Horrible bitter taste in back of throat?

[BassDownLow]

For the last few days I have been getting this disgusting taste in the back of my throat - bitter, foul, just grim. It goes away withn a couple of minutes and comes maybe once or twice a day. Never had anything like it before. Its gross.

I'm not ill, no cold, stomach upset etc and good dental hygeine. What could it be?

[magso]

My DH complains of similar sometimes and its thought by his GP to be caused by an infection in his nose/nasal sinus - draining into the throat. It usually occurs after he has had a cold. He even smells a little bitter if it is very severe!

[killedanotherthread]

Have you been eating pine nuts? I know that sounds weird, but there is apparently a cheap variety of Chinese pine nut that leaves a bitter aftertaste for a long time. It was in the news a while back.

[BassDownLow]

Interesting re: pine nuts - I eat pesto probabky once a week. Hmmm.

I have a slight bunged up nose but not really anything much.

The weird thing is it just suddenly infiltrates the back of my throat and is GRIM...then goes away. Its not constant.

[gourd]

A tonsil stone or just a bit of old food dropping out of your tonsil or form a fold in your mouth and down into the back of your mouth? I get this alll the time. I have large folds in the mouth tissue and also pits and holes in my tonsils and find lumps of ffod/calcified food in there - now I know to look for it. For ages i used to get a horrid taste and then find a small white gritty thing on my tongue, now I can usually remove most of them from the tonsil with a cotton bud before they get too big and start making me cough or falling into my mouth and tasting foul.

[Crazycake]

I agree with pine nuts, it's called 'pine mouth' I think. I had this about 12 months ago, it's THE worst taste ever! I'd gone through a pesto phase where I had it with everything. It took a lot of research to find out what it was, there's nothing you can do about it, it goes on it's own eventually (mine took almost 6 weeks)

[abedeh]

Hi BassDownLow ,

I felt exactly the same as you for the last 3 days (bitter taste in the back of my throat . It goes away within a couple of minutes and comes maybe more than twice a day. Never had anything like it before).

Could you find a real reason and solution?