problem with dry mouth
The problem I'm having is waiting 30 minutes after I eat to drink. Most of the day I drink constantly. And I'm OK not drinking with my meal as long as I'm not eating something real dry. I eat a lot of chili and yogurt and stuff like that and I feel Ok without a drink when I eat that. But going 30 minutes with nothing to drink is awful.
What I've been doing is chewing sugar free gum and/or sucking on sugar free hard candy to get through the 30 minutes and that helps some but it's still extremely uncomfortable. Anybody else dealing with this? How are you doing it? It probably doesn't sound like a very big deal, but seriously, my mouth is so dry my lips stick together.
Kelly
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WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
It just occurred to me. I have a medical procedure Tuesday that I am not supposed to eat or drink before, and I will go nuts if I can't drink for several hours. I gotta get this mouth spray or something before then. Thanks!
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Tammy 
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Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I really don't worry about swallowing gum. I have not accidentally swallowed a piece of gum since I was a kid, either. Apparently many people swallow gum by mistake, because I see people post here about it fairly often, but I don't really know how that happens. I don't accidentally swallow things.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
thanks for your response to my post. I, by the way, accidentally swallow things because I talk and inhale air at the same time. It comes with being a dominant visual thinker meaning, I see my thoughts in pictures and have so many pictures in my head that I want people to see (hear) and my lips won't move fast enough to get it all out, so I get excited and try to hurry, thus (sometimes) forgetting I need to be careful. HOWEVER, I work much harder at it since my RNY and so far, have had great success with slowing down, at least while I'm eating or chewing gum.
