Dept. of Aargh

[kaffy_r]

 Tee Em Aieeee

More sore spots have appeared inside my mouth. That's, like, four or so now. Even the smoothie I just had hurt to drink. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 12:20 p.m. I'm hoping this might require some antibiotics, and nothing more. 
 Nothing more to add. Move along, now, nothing to see here, especially nothing you'd actually want to see. 

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[kaffy_r]

I had cold sores occasionally as a child, and it doesn't come as any surprise that any kind of mouth sore can be sparked by stress. I suspect this explosion of them is an exacerbation of the occasional mouth sores I've gotten for the past couple of years (one every month or two, lasting a few days), which are pretty directly tied to the lowered immunity I have because of my RA and Scleroderma.

Wow, that was an inordinately complicated sentence.

Especially certain kinds of stress involving idiots I'm not allowed to Force-choke and curse in many fluent tongues.

This made me giggle, and because of that, I am going to use my Teal'c icon, even though I kind of feel sick enough that I can't do a happy dance. Heh.

As to medication, we shall see. If these are herpes simplex 1-related, I may just have to bull through them. Since this has also hiked my temperature, I just want the doctor to check to make sure it's not something that is reflective of yet another ailment. Cue grumbling.

[lolmac]

The medication in question is for herpes-type cold sores, aka canker sores. It's valacyclovir, aka Valtrex. I used to have to suffer through the damned things for days if not weeks; now, if I have the meds on hand, it's a matter of three or four days at the most. At the moment, I'm having to go through yet another fight to get a refill, which is a pain in the ass, but at least I know there's something to fight for.

I've never noticed a temperature spike in association, but that may just be due to not noticing temperature spikes. I did recognise, at one point, that when I got really bad outbreaks of external cold sores -- as in a fat agonising cluster right outside the mouth -- it was often when there was something Very Important and Very Very VERY stressful that I really needed to talk to someone about, but couldn't.

I remember someone, possibly Robert Bly, observing at some point that the subconscious mind can have a hideously literal and perverse sense of humour.

[kaffy_r]

As it happens, valacyclovir is what my doctor prescribed for me, and it has definitely helped hurry the sores into the past.

I remember someone, possibly Robert Bly, observing at some point that the subconscious mind can have a hideously literal and perverse sense of humour.

Oh, aye. Twisted little bugger, our subconsciousness. Heh.