Thank you Gracie.. No I didn’t start any kind of new medication. It’s been going on for 6 years now with this being the 3rd time getting it. It’s been in remission for 2 years now so I thought it wasn’t going to come back and I beat it. 2 months ago i woke up and sure enough my gums were burning with stinging symptoms. That’s when I knew it came back. That’s how it happens. Just starts burning on it own and every time this has happened to me, , it lasts for 4 to 5 months. The 2 other times it was for 5 months. The weird thing about this is when it decides to stop burning or stinging my gums , it just goes away and it’s like nothing ever happened in those 5 months. No warning on getting it or when it goes away. Like I said, I have seen my Dr and we tried everything 6 years ago from pain meds to nerve meds then he sent me to a specialist that only dealt with people with burning mouth syndrome or whatever they call it. I do know Burning Mouth Syndrome according to the Drs who have heard of it told me they don’t have a cure for it. The dentist i went to see 2 different times, they both never even heard about this before. It’s strange cause I would have thought a dentist would have heard of it. Anyway this is the 3rd time getting it but thank god the burning pain I have is not like the other 2 times I had it. This might have happened this time with the burning not being so bad cause I have learned how to do certain things making it feel a little better like chewing sugar less trident gum. Sounds weird but it does settle it from burning so much. The 2 other times I had this it was unbearable and I still don’t know how I lived through that experience for 5 months every day until it finally went away. I took myself to emergency the 2 times I had it cause you just get to a point when you say enough is enough, the drs at the hospital need to do something for me. Even doing that back then , they couldn’t do anything for me cause they had no idea what was going on with me. They would not give me anything. They probably thought I was someone trying to fool them so I could get pain meds from them. It’s really sad but that’s where we are today regardless if this is legitimate or not , people are going to think the worst. It’s definitely the worst pain I believe a human being can go through day to day and knowing it’s probably going to happen for 5 months just like the other times. Im very lucky though cause chewing that gum has given me very little relief but that’s enough for me to be okay for now. I probably have 3 more months of this. Just going by past experiences, it should go away within that time. I will keep you updated if it actually does go away again within that timeframe. Thanks for listening and take care.
