1st trimester and bad taste in mouth all the time...
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Anonymous
| anyone else have this or have a recommendation? I constantly feel like I have a bad taste in my mouth, no matter what I eat or how many times I brush my teeth. never had this issue before, but have noticed it a lot over the last week (I'm 7 weeks pregnant). it's just a gross taste, hard to describe. I am brushing my teeth all the time and it doesn't help. thanks! weird, I know! |
Anonymous
| Totally normal. Try ginger snaps. Trader joes sells cat cookies in ginger....yummy and low fat. |
Anonymous
| I had something similar in the 1st trimester of 2 pregnancies, it was a bad taste that also had a metallic component to it. It went away by 12 weeks both times but I never did figure out anything that would successfully cover it up for very long. Hang in there! |
Anonymous
| normal! |
Anonymous
| Totally normal, I felt like I had been sucking on a penny for the whole first trimester. |
Anonymous
| 32 weeks here and i've had it since about 11 weeks- totally normal! |
Anonymous
| Ugh - yes! First trimester in all pregnancies for me. It also increased my nausea. Nothing helped (for me). |
Anonymous
| 31 weeks and I've had that disgusting taste for forever. I haaaaaaaaaate it. Call it "sour mouth". I try to have a half piece of mint gum and that sometimes helps (more than anything else, like brushing) but I'm damn sick of mint gum now. Did I say I haaaaaaaate this sour mouth thing? |
Anonymous
| lemons help too. |
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The raging increase in Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) in early pregnancy causes all kinds of wild side effects related to metabolism. This hormone is very similar to thyroid stimulating hormone, and your body gears up it's digestion. This is why, as many other members have said, the 'penny taste' will go away. This hormonal surge tapers off and is balanced by other hormones that will change over the months to come. There is a LONG list of things you can do. Many excellent recommendations have already made within this post. Some additional resources you may want to use are: -Antacids: Tums are great, and have something your body needs anyway 
Over the counter Pepcid, Zantac, or even Maalox can help re-balance the works. They are of no risk to pregnancy, but prolonged use can precipitate heartburn, ironically. This would happen when you stop taking them, and will resolve with abstinence. -Vitamins: Prenatal Vitamins are loaded with the same nutrients and elements that are in, well, metal. This directly contributes to your sensation of 'penny sucking' as the components that are circulating in your blood stream are perceived by your taste buds. Especially early in pregnancy as the folate is too valuable to your baby in the 1st trimester for most people to get enough without vitamin supplementation. That said, if you were committed to good diet decisions, you can get enough of the 'pregnancy nutrients' from food, alone. This would probably have the greatest impact on reducing your bad-taste-ed-ness, but would require the greatest discipline. That said, the advantages to your body would be signifacant. Decreased hunger, nausea, constipation, and many other things including less metal taste in your mouth. |
Anonymous
| I had it with my second pregnancy. It was bad in the first trimester, got better, and then came back with a vengeance at the end of the third. I don't think there was too much that really helped me. I sure was glad when it went away though! |
Anonymous
| Will this go away after the baby gets here???? |
Anonymous
| Lemon, ginger, and peppermint helped. It totally goes away after the baby is born, if not before. |
Anonymous
| I have this right now also. 9 wks , it's normal . It will go away! If you can handle chewing gum, that helps a bit. |
Anonymous
| Have had it myself for 2.5 weeks. It was my first symptom and has stayed with. |