Lie Bumps et al

Factual Questions
1

I have gotten from time to time a little bump (my mother used to call them lie bumps).

What are these? Inflamed tastebuds?

I thought so but I would only get them once in a great while.

Lately something odd happened. I keep getting one at the very tip o my tongue. It stays a day or so and goes away and then come back in a week then the cycle reppeats.

Now in the past three weeks I have gotten it regularly AND I get the same type of bump at the roof of my mouth.

So I am thinking since taste buds are up there (or are they?) Lie bumps can’t be inflamed taste buds.

Yeah I know I should see a doc but by the time I can get in they disapear.

2

here’s an old thread on the topic

fungiform papillae

3

Mucoceles also form on the roof of one’s mouth. If that’s what it is, it’s nothing alarming. If one is not a tobacco chewer or smoker, it’s unlikely to be a malignant lesion. Your doc or dentist would still be the best source of info if you could show it to them while it’s there.