My son recently had his tonsils and adenoids removed and he is not drinking properly. He now has a white substance on his tongue and small white bumps. They do not appear to be painful as he lets me brush his tongue with a toothbrush.

Over the past two days, I have experienced extreme soreness on my tongue. I have white patches on the underside of my tongue and the same white patch in the very back of my mouth that is near the throat. I also have painful little white bumps along my lower left gum line. It makes it very difficult to eat and almost my entire mouth is sore.

My tongue has something similar to geographic tongue but different. My tongue will be perfectly normal and slowly bald patches with appear with red bordering the patches (not white) and then spread until my tongue is completely smooth. It is painfully every time and it does it consistently every 3-4 weeks. I've taken daily pictures to show the progress it makes. This has only been the last 1-2 years of my life. So at least once a month my tongue is really painful and goes completely smooth and then this starts all over.

Since having braces in my mouth, I've had persistent problems with my tongue. Over time, my tongue will have random almost like blister effect and can appear white sometimes, it's really not pleasant and it's a concern of mine I've had for a while. Blisters will go from place to place. Sometimes may have a yellow outline of the blister, its not noticeable, but when you look closely. The symptoms are noticeable. I have been to the doctors and they prescribed me Nystatin to see if it was oral thrush, it hasn't cleared up though and it's still worrying me!

I have had a dry cough for about 3 weeks now. The other night I couldn't stop coughing. I experienced a swelling of the area under my tongue. It caused me to drool a bit and was bright fire-engine red in color. The next day the swelling subsided by mid-day, and has not returned (my cough is also getting better).

Last Monday night, I had experience a very high fever that lasted until Tuesday mid-day. Then I recognized that my tongue had a problem. I couldn't taste the food very well and I lost my appetite. It is now swelling.

Recently, my tongue has been painful, and now I found a tiny, painful lump on the top right tip of my tongue. I'm very concerned.

The best way I can describe my tongue problem is "burning, yet numb". It's been three-four months now. I've stopped Neurontin, and been told to restart taking it, but cut it to 1 capsule, 300 MG. I keep thinking it's the Neurontin. I stopped it altogether, stopped chewing a Peppermint Gum and it got somewhat better. Even with NO Neurontin and chewing gum it still feels numb, unable to fully taste, yet burning with a WHITE sore area down the center of my tongue.

I was in the hospital for 10 days in March and had surgery for an obstructed bowel. Ever since then my taste has been altered. My tongue has areas on it that appear to have lost the normal papillae, and another area that is whitish. Apparently it is also sensitive to citric acid as it has two sore spots on the tip that appeared after eating an orange and a few slices of tomato. I've been to two ENT's and they don't seem to know what the problem is. One prescribed a 5-day course of prednisone, and it did seem to help, but now, 2 weeks after the last dose of prednisone, the condition seems to be the same as before the steroid.