Lately I've been getting very strange and painful cuts and sores in my mouth. They're not canker sores, it's more like the skin on the inside of my mouth has suddenly become really weakened. A friend suggested to me that I may have a vitamin deficiency (especially lately since I've been working all of the time and eating crappy foods). I looked up 'mouth ulcers' and found out birth control pills reduce folic acid and b-vitamin levels. Both of which in low levels can cause mouth sores!! It also reduces vitamin c and selenium. It does have positive effects on calcium, copper, zinc, and iron. I just thought you ladies would like to know, it's probably best to pair birth control with vitamins AND a proper diet. While this info is probably in teeny-tiny print somewhere on my birth control pack, I really would've liked my doctor to alert me of this!
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C378603.html
If anyone has any contrary thoughts on this (I know a lot of SWers are in the medical profession, or were) I'd love to hear them, as this is a relatively new realisation for me.




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