Im very glad you have found OCF!

I have a few suggestions for you. Please stop attempting to diagnose yourself thru google! While it has helped you to find the OCF forum, Im sure it also found a whole lot of other not so helpful websites. If you are spending hours every day looking up your symptoms thats way too much! You really need to find something more productive to do with your internet time. Im sure you have seen some pretty bad photos of oral cancer that can at the very least make you worry, it can also scare a person to death. Worrying causes stress which can in turn alter your perception of the situation. Step away from the internet and give yourself time to think this thru calmly and clearly without a million "what if's" going thru your mind. Looking up info can get you upset and make you worry more than necessary so please do yourself a favor and avoid it.

Something that should help you to feel a little better is that oral cancer symptoms do not come and go. The light your dentist used would find any abnormal tissue in your mouth, so that good news that nothing lit up.

When did you quit using tobacco? If you have been using it for years the damage you have done cant be undone overnight. I hope you can remain tobacco free! I was a former smoker and I am now missing half of my lower jaw because of my bad habit. Please use this scare as your wake up call to eliminate tobacco from your life forever. I wouldnt wish what I have been thru on my worst enemy.

By seeing an ENT who specializes in oral cancer should help you to get to the bottom of whats going on. I hope its nothing serious.

Best wishes!!!