As usual, when you look for research on Burning Mouth Syndrome or Disorder, you don’t find a great deal. When you do, it is often limited to very tiny numbers and scope and can be conflated with Trigeminal Neuralgia, Sjogren’s, and other syndromes that may have some symptoms in common with BMS.

But they are not BMS. There is no diagnostic tool, a blockable nerve, or specific medicines for BMS. There just isn’t.

We know statistically that the most affected group of BMS sufferers are older women. That is a fact.

We know statistically that many women who are affected are peri, pre-, or postmenopausal. That is a fact.

We know, too, that this correlation (Note that I do not say causation because that has never been proven.) has not served older women well. Often older women are shunted off into the “change of life” box in medicine and their complaints are not taken seriously.

I got curious.