CAUSES OF SWOLLEN LIPS

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I've spent the last 45 minutes reading posts of people with the same problem I've had: going to sleep normal lips and awaking with a very swollen upper lip, swelling sometimes goes down during the day to become dry and red. The cycle repeats. Today the doctor gave me Zyrtek and a graduated series of prednizone. It appears to be helping (already) - the benedryl I tried last episode, was not enough. I think it is sugar, yeast, and not enough water. After reading posts, and applying info. to my symptoms (including an irritable gut when this lip-swelling is rearing its ugly and irritating head) is how I have come to the sugar/yeast/lack of H20. Over time, if it works, I'll post again.

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saturday evening After i used cvs brand mouth wash i put on some carmex and i noticed little bumps forming on my top lip. i thought the carmex would get rid of them but it kinda mad it worse. so i took it off and then slept with nothing on my lips. the next morning i woke with swollen lips and the tiny red bumps. ive read tons of forums. maybe it was the mouth was and or carmex? ive stopped using both and just put vaseline on my lips. the bumps dont burn or puss. i just feel like the top layer of my lips r very dry. but now i think im starting to feel a little tingly sensation because of my smiling maybe? i just feel so embarrassed. heartachemixtape at gmail.com if anyone can help.

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Hiya all, I've done a search and there are some really similar but no exact symptoms that have been happening to me. Anyone can actually explain?

First occasion happened probably about 6 - 7 months ago, I had this upper lip swelling whilst working. Didnt know what was the cause, I kinda panicked and left work. Visited doctor, doctor can't seem to find out what was the cause. Prescribed some medicines and went back. Really don't know if the medicine worked or did the swelling dissapear by itself.

Next occasion, probably 3 - 4 months back. Lips swelled again. Body was itching realised there were something similar to " mosquito bites " . Rushed to the hospital, the " mosquito bites " were gone. However, lips was still swelling. Doctor then prescribed some anti allergy medicines. Only similar things on how the swelling/rash occur was the time. It happened between 5pm - 8pm.

This week, I'm having these " mosquito bites " again. Only difference with the 2nd occasion was the time. It now happens around 12midnight to 5am. I was having them for the last few nights when I was sleeping. When I woke up, everything was gone. So I didn't really care.

Until now, it's really starting to bother me. The " mosquito bites " and lip swelling is still going on and I really don't know what should I do. Should I go for a blood test or something?

Is anyone having the same situation as mine?

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Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that this EXACT same thing has happened to me. I felt like my lips were getting dry one day last fall and I didn't think it was a big deal so I put on a little chapstick and just ignored it. Big mistake! It started to progressively get worse and a few days later my lips were cracking and crusty and I had developed a red outline of a "ring" around my top and bottom lips. People who work in my office couldn't believe how bad it was, and I felt like a freak. I tried using many different lip balms and chapsticks, but they definitely didn't cut it at all. My condition was far beyond anything that chapstick could fix. Close friends of mine mentioned to me that maybe I should see a doctor in case I had contracted herpes. However, I knew this could not be the case at all, because I haven't been sexually active in almost 2 years and it would have showed up before. Also, I didn't have "cold sores" on my lips like you would see with herpes, more just like really dry, red, inflamed skin that was cracking. After trying many different things, I found out that putting on a thick layer of Vaseline is the best remedy. I reapply Vaseline to my lips throughout the day and especially right before bed, and within a few days they are back to normal. The problem is that now the dry, inflamed lips come and go. I will not have it for weeks, but then it may start back up all of a sudden.

I'm trying to figure out what triggers it. It could be caused by the fact that I have a fan on at night blowing toward my face, and that could be drying my lips out. Or it could be some type of allergy (I've heard of people being allergic to their toothpaste or certain ingredients in their lipstick or lipgloss). I believe the red ring I had around the lips is mostly from licking them when they began to get dry. It's just frustrating at this point because I have no idea how long I'm going to have to deal with this. Is it going to keep coming back for the rest of my life? Since summer is coming up, I'm hoping the warm weather will be the cure for my dry lips and I can stop having to reapply Vaseline all the time. I'm also tired of people looking at me like I've got herpes on my mouth or something! Well anyways, just wanted to let you know what worked for me and what didn't. I hope that helped someone!

CiscoKid420 · Newbie Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

I too get the red ring around my top lip...It is pretty shitty because it makes me look like im weaing lip liner...I think it get worse when i lick my lips but if i brush my teeth a couple times it gets better. For that reason I believe our problem to be yeast, most likely candida... I use berts bees waz heavy and then whipe it off mostly. Also drink lots and lots of water and brush your teeth untill it gets better. Stay away from sugary foods and drinks. Orange juice is a killer. also peanut butter and mushrooms...just drink pleanty of water...I drink about 6 bottles a day, home depot has water tanks...I got my dispenser from my dads office, not sure if they sell them at home depot, and its like $5 to exchange for a new one which is 5 gallons. If you drink a lot of water i recommend calling around and surfing the web for a water distributor. I think they put the dispenser in your house and then just charge u for the water you use. anyways good luck and if someone finds an over the counter topical cream or another solution PLEASE email me Aceaceflop@yahoo.com.

