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10 Jan 2020, 4:23 pm

A sore tip of tongue . I don't get it all the time , but I do get it fairly regularly .

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10 Jan 2020, 4:25 pm

Herpes, strep, thrush, tobacco, spicy food, allergy, or sticking your tongue in places it doesn't belong.

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10 Jan 2020, 4:49 pm

Fnord wrote:

Herpes, strep, thrush, tobacco, spicy food, allergy, or sticking your tongue in places it doesn't belong.

Thanks for replying .

Herpes -no ; strep ?; thrush - can you get that without having had sex for ages?; tobacco- never smoked, spicy food - that's certainly possible ; allergy- no allergies as far as I know; sticking tongue - No .

Vitamin deficiency ?

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10 Jan 2020, 5:24 pm

I sometimes get a taste bud that seemingly randomly gets swollen and painful, sometimes on the tip of my tongue. No clue what causes it, it's just a single taste bud at a time and doesn't seem to coincide with what I eat or anything I've stuck in my mouth (one of my stims is chewing on things or messing with things with my teeth). Is it something like that, or is it the entire tip of your tongue?

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10 Jan 2020, 5:39 pm

Possible zinc deficiency?

Eating pineapple?

Thrush isn't about sexual activity. It's a yeast infection/overgrowth caused by Candida fungus.

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10 Jan 2020, 5:43 pm

hurtloam wrote:

... Thrush isn't about sexual activity. It's a yeast infection/overgrowth caused by Candida fungus.

People with HIV infections are susceptible to thrush. Maybe that's what he was thinking of.

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10 Jan 2020, 5:47 pm

firemonkey wrote:

A sore tip of tongue . I don't get it all the time , but I do get it fairly regularly .

Do you grind your teeth when you sleep? Maybe you're biting it and not aware of it.

That's what happens to me - I have to wear a mouth guard at night now.

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10 Jan 2020, 5:52 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:

Good question . I think one taste bud, can't tell for certain though .

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10 Jan 2020, 5:54 pm

Luhluhluh wrote:

firemonkey wrote:

A sore tip of tongue . I don't get it all the time , but I do get it fairly regularly .

Do you grind your teeth when you sleep? Maybe you're biting it and not aware of it.

That's what happens to me - I have to wear a mouth guard at night now.

According to my late wife I did . No doubt I still do .

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10 Jan 2020, 6:01 pm

Fnord wrote:

hurtloam wrote:

... Thrush isn't about sexual activity. It's a yeast infection/overgrowth caused by Candida fungus.

People with HIV infections are susceptible to thrush. Maybe that's what he was thinking of.

No - it was just me showing my ignorance . For years I used to get white stuff in the creases of my legs . It was sometimes dry and sometimes quite wet . The creases of my legs could get quite sore . I never went to the doctor's as I was scared of being seen as a silly mental health patient .

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10 Jan 2020, 6:04 pm

hurtloam wrote:

Possible zinc deficiency?

Eating pineapple?

Thrush isn't about sexual activity. It's a yeast infection/overgrowth caused by Candida fungus.

I've never been told I have a zinc deficiency . Folic acid deficiency -yes . I take a 400 mg tablet daily for that . Been ages since I had pineapple .

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21 Jan 2020, 11:05 pm

I've had thrush in my mouth from taking my asthma preventer medication and not rinsing my mouth out afterwards. Quite painful and it made my tongue white. Had to take a spray called Nilstat to get rid of it.

A problem I have now that I realise it, is that I'm cutting my tongue on one of my back teeth which has gotten sharp, I don't know how. Will bring it up at the dentist when I go next.

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29 Jan 2020, 11:03 pm

In my case it's usually hard candy and sour candy(I :heart: sour gummies ) - though some fruits do it to me too...

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