Just popping my head in this thread. I too am a BMS sufferer. Ruled out a lot of things. Yeast tested in my mouth by GP. Extensive blood work done late Feb. 08 while I had already had the condition for several months, all indications that the inside of my mouth looks fine.

I know drinking orange juice triggers my canker sores I have had since childhood. So I don't touch that anymore. Without fail, I get cankers drinking it. I've also had geographic tongue and fissured tongue since childhood.

I recently started again my Vitamin C supplements (I wish I could remember if I was taking them when my BMS started). I noticed taking the C supplements, my 'dormant' geographic tongue and fissures came back in force after a week and a half. So I stopped the C thinking, maybe I'm on to something here? Wouldn't you know it, the fissures that were painful began to heal. Almost immediately. As did the patchy geographic tongue!

Now I'm waiting to see if my burning mouth calms down. As a trial, I am going to go 2 weeks "C free" in hopes that I find out that the burning subsides a bit (Neurontin/Amitriptyline were working for a bit, so I thought, but since have seemed to not been helping the burning).

Cross your fingers for me. When I did the Candida diet, focusing on eliminating sugars/carbs and yeast, the burning mouth was virtually gone (pre dx for MS, pre drugs). Maybe it's because I felt I was getting somewhere? Probiotics I was taking? Diet? Not sure. I wasn't taking in much C at the time as I remember, and my tongue looked 1 color, PINK!

This is all so very confusing to figure out. I'm sure you folks who also experience the BMS issue will agree.

Hi dmplaura!

I also have a geographic tongue and fissure down the middle. Yesterday morning I had two very distinct circles on the front of my tongue and I took some pics. The circles move around as the day goes by - it's so weird. Even though a geographic tongue is called 'benign' the circles can be quite sensitive. Do you find that? However these are a total different issue to the burning gums and tongue (which I must say I haven't had much of lately in the mouth).

I must take more careful note of whether vitamin C aggravates the tongue -I know oranges do.

My 'circles' do move around yes. I actually avoid orange juice completely. Someone suggested trying low acid foods. Acidity may be more of a problem. Not sure. I still am going to bring this concern to my doctor's attention, and see if perhaps vitamin C should be tested for allergy of any type.

Some have mentioned that if I did indeed have a C allergy, I would be having more problems.