Sore tongue

[Lacey1990L]

Hey. New here
was told about this page
I’ve bad health anxiety and the past few days I’ve had a itchy like spot on the tip of my tongue and today the right side is like swollen and sore and hurts to swallow
I’m worried it’s tounge cancer
I’m so scared 😟 can someone reassure me so I can sleep tonight

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Could it be oral thrush?

those symptoms do match with oral thrush.
Why not visit your local pharmacy? you can get over the counter treatments for this - either a gel, tablet or lozenges and if you don’t see or feel any improvement after a few days then book to see your GP.
I suffered last Christmas with this and it’s so frustrating, it’s not like when you have a headache and can just take a tablet and forget about it.

If you can’t make it to a pharmacy see if you might have anything else in your own medical supplies at home? bonjela for the sore spot, throat sweets or if you have a caneston thrush tablet that will also treat also oral thrush.
Failing that make a warm salt water mouth wash to see if it helps.
Try not to worry 🙂

Thank you! I currently have a cold sore I suffer with them a lot through stress I thought that could have caused it
my mum said it could be thrush too but me and my anxiety 😦
I appreciate your reply 💝

Probably. It’s not as bad this morning

Do you have any vitamin deficiencies? When I was low in B12 and folate my tongue was sore. Ulcers would sometimes appear too.

I’m not too sure tbh

I've had this over the last month and it just went itself after a few days.

Had this a couple of years back and eventually had blood tests which showed a folate defiency.
If you visit dentist regularly then very unlikely to be oral cancer as they would pick up on anything unusual

Unfortunately I don’t have a dentist I’ve been trying years to get to one ever since covid

Did you ever find out what it was?

Mine was folate defiency which cleared up with high dose folic acid for a few months
if it continues check with GP x

Thank you x