I was a long time user of dip tobacco and a smoker. A few year ago I went through a rough patch after quitting smoking but continuing to dip. I was using so heavily I think almost put another one in soon after I spit one out. I "luckily" found something on the underside of my tongue and immediately stopped using. I went to a doctor who removed it and the biopsy said it was nothing to worry about. At the time of first inspection I also noticed what seemed to be little bubbles on the floor of my mouth and the doctor said they were just blocked salivary ducts. A few years later, the past three months, I went and had a little more removed from the underside of my tongue....again healthy biopsy. Now I just looked at the floor of my mouth and when I lift my tongue the floor rises up a little bit as if something is beneath the skin and it is trying to get air. It does appear inflamed, but I have been told the tongue and floor of the mouth and tongue are one large muscle and this is out of the ordinary. The floor when I first saw the bubbles was flat and now it undulates a little bit.

I am a peron who has major lawsuits against some people who might not appreciate their liabilities to me, nor my realization that I have great lawsuits.

Kind of confusing, but my mother was a victim of breats cancer and her case was a case that was used by some breast cancer advocates to generate funding for cancer research. I have found out recently that I was owed a bunch of money years ago and I think it it was also used for advocacy.

I just went to another doctor to ask for a another opinion. He told me the floor of my mouth is normal. I left his office and took a look myself in my mouth. I disovered something more concerning. The entire left side of my mouth inside my teeth line wrapped all around the base of my tongue seems to be a soft fatty growth under the skin making that side very shallow while on the other side of my mouth it is very cavernous and firm as I can firmly feel the muscle that makes up the tongue. Getting a little scared.

Todd,

What kind of doctor are you seeing?

Feeling the muscle really isn't anything strange. The muscle is all I have left and man what a job to keep the thrush off it. I brush and it looks like dried blood on my brush. I thought I had an infection until the dr told me it was the tongue uscle that I was seeing and feeling.

I have only seen my dentist, oral maxiofacial surgeon, and my primary care physician who is an internal medicine doctor. I did see an oncological surgeon a few years ago who shoved a piece of wood down my throat and made me gag, but lost his practice soon after.

I tried to see an oncology specialist recently but they keep telling me that I need to be diagnosed before they will see me which doesn't make any sense as I had seen one who let me in his office for a diagnosis.

Todd,

You need to see an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) Specialist. My GP and Oral surgeon both told me I did NOT have cancer before the ENT said I did. I waited for the biopsy results but he was 90% sure just from the exam.

Kelly

i agree with kelly. go see an ENT. it was the ENT who diagnosed and pinpointed the primary cancer.

Todd, don't worry about it so much until it is biopsied and you are told it is cancer. This will save a lot of wear and tare on your mind and nerves. I never look in my mouth because it has had a few operations and many biopsies. If ti=it is there let the ENT look at it and do his thing.