Denise
My husband just went through this a couple of weeks ago. What happened to him was his tongue had been sore for about 2 weeks and he went to the dr. and they told him they thought he had strep throat, they were so sure they didn't do a strep check. Then a couple of days later the pain got worse. So I took him to the er. They told him it wasn't strep, it was a broken blood vessel on his tongue, and it was bruised. So they put him on prednisone. The next day his tongue had swelled up so much that he couldn't breathe. So I took him back to the er and they gave him a shot of steroids and morphine. That seemed to help. The next day his tongue turned black from the bruise. It was pretty gross. I don't know if this is what you have, but I think it would be worth a visit to your dr. Denise