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Sores in mouth

Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Dec 13, 2022 | Replies (15)

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@loribmt

Hi @jkyc56 I’m wondering if what you’re experiencing is a condition called
Geographic Tongue. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/geographic-tongue/symptoms-causes/syc-20354396

It’s a benign condition that can happen in the mouth with whiteish areas on the tongue, a sensitivity and burning, especially after eating spicy, salty or acidic foods. There’s really no treatment for this, except to avoid the foods I mentioned. It can come and go.

The tongue can look pretty unusual, with smooth, pink areas outlined with white, sometimes feels like burning on the edges or feeling like your tongue is raw on the sides. Often looks like a topographical map, hence the name of the condition.
It’s always a good idea to have it checked out by a dentist just to make sure nothing else is going on, even without underlying medical conditions. You want to make sure it is not a more serious situation.
Does this sound like your symptoms? Have you seen a dentist to get an opinion on what’s happening?

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I have seen a few doctors and nobody can truly say what is going on. It is not geographic tongue, was biopsies nothing cancerous. I have had it for 5 years and thinking maybe autoimmune related, or GERD side effects.. have severe GERD.. had surgery twice to try and fix acid splashing up into esophagus. Thought it might help to throw this out to see if anyone else has something like this.. my PCP, dentist, and an oral surgeon seem puzzled.. I was given Clotrimazole troche 10Mg that dissolve in the mouth to try and calm this stuff down.. but they don’t help much just a very short fix for the chronic nature of whatever this is… 😖