For the past three days at least, my mouth has felt very unpleasant. My tongue feels as though it is swollen, the sides are sore, and my palate feels odd, both from within itself (some odd discomfort) and without (the way it feels to my tongue as a sensory organ is odd, it doesn’t feel the way it ought to, maybe some light wrinkling? Not sure, just odd.)
The best description I can give is that my mouth feels like I have been sucking on lots of lemons, maybe dipped in salt, and/or I took a big fat bite of boiling cheese or something. But I do not remember eating anything remotely hot enough to burn my mouth, and if I had, that wouldn’t explain the sides of my tongue.
It’s not intolerable or agonizing, just really unpleasant. I would like my mouth to feel normal. (I’m very touchy about this since I quit smoking…one of the things I am so grateful for since I quit smoking is that my mouth doesn’t taste and feel dreadful most of the time.)
Anyone have any notions about what might be causing it?
The only difference in my life lately are these new Carbolite chocolate bars, which are normal chocolate, except sweetened with Splenda. I let them melt on my tongue slowly, like any chocolate…but it seems really unlikely that an artificial sweetener that I can barely detect would have such persistent, lingering effects on my tongue and my palate. Although the injustice of it wouldn’t surprise me.
A Google search for hits containing “sucralose splenda allergy allergic” turns up nothing except the usual health food/holistic people who claim that ALL artificial sweeteners are contributing to the degeneration of the human race. So I doubt if it’s an allergy.
A Google search for hits containing “sucralose sensitivity sensitive” also turns up nothing.
So either it’s not the Splenda, or else you’re on the cutting edge of a trend, and in years to come, when people start claiming “Splenda tongue” the same way they claim “Nutrasweet headache”, you’ll be able to say that YOU were THERE.
My guess would be that it’s due to allowing the candy to slowly drip around your tongue. Try just eating it and see if your tongue gets better. It’s possible that candy bars made with Splenda aren’t as creamy or something, as candy bars made with sugar, and they’re harsher on your tongue. Or maybe you just have unusually sensitive mucous membranes in your mouth, and the new candy formulation bothers them.
People can be sensitive to Nutrasweet, you know, not necessarily as far as getting a headache, but still being bothered by it. I personally can always tell the difference between Nutrasweet soda pop and regular pop because the Nutrasweet pop feels more astringent somehow, on my tongue.
DDG- I like your idea of my being on the cutting edge… I like to think I’m fashion-forward in all things.
It’s a bit better today. I noticed last night that the sides of my tongue seem to have some bumps, but i’m pretty sure that was simply a result of my tongue being so swollen that the sides were rubbing against the edges of my teeth.
It feels mostly like a really bad burn right now. I’m praying it has nothing to do with Splenda, because that stuff ROCKS. Unless it’s giving me mouoth cancer, in which case it sucks. (Cancel-erase)
Are you taking any kind of antibiotics? I have had something sililar happen when I was taking a certain kind and later broke out in hives because it was an allergic reaction to the medicine.
I’m also wondering if you have been keeping company with the severely pierced gentleman who’s picture you posted!!! That would most likely tear a tongue up.
That would most likely tear a tongue up.