Excessive saliva with HG - HELP

[BeautyAndTheBump1]

I'm 25+2 and have been dealing with excessive saliva since about 10 weeks. To the point where I have to spit into a bowl... constantly...all day. Its absolutely gross. I wake up in the night and have dribbled onto my pillow. It just never stops!!

When i eat or drink it makes it even worse.

I have rather severe HG and read its a side effect of it.

I contacted my GP a month ago and he said the tablets they would give someone with excess saliva aren't recommended in pregnancy. He prescribed me an inhaler to try and dry my mouth out, but said 'it's not used for this normally, so let me know if it works as I'm intrigued' felt like a guinea pig so I haven't taken it.

I've googled and looked on MN and I can't seem to find much of what can help or any threads from others saying they had it

Has anyone had any experience with this? 😫 did anything help? I've tried chewing gum etc but it just increases the saliva more!!

I'm soooooooo over this pregnancy. I had HG with my first the entire 41 weeks but never had the excess saliva. I feel like I'm drowning on my own spit.

Yeah I had tonnes of it with all mine, but never had HG. It's a common pregnancy symptom. I had never heard it's connected to HG but you learn something new every day! Maybe people with HG just notice it more because of the sickness and swallowing?

I didn't have it like this, but I remember the excess saliva during morning sickness. I found sucking on a sour boiled sweet helped (sour apple flavour particularly.) I also found sherbet dib dab type sweets helped, not healthy I know but needs must.
I know you say food doesn't help but about nibbling on a rich tea biscuit or dry cracker just enough to dry your mouth?
It might sound silly but would something like a small amount of Ashton and Parsons teething powder help? It's supposed to help dry up saliva in babies.

You poor thing. I had this until about 20 weeks then it got better so now at 34 weeks I'm just having a couple of episodes a day where it ramps up. Luckily chewing gum did work for me. I used the miliways spearmint one, it meant that I could at least swallow the saliva!
Otherwise I never found anything else that helped.. it was just a case of having to spit all day and at night I would lie with a towel around my chin!!
Absolutely awful symptom, I'm so sorry you're having to deal with it.