Hi i wanted to know if anyone else has heard of this? my Dr gave me some to try yesterday it is supposed to help with saliva production?

thanks for reading

New one on me aunty. I'll watch for the answer too LOL

Most importantly

How does it taste ???

Thanks for the replys...
its not bad at all it's a very small white pill about half the size of a tictac you roll it around your mouth about 6 times a day. It is better than the mouth wash but still stings a little bit, it almost fizzes in your mouth, not bad and so far i have to say it works, i was suffering from very dry mouth and throat so far my mouth has been wet all day ...... is it the pill???? i will let you know i have 100 of them.

i know my clinic said i was a tester for them maybe its new ?

thanks again

Please keep us posted

Ironically this pill did not have to be listed as an Rx drug based on what it contains, and that was a decision made by the manufacturer, a positioning thing perhaps to separate it from others like it that are OTC. I tried it when the company first came out with it, and we even listed it on the products section of our web site for about 6 months a year ago. I knew a bunch of people that tried it, no one really found huge changes as a result of its use, and neither did I. The small levels of success that some of the people had, and I mean really small, could just have easily been attributed to subjective impressions or placebo effect. If your mouth turns into Niagra Falls let us know, if your outcome is more like what I have described please tell us that as well.

Hi only me again,
well i stopped using the pill as it was making my mouth sore especialy the roof of my mouth, but all day today my throat and mouth where really dry again, tonight i use a pill and my mouth is moist?, maybe this is no good if your looking for full saliva production but i think it really works in my case, i had full mouth and throat radiation i think this is why i am suffering from such dryness ? see how it goes.....

thanks for the replys

My son is interested in trying this Numoisyn - Says he wakes up at night feeling like his mouth is a dry paper towel. I can't seem to find what is it made up of - is it a natural ingredient or chemical? How does it react with other medications? Is it available OTC?

I get the full mouth and throat rads too. I hurt big time when I sleep and nothing seems to help. I get up a few times a nite and rinse with biotene, which helps for an hour or so, but the pain and dryness return. Try and keep an eye on your mouth, might be the blisters developing like mine are. I never even thought about blisters until I was told I had them yesterday.

Aunty,

Probably 80% of us had "full mouth " radiation as you call it and we all suffered from dry mouth especially right after radiation ends. I still have some dry mouth issues but no where near what I had at your stage of recovery. Each of us can recover differently but we all share one thing in common and that is it takes all of us a long time to recover so give your body time to heal itself.

Now there are 2 different types of rad Tx normally given to OC patients. Old school or XRT and new school, IMRT. Until 4 or 5 years ago XRT was standard and now IMRT is standard. IMRT is a more focused beam allowing better targeting and therefore less damage to otherwise good cells so patients that received XRT usually suffer more adverse side effects including worse dry mouth than patients that received IMRT. Adverse side effects also depend upon many other variables including tumor location, area radiated, surgery and patient health.

Hang in there, it will get better.