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metallic taste what could it be???

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fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:32

for the past few days I have a metallic taste in my mouth, can't get rid of it. I've used mouth washes, tried chewing on different herbs but nope it's still there. It's putting me off my food.
I'm not sick feel fine (except for the strange taste in mouth), definitely totally utterly not pregnant, nothing wrong with my teeth or gums ie no bleeding when brushing or pain....

Any ideas what it could be please...???

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LittleCarlos · 09/07/2006 19:42

Pregnancy

have you got metal fillings?

ja9 · 09/07/2006 19:45

pregnant.

pregnant.

pregnant?

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:45

no I don't have any fillings...and nooooo definitely not pregnant.....

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SoupDragon · 09/07/2006 19:45

Are you pregnant?

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:46

Look no I'm not pg, honest really truly utterly totally I've just come off my period, it's a physical imposibility seriously..

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Gillian76 · 09/07/2006 19:46

You must be pregnant, surely?

SSSandy · 09/07/2006 19:48

fuzzywuzzy, get a pregnancy test. Somehow, I dunno how it happened, but I think one little sperm made it you know.

WigWamBam · 09/07/2006 19:48

Are you taking any medication? Some antibiotics and some blood pressure medication can leave you with a metallic taste. It can also be caused by gingivitis or gum infections.

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:50

Sssandy if I am I'm going to have to have to find out how on earth one falls pg...The last two times it required unprotected sex...... you lot are incorrigible (sp?).

Betcha I'm not I've probably got some exotic metallic tasting in the mouth type disease.... Ok looks like I'll be shopping for a test tomorrow then

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SSSandy · 09/07/2006 19:50

I'd just had my period too funnily enough, had the metallic taste and was definitely pregnant

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:52

No I'm not on any medications, not even vitamin type things....It's driving me insane I've even gone off chocolate, there's a family sized fruit and nut bar looking mournfully at me, and I can't bring myself to eat it....

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LittleCarlos · 09/07/2006 19:53

Does the choccie make your mouth seem to get too watery when you eat a piece? Its doing that to me atm grrr although its helping my diet

beansprout · 09/07/2006 19:54

If you were pregnant, which of course you are not, no way, would that be ok?

tryingtohard · 09/07/2006 19:55

pregnant

SenoraPostrophe · 09/07/2006 19:55

I get this when pregnant, and I also get some pregnancy symptoms after a very heavy period - so could it just be that?

if not some sort of gut infection? do you have bellyache/wind/bad breath?

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:55

Yes it would be fine (although I am not no way flipping way). My husband would quite like his own cricket team as it happens...

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WigWamBam · 09/07/2006 19:56

Gone off chocolate

Definitely pregnant ...

GeorginaA · 09/07/2006 19:57

I sometimes get this just before either getting mouth ulcers or tonsillitis - start dosing on echinacea...

mandymac · 09/07/2006 19:57

I too thought there was no chance I was PG as I had just had what I thought was my AF. Turns out it was implantation bleeding - which can happen at about the time you expect your AF. I was really confused as to why my boobs were so tender, but when anyone suggested I was PG I was scoffing and muttering about immaculate conceptions! . Of course I was PG - DD now a year old .

SenoraPostrophe · 09/07/2006 19:57

so, when you say you're definately not pregnant, I take it you mean you haven't stood downwind from any males in the last 6 weeks? Because if so, you could be you know.

(think about it - you don't want chocolate )

fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 19:58

SP at last a voice of reason, strangely my period was really heavy this month. But no gum problems, or bad breath or anything......

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SenoraPostrophe · 09/07/2006 20:02

I did post before you mentioned the choc though!

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trefusis · 09/07/2006 20:02

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fuzzywuzzy · 09/07/2006 20:04

I've not gone off chocolate I want it I really do, it just tastes utterly foul as my mouth tastes like I've been sucking on piece of metal for several hours...which I haven't.

Hmph spoke too soon no reasonable voice from SP's direction either.... ermmm could an implantation bleed be a really really heavy period????? Not that I'm pregnant in any shape or form you understand....

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DumbledoresGirl · 09/07/2006 20:07

I would say either pregnant or maybe yu have had a metal filling fall out - it can happen without you knwoing it and without any obvious dental pain. If i were you, I would do a pg test and then book an appt with your dentist (in that order).

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