I have suffered from Geographic tongue for about ten years, it started immediately after I took out my (three) tongue rings. It has been a very painful and embarrassing condition. I was recently pulled over, just as I was pulling into a gas station, because I had a flat tire and I had had a bit to drink, they gave me a breathalyzer test and I blew extremely high, though I really had not had that much to drink. My BAC was high enough that according to them I should have been blacked out, I was not even close to that point! Could a geographic and fissured tongue, also with three holes from the previous tongue rings have made the breathalyzer test inaccurate?
During my intake at the jail, the woman who was doing the paper work asked me why I thought I blew so high and I told her that I suspected the geographic tongue, she was astonished, she too had a geographic tongue and had never met anyone else with one and she said that it made sense to her that it could have affected my results. Has anyone else experienced this? could this be a factor in the results of the breathalyzer test?
Any advice on this would be very helpful to me!
Thank you
During my intake at the jail, the woman who was doing the paper work asked me why I thought I blew so high and I told her that I suspected the geographic tongue, she was astonished, she too had a geographic tongue and had never met anyone else with one and she said that it made sense to her that it could have affected my results. Has anyone else experienced this? could this be a factor in the results of the breathalyzer test?
Any advice on this would be very helpful to me!
Thank you
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Hi lalalbx, I don't think that it actually was your drinking that caused you to blow high on the breathalyzer although you may have had more to drink than you should have to be driving. Instead, I think it was the breathalyzer test, because even with a geographic tongue, it is not possible for you to blow higher on the test than you normally would. I think that it's fully possible it was an equipment malfunction. Does that make sense? Were they able to test it on other people?
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