********* Should I clip off an inflamed, white tastebud with nail clippers?

The real question after a statement like that is, what the fuck do you know about "Fred Flintsones ingrown haired ass"?

I get them quite often, and I clip them. Hurts for a second, but it is certainly worth it. Just make sure you wash and sanitize the clippers first and have lots of kleenex and water ready because it will bleed a lot.

I think it's silly to go to a doctor for something like that. It heals within a day.

people are so immature wtf?
yes it is fine to get it off
it may hurt a little and it may or may not bleed
but it is perfectly fine to remove it

god you people are such fucktards

Did OP end up with an infected tongue and amputation?

...Says the genius who necros a month old thread to call people fucktards

Just use a blow torch to blast it off.

I clipped an inflamed tastebud off from the advice in this thread. It still hurts right now a few minutes after doing it but it feels like it is subsiding and there's definitely no more annoying pain from the inflamed tastebud.

Cleaned nail clippers w/alcohol, made one cut, which missed and got an un-inflamed tastebud, then made another cut and got the right one. Either way even as I finish this post I can feel the pain from cutting subsiding even more and I'm very happy with the results of this advice.

It bled a bit but not profusely. When I was a child I had a tongue injury and learned the value of ice. Putting an ice cube directly on your tongue when it is bleeding will stop the bleeding quickly. It will hurt a bit though because your tongue is a very strong nerve-filled muscle which isn't used to going numb.

Oh cool and the pain is pretty much gone now - the only way to feel it is to touch the cut spot directly.

Oh ya and it's nice to know I won't be waking up tomorrow yet again with the same inflamed tastebud! It hurt SO MUCH in the mornings and I had it for over a week!

Free!

This shit was funny, who resurrected this shit?

It has been ressurected because after you cut them off, they can grow back.

Tastebuds.

Mine was a Vulgaris, but it looked like a small tooth.

I was _blank_ eating before ?

yeah u should take it off. but nail clippers are a bad idea because of all of the bacteria thats on them from your nails. most of these idiots here dont realize that sometimes it is best to remove things. what it is is a small infection of the taste bud from either a cut or food or w/e. wash your hands and use two fingernails just like you would popping a zit and apply it to the tastebud and youll get a little white sphere on one of them. suddenly the pains gone

do not do it it will cause an infection duuhhh your mouth has a lots of bacteria duhh every body knows that just put salt it will help it...

well when ever i get one i cut it off with nail clippers. i clean the clippers. i use the mirror and make sure i have just the infected taste bud and clip it off problem solved. i do it every time i get one that isnt gone in a very short period of time. once it starts to annoy me i clip that shit.

Do not listen to this jackass

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I just use my teeth or my finger nails. teeth is hard. have to be patient with a mirror. possible. have to squeeze slowly scraping till you guide the bud and the tips of your teeth grab and pull it. or use finger nail tips. that works for me. this is for the ones on the tip only.

Ok i have had the same thing. It is a bigger taste bud and it is white and hard right. well if it is i have used my nail clippers to pull them out and it has worked, and they feel a lot better after wards.

just bite it off. i always do. look in the mirror, put it right between your upper and lower tooth and pull your tongue back. it wont hurt after that. it will just bleed

Leave it alone. It will go away.

grody - no!!! anything that sounds this disturbing isn't a good idea.. AM/PM clinic or something.

Wow, my tongue feels fine.
I did not know how lucky I am.

Well I get them I cut them off and it feel much better after I do ...

No no dont do it

A chainsaw

Whoah five pages of replies all the way to 2007 and not one poster got the traditional solution.

Once upon a time all household medicine cabinets held gentian violet a deep purple fluid that heals canker sores on tongues overnight. Be careful with it as it can stain your clothes. Use a q-tip for pinpoint application.

I occasionally get canker sores on my tongue and I remembered my mother's old remedy. When I went the local drug store, it was behind the pharmacist's counter because it is now considered to be poisonous although from what I can recall it never did anything to anyone in my family except heal our cankers.

you're all ridiculously dumb.

you don't need to go to the doctor because you bit your tongue, unless you want to spend 100 dollars on something you can hardly see that will go away on it's own in a few days. what's the matter with you people, no wonder everyone's they don't have free health care, they don't want to waste their time dealing with people who go to the doctor when they bite their tongue.

I didn't think that this would work, but it got so annoying I decided to try it. I tried swishing salt water, applying yogurt, and applying ice. None of it worked. Using numbing gel only relieved the pain for a few minutes. I numbed it and then pulled it out with tweezers. It is still a little sore but way better than it was.