Metallic Taste
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Topic: Metallic Taste
Posted By: TraceyA
Subject: Metallic Taste
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 3:33pm
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Oh wise and knowing mummies (and mummies to be) since about 5DPO I've had the most horrid metallic taste (kinda like blood) in my mouth. There has been much bandying around that it's a pregnancy symptom. I'm not getting my hopes pinned on this right now though. What I do want to know is, has anyone else had something like this? How early did you notice it and were you able to get ride of it? I find that washing my mouth with mouth wash helps for about a minute and otherwise sucking on sweet things (fruit jubes, skittles etc) helps but only for as long as I'm actually sucking on them. It's a constant taste that is occasionally worse then other times through the day (in that I can go with out sucking on something for maybe 10 minutes then it builds back up to a sickening level). I can't leave water in mouth too long as it increases the taste horribly. Brushing my teeth, scrapping my tongue don't seem to help much either.
Any thoughts most welcome.  ------------- TTC #2 |
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 3:38pm
| Hrmmm... sounds like a symptom to me! |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 3:39pm
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I've had it with medication - in pregnancy it wasn't metallic but my whole taste system went really weird - that was my first sign that made me go "hmmmm"! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 4:12pm
i had that metallic taste when preggy with charli, but not with jack........i didn't find a way to get rid of it sorry, but it did go away around 10-12wk mark...........fingers crossed for you!!!!!
i remember ginger got it a while a go and we all got excited, i can't remember what it ended up being though ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 4:49pm
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Oi! Nikki behav, don't you be getting my hopes up girlie (ok so they are already up but I'm pulling really hard on that lead to rein them in)
*sigh* I'm putting on kilo's by the minute! nobody is supposed to suck on so many lollies in one day (I even made toffee the other day in the hopes it would take longer to dissolve (- note, once you reach 30+ stop eating stick jaw toffee or you'll be getting false teeth sooner then you thought) ------------- TTC #2 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 4:55pm
Soooooooorry. I do also know that a common side effect of trying to conceive is imaginary pregnancy symptoms. So... just give it some time. Stressing about it ain't gonna make you any more pregnant   
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 4:58pm
Ack. I've had it numerous times ... just not when I was pg! 
I found there was little I could do about it either. Funnily enough, I had plenty of pg symptoms when TTC, but when actually pregnant? Nada. Well, not in the first five minutes anyway  It's one of life's little mysteries that.------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 7:12pm
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I had it bad when I was preg with Maya, not so much these last two times.
Best of luck! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 7:43pm
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Well I just had to force my self to eat my apple crumble, which tasted perfectly fine to everyone else. I've just left dinner (we have a big group dinner on Thursday's) because the taste in my mouth was so horrid, I'm home sucking of toffee ------------- TTC #2 |
Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 7:54pm
Do you remember how long it lasted? Did you find anything to help? 6 days of non-stop sucking on sweets is not too healthy me thinks. Maybe I should make some Apple ice-poles or something? Hmm, maybe not apple  ------------- TTC #2 |
Maya wrote:Posted By: Chickoin
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:51pm
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I've only just started getting that odd taste now! I chew gum and that seems to help. It's usually just for the morning though.
I know lotsa pg ladies who have it as a first symptom though. Do your teeth feel furry? Hehe, that was my first symptom
Eeeeeeeeh! I'm trying not to get my hopes up! But Eeeeeeh! -------------   
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 27 June 2008 at 8:07am
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My friend had it quite bad with both of her boys but couldn't stand the taste of mint so she bought cinnomon toothpaste and brushed her teeth hourly (literally!)
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Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 12:25pm
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My doctor & naturopath believe (because I'm not UTD) that it's a zinc deficiency so I'm now taking zinc supplements.
Thanks for all the advice. ------------- TTC #2 |
Posted By: mrshouse
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 12:46pm
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hey let us know if the zinc supplements work- in my first few weeks of preg i did exactily what you did to get rid of the taste and i ended up gaining 11kgs over 4 weeks! it went for a while and had now come back- chewing gum does help.....and im brushing my teeth like a finatic- so i gues thats not helping- also i heard somewhere that thats a symptom of when your trying to concieve? dunno....and does that mean i need some zinc supplements? ------------- http://www.baby-gaga.com/"> 
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Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 1:01pm
| I really hope you are pregnant. WIll keep my fingers criossed super tight. I didn't get it either time but have heard it can be a symptom. Good luck! |
Posted By: flakesitchyfeet
Date Posted: 11 July 2008 at 8:13pm
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I gargled baking soda and water.
So so so fowl, but then I was find for the 8hrs following :) -------------  http://lilypie.com"> |