I suffer from canker sores as well. Only mine occur when I accidentally bite the inside of my mouth while eating. There will be a cut for a couple of days then on day 3 it turns into a canker sore that last for about 10 days. Very painful and very difficult to talk if the canker is in the right (or shall I say wrong) spot.

I have tried numerous things:

applying salt to the canker and holding it there (warning! not for the faint of heart! this can be VERY painful)

hydrogen peroxide - letting it bubble and turn white on the canker...this brings minimal relief and must be repeating many many time during the day.

Listerine - rinsing with listerine seems to help me a great deal with the pain of a canker. It will hurt for a minute afterwards, but kind of numbs the pain thereafter.

LYSINE-L - this is an amino acid that you can buy in pill form which helps with the healing of the lining of the mouth, thus reducing the duration of a canker sore. This seems to work for me. Right after I bite my mouth, I start taking the pills (3 per day - 700mg pills). And mind you, EVERYTIME I bite my mouth, it turns into a canker!

Kenalog in Orabase - this is a topical steroid, that you need a prescription for...I have not tried this yet b/c the Lysine-L and Listernine have been working so well as of late, but is supposed to protect the canker and lessen the duration and pain that a canker sore causes.

Kanka - over the counter crap that never works on me. All it does is put a thick coating on top of the sore that makes me even more prone to accidentally biting it...and let me tell you there is NOTHING worse than biting a canker sore and re-opening the wound!!!! OMG!!!!

Well, I hope this helps you guys,

again, try the Lysine-L, kenalog in orabase, and Listerine.

I also read about the Liver flushing...I am going to look into that.

Good Luck!

What is Liver Flushes ? I would like to try it

Robert

I've heard when you take Lysine(amino-acid) it keeps your body from taking up another type of amino acid that the canker sore Herpes Virus'feeds on. It only works when you start early and take it every few hours or so. I try to watch the amount of protien i eat too. Once the sore forms it really takes on a life of it's own for me.

Are you not supposed to take amino acids every day because of the Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) problem?