OK, it’s not so much a mouth disease as it is a skin disease around the area of my lips. I don’t know that it’s an actual disease. It is a condition of some sort that is driving me absolutely crazy.
A couple months ago, I had a weird allergic reaction after taking a bite of a quiche thingy I make all the time. My lips got really itchy, I rubbed them to try to make the itch go away, then they puffed up to about three times their normal size. The skin around my lips hasn’t been the same since then.
It’s dry, itchy, sometimes it burns, the skin flakes off, they crack. Occasionally I think it’s going to clear up, then out of the blue, it flares up again.
I’ve tried balms, Vaseline, lotions, creams for sensitive skin, and when I get pusy, itchy hives, I try to temper it with hydrocortisone. Nothing has been anything more than a temporary relief.
I still have almost a month before my health insurance kicks in and I can go to a dermatologist. Ugh. I just want it to go away. Aside from the major problem, which is the almost constant discomfort– and sometimes outright pain– it really sucks to walk around with a big red blotch circling my mouth. I look like a sock monkey.
