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Please please pls help me find the cause of my hypersalivation
So I’m going on here because I have no other options, I have had hypersalivation for the last three months and its driven me crazy. Here’s some context, I am a 20-year-old male who exercises almost daily, I don’t drink soda or much processed food. I’m generally a pretty healthy, happy, and chill guy, but this hypersalivation has truly ruined my life completely. It has caused severe stress and anxiety, and it just downright makes me dread waking up in the morning. So it all started when I woke up one day and went to take grandma to the airport and I felt like I couldn’t really talk and my mouth felt weird (I just attributed it to having had woken up early) so I threw in some gum and went about my day, then later that night as I’m chilling on the coach watching a movie I realized my mouth was just filling up incredibly rapidly and I was just confused and then I realized I was hypersalivating for no apparent reason and its been that way since then not stop 24/7 365. I just want to find the cause of my hypersalivation so I can fix it and go about my life again.
My symptoms feel like my mouth just fill right up with water (spit but very serous spit) and If I swallow it’ll just fill right back up again, and when I spit it out it’ll just be very watery spit but I can basically keep spitting into infinity because the production never stops
I have been to 3 ENT doctors who all said everything looked good and I’m in the process of getting a CT scan done on my salivary glands.
I have been to 2 GI doctors who said everything looked good and I got an endoscopy done and all good
I have been to 3 General Doctors who said everything was all good and got blood and urine tests done which also came back perfect
My ideas of Potential causes of hypersalivation are:
-Prior to getting this hypersalivation I water fasted for three full days in which I was chewing gum all day. Somewhere throughout that whole process maybe my parasympathetic system, which controls salivary production got jacked up by something I did and it hasn’t been able to return to its normal state
-The same day the hypersalivation started I also got a tattoo in the upper middle chest that extends to the traps, maybe it caused some nerve damage or affected my nervous system, but I am fairly certain that the hypersalivation started when I woke up and the tattoo was around 2pm
-I do have a very minor overbite and some crowding in my front bottom teeth but overall pretty good teeth and oral hygiene, I did have a dental procedure done about three weeks before the hypersalivation started where apparently I just had a dent in one of my molar and they just did a simple filling on it, but I had no issues the three weeks prior
-I sleep on my stomach/side, not sure if that means anything
-I developed scalloped tongue from the hypersalivation because I have a tendency to move the tongue in a place where it shouldn’t go to try to minimize the rapid accumulation or saliva, also not sure if that means anything either
With all this being said I have no idea what’s wrong with me and the doctors don’t know what’s wrong with me. No, it’s not all in my head. If you saw the shear amounts of saliva, I’m spitting out you’d be surprised. And no, it’s not an anxiety symptom, as yes, this has caused me a great deal of anxiety, but there’s a good chance I went my whole entire life without feeling anxiety before this started, as I’m just not really a anxious guy whatsoever. I would love to know your thoughts and opinions on this, and I’d do literally anything to fix this so please help me out guys.
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Hi
Thanks for your quick reply.
I think that this is the result of my Pancreatic tumor resection. On gastrointestinal side.
I took Omeprazol too but it did not help.
But good idea for the acupuncture. I will give it a try..
Take care.
Hi
Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
My hyper salivation is ruining my life and i really need to find a solution.
I heard about a surgery…
All the best.
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3 ReactionsMy 78yo partner developed this after a fairly dramatic stent surgery (heart). He has also been put on a “statin” as a preventative for cholesterol build-up - which I gather is just standard protocol, even though his blood tests have never identified a cholesterol problem. Back pain & over-salivation started within days. Had all the scans, seen the ENT (& the Kidney specialist ! - spitting out 300ml of saliva per day is not helping keep him hydrated !!, or to keep the weight on him, as he has no appetite & very little taste.). They are just now trying him on Buscopan - travel sickness medication.. I am wondering if it is “structural” - he has bad calcification of the cervical spine & the muscles in his back are now stiff as boards (probably from the statin medication). I massage his neck every night & his back most days (trained masseur), but I can get very little response in his back. I understand there is a nerve somewhere in the thoracic spine which affects saliva production. Has anyone tried chiropractic, osteopathy, physio with manipulation, acupuncture needling ???? AS with all of you - it’s humiliating for him, (gross for me, but I tell him that) & has the other effects on taste, appetite & hydration I mentioned. He won’t go out….
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1 ReactionSorry, that should have read “I DON’T tell him that” - down in the last sentence or two….re it being “gross”. He really doesn’t need to know that I have a problem with it as well….
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1 ReactionI hate to say, I'm sorry because I know it's so much more than that. I had the complete opposite. My saliva glands just stopped working and my mouth was dry and so I kept drinking water and finally just made myself sick. I had to chill on the water, but I had anxiety also. I was 100% miserable. It did finally subside after months. I'm having other issues with my mouth now. And the doctors!!! The appointments that we wait and wait for only to be sent to someone else because no one has a clue. You have come to the right place though. This forum has helped me even though I am miserable also every waking minute. Honestly, I do think the fasting with water only had something to do with it. I would bet that it will go away on its own. I wouldn't do that again, not that anyone would know that would happen!!!! Keep us updated. Again, I know how it feels to feel miserable and can't talk about it all the time because I know I'm burning everyone out!!!
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It seems as if there are several of us who have oral issues that have stumped everyone. Mine is a taste issue. Either I am tasting salt all day or it's a sour taste and the salty taste is especially totally overwhelming. I may have Sjogren's which causes dry mouth but the medications to increase saliva don't help at all. I have been to the dentist, ENT, Rhematologist and had a CT scan and brain MRI and all are normal. They only way I can get through the day is by chewing gum, or popping in a no sugar Ricola or using my old orthodontic retainer which for some reason stops the horrible taste. I was just put on Gabapentin in case it's a neurological issue but I'm on an extremely low dose to start which maybe has helped a bit. Waiting to see if I can go up in dose. I too have tried to rule out everything under the sun; medications, food, unfiltered water. Has the GI doctor put you on a reflux medication since any oral issue can be related to a stomach issue? I tried it for the taste but it didn't help. Good luck in finding an answer!!!
My partner has now had significant success with taking “Buscopan”. WE realise this probably does not address the cause of his problem, but it has decreased the saliva production back to virtually normal levels - he was spitting out around 300ml per day of saliva. This has now been working well for us for a matter of weeks…. Here’s hoping !!!
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I find it extremely helpful to use ChatGPT5 to discuss my medical issues to bring to my Dr's attention and to explore approaches to dealing with the stress. If you approach a conversation with depth and detail not just posing a plain question you can pull out more scientific knowledge from the experience. Tell the full story. Show your lab results and dive deeply into problem and it will meet you in kind. I use it as a thinking partner not just a tool. I've gotten great results.
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1 ReactionWas this fixed? I have had this for 6 months.