I was sick last week, with three days of a sinus headache that wouldn't quit. I also had some pain in my mouth that was seemingly related, or maybe not. It was that time when everything hurt, and I didn't know if my mouth was hurting because I was breathing through it too much due to nose stuffiness, or what the deal was. But then this week, I've been feeling mostly okay, though my mouth still hurt. And it hurt when I ate or drank anything except water, and I kept washing it with Listerine in the hopes that would fix the problem. But fortuitously, I had a dental appointment yesterday, and figured while they were in there, prying my mouth open, they could take a look at the problem.
And the thing that has been bugging me for days is a giant canker sore on my tongue. The hygienist holds out the mirror so I can see it, and it looks huge and disgusting and like my mouth is rotting and/or full of pox. But apparently, canker sores happen all the time and some people get them monthly or what have you. So I might be a total baby about this. My first thought was that I had mouth cancer, and that I would need to have it surgically removed. But the first link that comes up in Google says that these sores are common, and not cancerous, and go away on their own. I think it's funny that the link needs to spell out that it's not related to cancer at all. Is everyone as paranoid as me about weird spots appearing on their body? Is it just that the word cancer looks like the word canker?
The upside was that the rest of my dental appointment was easy because they took it easy on me since my mouth was already in pain. And I think knowing what the problem was, as opposed to just having a few days of random mouth pain, makes it easier to deal with. Even though it's gross to look at, I would take a photo of the sore for posterity, but I can't really figure out how to get a picture of the inside of my mouth.
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