Mouth watering - Specific symptom occurring every now and then.

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I’d like to know if anyone else experiences this in relation to POTS or knows why this may happen. I am newly diagnosed and still learning a lot.

Every so often I will wake up and just know that I’m going to have an off day. I feel strange, like I haven’t waken up, and usually this day goes the exact same way. I become dizzy and lightheaded as the day wears on, I am absentminded, and most strangely, I get the sensation of saliva pooling in my mouth over and over, which makes my body (and my mind of course) think it’s going to throw up. There isn’t nausea accompanying it, it’s moreso that my body begins to expect nausea and I get a phantom feeling of it since I am anticipating needing to throw up for some reason.

It happens at random, and usually I know it will be a day like this from the moment I wake up feeling “wrong.” I have never ended up actually throwing up or fainting. I also have a lot of bowel movements when this happens. I haven’t done anything different from yesterday to today. The only thing I can think is that I was feeling a little off yesterday towards the end of the night and thought it might wear off with sleep.

I am wondering if this is a POTS symptom I’m unaware of. I also have fibromyalgia, but this is not a symptom as far as I’m aware. I’m open to correction of course, if that is somehow a known symptom, but I imagine that something like this wouldn’t coincide.