Hello,

I am a mid 30s white male. I recently had a lot of irritation on the top of my tongue. That went away then the underside of my tongue turned red (all within 2-3 days). The 4th day I woke up, and there was a raised, white, hard, slightly smaller than a pinhead spot located where the bae of my tongue connects the the floor of my mouth. On that skinny piece in the middle.

The spot is nearly painless. This was this morning. On the way home from work i kept playing with it (the top of my tongue can touch it), and i believe part of it fell off.

I am extremely medical/dental phobic and have not been to a dentist in 5 years and a doctor in a similar time span.

I don't know what sort of response I am looking for from my post. But anything helps.

Thanks

Things that come and go are not cancer.... it doesn't go. 99.9% of people develop some kind of abnormality in their mouth about once a month. Of course they are mostly not serious and resolve on their own with or without treatment in a couple of weeks. If this thing is still around in 2-3 weeks, time to go to the dentist to have it checked out. 5 years is way too long. You can find a dentist that is sympathetic to this phobia, which is actually quite common, and write you a Rx for something to calm you down before your appointments. But if you persist in not seeing someone when something goes south, you won't know early enough to fix it- whether it is a simple decay and filling, or something really serious.

Thanks, and I'm really hoping of the things that come and go, that it goes soon..

Do keep on top of this as Brian suggests. My son waited way too long to have a painful lump checked out. His mantra used to be "Ignore it and maybe it will go away". Trouble with that is if you wait too long, you might not be able to fix it. He is doing just fine, now, but he had to go through the most difficult fight of his life to get to where he is now.