dry mouth

@lilianna I cannot speak to the MAC drugs but my experience with Spiriva is that it made getting gunk up next to impossible. It felt like trying to move cement even with levalbuterol/7% via nebulizer. It dried everything including my mouth. Needless to say, I stopped the Spiriva. To deal with dry mouth I mouth tape at night. I've written about this before on this forum. After reading James Nestor's book Breath, I gave it try and have not looked back. No more morning dry mouth. (Dry eyes yes....sigh).

Also you could try xylimelts
I was waking a lot with dry mouth but these work well
I add a spritz of dry mouth spray at bed time as they take a little while to start working.

Oh thank you. I will try this. I just started spiriva and the dryness is really bad already. We will see if I can tolerate it. Have a peaceful afternoon.

Thank you dulwich. I contacted dr Griffith at NJH and he emailed me that spiriva is a good choice for me. I really hope it works for me because it is the third long lasting inhaler I have been put on- I had tremors and tight chest with symbicort. So thank you for your suggestion. Have a quiet evening

I used to have dry mouth at night. I think what was happening was my nose would get clogged up
so I would breath through my mouth. The ENT recommended Flonase twice a day for at least a month.
Seems to make a diffence. Not eliminated entirely, but a lot better.
Harry

I recently started on the Big 3 and noticed a dry month the mornings after I take the Ethambutol. I take it at 6 PM. If I remember, I rinse with Biotine before I go to bed, this seems to help. I thought this was unique to me. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Interesting. I was taping up my mouth closed also with micropore medical tape until a Nurse Practional said "don't do that." So I stopped.
However ever since I no longer sleep on my back and sleep on a wedge on my left side, (Hiatal Hernia, possible Acid Reflux) no more dry mouth. I guess that stopped it or could it just be the mucus, phlegm etc. that has a tendency to build up in my system until I wake and then need to clear it out as best I can before going back to sleep. However, I had a respiratory therapist say that sleeping on your side helps keep the mouth from opening while you sleep and that sleeping on your back allows the mouth to open and cause dry mouth as you breath through your mouth, mouth breathing. I have often wondered if the night breathing through my mouth for years dryed out the bronchi tubes such that it contributed to the BE. Also, possibly not drinking enough water which might also possibly contribute to diverticulosis, which causes nearly the same type of change to the digestive tract as the bronchi tubes "bulges/pouches/pockets" where junk gets stuck and hard to get out. I also have dry eyes that was diagnosed approximately the same time I began having problems with my health that was finally diagnosed as BE. It all becomes complicated for us in many ways and, as I now understand with my experiences in the last two yeasr, it is sometimes too complicated for the professionals once our body changes and multiple systems have problems.