Ow

[nwhyte]

First serious attack of mouth ulcers in almost a year, brought on (I'm pretty sure) by skipping breakfast two days of last week, aftermath of minor car crash two weeks ago, and pile-up of work after a week of travel. Have been trying the steroid paste with no success at all. Now switching to straight painkillers plus tea-tree oil mouthwash. May not

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[___avenue]

On the plus side...........cool icon.

[nwhyte]

Thanks! It's my new icon for being disgruntled but not actually angry. A colleague got me off giard when we were in Montenegro last week.

[crazysoph]

Seconding the cool icon - I could almost picture, although you don't curse (or not much in my hearing, anyway), the icon with a "WTF?"

Sympathies on the mouth ulcers. Steroid paste? Eeeuw! I could see switching to the herbal remedies if only because they can be more pleasant. Though, I've done clove oil onto toothaches and oral wounds (when I bit myself on the inside of the cheek), and that's fairly overwhelming. But effective for pain-relief. Antimicrobial action couldn't have hurt, either.

Crazy(but then, I studied aromatherapy and was warned off using clove oil topically on mucous membranes... go figure)Soph

[purplepooka]

Looking very Giles there.

[nwhyte]

Yes, I thought so too somehow!