Does anyone know anything about geographic tongue?

Well, we do have this, but hooray anyway!

Mickey B! Congrats! Good for you, and good for us!

Haha well I’m gonna say congratulations again because I was late to the last one. Macbean was worried that no one would turn up in her thread, and now she has TWO! haha. so there macbean, you are most definitely loved, and this just proves it. congratulations again!

Hey what the heck, we can say well done more than once, so here ya go
MacBean, Well Done.

And you really are one spiffy dresser!

I swear, I didn’t get the congratulatory question in my queue, I looked over the first 2 pages for the post, and I used the search feature (typed MacBean) and didn’t find anything. I’m a dumbass. Make sure you visit the bigger party that I linked above to give him his due.

Wow, way to ninja-edit the question and make me seem completely irrelevant :P

It’s probably not a real condition anyway, just some bored teens with tractors.

@ubersiren – you are loyal friend not dumbass (well you might be a dumbass, I don’t really know you, but not because of this, heheheh! :-)

Wow. My answer seems really silly. But I see macbean is just here so as long as she sees it it’s ok.
Sorry to future people visiting this thread for any confusion :P
(I’ve never heard of geographic tongue)

@ubersiren—lol4rl. Lurve to you. It’s the thought that counts. You’re a star. <3

And it’s weird that this is what you changed the question to… I had no idea there was a name for this, but I think I have it! Which makes me lean toward thinking it’s probably hormone-related because of all my pituitary issues. Do you have any pictures of what yours looks like? Because mine isn’t as bad as most of the results I see when I google, either. Do you ever bite the raised patches and end up bleeding? Sometimes I do and I wind up swallowing so much blood it makes me feel ill. x_x

And lol4rl some more at @gggritso. Awesome. XD

Editing a question from Congrats for 10,000 lurve to questions about anal tongue is just rude!

@MacBean Holy &%$* that sounds hardcore.
@filmfann Speaking of anal, thanks for participating :P

I did the same thing @ubersiren – posted a second party for someone after not finding the first. My question was pulled: I never thought of turning it in to a question about geographic tongue. Very clever!

@MacBean: Now, that’s weird that you actually have it. I dont’ have pics, and no, I don’t bite them, at least not on purpose. Thanks for not making fun of my idiocy. :o)

@filmfann : Anal tongue? And I meant well… I didn’t want to dilute his celebration. shrug

@janbb : Hahaha… thanks for saying “clever” and not “desperate.”

@gggritso: It does kind of sound like it, doesn’t it? But it’s not, really. Mostly it’s just gross. XD

@ubersiren: Pfft. I was worried that nobody would respond to my thread, or that maybe nobody would even put one up. Getting a second one was terribly flattering, and may go to my head. ;)

My mom has geographic tongue and it is hereditary.

lol at the Q change

I think my father has it. But, like you said..his is no where near what google images shows. I honestly don’t really see anything when he showed me, but he said dentists always comment on it. I don’t have it, and neither does my brother. I would think it’s genetic, right? Is this something you are born with?

Heredity is something I didn’t consider. Maybe I’ll ask my parents if they’ve ever had it. I don’t remember them ever mentioning it before.

I’ve seen it many times- I don’t think anyone knows for sure what causes it. It’s harmless but wierd looking.

Dang, that was a quick change question!

I have a geographic tongue. It doesn’t hurt, but it looks really odd.

I don’t know a lot. I have it, have since I was a kid.
I know it’s more prominent when I’m stressed, or when I have something quite citric (There used to be this juice mix I loved with pineapples, oranges and something else. That made it show up, every time). It’s annoying to know that the discoloration is there, but it doesn’t feel annoying or anything.

Statistically, people with Asthma are most common to have it (and I do have Asthma. Have since I was very young).

I have a geographical tongue!! ...or I used to? For some reason it’s not there lately, but the lady who cleans my teeth was fascinated. I don’t know who I got it from because neither of my parents had one.

Oh and I don’t have asthma, but my mom does… Maybe she got hte asthma and I got the tongue?

I have a cousin who has geographical tongue. I know it’s not contagious. I’ve looked into it myself thinking someone else I knew might have it and found little information like what you said. It sure is interesting.

I can’t believe nobody knows the cause. Isn’t that weird? It definitely gets worse with acidic and spicy foods. Even hot and cold aggravate it. Just feels… fuzzy. Sort of like when you get a minor burn on your tongue from hot coffee or something.

I have the rarer form of this. It’s called GPS tongue. My tastebuds look like driving directions.

@OnaBoat : Sweet!