Thanks for replying everybody. I did go to the dentist about 3 weeks ago, they did a cleaning and a check-up, but the dentist said everything looked ok. at the time I was having dry mouth and they told me to use biotene products, whick i now do, but that has since ended, and now i feel burning, tingling sensations in my mouth, my teeth just have a weird feeling, my cheeks on the insides are swollen and i noticed last night that i have some white lines on them. my throat isn't as sore as it was, i've been on anti-biotics now for almost 4 weeks. all this has been goin on now for 7-8 weeks. i'm just concerned. I have 2 school age children and i'm a single parent. I don't know whats gonna happen to them if anything happens to me.