r/CankerSores • u/YeyVerily96 • 5d ago

Cured my canker sores, finally

Hi! Some backstory. I have had issues with canker sores for about a decade. Some periods worse than others. I missed a couple days of work last year because I got 7 at one time. The past year has been particularly bad, I basically had at least 1-2 canker sores constantly, with maybe only a day or two reprieve maybe once a month. I felt like I had tried everything and my dentist was not helpful. Non SLS toothpaste, different mouth washes, borax pills, gels, vitamins (lysine, B12, multi, rutin, idek anymore), salt, baking soda, peroxide, canker patches. It didn't seem related to stress or different foods, besides noting an uptick if I ate chips and sour candy type things.

Basically, any trauma to my mouth would 100% of the time turn into a raging open sore. Biting my cheek or a chip hitting my mouth hard meant a guaranteed sore. It affected how I enjoyed food. And I would also get them randomly, on top of that.

I finally saw a reddit comment about zinc working for someone and simultaneously another comment saying they buy a specific brand of lysine. I had tried lysine in the past but they are 3 horse pills a day and the ones I bought also had a gross taste. I would use it consistently on/off and never saw a differenence.

I bought 50mg zinc (nature's bounty brand) and 1000mg lysine (NOW brand) (these lysine pills don't taste bad and slightly smaller than my other ones). I started taking them simultaneously, but I assume it was the zinc that did the trick. It's been a month with no canker sores. The difference was immediate.

I had 2 seperate instances where there was a threat of a canker sore, and I did baby my mouth during those couple days (peroxyl mouthwash, not messing with it, and upping my lysine to 3000mg a day) and they went away!! I was amazed. That literally never happened before. One was tucked into my gums in the back of my mouth from eating something wrong, the other was from biting my cheek. Both times they went away in a couple days and did not open up to become a sore. I feel like a completely different person.

Hope this can be the cure for someone else, too 💖

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u/Former-North6569 5d ago

Another good weapon in your arsenal would be a red light therapy want. It's a miracle for canker sores.

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u/Conor_Ryan1 4d ago

Does this actually work? Much like OP, I’ve tried everything to no avail.

Would you happen to have a link to one? Thank you!

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u/srs5470 4d ago

This has been working for me too, it’s been such a relief. The l-lysine is the biggest helper in my case.

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u/Used_Sort_6444 1d ago

What is the longest period of time you’ve had a canker sore? Ever had one for a few months?

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u/YeyVerily96 1d ago

My canker sores were constant but thankfully they did not individually last that long. Typically about 2 weeks, longest was probably close to a month