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Icky tongue
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I've had my tongue piercing out for about a month now I'd say. There was always a little bump there and that stayed after it closed up. Today my tongue started to hurt right there and I looked, the bump looks all swollen. Its hard to explain. It looks like the part of skin that stuck up while the ring was in, never healed back up with the rest of the tongue, now its just like a little flappy bit, only now its all swollen looking.
I have an unrelated Dr appt in 2 weeks so if its still bothersome and I remember I'll probably ask then, but for the next 14 days, does anybody have... well anything?
Similar experiences, ways to help the pain, make the bumpy go away?
Thanks.
I have an unrelated Dr appt in 2 weeks so if its still bothersome and I remember I'll probably ask then, but for the next 14 days, does anybody have... well anything?
Similar experiences, ways to help the pain, make the bumpy go away?
Thanks.
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Ooh, that sounds icky - hope you're not suffering too much. I've no direct experience - and the best course of action is to see your GP, but I reckon in the meantime the bext thing you can maybe do to stop any infection and maybe ease the discomfort is to try and rinse your mouth with warm salt water
Put say half a teaspoon full of salt into a cup/mug etc and pour boiling water onto it. Stir it and let it cool then swill your mouth with it. This might help with any infection in there. My dentist told me to do this for my wisdom teeth when my gums get sore, so it should work for your tongue.
HTH a bit, petal
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My normal Dr will be able to help right, I dont need like a special tongue dr. Thing that bothers me, else I"d probably leave it alone, is the exact same thing happened every couple months or so when the ring was in, so I thought it would stop, but now, I realize, it hasn't
edit: i probably wouldnt try popping it on your tongue though, might hurt!
just see the doc and see what they say :thumb:
AFAIK the only speciality that would cover it is ENT (ear, nose and throat), but even then you'd have to be referred from your GP so just ask the doctor is prob the best bet. (That's based on the system in the UK but I assume it's fairly similar there)
Ah you see, here you have to go through all the red tape before getting seen to. If only they'd privatise our health system eh...but that's another conversation :chin:
Seriously? you think the uk should privatise its health system? why?
what about all the people who can't afford treatment or all the terminally ill patients who will be in and out of hospital all the time, are you saying its fair to make them pay possibly hundreds of thousands just to live?
My boss said it looks like scar tissue... It has been there since I got my tongue done, maybe?... :chin:
Most of my family all work in the NHS, and I work in a hospital part time too. Most of us agree that it would work better if we had a private system. The idea is that you don't pay for the treatment, you pay a premium like you would with any other insurance. My main reasoning for saying this is that when hospitals get paid for treating patients, they STRIVE to make their treatments as good and as efficient as possible. If a hospital isn't up to scratch, nobody goes there. It would mean less beaurocracy and more patients sorted out. But I really don't wanna debate about it on here 'cos I'll probably lose...I'm much better at arguing face to face :yes: That's just my opinion!
Yes i can see the arguement for privatising hospitals but then again, as for argument about terminally ill patients - if everyone is paying into a premium, wouldnt theirs sky rocket as soon as they declared their illness (as they would no doubt have to)?
i dont know about this though as im not entirely sure how the system works in the us
I'm not sure, because I imagine that the money from the people who aren't claiming for treatment would cushion the defecit made by the claims from ill people. I don't know if it would be the same for terminaly ill people, I dunno. Ask a yank
I'm a bit freaked now though. I do have that appt on the 13th with my GP, and I will bring it to her attention. I'm just a bit freaked. If my current place of health is similar to the one I had when I lived with the parents, they will do it right then and there when I ask about it. I knew I should have done something about it when that bit of skin never went away. But no, I had to have it, delt with it for four years and the pain it caused when it got irrated.
my_name, get yourself a family medical encyclopaedia.
What a stupid idea. What point would that have. :yeees:
So you'd rather just disagree for the sake of it?
Hypochondriac? Yep.
And if patients can choose to see a doctor of any specialty on whim and at short notice, the system becomes increasingly inefficient, with doctors, nurses and equipment standing idle or being used for patients who may not need it.
But all of this is best discussed in the Politics and Debate forum.
:yes:
Let's stick to offering each other useful info here, shall we?
Apperantly you can't if you've asked too many questions.