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I have the same problem as you. I think that I am allergic to olive oil. You must think on that! When I eat sallad prepered with olive oil, 10 hours later I get swollen upper lip. After that I use hydrocortisone crem 2-3 times and this disapear. Good luck

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I think the main thing that needs to happen with anyone who has experienced their lips swelling is to see an allergist. This isn't something to mess around with and needs to be handled by a medical professional.

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a couple of things that ive found over the years are triggers for swollen lips...
1. betadine...usually used in surgeries, etc as a disenfectant i think...had some around when we were younger and i used it on a sore and i woke up the next morning with horribly swollen lips...tried it again later to have the same effect...
2. muscle rub or anything that has a cooling or heating type stuff in it...like aloe vera gel with cooling stuff...i found by accident that if i apply any of these and even after washing hands or if i touched the applied area on accident and put my hand near my face my lips swelled...fun fun..

i now have another mystery to solve...sore throat starts up for a couple of days and comes and goes during the day if i talk...then sore lips started up till they felt like there was a flame on them...and this morning i woke up with them swollen till the afternoon, i assume from them being so sore....
but no blisters or sores, no new products or foods, nothing new around me, not on any meds, etc...no logical explanation for this one...

DakotahSaige · Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

I woke up from a dream where I had a swollen lip, to find out that half (the left half) of my top lip was swollen. It looked like I got botox injection on half my lip. My husband (whom I woke up immediately) said there was nothing wrong with it and he didn't even notice it until I pointed it out. He thought I just wanted a kiss. I called my mom, and she told me to call my Aunt Margo, who is a RN at Lane Memorial Hospital in Louisiana. When I texted her she asked it it tingled or hurt or had a sore, I told her it was swollen, numb, and I think the lip had a sore, but couldn't tell because of the numbness. I could feel it with my tongue, you know like when your lips are peeling from being chapped and my accidentally rip a piece of the skin off and it is raw feeling. Well that is what it felt like with my tongue, and it looked that way in the mirror. I figure I might have bitten it or something, all I know is that it woke me up from a deep sleep, because it was in my dream. Weird I know, but it is true. Anyway my aunt told me that I should get some fever blister medication from Wal-Mart or Walgreen. I doubt it is a fever blister because my husband doesn't have Herpes and neither do I, he is in the military so they get tested at least every 6 months if not more. And well I haven't been with any other person in so long I can't even remember what the guy's name was or what he looked like. If it is HSV-1, a type of herpes, then he has some explaining to do, and I have a divorce, lawyer to call. But on the sites that I have read it says that the virus can be spread by oral contact, some infected persons spit, or even the spit that you naturally spray on people when you talk. Yes we all spit when we talk, it is a fine mist that no one notices, until the one odd person really spits on you when they talk. If that is the case then my husband has it, because well I don't leave the house, I am literally a hermit in my own house, I only go out at night when all the nice annoying people in my apartment complex are all safely tucked away in there apartments. I'm not the most social person in the world, but then again I just don't like the stares I get because seeing me is like seeing a unicorn, it is that rare. Anyway I hope you all might look up HSV-1 and look at the pictures, there is one that looks like the cracked inflamed lips, that one or two of you were concerned about. I'm not judging I am just trying to help. Oh and well the whole swollen lip I had has gone down now, an hour after I woke up with it, weird. It just feels all cooling like when you suck on halls cough drops and you inhale, that cold feeling is what my lip feels like, and just now it went away too. Might be from eating too much salt, or from the hot and spicy bowl noodles, you can find in wal-mart in the asian food isle, or the chips I ate right before bed. I don't know but I won't eat those chips again, because that is the only thing I ate different and they contained a lot of salt, if I eat too much sunflower seeds my lip swells and gets all sore, and raw feeling. So it might be that, just hours later and numb. I hope my random babbling has helped someone.

marindamary · Newbie Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

I have read the many many posts on this topic. I have had this problem for the last 2 months. At any given time of the day I will feel a tingling on a certain spot either on my upper or lower lip and within 5 min my lip is swollen 3 times the size on that spot. It usualy lasts anywhere from 6-12 hours. The first time I called the doctor ( after it happened 3 times in 3 days) He gave me the prednosone pack and it didn't happen for a whole month. Now it started up again and he says I can't be taking that medicine all the time and to take a benedryl when it happens. Well they don't work at all. I called an allergist and have an appointment next week. I have never been allergic to anything in my life. I racked my brain trying to think of something that I've done the same every time this happens and I can't. This morning I was fine when I woke up, came down stairs and made breakfast for my daughter and out of no where I got the tingling sensation and my lip is swollen. I HATE IT !!

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