Ok I was banded on the 23rd this month, I have been having extremely bad dry mouth. Is that normal and what should I do?!?

The anesthesia, the pain meds, and having my mouth open so long during surgery did this to me too.

I don't know if it is the same with yours without looking in your mouth. I was so bad that water or anything else would not help.

It took away all my saliva to the point where a few days after surgery a layer of my oral mucosa pealed off including the papilla (hair like taste buds) on the top of my tongue. That was actually a good thing. After getting rid of the tissue that had been dried out too long, things quickly went back to normal.

Try a very mild cough drop. I used rootbeer flavored one from walgreens.

One thing to keep in mind is to not use Listerine while you have this dry mouth because it is very high in alcohol and will only dry you out more.

A couple of my meds give me dry mouth. There are all kinds of over the counter products to fight it.

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Questions and Answers About Dry Mouth

I also had EXTREMELY dry mouth and still do. I also had a REALLY bad "medicine/chemical" taste in my mouth that would not go away. I asked my doctor if it was normal and he said "the dry mouth-yes, the taste in your mouth-no." I asked him what I should do and he said "keep sipping fluids and just monitor the bad taste in your mouth" whatever that means??? he didn't seem too worried about it-so I'm not going to worry myself. I am 8 days post-op and my dry mouth is getting better, not gone yet, but better. It seemed to start getting better when I started eating soft foods.

Hopefully this is not a long term thing for you. It just happened after surgery right ?