To ask if you’ve ever felt unwell with a mouth ulcer

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Hi all, not really an aibu but posting here for traffic.

DS has a sore on his tongue which I believe could be a mouth ulcer. But I believe it could have actually been caused by either him biting his tongue or burning it. It also happened a month or so ago but healed within a week.

The thing is. He’s not himself at all. He is lounging around (usually full of energy), lacking any motivation, not wanting to get up in the morning and not eating at all. He doesn’t appear poorly otherwise. No fever or anything else obvious. He’s clearly in pain and keeps holding the side of his mouth!

My question is can a mouth ulcer really make you feel really crap or should I be concerned it’s something else? Obviously cannot see a doctor or even a dentist easily right now. It would be hard to explain to a doctor over the phone.

Never really suffered from them myself but I do know they can be extremely painful.. But painful enough to go from being normally full of beans to lacking any motivation to do anything? He’s just feeling incredibly sorry for himself!

Any advice or tips?

I'm sorry to write this- but he need to get a dr appointment tomorrow, and be asking to be referred to a consultant, now. He ought to be seen on a two week referral.

Nearly ten years ago my grown up daughter had oral cancer- she had what seemed like a painful hard to heal ulcer, and was in increasing pain. I remember her holding her mouth, especially when she ate.

She went back and forth to the drs and was sent away with antibiotics etc- but it just didn't get better. Afterwards, we realised she was really tired as well- she never even mentioned this to the dr- but we later found it is a potential cancer symptom-unexplained tiredness.

We eventually got her on a two week referral- her gp was very doubtful it was needed- but as soon as we saw the consultant- who was lovely and very good, he let us know on that appointment, he thought it was cancer.

My daughter had her symptoms start in april, we saw a consultant in early august and they operated the beginning of september. The hospital care she had was wonderful- they were really good.
She had an operation and radiotherapy, thankfully, she has been symptom free since and is ok.

Sorry to write this, I know it scary- but if that's what it is- I can't put this strongly enough- you need to get on with treatment as fast as possible.
Luckily my daughter's cancer was caught in time- but they told us after the operation it was acting aggressively and heading towards her neck/lymph glands.

I know how upsetting it is realising that's whats wrong- and I'm sorry writing this but - I have a feeling of recognition reading your post, I'm really sorry.

The good thing is if you catch it in time- it's treatable, and I know even though it's frightening -once you have hospital care involved -they are so good and help you with it.

Don't let the coronavirus put him off having this looked at- this has to take priority- hospitals have come out several times and stressed they are treating urgent problems and seeing serious cases.

Sorry this is such a worrying comment- but there is something about your post that reminds me so much of my daughter coming down with it. Please try to get him to hospital consultant appointment as quickly as possible.

Seek medical advice OP.

Definitely seek medical advice. In the meanwhile, corsodyl mouthwash is good for ulcers, it numbs them (and the rest of your mouth) and is ideal if it's on the tongue as you can't put something like iglu on it.

(I suffer frequently due to a medical condition. I have one right now actually)

Sounds like a bit d deficiency to me, and most people in the UK have low but d anyway add in lockdown and it gets worse

Vit d sorry

I had a really sore tongue for weeks, from Feb half term to Easter, and felt under the weather throughout. I did speak to a nurse at the GP surgery in the end as I had very swollen glands and was worried about a resurgence of glandular fever. It's only just occurred to me reading this that they've gone. The nurse did check with the GP and they decided it was probably just viral. Hopefully your DS will pick up soon. Is he having a multivitamin?

A poor diet deficient in essential vitamins and minerals, in particular vitamin B and folic acid, may be a factor.