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Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Michelle46 on October 17, 2016, 01:02:19 AM

Title: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Michelle46 on October 17, 2016, 01:02:19 AM

Does anyone suffer with a really dry and cold nose and also a dry mouth? The dry nose has been going on for 6 months. There doesn't seem to be any mucus inside so when I breath in it feels horrid.

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Maryjane on October 17, 2016, 06:11:13 AM

I did until I started HRT a year ago.

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Michelle46 on October 17, 2016, 07:52:29 AM

Thanks Sparkle. It's all a nightmare isn't it?

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Dancinggirl on October 17, 2016, 07:53:06 AM

Lack of oestrogen causes everything to dry out.  The loss of collagen is terrible when the oestrogen is no longer doing it's magic.  I use saline nasal spray quite a bit to help reduce the awful dryness in my nose.  Of course when I'm out walking, particularly when it's cold, my nose just runs like a tap :-X  So either really dry or really runny, yuk!!! Dg x

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Michelle46 on October 17, 2016, 07:59:34 AM

Thanks Dancinggirl
I didn't know that the drop in estrogen can cause that

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: CLKD on October 17, 2016, 08:37:05 AM

We ought to have a 'sticky' - as oestrogen levels drop so the body dries, inside and out: nostrils, deep in the ears, eustachian tubes can narrow, vagina, skin ……

As oestrogen levels drop muscles can become lax = aches and pains.

Title: Re: Dry mouth and nose
Post by: Janice68 on October 17, 2016, 01:56:51 PM

I now suffer a cold nose and all of a sudden a runny nose  out of nowhere! started late last year 
I do feel too it is hormone related and at the beginning a dry mouth that one not as bad as before now!
Jan x