Does anyone else get really unwell with mouth ulcers

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Haven't had one for ages but currently have 4 (!!!)

One on either side of my tongue, one on my inner bottom lip and one right on the back of my throat. Initially thought I was getting a sore throat then looked with my torch and saw a very angry red ulcer.

The pain is bad enough but it's how generally unwell they make me feel that really sucks. My head is killing, all the time. I'm taking paracetamol throughout the day and it's barely touching it. I feel drained and my glands are up.

I'm using mouthwash and salt water gargles but I know from experience that nothing really helps, it's just a waiting game. Anyone else?

I'm the same as you OP, I can go for a while without any and then I get two or three at a time, usually on the side of my mouth or on/under my tongue. It tends to be when I've been really run down/stressed etc and I know I haven't been looking after myself. Certain foods like apples and chewing gum also trigger them.

When I have them I always get a temperature and if they're big and under my tongue also ear ache etc. I tend to think it's a general infection and my body not being able to cope.

You have my sympathy!

I suffer dreadfully with them- it’s the main side effect of the biologic I take for an autoimmune disease. I had one on my tongue that was so painful I couldn’t eat and my speech was affected.

I got prescribed betamethasone tablets from a private online GP service, and I find the mouth ulcer pastilles from boots quite good.

You have my sympathies, they can be incredibly painful.

Hi OP, mouth ulcers and accompanying feelings of illness, low energy and listlessness were the key symptoms I had before being diagnosed with coeliac disease. Try cutting out gluten for a while and see if they dissapear - mine did after a week on a GF diet, and never returned, ditto my chronic chilblains!

Aren't oral herpes cold sores? Which tend to appear on the lips and face not inside the mouth?

tend to but can also appear on the mucus membranes.

You can get it inside the mouth and it looks like ulcers but they tend to be severe ulcers.

Yes, I do. Painful! I'm anaemic like another poster. Also stress & worry can bring them on...and too much sugar!

Oh god yes. When I get them, I know I have at approximately 7 days of them growing and another 7 days of them shrinking. It's always more than one and the pain is awful.
Sometimes I get them when I'm ill, rundown or overtired but not always.
I use sls free toothpaste but I've not noticed any difference with that.
I take Iron, B12, Folic acid & vitamin D anyway as recommended by my doctor after having a blood test.
The one thing I have tried which I think has really helped is taking L-lysine tablets daily. I do get far less ulcer outbreaks since starting taking these.

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i did but found out i was severely anaemic. they stopped once i started taking iron supplements

I developed 16 mouth ulcers at once (having never had any before or since) immediately after switching to a new contraceptive pill.
The (male) doctor was very dismissive, but I got a second opinion and it turns out there is a link between ulcers and progesterone - and the ulcers went away when I stopped the pill.

Snap they are instant for me if I ever run out of Sensodyne and use my husbands toothpaste. Although I do remember one awful holiday in the Lakes when I got loads which will have been because I was run down and I assume I relaxed on holiday and my immune system let them in!