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Mouth ulcers

Mon, August 02, 2021 8:05 AM

Anyone have a helpful suggestion for ongoing mouth ulcers. I have tried the over the counter options with little results to help with eating and talking. I have read about prescripts that help.

sphillips
Joined Aug 2, 2021

Wed, December 04, 2024 11:59 PM

Reply posted for SarahJS.

I was plauged with mouth ulcers in my youth. It seemed any time I'd get a slight cut in my mouth, I'd develop sores. After puberty and before I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 1985, I no longer had mouth sores, but apparently they migrated to my gut. I virtually never get a mouth sore in over 40 years now, but a fair amount of them in my colon. I used to put small pieces of aspirin on mouth sores. It helped reduce the pain, but probably didn't help them heal; that always seemed to just happen whether I just fought through the pain, or used the aspirin.

What has seemed best in my case was to pay LESS attention to the sores. The more I could avoid thinking about them and avoid the temptation to touch them with my tongue, it seemed the sooner they went away. That's where I personally made a connection between stress and soreness. While I do believe doctors are right when they say masking the symptoms, you can hide the truth from yourself and not realize you're getting worse, I also believe there's a balance to be struck with that kind of thinking and the stoic attitude of "ignore it" and it might go away sooner. Pain management is at least in part, an art of distracting yourself from the pain. With pain reduction, comes stress reduction; this may have an effect of breaking some sort of feedback loop, IMHO. Just some "food for thought" here, I hope you can find your best way through this.

Userlevel6
Joined Aug 31, 2018

Mon, April 08, 2024 6:41 AM

Reply posted for SarahJS.

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CoreyRuhoff
Joined Apr 2, 2024

Fri, March 10, 2023 9:25 AM

Reply posted for sphillips.

Ask your doctor for magic mouth wash it's great for mouth ulcers and oral b mouth ulcers

gameofcrohns42
Joined May 11, 2023

Fri, March 10, 2023 3:16 AM

Reply posted for SarahJS.

Dab with baking soda often.

Debra
Joined Mar 9, 2023

Tue, November 15, 2022 9:33 PM

Reply posted for sphillips.

This post is old, but Prednisone helped. Now I'm on Remicade and haven't had any more and they had gotten really bad. Like you said - hard to talk or eat. I went to the dentist during a bad flare and she asked if I had Crohns. My GI doc prescribed Magic Mouthwash but it didn't help for long, maybe an hour. I actually found Anbesol helped a lot with numbing. I would take a qtip and dip it in the vial and then appliy to each ulcer for 10-20 seconds, or for as long as I could stand it. It would help me sleep through at least part of the night.

SarahJS
Joined Apr 26, 2022

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