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rookie - member
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Hello everyone,

I'm a healthy 21 year old male, who has recently discovered a bump under his tongue. After doing some research, I've found that it could be a mucocele, but I read that usually mucoceles are on the bottom lip.

I'm worried it might be HPV, as about a week before I noticed the bump I made out with a girl I had just met while I was intoxicated. (Big mistake).

It's on the bottom of my tongue, on the left side. It'll start to hurt if I play with it, and it doesn't feel liquid filled.

Any ideas on what it may be?

Picture included...

regular - member
55 posts
It could just be a sore. I had something like that caused by a rough tooth. They say with lumps and bumps, that if the hang around for 2 weeks you should get it checked out.
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rookie - member
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McKnight-

First of all, your HPV worries seem rather unfounded. HPV rarely shows any symptoms in men. From the Center for Disease Control government website: (http://www.cdc.gov/STD/hpv/STDFact-HPV-and-men.htm)

"Most men who get HPV (of any type) never develop any symptoms or health problems. But some types of HPV can cause genital warts. Other types can cause penile cancer or anal cancer. The types of HPV that can cause genital warts are not the same as the types that can cause penile or anal cancer."

Secondly, that doesn't really look or sound like a mucocele. My mucocele felt like a liquid filled bag and didn't hurt at all. From what I've read on this site about other people's experiences, they didn't have pain associated with it unless they bit it or pricked it.
rookie - member
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Good news, I woke up today and looked at it and it has considerably shrunk in size.

It must've been from scraping my teeth or eating spicy food or something.

Thanks for the replies Ann and kmksr!
regular - member
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Great. It's good to hear what happens to people. Many don't come back.
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