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Things you thought were normal (but wern't)
Shadowmarked
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Story time! 
little gross.
So my whole life I have had a strong hatred of brushing my teeth because whenever I did my lips would peel and my mouth would get all filmy and have white gunk in it. I thought this is just what happened to people when using toothpaste and normally I don't talk about it because it's a weird topic. It gets mentioned to my dentist my last vist, he just looked at me for a seconed and was like that sounds like an allergic reaction. Apparently there are a few people out there who react in this way to the whitning agents most toothpastes have so he said avoid anything that says whitning on it for the next little while see if it stops. Well I do this and lo and behold no more gummy mouth after brushing no more ripped apart lips.
The really gross part I learnt feel free to skip it
Anyways this inspired me to ask if anyone else had something they did or had happen that they for way to long thought was just the normal way of the world.
Could be anything from an allergy thing to maybe a thing done while socializing.
little gross.So my whole life I have had a strong hatred of brushing my teeth because whenever I did my lips would peel and my mouth would get all filmy and have white gunk in it. I thought this is just what happened to people when using toothpaste and normally I don't talk about it because it's a weird topic. It gets mentioned to my dentist my last vist, he just looked at me for a seconed and was like that sounds like an allergic reaction. Apparently there are a few people out there who react in this way to the whitning agents most toothpastes have so he said avoid anything that says whitning on it for the next little while see if it stops. Well I do this and lo and behold no more gummy mouth after brushing no more ripped apart lips.
The really gross part I learnt feel free to skip it
I tried for a while to be really good about brushing I ended up with bright pink swollen lips that were bleeding in spots and a handfull of canker sores. That white gunk turns out to be the outer layer of skin from my cheeks and gums and when I was brushing constantly it wasn't giving it enough time to heal same with my lips
Also I noticed I was getting stomach cramps and just though I needed to rinse better but basically the chemical was also hurting my stomach if any of it got down which would take near perfect levels of rinsing. Super gross now that I realize exactly what was going on
Amazing my whole life I've been suffering through this (OK hyperbole only since I graduated from kid toothpaste) all it took was one conversation with anyone to tell me "yeah that's not normal".Also I noticed I was getting stomach cramps and just though I needed to rinse better but basically the chemical was also hurting my stomach if any of it got down which would take near perfect levels of rinsing. Super gross now that I realize exactly what was going on
Anyways this inspired me to ask if anyone else had something they did or had happen that they for way to long thought was just the normal way of the world.
Could be anything from an allergy thing to maybe a thing done while socializing.
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