Hello all! I’m new on the forum, and am interested to see if anyone has had a similar experience to mine. If you’ll bear with me for just a moment…
After about a year of smoking successfully, seemingly out of nowhere I had a strong burning sensation on my tongue and sometimes on the roof of my mouth. My tastebuds would swell, and it made smoking quite uncomfortable. I seemed also to be sensitive to tea, cinnamon, pineapple and other unrelated things (not hot jalepenos or hot sayce, oddly). Of course, I suspected tobacco was the culprit, or I had developed an allergy to it. So I had to mostly put it away.
It went on for a about a year, with me only smoking on the rare occasion that I would feel normal, but the taste usually wasn’t there and I would find myself irritated again. Looking into this and seeing doctors and specialists, I zeroed in on Burning Mouth Syndrome, of which little is known about. It has been severely depressing and has kept me from enjoying my pipes for longer than I cared for. It would come and go, regardless of what I was doing.
It is possible this was nerve damage onset by a tooth extraction I had, just a month before all of it started. It’s my best guess. It’s mostly gone away after two years, but even now I still get feelings of irritation out of nowhere, and swollen taste buds. It’s quite a nuisance.
Salt water rinses and drinking aloe vera juice has helped some, but nothing has gotten me fully back to normal.
If anyone else has dealt with this I would be interested to hear about it, and thought this could be a good place for some awareness and maybe shared knowledge.
After about a year of smoking successfully, seemingly out of nowhere I had a strong burning sensation on my tongue and sometimes on the roof of my mouth. My tastebuds would swell, and it made smoking quite uncomfortable. I seemed also to be sensitive to tea, cinnamon, pineapple and other unrelated things (not hot jalepenos or hot sayce, oddly). Of course, I suspected tobacco was the culprit, or I had developed an allergy to it. So I had to mostly put it away.
It went on for a about a year, with me only smoking on the rare occasion that I would feel normal, but the taste usually wasn’t there and I would find myself irritated again. Looking into this and seeing doctors and specialists, I zeroed in on Burning Mouth Syndrome, of which little is known about. It has been severely depressing and has kept me from enjoying my pipes for longer than I cared for. It would come and go, regardless of what I was doing.
It is possible this was nerve damage onset by a tooth extraction I had, just a month before all of it started. It’s my best guess. It’s mostly gone away after two years, but even now I still get feelings of irritation out of nowhere, and swollen taste buds. It’s quite a nuisance.
Salt water rinses and drinking aloe vera juice has helped some, but nothing has gotten me fully back to normal.
If anyone else has dealt with this I would be interested to hear about it, and thought this could be a good place for some awareness and maybe shared knowledge.
