Dry mouth and bitter taste

No I have not researched Burning Mouth Syndrome

I too have a horrible taste in my mouth and the burning is not only in my mouth but us now on my lips. I have lost over 25 pounds in one month and none of my doctors can help me. Now I’m at the point where I’m trying to drink plant base drinks but I can barely keep them down and sores are increasing

I totally understand I’m drinking plant based drinks also to try to maintain weight … so sorry. 😢

Is BMS an autoimmune disorder

@clregan2528 You’ve been asking about burning mouth syndrome. Here us Mayo Clinic’s information about it:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/burning-mouth-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20350911
On Mayo Clinic Connect, we do consider it an autoimmune disease. Are you concerned that you may have BMS? Do you have any autoimmune diseases?

I was drawn to this thread, as I have had constant bitter taste since last September (2023). Right after it started, I was diagnosed by ENT with Post Covid Syndrome also having smell/taste disorder. After having neurological evaluation, no answers. Returning to ENT (Duke).

What has been your experience? I don’t have burning mouth now, but did have burning throat a couple times months ago. I don’t know what caused it. Suspected silent reflux, but don’t know for sure. I have also had burning elsewhere on my body. That has mainly subsided. I discovered there is a syndrome of burning sensations. I don’t know much about it. I’ve focused mainly on my constant bitter taste, but I will say that I’ve noticed a slight improvement over the last couple of days! I am cautiously optimistic.

I hope to see more from those who have the bitter taste. It’s rather rare.

Thank you! 😊😢

Thank you, Linda

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I have had the bitter taste and periodic mouth/tongue burning and extreme dry mouth.
All seem to be a bit better now.
At it’s worst, during the day I always had mints or gum to camouflage the bad taste. At night I used Xylimelt, which was very helpful in keeping my mouth more moist for 7 hours or so.
Sometimes small things do make a difference.
Still struggling with many long Covid issues, but these are pretty much resolved.

For me I think it was caused by Silent Reflux which caused nerve damage to my vagus nerve. I was diagnosed by a stomatologist at UCSF..

Very interesting. That would make sense for me. I’m reading this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859128/