Getting rid of metallic taste in mouth...What did you do?

Okay, I should start by saying I am not pregnant.

But I am currently doing a cycle of IVF and for the past 24 hours or so I have had the worst metallic taste in my mouth. I can't get rid of it no matter what I eat/drink/do. It's horrid!

I have done some research (thanks Dr Google!) and apparently it's due to rising estrogen, which is the same cause of metallic mouth in early pregnancy.

If you have suffered from it, how did you fix it?

I know mine will disappear once I have the eggs removed (at least I think it will!) but it would be great if I could do something to help now!

thanks in advance :)

I sipped sweet fruit juice, didnt get rid of it but made my mouth taste a bit better. My sympathies it is yuck :(

Unfortunately i found nothing got rid of it, my last pregnancy i had it all the time and no matter what i did it stayed..

Chewing gum, peppermint tea and raspberry & apple cordial (I couldn't do plain water)

I sucked on lemons. Worked for me. I hope you find something that works for you.

only think I have found helps is mineral water, sometimes with a little lemon or lime in it.

gum, cordial etc makes me gag :sick:

(((was so excited, thinking I'd missed your BA ... FX not long for you :hug:)))

Thanks everyone. Not so bad today but I have been trying to keep it at bay...

:lol: Peanutter! Sorry for the confusion!!! Trust me, not you or anyone else in the world will be able to miss my PA when and if it happens :lol: It will be HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay....almost a month on and I have a related question .....

For those who suffered with metallic mouth in early pregnancy, can you remember when it started?? Was it week three or four before you got your BFP? Or was it later?

Had you had it before and not been utd?

Thanks :)

pretty early, but don't think pre-BFP.

never had it sans-pg though.

Pre-BFP. Week 3. I found that drinking milk helped, only from when I used to donate plasma, the anticoagulant they put in your blood makes you get a metallic taste in your mouth so they give you a milkshake to help with that.

Hmmmm Audux....is that like heparin? Or clexane?? A blood thinner?

The reason I ask is I am 8dpo and for two days I have had the worst metal mouth.

I have been on clexane though for six days...(no excitement please :lol: )

eta: just read it can also be caused by Metformin - which I take...false alarm then :rolleyes:

Thanks guys x

For me it was pre-BFP. Exactly four days after conception was the day it hit, I waited until I was 'safe' to test and BAM, metal-mouth was right, I had to lay off the soft-serve lol ;)
As far as cures for it.... Vegemite. Three inches thick, on everything, and full-cream milk.

Good luuuuucccckkkk!! :D

This time mine was pre BFP, it was really bad for the few days before AF was due, and now it is coming in waves.... everything crossed for you n2L