Help- Dry mouth all day long. Driving me nuts!!!

Hi all,

For the last 2 or 3 weeks, I have been having "dry mouth" ALL day long.  Curiously it is not at night.  I wake up with not a ton of moisture in there, but as the day progresses it actually gets worse.  I tried an OH search, but every thread I read commented about it being at night only.  Anyone else have this chronically in the daytime, and know what the heck is causing it??  I am drinking my 2L or very, very, near to it, each and everyday.

Did you have anything like this before during optifast of right after surgery? Dry mouth is often caused by ketosis in WLS peeps. Do you take medication for allergies, asthma, depression or anxiety? Diabetes? Anemia?

The only time I had this was before I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and it was at night because I was mouth breathing.  This is not at night though.  It didn't have it during Opti.  As far as ketosis, maybe I am not understanding it correctly, aren't you in ketosis whenever you are actively loosing weight?  Actually, I haven't been loosing weight over the last 2 weeks at all, even though I am running 3-4 times a week, and seeing my trainer 2 times a week.  Go figure.  I take clonazepam for anxiety disorder, but it is a really low dose and I've been taking it for over a year without having this reaction.  Hmmm.....puzzled.  
 

Ketosis is a specific state of weightloss that causes your body to break down fat and covert it to glucose for your body to use because you are not taking in carbs. You would usually have to be eating less than 25-40g per day of carbs to stay in ketosis. Did you do 6 month labs? How's your iron?

My guess is you are not drinking enough.  I have been on clonazepam for 11 years and have never had dry mouth from it.  Try drinking a bit more water throughout the day and see if that helps.

Hey Marny

I work in Mental Health and I swear, almost all the psych meds cause dry mouth.  There are  few things that we tell our patients - suck on diabetic/NSA candies - which probably isn't a good idea right now.

But, there are tons of new products out, and I have found them in shoppers and walmart specifically for dry mouth.  Some come in rinses, and I think there is a pill one.  Not a bad price also.

Our patients have found that drinking more fluids adds to the problem ... but I don't know why.

Good luck!

Some meds I have to take cause dry mouth for me.  I've started using a product called Biotine when it gets unbearabe.  You can get it in the pharmacy - it comes in a gel, spray and a toothpaste I think.

Karen I think you have your name wrong.  I could be wrong but Biotine I believe is for hair re growth . At least that is why I take it..

I misspelled it - Biotene. Similar to biotin, yes. In spelling, that is. Not in purpose. lol

 Just a question actuallly, when you do a lot of running should you increase your intake of water? especially in the heat we have had? I'm thinking if we start with 2 litres in the hospital with no activity, what happens when activity increases.....