Leslie,

If he is taking pilocarpine and having this kind of reaction, I would have two questions: 1) what is his dosage, and 2) when is he taking it? I've been taking it steadily for about 15 years, and was in the clinical trials for it. In the early stages, they gave me varying doses, and for me a dose of 5mg 3 times a day was enough to help without causing a huge amount of sweating. The other thing that I found by trial and error was that I seemed to sweat less if I took it toward the end of a meal, rather than on an empty stomach.

Cathy

Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989