if they have some magic up their sleeves -- prescribe a real doozy of a topical pain reliever that will actually stay on a tongue, or do something to the canker sore itself to, you know, make it melt away screaming "NOOooooooooo". Anyone have any experience with professional medical treatment of a canker sore?

Mouth ulcer treatments?

Jakey — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:52:32 -0800

Treatment for mouth ulcers. I've been using Bonjela since 1837, and it's only just now struck me that medical science must have come up with something better in recent years. So what do you find works well?

Why do I get canker sores preceeded by a sore throat?

champthom — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:53:50 -0800

Why do I get canker sores preceded by a sore throat? Just this past week, it happened to me again - I get a sore throat, and just as I feel the sore throat go away, I feel a canker sore develop. Now instead of a sore throat, I have a nasty canker sore on the inside of my lip. This has happened quite a few times to me and it's really odd that I can tell when the sore throat goes away and start to feel a canker sore develop.

I'm just curious - why am I getting canker sores that follows a sore throat? I do get canker sores without sore throats, though I can't recall the last time I've had a sore throat that was followed by canker sores.

I usually manage to treat my canker sore all right, but I'm just curious if there's a specific reason why this phenomena happens to me.

Grab bag of symptoms

Rothko — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:53:24 -0800

Under the weather... For the last week and three days, I've been slowly getting over a nasty bout of something or other.

I've had fever, chills, headaches and an excrutiatingly painful canker sore that is very slow in healing. When I sleep now, I often wake up in a cold sweat. If a breeze comes in, my body goes into a shivering spell. Muscle aches and pains have accompanied headaches that have spread from my forehead to my neck, but these have largely gone away with some ibuprofen and sinus medicine.

It seems like my body's thermometer is still a little off-kilter, but the Mayo Clinic's explanation of canker sores suggests by omission that I have something serious if a sore is accompanied by a fever.

Is this something I should worry about or just let my body heal from?

I've also tried using a painkiller to numb the pain of this *(%$& mouth sore, but it seems to irritate the sore to the point where it gets larger and the pain worsens once the novocaine wears off. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to hasten healing that genuinely works?

Canker Sores

sicem07 — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:53:31 -0800

I chronically get canker sores, does anyone know of any remedies or treatments? I have gone to the doctor, tried mouthwashes, changing to a toothpaste without sodium lauryl sulphate, tried over the counter numbing treatments(benzocaine), prescription dental pastes, l-lysine supplements, and changing my diets, yet I still have multiple sores in my mouth at a time (sometimes as bad as 5 at a time, to where it hurts to talk). Does anyone have any home, prescription, otc, basically anything uner the sun remedies.