Follow-Up:
I don't know why but just recently maybe about 6 mos ago I started having reactions to my laundry soap(sears brand). Whenever I use it my tongue and the outside of my upper mouth starts to feel the burn. There is something in it that just reacts with me. I have to use a milder laundry soap that don't have such harsh chemicals. Like right now I ran out of my "Planet" brand laundry soap and had to use some of my left over sears soap and my mouth is starting to feel funny. I must have chemical sensitivity because even products with clorine makes my mouth and tongue burn. Mari maybe you are sensitive to the ingredients that they clean your teeth with? I have had bms for 6yrs now. Just this year is when I started to get sensitive to clorine and some laundry soaps. I also had some fillings removed last yr and that may have changed the condition in my mouth. I still have all porcelain/metal and gold crowns on my upper teeth. Maybe that has something to do with it. I feel that the mercury has damaged my immune system and I have developed allergies to many things now. I know that you read messages at suite 101. Did you read the message from Marie Flowers? I know that my bms symptoms are almost identical to what they discribe as mercury poisoning and candida. I have had many of the symptoms that they list. I don't know about other bms people on the boards. My bms symptoms are not just confined to my mouth. I have had all kinds of aches and pains since the onset of bms. I almost don't think that bms is a post menopausal problem but actually mercury poisoning because it effects men also and it is starting to effect very young women also. I have not had one day that the bms has not effected me. I think that the women and men who have some days of absolutely no pain suffer something other than what we call bms. I plan on having the rest of my crowns removed and I hope that this will to the job and get rid of ALL of my problems which I have developed since the onset of bms. Take care.