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Intermittent gum pain (esp after eating)

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I am a 40 yo male with otherwise healthy mouth. A couple years ago, I was prescribed some mouth rinse (I don't remember what it was), and my gums started to hurt. Eventually I figured out that ceasing the rinse also ceased the pain, so I thought the issue was resolved. But since then, I have been having gum pain for periods of 2-3 weeks at a time, always in the same spot. It gets much worse after eating, and calms down a few hours afterwards. OTC painkillers don't seem to do much, if anything (stronger painkillers, which the dentist gave me a week supply of after unceremoniously telling me he couldn't figure it out, did work). I was referred to an endodontologist, who didn't find anything. 

Is there anything I can do to palliate?

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