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Everytime i go to sleep and wake up in the morning my bottom lip feels swollen and looks it a lil im only 16 any ideas?

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Dr. Ali Saberi answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Depends: usually depends on if u are sleeping mainly on your belly and ur face is touching the pillow. Try sleeping on ur back and see if this helps.

Answered 6/20/2018

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