In my own case it was in the throat, literally unable to swallow anything for days due to severe pain, cause was mono. Fun fact I discovered through the ordeal

In my own case it was in the throat, literally unable to swallow anything for days due to severe pain, cause was mono. Fun fact I discovered through the ordeal is that the very act of thinking about saliva causes saliva to secrete, so it's practically impossible once you realize you have a saliva problem to stop it, since with a problem on hand you cannot but think about it and the very act of thinking about the problem causes the very problem to worsen