 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Erik,
Everything else has been covered but one. Are you a nightime "mouth" breather. That will DEFINITELY exacerbate the dry mouth problem. I still use a humidifier dialed in to about 60% and that also helps (along with the constant bottle of water). I have found also that eating salty food dramatically changes the dry mouth picture at night. This is so even though I had IMRT and have regained a fair amount of salivary function back.
I remember vividly those days of waking up with my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth and I really hated it.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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