Ever since the surgery I wake up with a dry, dry mouth. Anyone else? What do you do for this besides keep water at the bedside?

Ever since the surgery I wake up with a dry, dry mouth. Anyone else? What do you do for this besides keep Water at the bedside?

Oh my, this brings back horrible thoughts about when I was on phentermine! Cotton mouth from the yazoo. . . I chewed a lot of sugar free gum. . . drank a lot of water, brushed my teeth a lot, put those listerine strips under my tongue, any thing to prevent cotton mouth.:001_wub:

I have the exact same problem! I wake up several times during the night with cotton mouth and I hate it. I just keep a bottle of water on my nightstand and drink it throughout the night as needed.

This was a problem for me the first several weeks. I also kept a bottle of water by the bed and drank some when I woke up. It goes away I promise. It is just hard to get as much fluids as you need the first few weeks.

Ever since the surgery I wake up with a dry, dry mouth. Anyone else? What do you do for this besides keep Water at the bedside?

I always take a glass of water to bed with me - I've done that for as long as I can remember and it hasn't changed since my surgery. I also keep some SF lifesavers and Halls Cough drops in a jar on my nightstand -- sometimes I get that throat tickle and water doesn't do the trick - so if I pop in a SF lifesaver or cough drop and suck on it, the tickle goes away and I am able to go back to sleep -- I've done this for years, too, and so far I've never choked on them or have they fallen out of my mouth.:001_unsure: