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So, like a week ago I felt a pain on my upper, inner lip that I assumed was a canker sore. I get those sometimes, especially when I'm stressed and my toothbrushing routine suffers as a result (which happened last week). I ignored it. Then the pain started to spread across my lip. Now, a week later, my inner upper lip has red blotchiness on it. It only hurts if I purse my lips in an odd way, but it feels weird, sort of tingly, maybe like its swollen? It isn't noticeably swollen, but I figure that could be causing the the weird feeling.

So anyway, I can't figure out what it is. It doesn't look like what I think of as canker sores (no white), nor does it look like a cold sore either (which I don't get anyway). I haven't been taking any new medicine so I don't think its allergies. I have been eating more acidic foods than normal, and I have been kind of dehydrated? Could either of those be it? This has just straight up never happened to me before, and I am confused.

If the spots are localized to one side of your mouth then it's most likely oral Herpes zoster, since you have pretty much described the exact symptoms of an outbreak. When Herpes zoster presents in the mouth, the sores can frequently be quite painless so it's often not recognized as a herpetic sore.

See a doctor for confirmation and a prescription for Valtrex and be on your merry way.

Edited 2016-06-17 01:56 (UTC)

Isn't that chicken pox? You can get that in your mouth??

It's actually shingles after the initial chicken pox infection passes, though the same virus is responsible.

Herpes zoster will remain in a dormant state in a specific segment the spinal column. It can often reappear, but the subsequent outbreak is limited to a single region of skin (dermatome) that corresponds with the spinal segment the virus has colonized, so to speak.

Again, this is something that should be confirmed with a physician and treated with the appropriate antiviral medication, as the treatment makes subsequent outbreaks less likely to occur, and outbreaks will often increase in frequency and severity if they are allowed to persist.

See a doc if it persists. In the meantime, lay off the acidic stuff and hydrate, see what happens. Hydration can never *hurt*.

Well, there IS a such thing as too much hydration ;)

*snerk*

I think you'd have to work *really hard* to get too much. I'd probably puke before anything else would happen.

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