[Question #8] Second opinion needed?
114 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
114 months ago
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Greetings. Welcome to Ask the Expert and for your question. I think I can help.
As you may already know, molluscum contagiosum is very minor condition. It is entirely without serious outcoms or complications, and it clears up entirely, never to return. Even if new lesions appear over the next few weeks, they can be easily treated by scraping them away; or you can learn to open them with a needle and express the hard white core. That cures each bump. Anyway, they’ll soon stop recurring. Sorry you had to go through the uncertainty of worry about genital warts.
As for your tongue, my guess is nothing is wrong. I’m pretty sure you have just observed your circumvallate papillae, which often aren’t noticed until someone has reason to look. Ask your doctor — or take a look at someone else’s tongue, maybe your fiance’s. Probably you’ll find the back of your tongue and his look no different. MC rarely involves the inside of the mouth, and no STDs would cause bumps like you have seen. (Warts also are very rare in the mouth.) And the chance of oral cancer at your age is just about zero.
In other words, I’m pretty sure nothing is wrong at all, and even more certain you have no oral STD, cancer, or pre-cancerous problem, and I see no need for any additional testing of any kind. I really don’t think you need another medical opinion, but if you would like a final reassuring exam, an ENT doctor would make sense. Or your dentist, who of course is an expert in recognizing oral and throat problems.
I hope this has helped. Best wishes. HHH, MD
114 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
114 months ago
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114 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
114 months ago
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