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Dry Mouth. Particularly at night. Solutions?
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Aug 3 7:47am | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
Sounds like this worked extremely well for you. I see you did the electroaccupuncture in 2015, can you please tell me how long this was after your treatment (surgery and/or chemo, and/or radiation) was all completed? I'm about 5 months past radiation treatments and I am having significant issues with dry mouth. Thank you so much! It's nice to read stories that offer hope of better days down to the road.
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@dmg64 I had acupuncture and it didn’t do anything. Xylimelts work for me. I cut one pill in half and put them on each side of my mouth. I get less goopy phlegm in the morning that way. Brush and floss using high fluoride toothpaste as prescribed. This has worked very well for me!
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Hi @dmg64,
I had 35 rounds (7weeks) of Photon radiation for a total of 70Gy and 3 rounds of cisplatin chemo for tonsil cancer back in 2008 but no surgery and to help with the brutal dry mouth tried ELECTRICAL STIMULATION ACUPUNCTURE in 2015 which was offered at my cancer clinic for head & neck cancer patients. I was tested to get a baseline and retested after 8-10 appts. and had great results. Never needed to go back and to this day 10 yrs. later dry mouth is a non-issue, and I don't have to carry a water bottle with me either.
Best of luck on your journey,
Rob