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Oral lichen Planus: What home remedies or medications help you?
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Good morning, I've had OLP since July 2021. I'm a 70 year old woman, no children, full hysterectomy at 32 from endometriosis. A biopsy has ruled out auto immune causes.
I've been my husband's primary carer for 43 years due to his hereditary motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy, and autonomic neuropathies.
My oral pathologist has mentioned STRESS as a possible cause of my OLP. Wonder where he got that idea???
Although, autoimmune diseases are rife in my family eg Coeliac, lupus, and diabetics 1.
However, he did say that OLP is more common is women over years, and more than men a likely to get lupus.
Is the OLP, etc, possibly related to women being post-menopausal and lacking in oestrogen?
Should women with OLP be considered for HRT - Would this help?
Talking through my hat? any ideas or experience?
Any help welcome as the 3 years of both types of OLP in my mouth has not been funny.
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@sillyduffer your oral pathologist may be right. My OLP is triggered by stress too. And I suspect menopausal women are more likely to develop this condition - mine started when I went into menopause, and it was a good ten years later that it was actually diagnosed - by an oral pathologist. Till then I went from dentists to dermatologists and they just shrugged that they couldn’t help me!
I’ve been reluctant to go the HRT route because there is a history of breast cancer - among a list of other cancers - in my family, both on my mother’s and father’s side.
I read this article:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/184866#causes
It mentions as a possible cause, some drugs, which lists antimalarials as one. I take hydroxychloroquine for mild lupus.
and the article also lists gold.
I got to wondering if anyone has gold fillings? perhaps this might be causing your OLP.?? just throwing it out there.
I will talk with my GP about Acyclovir. Take care. Jamieson makes a spray B12, nice raspberry flavor...it is supposed to help OLP. Who knows, I'll try anything.
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@sillyduffer Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! You’ve asked a very interesting question!
OLP is considered to be an autoimmune disease but, as this article points out, stress can play a big role. You have a family history of autoimmune disease and you’ve had a lot of stress.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147812/#:~:text=The%20major%20findings%20of%20this,of%20management%20protocol%20of%20OLP.
This article comes from the National Institutes of Health.
Has anyone else in your family developed OLP?