Please please pls help me find the cause of my hypersalivation

Posted by ajbrown22 @ajbrown22, Oct 12, 2024

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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Has anyone tried powdered Alum? Its used in making pickles and is sold in the spice aisle. When I was little and made pickles with my Grandma , she used it to keep them crisp. She always told me to be careful and not get it on my mouth because it would dry out my mouth. I search it online and its used for mouth sores. Anyone ever tried it??

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Hi,
Same thing happened to me. Pints of saliva produced at night, to the point of vomiting, so the vomit bucket was near the bed, This went on for a year. I stopped chewing gum- this helped some. I took prilosec 40 mg otc and this also helped diminished the saliva, then over time decreased to 20 mg. I also avoid spicy and alcohol- bc alcohol is bad for us. ( cancer etc)
And finally, when western medicine fails me, I look to acupuncture and voila ! No more hypersalivation. It's been 14 months without hypersalivation. I went to all the same MDs you did. There's "nothing wrong with me." And I had an EGD done and a colonoscopy. Pretty as a picture !

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I start to salivate when food his my mouth and I have to continuously mop my mouth to keep from having saliva from running out the corners of my mouth. It's miserable 😖! Don't know how to stop it. Any help would be terrific.

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@sepdvm

Hello @ajbrown22. That is quite a frustrating situation and so far you have had a good deal of diagnostics. Not finding anything wrong is often a good thing with serious medical issues, but also provides no answers. Has anyone done bloodwork and looked for an autoimmune cause? I would be a bit suspicious of the water fasting.....why do you do this? Also timing of the tattoo is questionable. Is this your first tattoo? An allergic reaction to ink in some way? Infection transferred via tattoo needle? Have the doctors suggested trying an antihistamine to reduce secretions? Both diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and chlorpheniramine ( Chlortrimeton) can cause a dry mouth. I even get dry mouth from Claritin. Would daily dosing help your symptoms while pursuing answers? I would continue to drink more water than usual as a dry mouth stimulates saliva production. Gum chewing if your gum contains Xylitol also stimulates saliva production. Check your routine medications and foods for Xylitol as it is a common sweetener and is used in medications meant to increase salivation like Xylimelts. I have to use it nightly for dry mouth since my cancer surgery removed Parotid salivary gland and radiation fried my mouth.
So there is my veterinary viewpoint, take it for what it is worth. Let us know results of your CT please.

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@ajbrown22 hello I've been experiencing for 3 weeks are you still having it

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@elpasogirl44

I start to salivate when food his my mouth and I have to continuously mop my mouth to keep from having saliva from running out the corners of my mouth. It's miserable 😖! Don't know how to stop it. Any help would be terrific.

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I've been experiencing this for 3 weeks I don't know what's wrong with me have yours stopped and how long

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@eboni1989

@ajbrown22 hello I've been experiencing for 3 weeks are you still having it

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I do not have this issue. My issue is dry mouth. If you see the answers above, some have had luck with acupuncture or botox injections. For short term relief try to eliminate anything you are eating or chewing containing Xylitol as this is what we use to increase saliva production. Others have had luck using an antacid that decreases stomach acid production like Prilosec. Keep reading through all the responses above for more suggestions.

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@eboni1989

@ajbrown22 hello I've been experiencing for 3 weeks are you still having it

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botox in the saliavry glands saved my life

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@ajbrown22

botox in the saliavry glands saved my life

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Really I'm going thru it bad my doctor prescribed me a certain type of medicine I just pray it can help me

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@ajbrown22

botox in the saliavry glands saved my life

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@ajbrown22 have you ever tried different medications for like prescribed before trying Botox

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@eboni1989

@ajbrown22 have you ever tried different medications for like prescribed before trying Botox

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@ajbrown22 also was it very expensive the Botox? I'm just so worried this happen before but never stays this long

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