Anyone else...bad taste?

Cindy Thomas

So, whenever I eat, it seems that the food, sugars, proteins, whatever seem to linger around in my mouth after I've eaten and sort or "sour" in my mouth. I don't remember ever having this issue before pregnancy. It helps to brush my teeth and I use gum and mints, but its soooo annoying as it makes me feel kind of icky and queasy, too. I thought it was a first tri symptom, but it has not seemed to go away with the nausea. Does anyone else experience this? And what do I do about this? Does it eventually go away? Sorry if this is a stupid question. I am a FTM.

Cindy Thomas

Sorry, I just realized...I guess this could have gone under the symptom check in. Snowflake me away.

snowpants

I'll answer your special snowflake question.   

I have the same thing happening and yup, it's annoying.  I thought it might go away when the worst of my MS left like it did with my first pregnancy, but no such luck this time around. 

SarahS11

I have it too... Hate this symptom

Read247

Glad you don't get butthurt about it.

Mztwilson

I have a metallic taste in my mouth. Seriously tastes like I been sucking on pennies or something

PinkKEL9

Yeah same thing happens to me

NICOLEhf01

Yes. The sour taste is awful. I feel like it tapered off for me around 15 weeks or so. I'm 18 weeks and I still get a lingering yucky taste every now and then especially after something sweet but it's not as bad. I found that chewing gum or brushing my teeth after I eats helps.

skyview222

Me too.  Its awful.  It used to be metalic, now less metallic and more sour.   When I googled I came across "waterbrash" which results from high levels of heartburn and can cause the bad taste.  I think that is what I'm experiencing.

alicatand

This has been a huge problem for me. It's the worst! It's starting to taper off, but it's still lingering and I wish it would just disappear. Definitely makes me feel really icky. If I can't brush, I always have mints or those Prego Pops sour candies on hand that seem to help. Orange juice seems to help, too. Here's hoping it will just go away.

Jennifer&Joseph

nutmegs8 said:

Mztwilson said:

I have a metallic taste in my mouth. Seriously tastes like I been sucking on pennies or something

Anyone see penis instead of pennies? No? Just me?  

I did too. What does that say about us? :-/

I also have this taste but only with sweets. I love sweets so it's a good motivator to stay away from them during pregnancy. I have nearly ZERO self control so I suppose God gave me some help...

Cindy Thomas

alicatand said:

Prego Pops sour candies

I don't know about these...where do you get them? I have tried gum - works ok, but gives me more gas and Altoids and/or other mints are hit or miss.

bebemac

Yes! I have this, too. I call it "the taste". It's gross, makes me nauseous, and I can't make it go away. Ugh.

MarciP83

I had this constantly from 7 weeks til around 16 weeks. I never could completely get rid of it, but found it helped to use a tongue scraper when brushing my teeth. Then it just went away...like pooof, gone.