12/20/13 12:37 - ID#58471

Normal Tongue - There is Hope

So many people write to me asking if the orange tongue (e:paul,54192) ever resolved itself. I can totally understand their pain and concern as it was making my life a living hell. It did resolve itself. I did nothing extraordinary other than get a root canal on a tooth that was bothering me but it had already subsided before then mostly. After about 2 years it just went away. I still get geographic tongue every once and a while but its usually one nice pink slate and never orange.

I guess I also did start using a water pic ever day to clean my gums thoroughly.

Do you still suffer from orange tongue? Did you ever find out what the issue was?!
I too have been suffering from the same problem. Been to the doctor dozens of times, only to be told my tongue looks "normal' and to use a tongue brush if I am concerned. ...There are some days I wake up with very little orange and some days I look like I sucked on orange popsicle.
This is driving me crazy - it was nice to see someone else with the same issue.

ExBuffalonian writes at 02:32:28 12/23/13 - Comment #71009: I never had an orange tongue, but I did once have a reaction to eating pine nuts. Everything I ate or drank, even water, tasted bitter for about two weeks. Then it just went away. I know it sounds weird, but it's a real thing. You can Google it.

paul writes at 02:18:22 12/21/13 - Comment #70998: I did use a tongue scraper, religiously for years. It did not help. Sometimes I thing maybe I scraped it too much as I dont use one now. I seriously went to so many doctors it was crazy. A research dentist at UB even had a bunch of his students look at it. The geographic tongue is a genetic thing. The combo or geographic tongue and orange tongue made it look really gross.

(E:TinyPliny) and I researched the crap out of it.

It started when a dentist gave me this stuff called called magic mouthwash that was a combo of antifungal, anti bacterial and anti inflammatory steroid after mistaking the geographic tongue for some sort of infection. This was before I knew what it was.

Two days later my tongue turned hot orange and kind of stayed that way for a long time. It did not hurt or itch or anything like you'd expect from an infection and my breath did not smell bad during it. It was not thrush or a fungal infection as antifungals did nothing. Every dentist/doctor would always say, doesn't look like any infection I've ever seen are you sure you aren't eating anything orange. At one point I even stopped eating anything orange color for weeks just to prove them wrong. The thing that made it most ornate was fresh greens like salad or spinich.

Chlorhexidine would work but it would come back as soon as I stopped and everything tasted terrible so I quit.

oda writes at 02:14:07 12/21/13 - Comment #70993: paul, you are so gross. I think there was some health reason that you may have had an orange tongue. I know you've historically been a hypochondriac, but this was probably serious, and I'm glad it's gone away now.
did your breath smell bad? i am very curious to find out about it. did you use a tongue scraper ever?
on a side note, I just posted a few responses to Joe's journal, thinking it was you! I hope to see you really really soon.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: clothing

12/19/13 02:16 - ID#58469

Express Is 50% Off - New Tuxedo

I usually not one to advertise but holy crap

is 50% off of everything in their online store. I know the normal prices and these are truly 50% off not markup then markdown.

For example I bought a tuxedo for a wedding on monday that came to $590 and now I rebought it for half price and am returning the original. I called to just see if they could retroactively refund me but they couldn't because it shipped already so I had to return.

I also got new suspenders and some bow ties for super geek flavor.

Here

is the tuxedo. I hope it fits.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: birthdays

12/18/13 10:37 - ID#58467

Happy Birthday Hodown

Too bad you aren't on Google hangouts like everyone else lol. I miss you. Hope you have the best day.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 12/18/13 10:37

Category: work

12/16/13 10:37 - ID#58460

100 Hours Left

Massive project at work with about 100 hours remaining and I still don't have the exact final specs. I can't wait for phase 1 to be over.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: fairness

12/16/13 12:33 - ID#58458

World's greatest Fairness Creme For Men

We found this shopping at the Indian Grocer on Sheridan called Super Bazaar. We also got some amazing jalepeno poppers and lychee juice boxers.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holidays

12/16/13 12:25 - ID#58457

Squeaky Wheel - Dysfunction Holiday

We had so much fun at the Hallwalls Dysfunctional Holiday party at the old Buffalo Reuse building on North Hampton. It was a blast. We won a whole bunch of raffle baskets. It started with (e:joe), Erica, and I run/trudging there and (e:Joe) and I ran back. (e:terry) had to go early because as a board member, he helped with setup.

I might have had one too many wines because at some point I was fine with having to switch to white wine and I hate white wine.

I also bought a really cool burdock leaf plate that I thought would be great for a dinner party.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: snow

12/16/13 12:04 - ID#58454

Its Real Snowy

Damn its so snowy out. I am ready for it to be over.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holidays

12/15/13 02:45 - ID#58450

I'm the Baby Jesus

There really was a live goat.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 12/15/13 02:45

Category: furnace

12/13/13 05:34 - ID#58443

Piece of Shit Furnace

Our York Gy9s is dead again. Not as bad a day as it was in 2011 when it broke and everything else was broken (e:paul,53450) but still sucks.

Apparently the motor blades just crack off over time. The HVAC guy at the store where we got the warranty part from the last time said its a known issue.

We got the furnace in 2006. I'm starting to think its time to just buy a whole new furnace and start out with a new warranty.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: work

12/12/13 06:44 - ID#58440

Nice Work Moments

I added a feature to the intranet where users could pick their shared files up externally to reduce the amount of wasted space in our limited email inboxes. It's so weird to have such extreme inbox limits in 2013 but we do. So when someone sends out a 10MB PDF it fills up everyone's inboxes pretty quick. A couple years ago I added a feature to the intranet to combat this issue by that allowing employees to share files through the intranet instead of attaching the files to email. Unfortunately, from off campus those links did not work.

Then yesterday, while taking a short break from patient portal development, I created an API for the external site to talk to the intranet and allow authenticated pickups from external and on mobile devices.

This morning someone from the helpdesk shared a file with me thanking me for the development. Although silly, it still made me feel like someone appreciates my work.