Question:
Last two weeks have metalic taste in mouth..

I am 6 months post-op and am wondering if anyone else has experienced a metalic taste. It is not ketosis or candida. When I eat nothing taste good. Everything taste like metal. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this. If you have is there something in our system that can cause this kind of reaction. Thanks for your help!    — Tracey W. (posted on September 2, 2002)

September 1, 2002
Hmmmm. The only time I've heard of something like this was a couple years ago when my Mom (who has NEVER had WLS) had to take a certain ACE Inhibitor (heart med) for congestive heart failure. She lost alot of weight because her siliva made everything taste like medal. She finally had to get on something else. By any chance are you taking any kind of new medicine for any purpose (heart related or not)?
   — Danmark

September 2, 2002
Hi Tracey, I get this same problem when I take Tums, during my last pregnancy I took so many tums that was the taste that I had in my mouth for months! I'm not sure if it is an overload on a certain ingredient in them or the calcium. Hope this helps!
   — Sherry C.

September 2, 2002
Any nausea or unexplained vomiting? How does water taste? The metallic taste is not your mind coming apart. It can be very real, but you'd need to have a scope (EGD), not UGI or any kind of swallow, but a scope. The problem is easy to fix, once diagnosed, but harder to fix if left untreated for too long.
   — vitalady

September 2, 2002
Hi, I don't know if you are taking a chewable vitamin, but if you are and it has iron in it, that can cause you to have that metal taste in your mouth. It might even happen with a vit. that you swallow, but I do know I had that with a chewable. Good luck!
   — Amanda E.

September 2, 2002
Hi there...I too have been having the metallic taste...it's not constant, just pops up every so often. The nurse at my surgeons office told me to chew on a piece of Clorets gum...just be careful since it's a very small piece of gum and easily swallowed. But it seems to help me quite a bit... Good Luck
   — Sandra T.