I am going through a tongue scare.Been salivating and my dad told me I was speaking differently, and then I looked at my tongue and had waves on the side.For you, yes, the dry mouth is most likely related to meds and/or anxiety. It should not worry you, since the opposite (like excess salivation) is more of a *** symptom (of not being able to clear saliva). It is a symptom of other things too....but as far as I know, dry mouth is not at all related to ***The teeth marks: VERY SCARY looking, indeed!! Many people told me they have this. I then looked it up, it's called scalloped tongue or something like that. It is indeed from being pressed against the teeth. Very common and WAY common for people with anxiety. I constantly keep my tongue pressed against the roof of my mouth or behind my teeth, unconsciously...bad habit, like as if I were biting my nails and not realizing it.The whole thing about slurring....same here! Hyper aware. I freaked out because I can't really smoothly say "The Netherlands" right now. I can say it, it is understandable, but it feels so weird in my mouth....and like I am saying it sloppy. But you know what, we are not radio announcers and talk show people who have training to speak impecabbly - without their training, they would mess up lots of words, so I think this is probably common. I believe it's ok as long as someone is not asking you to repeat something and you have to say it again and then they still can't...because you can't really say something, even if you try and try again, and then it only gets worse.
