Exfoliative cheilitis and burning mouth syndrome: Epical fail in Swedish healthcare
HI! So, after months of suffering from exfoliative cheilitis (chronic peeling and cracking of the lips) and burning mouth syndrome I finally decided to give the doctor a try again in August. This time I wanted to have a skin specialist. I had to wait all the way to last week, 7th of December, because they are so busy. The skin specialist took a peek at my lips and shone a light inside my mouth, told me everything looked just fine, and that my problem is called exfoliative cheilitis (as if I did not know) and that they basically were "out-treated". They had made a culture of my tongue which showed nothing, tried with antibiotics and fungicide, and tested my blood for vitamin deficiency, all to no avail. I have also had spontaneous nose bleeds the last few weeks, to which she not reacted at all but just shrugged her shoulders, and a rash all over my face combined with keratinous scales on my skin similar to the lips. But since it was gone by the time I visited the docto