White patch on tongue...

[Syllable]

Over this past summer I developed a craving for sunflower seeds, but after eating them for several days I developed a white, swollen patch on my tongue. It wasn't painful, just annoying because I felt like I had something stuck to my tongue.

I quit eating the sunflower seeds, but it took about six weeks for the white patch to completely go away.

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the patch was growing again. It started out about pea-size but now is about the size of a quarter. It is not painful at all, and doesn't scrape off. It doesn't bleed or have any sort of discharge.

I went to the doctor on Monday and she looked in my mouth, used a tongue depressor for about 2 seconds and said it was thrush. I've had thrush before (several years ago) and this does NOT feel like thrush. She gave me a script for an antifungal which I finished yesterday, and I notice no change AT ALL on my tongue, in fact it seems worse today than it did yesterday.

Combined with this patch on my tongue is this feeling like I have hair in my throat, as well as a tingling sensation on my tongue, in my throat, and in the area of my soft palate. My throat and epiglottis aren't swollen or red, but I have noticed that some of the larger taste buds on the back of my tongue are quite swollen. The patch on my tongue is white and 'puffy', soft to the touch, there's no knots or bumps in it. It does not sting or burn if I drink hot liquids, nor does it hurt if I eat spicy foods. As I said before, it doesn't scrape off, and it doesn't bleed if I scrape at it.

I have not recently been on any antibiotics, nor have I used an asthma inhaler. There has been no change in my diet. I am not a diabetic, and the last time I had a TSH done was a year ago and it was fine. I don't have HIV/AIDS or any other STD's. As far as I know I'm not immunocompromised in any way.

I'm a 30 year old female.

Now that I've given entirely too much information, does this sound familiar at all??

[sunnytongue]

Oh, God, I have the same white swollen patch on my tongue, but it's located more front instead of back, so i don't have the feeling of having hair in my throat. The patch doesn't cause any pain, just annoying feelings. I felt i have something stuck on my tougue. I had it probably 2 weeks ago. It's not getting better or worse. I am a healthy non smoking 30 yr old female. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm going to see my family doctor in 2 days but i don't expect that she will do anything for that because she probably wouldn't know what it is.

[helpfromsomeone]

OH MY GOSH!  I have a lot of the same symptoms (except the white patch on tongue).  Mine started with a yellowish to orange coating on my tongue.  That lasted over a month and has gone away, but I have the same hair in my throat feeling, which comes from the swollen "taste buds" on the back of my tongue. Mine is actually my right lingual tonsil that is swollen, as per my dentist. He said it's caused by a virus. You have 3 sets of tonsils, and one is actually on the back of your tongue called your lingual tonsil.  

I went to my doctor about this who looked at my tongue and said he had no idea, went and called ENT then prescribed me Oral antifungal.  Like you, it didn't make any difference.  I got referred to an ENT by a different doctor (mine would not refer me) who was very, well, not pleasant. Told me there is nothing visibly wrong with my tongue, and when I mentioned my lingual tonsil was swollen, he said it looked fine. It does NOT look fine.  My husband looked at it and was freaked out!!  Then the ENT said if my doctor said it's oral thrush, then that's what it is, PERIOD!  Wouldn't even hear anything else and said I was fine.  So, I still don't know what it is.

Do you have a burning feeling in your mouth at all?  I do, and am wondering if I have LPR. I'm 36 year old female. If you find out what this is, please let me know.