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In my 35 years of having canker sores, I’ve tried just about everything to relieve the pain and reduce the number. All of which I’ll be discussing on the blog, but there are a lot of ideas out there that I haven’t tried, and part of keeping my journal and this blog is all about […]

All of which I’ll be discussing on the blog, but there are a lot of ideas out there that I haven’t tried, and part of keeping my journal and this blog is all about finding what works and doesn’t work.  So I’ll give them all a try and let you know how they work for me.  Consider me the “Consumer Reports” of ulcers.

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The discovery of Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the 80s led to the conclusion that most peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection.  The discovery even earned a Nobel Prize in 2005.

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As I look around the internet for blogs, articles, and whatnot about this subject, I keep running into treatments. A plethora of seemingly crazy things to do to minimize the pain of these ulcers and keep them from forming. And God knows there’s no shortage of products out there to choose from, especially in the […]

It’s not normal to get an open sore by eating a tomato.  Instead of removing it from our diet, we should be finding out why the juice in a tomato would do that to certain people.

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The downside of experimenting

I think this website may have been my calling. RAS is my curse, but maybe my blessing… I may be the perfect person to be writing this blog and doing this project because I get canker sores on such a regular basis. Some people are lucky enough to only get them every once in a […]

So when it comes to experimenting and testing different products and treatments, I don’t have to wait for months to move to a new one and get results.  I can go directly from one to another.

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Don’t blink, you read that correctly. It’s funny the things you run across when doing research. I ran across a document from the Journal of the American Dental Association that actually says that smoking can actually help stop canker sores: Patients suffering from RAS usually are nonsmokers, and there is a lower prevalence and severity […]

It’s funny the things you run across when doing research.  I ran across a document from the Journal of the American Dental Association that actually says that smoking can actually help stop canker sores:

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Last year, I had the unbelievable luck to get a kidney stone. It was awesome. And by awesome, I mean something that made me pray for sweet death. I’d never had one before, and it felt nothing at all like I was expecting it to. I always thought it would be sort-of a “razor blades […]

Meeting with the urologist in a follow up later on, he gave me some suggestions to keep this from happening again.  One of his suggestions was to drink orange juice every morning.  Evidently there are citrins (that’s the word he used) in OJ that keep the calcium in the kidneys from collecting and forming stones.

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I certainly won’t argue with science.  However, I will say that I tried an SLS-free toothpaste once and didn’t see any difference at all.  I looked high and low for a toothpaste that didn’t have it and at the time there wasn’t much to go by.  I wound up using a Tom’s natural toothpaste.  For me anyway, the ulcers continued unabated.

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My latest round of ulcers has seemingly cleared up – thankfully – and I can give the full report on the last experiment with Aphthasol. The “too long, didn’t read” version… It sucked. As I wrote before, Aphthasol is a prescription paste that contains Amlexanox as the active ingredient. I’d read that several studies have […]

My latest round of ulcers has seemingly cleared up – thankfully – and I can give the full report on the last experiment with Aphthasol.  The “too long, didn’t read” version…

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There’s no shortage of products out there to help out the canker sore sufferer (even if there is a dearth of canker sore blogs). But some work better than others, and some are right for different kinds of breakouts. Here are my top 5: . Orabase Orabase, a 20% benzocaine paste from Colgate, is my […]

There’s no shortage of products out there to help out the canker sore sufferer (even if there is a dearth of canker sore blogs).  But some work better than others, and some are right for different kinds of breakouts.  Here are my top 5:

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Is there anything bees can’t do? According to some studies, a substance bees produce called Propolis is a very effective canker sore remedy. According to people out there on the web who supposedly know stuff like this, propolis is a waxy, resinous substance bees produce from flower buds and sap flows, and they use it […]

According to an article from the Health and Med Blog, and quoting a Professor Anant Paradkar who has researched propolis for years, “Propolis has been shown to be anti-microbial, anti-fungal, a strong anti-oxidant, non-allergenic and can boost the immune system. It also promotes wound healing and has anesthetic properties.”

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Well slap me in the face and call me Sally, something actually worked the way it’s advertised. I posted on Monday that I was experimenting with a product called Debacterol, which was a sulfuric acid solution that supposedly cauterized the ulcer and helped it heal faster. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m happy to report that this […]

I posted on Monday that I was experimenting with a product called Debacterol, which was a sulfuric acid solution that supposedly cauterized the ulcer and helped it heal faster.

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the moment and a job that is still reeling and adjusting from yet another round of layoffs.  If there was ever a time for me to experiment with the “stress = canker sores” theory, this would be it.

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I know, I know, I’ve said before that I haven’t experienced personally a correlation between stress and canker sores, but there’s always more to it than my own experience. Others swear up and down that stress brings out their sores without fail. Then there’s the wealth of knowledge out there about the effect stress plays […]

Then there’s the wealth of knowledge out there about the effect stress plays in our immune system.And canker sores being an auto-immune response… there may be something to this.

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Current Experiments

What with all the setting up of the site here at Cankerboy headquarters, I haven’t had a chance to fill people in on the current tests going on in the laboratory. (The laboratory being my mouth.) Treatment products: Canker-Rid from Durham’s Bee Farm I wrote a while back about the promise of a bee product […]

the setting up of the site here at Cankerboy headquarters, I haven’t had a chance to fill people in on the current tests going on in the laboratory.  (The laboratory being my mouth.)

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Top 5 Best Supplements for Canker Sores

Most of what you read and hear out there about canker sores deals with simply treating the sores once they develop. And understandably so, after all, there’s not much else you care about when that volcanic pain hits in your mouth. But as the great Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu once said, the best way to […]

People with vitamin B12 deficiencies experience a multitude of problems, including fatigue and depression at even slightly lower than normal levels, and even mania and psychosis at severe levels.  It’s also associated with a form of anemia.

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I told you it’s not herpes…

I’ve been saying it over and over on this website. It’s practically my personal mantra at this point. In fact, if there was one single myth I want to bust more than any other with this website, it’s this one. RAS is not caused by herpes. But it’s just so ingrained in our collective thought, […]

It’s practically my personal mantra at this point.  In fact, if there was one single myth I want to bust more than any other with this website, it’s this one.

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4 Best Toothpastes for Canker Sores

One of the biggest culprits believed to bring about canker sores in people with RAS is a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate. It’s caustic, and it’s in everything, especially toothpastes. Many believe that the abrasiveness in SLS helps to bring about canker sores in people who are susceptible to them. Luckily, there are several manufacturers […]

 Many believe that the abrasiveness in SLS helps to bring about canker sores in people who are susceptible to them.  Luckily, there are several manufacturers out there who have created natural and SLS-Free toothpastes just for us.