My dry mouth is not too bad. The rad Dr. did a good job and left me with some salivary glands still operational. It's not perfect, I'm still mucousie and have dry, sore throat and mouth and the old H2O bottle is my newest best friend, but I was looking at the Salagen drug description test result report which comes with the sample and it lists lots of side effects such as diahrea (sp), vomiting, intestinal pain, etc, etc, and, to be honest, I have had just about enough pain things at this point that I can put up with a little dry mouth to avoid a 10 to 15% chance of getting these side effects from a drug that apparently doesn't cure the problem, just makes it less irritating.

Does anyone have any experience with Salagen? It comes in either 7.5 mg or 3.5 mg and is either blue in color or pink. At this point I'd rather skip it if bad things are even remotely possible.


Regards, Kirk Georgia
Stage IV, T1N2aM0, right tonsil primary, Tonsilectomy 11/03, 35 rad/3cisplatin chemo, right neck dissection 1/04 - 5/04.