OK, one more question... About a week after my last treatment, my doctor gave me a steroid for my mouth, and it did wonders for all the "gunk" that was building up and keeping me from sleeping through the night... (I was getting up about every hour, feeling like I was choking)...

But these days, I feel the gunkiness again (though not as bad), and I have to spit and rinse quite a bit... I have decent saliva flow (with or without the saligen) but is there a time when this gunk-mouth goes away? It's frustrating to have to spit so much during the day, and then to have it hanging out of my mouth because it's so thick, etc... I'm sure I freaked my inlaws out for the few weeks they were here because I was always spitting and hawking stuff into sinks, paper towels, trash cans, etc.

Thanks again for all the help, friends...

Eric