Hi all, just wondering if anyone else has suffered prolonged dry mouth and tongue?
On Sunday I scared myself into thinking I was diabetic because after working in the garden all day I became very thirsty and felt parched until night time. Started getting a dry mouth, and began peeing more often - almost on cue with the diabetic worries.
I tested my blood sugar with my MIL who is diabetic yesterday, and it was 3.9. Worried it's actually too low, but she said this is completely ok in non-diabetic people - she is also a retired dr, so I try and trust her judgement.
I still feel I'm peeing more often, and I don't think I'm dehydrated. I had a horrid cold/virus last weekend, starting on the 8th, coughing up loads of phlegm, mild temp, sore throat and bunged sinuses. I'm still a little bunged up now, and there's still some white/yellow marks on my tonsils which is concerning me - not stones or pus, just white/yellow discolouration.
However this dry mouth and tongue is really stressing me out. Since monday I've been constantly swallowing, manually producing saliva and just obsessing about it - I don't if I'm creating the problem, or if it's genuinely there. I've also had boughts of geographic tongue for around 10 years and that's flaring up a bit now.
I've had a glut of anxiety symptoms over the past year since my HA kicked off - tingling, IBS went into overdrive, headaches and dizziness, head rushes, tinnitus worsened, overactive bladder, palpitations and being out of breath and so on.......but I can't bring myself to think it's anxiety again.
I'm concerned that there's a serious issue going on, like an autoimmune disease or something, especially as there's still marks on my tonsils. There's some nasty things coming up if I google these symptoms, and I'm trying really hard to not visit the doc again.
I'm seriously at my wits end with new and changing symptoms, it feels relentless at times.