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CallMeAlan

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Location
Newbury
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi. I was diagnosed with type 2 about 2 or 3 weeks ago and put on Metformin 2 x 500 per day. Since then I've cut out sugar, bread, etc, and try to keep low carb as much as possible. I was HbA1C initially at 67. My blood glucose readings range between 5.4 and, just once, 10.2, during the day, averaging about 7.5, higher in the morning. After dinner it's around 5.4 to 9.9, averaging about 7.3. No Metformin side effects.

But what got me to the doctor initially was this dry mouth. I had a very sweet tooth and shudder to imagine what my glucose readings must have been.

However, despite fairly rigorous low-carbing and cutting out sugar etc entirely, the dry mouth persists. It's my only symptom. So my question is: what's your experience of dry mouth and, in particular, does it ever go away?

Thanks, Alan.
 
Dry mouth was also my only symptom, this isn’t helpful to you but once my numbers came down I was never thirsty, I could literally never drink, I had to make myself drink.

maybe it will take a little time, I can’t remember how long it took me, best of luck.
 
CallMeAlan said:
Hi. I was diagnosed with type 2 about 2 or 3 weeks ago and put on Metformin 2 x 500 per day. Since then I've cut out sugar, bread, etc, and try to keep low carb as much as possible. I was HbA1C initially at 67. My blood glucose readings range between 5.4 and, just once, 10.2, during the day, averaging about 7.5, higher in the morning. After dinner it's around 5.4 to 9.9, averaging about 7.3. No Metformin side effects.

But what got me to the doctor initially was this dry mouth. I had a very sweet tooth and shudder to imagine what my glucose readings must have been.

However, despite fairly rigorous low-carbing and cutting out sugar etc entirely, the dry mouth persists. It's my only symptom. So my question is: what's your experience of dry mouth and, in particular, does it ever go away?

Thanks, Alan.
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Hi and welcome to the forum. I had a bout of dry mouth last year - oddly it only started not long after my BG had returned to normal levels. It was bad for about a month - on a couple of occasions I woke up with my mouth glued to itself, that sort of thing. Then it went away, and hasn't returned. So, if my experience is anything to go by, get your blood glucose down and then keep it stable. I suspect some of the symptoms are triggered by large-scale change in BG as well as by high BG itself.
 
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