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Burning Mouth Syndrome and Me

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Strange title for a post on a blog that has “One Woman’s Experience with Burning Mouth Syndrome” in its title, right?

But it seems to be necessary at this time of divisiveness and stress to reiterate that this is my experience. Yes, I do reference what little research has been done on this burning neuralgia, and will continue to send people to the BMS Support Website where they can read it themselves.

The truth is that NO ONE KNOWS what causes Burning Mouth. You can suspect dental work (I do personally!), or stress, or vaccines of any kind, or whatever you want to, but again I stress that NO ONE KNOWS.

When I decided to start this blog, it was for two reasons. One was to give me an outlet to say how it was feeling to me and what it was doing to me. Expressing yourself can give some relief. The second was to share what I learned about it, all the things I tried, how I got my diagnosis, and what coping strategies helped me and might help others.

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Preparing for the Worst – Burning Mouth Syndrome and Covid

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Masked WomanOne of the three Neurologists who treated me over the years had experience with quite a few cases of Burning Mouth System (BMS) and put mine in his “top five” of well documented and intractable cases. This is not an award I was excited to receive!

He said that like many chronic pain syndromes, “You know it is not fatal and that other people live for decades with it, but what wears you down is the incredible persistence.”

I thought he captured something very relevant. The day after day after day of chronic pain that has its own repeating pattern of escalation and only completely relents when you sleep. It is a wonder that we aren’t all sleep-aid junkies. I have noticed during the pandemic when I have so few things that get me out of the house early in the morning, I am sleeping 8-9 hours a night. It is lovely.

Someone asked me recently if I thought BMS would make COVID-19 worse if I got it. Continue reading →

Burning Mouth In the Time of Covid 19

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If you are here, I assume you know what Burning Mouth Syndrome is, that no one knows exactly what causes it and that there is no cure. If you don’t, this blog is full of descriptions and you can also check out the BMS Support Website.

If you are here, you are probably a BMS sufferer or knows someone who is. This blog is not usually a casual stopping place out there on the Internet.

I’m going to assume that you know about Covid 19 and the global pandemic it has set off and the fact that people with pre-existing conditions are more at risk for severe cases of the illness and even for death.

Is Burning Mouth Syndrome a pre-existing condition that could put you more at risk? The short answer is that if it is primary (in other words, there is not an underlying illness that is causing it), probably not. However, we do end up in doctor’s offices more often and in a world that is avoiding as much contact as possible with other people, and particularly contact with sick people; that is causing a stressful situation for us.

Have you skipped a trip to your Neurologist or Pain Specialist yet? Continue reading →