Feeling a little down…

The past few days I’ve been slightly under the weather. I suffer from chronic aphthous ulcers, which started when I was in grade school. Mine are moderate to severe… I’ve actually had to have a few of them burned out with silver nitrate, especially painful considering they tend to appear in the back of my throat. Let me tell you, that is a fresh hell that I don’t wish on my worst enemies.

I’ve found that it is easy to treat the ones that appear in a servicable location using hydrogen peroxide, Listerine, and various combinations of Orajel, but when they show up deeper in my throat or in my sinuses they are impossible to treat and they make me miserable for weeks at a time.

This time, luckily, the ulcer has appeared inside my lower lip which is easily treated. As the article indicates, its some sort of weird immune system response to some stimulus. I just wish I could figure out what that stimulus is so I can eliminate it. I’m not overly stressed right now, I’ve been eating normally and working out hard. The only thing that I can think of is that I’ve been outside much more lately and maybe its an allergen that is causing the trouble.

claims to have a medication that his dentist provides him (he suffers the same affliction) that can take the healing time down to around three days, which is a marked improvement from my usual. Hopefully it is something I can convince my medical professionals to let me try, because these things suck. Bad.