some woman:::
The Ulcer
It all started in 1989, fifteen years ago. I had been going to my dentist regularly to get my teeth cleaned and some minor repairs done as necessary. So when a small white bump came up on the side of my tongue, I called my dentist immediately concerned about this bump. It hurt like as if I had bitten my tongue. Which is what my dentist also thought. So she gave a prescription for Lidocaine (a topical anesthetic) gel. I used it for about a week, but then noticed that this bump had become a hole, white around the edges and black inside, and it hurt a lot more than earlier. Now I was quite upset.
My dentist sent me to an Oral Surgeon which did a biopsy right then and there. Those of you who have never had a needle in your tongue cannot begin to know the pain of this. Needles never bothered me up until then. I am no baby but that was a lot for me. That one sent me flying off that table - I passed out! I had my two children and my very best friend, Christine there with me at the time. She had to drive me home that day.
That night at 8:30 pm I got a call: it was cancer! My husband, at the time, my friends and my children were all there with me, but when i took that call, I was alone, no one heard those words but me, 32 years young and I have cancer, how did this happen, and why me. For the first minutes after the call, I was numb, you could have stuck me with a pin and I would not have felt a thing. I turned to everyone there and told them, “I have tongue cancer.” All the necessary phone calls were made that night after the kids went to bed and friends went home. I cried and I cried. I was terrified, scared to pieces. I had lost my mother to lung cancer when she was 42, lost my father at 49 to a heart attack. Here I was, as healthy as a horse, with cancer!
id go to the dentist missy!
im getting worried...
2007-01-30 04:43:14
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answer #1
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answered by richard bucket 4
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i get that too, i figure that its probably a blister from stress or i'm not getting enough vitamens. i take a multi vitaman or just wait it out and it goes away.. the person above me has a very scary story and if you are worried then you could go to the docter but if its something that comes and goes everynow and then it cant be that bad, it might be another form of a canker sore
2007-01-30 04:59:09
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answered by because7_8_9 2
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