Graham’s Canker Cure
The cure for canker sores in two paragraphs, but first, a little education: I’m talking about canker sores, also known as apthous ulcers, found inside your mouth. I’m not talking about herpes sores, which are usually found around the lips or on the genitals, or syphillis chancres, or chancroid, yet another similar-sounding STD. Canker sores probably have an unknown viral or bacterial cause from what I’ve read, and are not STDs, for the damn record.
If you get canker sores recurrently like I do (mine are generally from stress), you’ve probably tried every possible cure. I’ve tried vitamins, amino acids, yogurt bacterial cultures that you have to keep in the refridgerator, mouthwashes, toothpastes, numbing agents, and anti-viral drugs, with absolutely zero success. When I was in high school, I had 17 in my mouth at one time. I’m not kidding. (Thankfully I’ve learned to de-stress since then.)
But I’ve finally found a cure (for me at least), thanks to the doctor at the student health service: triamcinolone paste (it’s a corticosteroid). 
The stuff works wonders. Spread the gospel, please. Dry off the canker sore, put the paste on the canker sore just before bed, fall asleep, repeat for a couple days, and it’ll hurt less and heal much faster. Your doctor can easily prescribe it, and it’s a generic, so it’s cheap.
Please appreciate this advice, I’m probably sacrificing my kissing-attractiveness by posting this one.
You’d never been prescribed Kenalog in Orabase before? I’m pretty sure this is just a generic version. I’ve had cankers forever (2 right now and one will probably form today since I bit the inside of my mouth yesterday), and I’ve also tried many different things. I haven’t used the Kenalog (or equivalent) in a while, but I didn’t much care for it when I used it. Maybe I just wasn’t every good at applying it, but I’d always end up with the grimey paste stuck to my gums and everywhere else. But hey, glad it works for you. Me, I just prefer spraying generic chloraseptic on them. Something about that numbing cherry action makes me happy.
Another great remedy which also works wonders is potassium alum, sold as a white crystal rock in various forms, i.e. Crystal Rock deodorant (a natural deodorant that doesn’t contain aluminum chlorohydrate and won’t cause aluminum to accumulate in your body.) Alums have been used for their powerful stringent properties and their ability to shrink exposed mucous membranes. I apply it to a canker sore, which I get all the time too, for like 30 seconds, and the sore kind of whitens over (and the pain goes away too, then the sore just closes up on its own in less than a couple days, even after just one or two applications.
This’ll sound weird, but it works for me. If I just don’t brush my teeth the night I get a canker sore, they go away much quicker.
that doesn’t sound weird because toothpastes, unless you use an all-natural one, contain SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) which exacerbate sores in the mouth leading to canker sores.
An air force navigator suggested this useful remedy: Compound tincture of Benzoin. apply with a Q tip, leave mouth open, and huff and puff until it dries. No soreness nor gum/lip breakdown. Cheaper and safer than corticoids.