Free tool
Check whether your medications are drying out your mouth
Add what you take and roughly how long you've been taking it. This lines your medications up against when your symptoms started, and gives you specific questions to bring to whoever prescribes them.
Nothing is saved or sent anywhere — it runs entirely in your browser.
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Why the timing matters more than the list
Plenty of places will tell you which medications can cause dry mouth. The list is not the hard part.
The useful question is whether your medication lines up with your symptoms. A drug you started three months before the burning began is a very different conversation from one you've taken for a decade. And a symptom that started before every medication on your list points somewhere else entirely — toward deficiency, autoimmune disease, or nerve involvement — which is genuinely useful to know.
That comparison takes two minutes and almost nobody gets asked to make it.
Where the ratings come from
Each entry is compiled from FDA product labeling, published literature, and post-marketing adverse event reporting, and reviewed clinically. Every one carries its evidence basis — whether it's stated on the label, supported by published study, or based on how the drug works pharmacologically.
That last category is legitimate and it's labeled honestly rather than dressed up. No other drug reference tells you which is which.
It does not tell you a medication is causing your symptoms. It cannot know that, and neither can any tool.
It does not tell you to stop anything. Never stop or change a prescription based on a web page.
It does not diagnose. What it does is turn a vague worry into a specific, answerable question you can put to your prescriber — a much better use of a fifteen-minute appointment than "I think one of my pills might be doing this."
Clinicians: a version of this tool with evidence tiers, citations, and RxNorm codes is at /clinical-medication-review.