I don’t know how or why it started, but I am a drooler.
I never used to be. I first noticed it about 2 or 3 years ago. I’d wake up in the AM and my pillow would have a damp spot. Kind of gross, but what can you do. That would be it for a while, and then a week or two later there would be another damp spot.
I’d say there is now at least a 50-50 chance of there being a wet spot on the pillow in the morning. I have now resorted to bringing a “drool cloth” with me to bed… So, that way in the middle of the night if I wake up and the pillow feels a bit damp, I put the cloth between my mouth and the pillow to catch any dripping drool. I feel like a freak and I am a little ashamed. My wife says she doesn’t care (“its not my pillow, I don’t care” she says but she isn’t the drooling idiot). I wonder if she secretly dreams of being with a non-drooler, or dreams of me in my pre-drooling days…
ANYHOO… I am 29 years old. I’ll be 30 in November. Is this something that happens to people as they age? If so, am I going to have to bring water-wings to bed with me and use plastic sheets by the time I’m 40? I hope I am not alone with this shameful affliction.
While I am not my father was and I learned one important lesson. NEVER leave your homework where my father my nap and fall asleep. He was watching a movie sitting up, drifted off and fell over onto my homework which I had left on the couch. Bled the ink out of the middle of the paper.
But you sound like the consciencious type. I feel you can live live a happy normal life. If I were her I wouldn’t care. Unless you fell asleep on me, but you just have to plan ahead.
Tell me, does your mouth taste different when you wake up now compared to before this all started?
I am also a drooler. If I sleep on my back, I snore. If I sleep on my side or my stomach, I drool.
I don’t have no high-falutin’ drool-cloth, though. I just turn over my pillow.
The good news is, I’ve been a drooler for a couple of years, and it hasn’t increased in severity. I’m, uh . . . (Podkayne takes off shoes and socks and calls a friend to help) 28.
However, I do not under stand this “wet spot” of which you speak. When I wake up, the whole damn pillow is soaked through. It’s really quite impressive. My dentist told me that it means I have a very healthy mouth.
Perhaps this is why I have so much trouble meeting a man who will commit - they’re totally into it, and then discover the drool problem and realize they’re busy for the next 30 years.
I have been a drooler for about 10 years. Usually 2 or 3 times a week. I use a drool cloth every night. Almost nothing worse than getting up in the middle of the night to take a leak, climb back in bed and lay your hear right on the wet spot.
I was once at a friends house. A totally hot guy friends house, if you get my meaning. We started watching Wild Orchid, which, for any of you who haven’t seen it, the stupidest movie ever made. I promptly fell asleep.
Well, bad enough that I fall asleep on the guy (No really, you’re not boring!), I proceeded to drool all over his mom’s very chi-chi-foo-foo, la-de-da designer sofa pillow. Clear on through.
The guy is, needless to say, now married to someone else.
I just have to say that is a very interesting typo.
And this thread is making my mouth water. Now that I think about it I do drool a wee bit. But only rarely I usually sleep with my mouth shut, I may grind my teeth at night.
Ocassional Drooler here. Only when I’m dead tired and when I sleep with a/c. I guess the a/c clogs up my nose forcing me to breathe with my mouth, hence the drool. Very unpleasant. I especially hate it when I wake up with a dried white line of spittle on my face.