stupid health TMI

[rm]

I have something that looks like a blood blister on teh inside of my cheek that I've never noticd before, and since I noticed it because it's kinda large and feels weird, I have to assume it appeared suddenly and is what I think it is.

So how many days should I give it before I freak out and go to the doctor because I'm scared I have oral cancer or something?

ETA: Well, I just popped the thing by accident, so I guess that's a good sign in its way. I'll keep an eye on it though, and since I already contacted my dentist, I'll get stuck having the celiac talk if nothing else.

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[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, it could be a blister. Maybe you just bit your cheek last time you were eating? I get random bruises all the time from injuring myself and then forgetting about it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

well, I just popped it by accident. I guess that's a good, if disgusting, sign.

I am such a hyperchondriac (although after the year I've had, I think I'm actually entitled for a change).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that must have tasted disgusting. But if it pops like a blister, then probably not horrible tumor or anything.

Yeah, I'd imagine so. But it is freaky when your body does stuff you don't expect.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Completely.

You missed the three months of "what am I dying of" when it just turned out I'm severely gluten-intolerant. Time to go eat a bagel made out of applesauce and rice.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of other friends who can't eat gluten, but at least they didn't have to guess at what was going on. That would be terrible.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My doctor kept saying "just eat bread until your stomach recovers."

So yeah, that was fun. Fun fun fun.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

Though ouch even once you figured it out- I live entirely off of bread and pasta, and would probably starve to death if I had to eat anything else.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I feel so much better now that the willpower is rarely difficult, and then usually only if I've been drinking. There are also several restaurants here that have gluten-free pasta and bread and one is actually very very good, and unlike most gluten-free food -- cheap. The hit to my budget for a lot of this crap has been immense, and the social vagueries of it (parties and such) can be hard.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would think so. Because gluten's the kind of thing that's in everything, and doesn't really come with nice warning labels like peanuts.

My favorite coffeeshop sells gluten-free brownies, but I've never had them, so I don't know if they're any good.

[rm.livejournal.com]

There's a gluten-free bakery near fencing that I go to every wednesday (it's not open on mondays) that's so good I get paranoid it has gluten in it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yum. I had a really good gluten-free chocolate cake once, but it was at a resturant in California, so that doesn't really help you.