Ouchy @missy I bite the inside of my mouth often due to the dental work. Warm salt water swishes several times a day will help.
I’m having an ingrown toe nail problem on the ‘surgery’ leg. I know it sounds trivial but they hurt!
Lately my pinky toes have taken a beating. Most recently I slammed my right one into a box and thought I broke it, it looked awful and hurt terribly. DH said it was a sprain most likely.
Just this morning while walking back to bed from the bathroom I somehow managed to scratch the very beginning of the inside of my nose with my nail. Blood everywhere because that’s what noses do. Thought I was going to pass out at the sight of it.
My biggest ouch was giving birth to a baby with a big head 8lbs 6oz, 22” long and a 15” circumference head, think Michelin man.
I am sorry. That hurts.I bit the inside of my mouth last night - and It hurt soooo much! It always hurts me more the second (or third…) time. It would be great if there were a way to reduce the inflammation so it settles down and I don’t bite it again today!
Ouchy @missy I bite the inside of my mouth often due to the dental work. Warm salt water swishes several times a day will help.
This is for all you who bite your lip/cheek or get cold sores in the mouth or on the lips.
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I often bite the inside of my mouth at the lip or cheek.
The injury site would swell ... leading of course to biting again and again. OUCH!
Because of all the re-biting, some would last for weeks.
40 years ago my dentist prescribed Kenalog (Brand name) in Orabase and demonstrated how to use it.
I've never been without it since.
Works like a charm, but only after you get the hang of how to use it.
For me the generics work as well as the name brand.
The name of the medication itself is Triamcinolone Acetonide Dental Paste USP, 0.1%.
For the gel to do its job it must do 2 things - which it can't do unless you learn how to apply it correctly:
1. stick to the sore
2. not be rubbed away by movement of teeth, gums, tongue, lips, inside of cheek.
To get it to stick to the sore:
You need to apply it to the sore when the sore is clean and dry.
Here's how to clean and dry the sore without making it worse:
Clean hands
Roll (yes roll not rub) a clean new Q-tip over the sore to dry the saliva and remove some of the white coating off the sore.
Repeat once.
Apply a tiny dollip of Kenalog to the tip of your clean pinkie.
Don't rub, just dab the gel gently onto the dried sore once or twice.
If you rub it the gel will turn grainy and just crumble rub off.
With a hair dryer on COLD and SLOW setting blow sore till dry, maybe 45 seconds.
Then (without letting anything touch sore) wet the sore gently with water.
Now you're done.
Don't poke or explore it with your tongue; try to ignore it.
If the sore is on the outside of a lip use chapstick/lip balm instead of water to prevent the other lip lifting away the gel.
Do this after breakfast and before bed as long as needed (only 1 or 2 days for me).
I know, it sounds like a complicated hassle, but with practice it takes less than a minute.
Most importantly if I start doing this immediately after the injury the sore will have completely vanished by the next morning.
The longer I wait to start the process the longer it takes to heal.
My biggest ouch was giving birth to a baby with a big head 8lbs 6oz, 22” long and a 15” circumference head, think Michelin man.
We recently got a dishwasher after living in this house for 17 years.
I was holding the cat, and the dishwasher changed cycles and made a whooshing sound. The cat freaked out and flung himself out of my arms, slicing up my chest and underarm in the process. Lots of blood! I looked like I had been mauled by Daenerys Targaryen's dragon.
Tripped & tore ligaments etc in my ankle in the fall. Dr said a broken bone would probably take a shorter time to heal.
Black eye in the process.
Three weeks off work on crutches.
Now in week 6….
Still hobbling when I walk. Worse at the end of the day. Swells up dreadfully & it throbs - it doesn’t like the cold weather.
Can’t walk normally down stairs because I can’t flex my ankle that far…. Walking up a little bit easier.
Shoe selection is limited as to what I can wear.
I honestly can’t believe how much it hurts & how long it’s taking to come right.
I sent one of my back muscles into a very painful spasm the other morning before work—by putting my hair into a ponytail.
Just stubbed my toe three times in quick succession. On the bathroom door on the way in, on the same damn door on the way out, and then on the bed (bonus cracking my shin on the bed at the same time). My toe has gone numb it burns so much.
Every year I need to clear the new sassafras trees from under my pine trees. I use a machete to do this. And it hurts. My newest ouchies are the scratches on my back from crawling under the pine trees. At least I haven't found any ticks on me which is a plus.
Bean the puppy is kind of rough and keeps biting me when he is excited. Hopefully, he will be calmer soon enough.
DK
HI:
Tripped, scraped, bruised my right arm on the brick. Nasty
cheers--Sharon
Biting the inside of my cheek is a big ouch! That seems to last for days. I’m not very graceful…I often find a bruise but can’t remember how I did it?! I must not have a good judge of where my body ends and another object begins….
Yesterday chopping onions for dinner, cut deep enough it required a couple of stitches. It doesn’t hurt now, only if I’ve knocked or hit it etc.
I’m not the most graceful person. I try to be careful but I hurt a body part at least once a day. I gashed my leg on the open dishwasher that was drying after a load. You would think there was a murder in my kitchen…
Won't detail, but it will take 12 weeks to heal, not including PT. Ugh.
I took a chunk out of my inner left cheek. It is still healing 2 days after.
I twisted my knee in my sleep on Monday and couldn’t bend that leg for 3 days is my latest ouch. The joys of hyper mobile joints (tho this is a first to have done it while sleeping)
A few days ago, I poked my open eye with the edge of a wooden hanger. I bent over in my closet and hit the hanger, which had something behind it so it didn't swing away. OMG! It was one of the most painful experiences ever! Went to urgent care, couldn't open my eye and the burning was awful! The doctor gave me vicodin, which I thought odd, but once the numbing drops had worn off, I was very happy to have them! Unbelievably painful, and I have a high pain tolerance.
Then, the next day I tripped and splatted on the backyard concrete because my eye was swollen shut and I couldn't see very well. Banged up my knee and cut my hand.