Larry... I have been on Ditropan (Oxybutynin) for 37 years.
I first started out with 5 mg twice a day but then when I began to have some bladder spasms in 2014 after I left my first visit to my local PCP there (who had an office that had a pretty good size 3 inch dip entrance because nothing in that town is accessible except for Wal-Mart or a grocery store or one other physician I saw there) and going down off that drop from his office with 6 tires they were quickly resolved with Extended Release Oxybutynin - 10 mg twice a day. But now that that nurse stretched my urethra beyond all recognition causing me to leak terribly around my catheter I am now on Oxybutynin ER (15 mg) which is the maximum dose but, unfortunately, that did not solve my problem and now I am looking at surgery. I will never forget that woman! Anyway, to answer your question... I have never experienced burning mouth syndrome. Only dry mouth... which occurred when I had to up it to 15 mg twice a day. Dry mouth IS a side effect but, again, I only began experiencing it after increasing it to 15 mg extended release twice a day until I can get this damn problem (not caused by me) taken care of. I hope to get off of the medication simply because starting in the new year my co-pay for it will be over $80 a month! That is the only extremely high co-pay with the only Part D original Medicare can offer me with the medications I am on. Our government is getting worse with Medicare and Medicaid but I only been eligible for Original Medicare because, God forbid, I did something like getting any Baccalaureate Degree, a job and working and my husband did as well so I am not eligible for any Medicaid programs until I tried to find out more about and perhaps go ahead and open an ABLE account when it starts sometime in 2017 in Arizona. Other states start earlier even though it is open nationwide now. I haven't had time to look in depth about it because of my urology problem and making decisions on what exactly to do to resolve it. Which I hope to find out on January 12. How long have you been on it and when did you begin experiencing the burning mouth syndrome? On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Larry Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > Question- Can extended use of ditropan (oxybutynin) lead to burning mouth > syndrome? Anyone else here experienced such a thing? It is a miserable > curse. Any food with even the slightest spice feels like a marriage of > cayenne and habanero. Sprite and Crest toothpaste both make my eyes water. > It will go away for a week or two then come roaring back. Anybody got a > clue? > > Sent from my iPad > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
