Stephanie, welcome to OCF. Im very sorry you have found the need to seek out our group. Do yourself a favor and avoid using Dr Google it will only add more anxiety.

Our members are not physicians or medical professionals. We are just regular people who are oral cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers. Without a medical background even a photo (which was removed) does not help us to diagnose what is going on with you. But even the professionals will have to do a biopsy to know for certain what you have. They can only give you a medically educated guess until the biopsy results come back from the lab.

The golden rule for mouth abnormalities goes like this... Any mouth sore that doesnt resolve itself in 2 or 3 weeks should be checked by a professional. Seek out an ENT who specializes in treating oral cancer patients. You dont want to end up going to one who mainly puts tubes in kids ears. It will likely be at least a week (probably more like 2-4 weeks, but it shouldnt take months) until you can get an appointment to see the ENT, usually the first visit checks your insurance and is a consult. The biopsy gets taken and it will be another week before the full lab results come back. Im explaining this because it will likely take a few weeks until you know what is going on so unfortunately you may have to get used to waiting.

If you want to learn more about HPV, click on any of the highlighted HPV's you see on this post. That will take you to the main OCF pages where there is tons of info about it. You will learn alot about it, such as the odds are more that a man will contract HPV before a woman will and most of the population will have this at one time or another in their lives.

Hopefully what you have is nothing serious. Best wishes!