What causes those little bumps on one’s tongue, usually on the tip, that are very tender to the touch. For me they usually last for a day or two and disappear. I’ve heard them called acid bumps but what the heck are they?
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Sometimes I get them when plaque builds up on a certain spot on my retainer and it irritates my tongue when I sleep. However, cleaning it gets rid of the problem entirely.
Could this be it? Do you wear any dental appliances?
My mom and grandmother have always called those tongue bumps “lie bumps”. They told all the kids in the family they’d get them every time they were dishonest. I’ve noticed that I usually get one or two after I pull a big drunk (maybe stomach acid on the tongue from puking?). I also used to get them more regualrly when I had braces and then retainers.
In closing, avoid orthodontic appliances, telling big fat lies, and beer.
I think they might be blisters. I seem to get them when I drink hot drinks like coffee or tea.
They are the fungiform papilla, and have tastebuds within them. They get enlarged and painful when irritated, thermally stressed, or sometimes just for the heck of it. They generally live for a couple of weeks before withering away, and being replaced.
Well they piss me off. I generally get them after eating citrusy hard candy for a day. I fight back by salting them but most usually just by biting them between my front teeth and yanking them off while my eyes tear up. Sometimes they bleed for awhile but they dont normally come back.
P’shaw. You wanna talk mouth pain? Eat a box of Sour Patch Kids or some other similar ultra-tart candy. Your gums will recede until you can’t let anything touch your teeth for fear of the pain; there’ll also be a hole burned in the middle of your tongue by the citric acid crystals they use to make the candy so delicious. Suffering and joy come in pairs.
:eek: The mind boggles. 