Tongue pain

[Starfire71]

Hi all

I stopped smoking about 4 weeks ago and have been doing Ecigs since. I have used PG and recently switched to VG. I have weird tongue pain that is disturbing, one one side mainly. I also have jaw pain/swollen glands and have been sick but seemed recovered about a week or 10 days ago. The tongue pain is more or less constant, and on the left side only. I have to admit it freaks me out, mainly because my daughter's friend's dad was just diagnosed with tongue cancer and had half his tongue removed and I googled and freaked myself out. There are no noticiable sores or anything like that, it feels like I strained my tongue and maybe a bit of a burning feeling and general jaw achiness. I really don't want to quit vaping, as it made getting off ciggs easy.

 

[LFC]

Hi Starfire,
First of all congrats on getting off and staying off the analogs. I have not experienced the issues that you have described but after stopping smoking I did develop mouth ulcers, which is quite common, and found that I don't really get on too well with VG. The VG aversion is unrelated to the mouth ulcer thing, but I wondered if you had the mouth issue when you were using PG, or what prompted the switch to VG? After much reading the consensus seems to be that more people have issues with PG and VG works better for most, but just wanted to let you know that the opposite is also possible...

Hopefully it is nothing, but maybe switching back to PG for a few days to see what happens might be an option?

 

[AnaCat]

I had some tongue pain during week 2. It was a raw kind of pain (like I brushed my tongue too hard), and I had "liars knots." Obviously either the PG or some flavoring irritated my tongue. I was vaping a lot of citrus flavors that week. Drinking more water definitely helped, I think. Also, if you notice any kind of bite to the flavor you're vaping, you might want to take it easy with that flavor. Actually, I'm vaping a flavor with some cinnamon in it right now, and it is a little irritating to my tongue. I'd say it's probably a flavoring?

 

[Starfire71]

I started with menthol PG cartridges. I switched because of the pain, which I first really noticed last Wed night, but could have had before then I will say I can be kinda an anxious person, and friend's dad's cancer freaked me out (google freaked me out more so!). Jaw/ear on the same side hurts, throat on that side hurts and the glands too, but the tongue pain freaks me out the most. I switched to VG juice on Friday. Miss the menthol! Appreciate the responses!

ETA: It will be 4 weeks tomorrow that I quit analogs.

 

[dormouse]

Are you vaping on the left side?

And how high is your nic? Nicotine is a skin irritant. In 100% PG it can be very irritating, Even just 18mg nic in 100% PG would make my tongue feel like it was scalded by too-hot cocoa. Very sore. But I was fine with 70pg/30vg.

One other thing that can cause tongue pain is cartos that spit hot juice. I never use the condom method to fill stuffing-type cartos. I open the soft cap and drip juice into the stuffing. When done I clean it up well. I blow into the threaded end to clear the center air channel of juice. I sop up any loose juice pooled above the stuffing. And of course I clean the threaded end. I have gotten blisters on my tongue from hot drops of juice shooting out of a carto so now I am very careful about cleanup.

As for your jaw, if you are using auto batteries buy MANUAL batteries so you don't have to drag hard or do those extra drags. If your ecig is not powerful enough to deliver the kind of drags you want, get a more powerful ecig like a Riva or Ego or anything that can handle LR attys/cartos or alternately something with higher or variable voltage to heat standard attys/cartos more.

If you are using standard stuffing-type cartomizers, also try a pawn-shaped plastic drip tip as a mouthpiece on the carto instead of the white end cap.

And of course you should visit your doctor if you think it has nothing to do with vaping.

 

[Starfire71]

Hehe on the "condom method". I don't do that. I do it the way you do. My nicotine level is a 24, so high. I plan on lowering it. I tend to have it near the right side but it does tilt toward the left.

Just weird the first couple weeks went well and I am noticing this now. Other than this, quitting has been easy breezy!

 

[Starfire71]

Just wanted to update this..I got much worse over the past 2 days and was terrified I had some horrible type of oral cancer. Thank God I "just" have a severe infection in my last molar. I don't believe this was in any way related to the E-cig. as this tooth has had a root canal and an infection a couple times before. It is getting yanked next week, screw this. I am still in so much pain, but at least I know why and have a plan. Thank you to all who responded.

 

[dormouse]

That's great that's all it is. Whew.

 

[jj2]

Just wanted to update this..I got much worse over the past 2 days and was terrified I had some horrible type of oral cancer. Thank God I "just" have a severe infection in my last molar. I don't believe this was in any way related to the E-cig. as this tooth has had a root canal and an infection a couple times before. It is getting yanked next week, screw this. I am still in so much pain, but at least I know why and have a plan. Thank you to all who responded.

I was about to tell you that is probably what it was because I went through this about a year ago---I thought I had an abscessed molar and it turned out to be an infection.

 

[cookiebun]

Just wanted to update this..I got much worse over the past 2 days and was terrified I had some horrible type of oral cancer. Thank God I "just" have a severe infection in my last molar. I don't believe this was in any way related to the E-cig. as this tooth has had a root canal and an infection a couple times before. It is getting yanked next week, screw this. I am still in so much pain, but at least I know why and have a plan. Thank you to all who responded.

Ouch! I know how you feel. I have similar problems. Ibuprofen works pretty well, especially if you take it every 4 hours.
Hope you feel better soon.
Congratulations on dumping the analogs.

 

[dormouse]

And pay attention to your facial muscles - check your smile on that side each day. Rare side effect of an inflamed nerve bundle at the base of the tongue is Bells Palsy. So just make sure you can smile and squint on that side every day, even after the tooth is out, until it feels better. I got that once after a bad problem with a molar that inflamed the base of my tongue. On the rare chance that happens just remember to blink on that side and see your doctor. Mine cleared up in 3 weeks with cortisone and protecting my eye.

And I forget what ecig your are vaping. If you have automatic batteries you might want to order a manual for after the extraction if the auto has a hard drag. I was usually not allowed to suck on anything after an extraction. But with a manual you could drag gently.