Over the past week and a half or so, I've had what originally appeared to be a couple "lie bumps" on the tip of my tongue. They were especially painful ones and didn't seem to be healing as fast as usual. Then the pain started to spread up. The pain was (and more or less still is) isolated to specific taste buds that are visible swollen/inflamed.
The inflammation continued, and the tip of my tongue started looking flat/smooth. Around the same time, the roof of my mouth also started to hurt. At first, I figured I'd just scratched it because the tongue pain was making me eat/chew a little weird.
Within the past few days, my tongue has started to look a lot like geographic tongue. The inflammation has spread and gained a white border. At the same time, small itchy/painful bumps have spread across the roof of my mouth, and I have a couple small, canker-like sores near my throat.
The pain is constant. It's worsened by eating/drinking (even water hurts badly), but hurts regardless. It feels like my tongue is very raw or badly burnt in the inflamed patches (non inflamed doesn't hurt), with specific swollen taste buds causing sudden sharp pain when touched.
I wonder if the roof of mouth sores could be an unusual HSV outbreak, but the tongue confuses me. It's the individual tastebuds that are inflamed, not sores on my tongue. Most things say geo tongue is painless/may hurt some with acid, but this is nonstop! The inflamed region keeps growing, which is concerning. I also have painful patches along the edge of my tongue, but these may truly be from biting it as eating is tricky. Tongue also has a white film that can be somewhat brushed off (pain certainly doesn't make it easy). I had some previously but I think it is worse now.
No medical attention yet as I've been too busy travelling to deal with family stuff (symptoms started right before I left). I don't feel sick in any way, though I had Covid back in January. Looking for opinions or advice on how to manage symptoms.