Bad taste in mouth & sore throat

[Mondie]

For the last month I have had a really horrible taste in my mouth, which is worse when I yawn or breathe deeply. I now have a sore throat on my left side, but it's not too bad, just feels swollen and looks red.

It's the taste that concerns me more than anything, the dr has put me on acid suppressant tablets, but after 2 weeks or so they haven't helped. I'm worried it might be throat cancer or something :blush:

I also have what are like severe hunger pangs if I don't eat for while, it does calm down if I eat or drink, but don't know what causes it - I had my gallbladder removed 2 years ago and it has been since then I guess.

Sorry for rambling, just wanted to write my fears down as it also makes me feel better!

[lucyeast]

i too had this but seemed to come to nothing i obsessed over throat cancer for so long but im worrying about other things now so the throat problems have gone so guess the docs were right and it was anxiety
hope you feel better soon

[Mondie]

Thanks for the reply, did you have the bad taste in your mouth when you yawned etc, it's really freaking me out!

[Maj]

I think it definitely sounds like stomach acid. It does give you a bad taste in your mouth when it's at it's worst. It should calm down though.
Myra:hugs:

[Kate23]

I used to get bad taste in mouth and sore throat a lot and turned out to be tonsillitis. May be worth seeing doctor

[Onireiro]

Hello,everyone.

I came across an old forum about "bitter taste in mouth" and I felt kind of relief that it's not only 5 that suffers because of it...

My own problem started 2 years ago with a sense of burning at my tongue. As days passed,this burning gave its place to a persistent bitter taste in my mouth. Since then I experience the bitter taste in almost a daily basis.

Notices and facts that make sense are:

- The bitter taste come and go and I cannot make any connection with a possible cause(food, allergy, stress periods, stomach, digestion problems,etc)

- I was diagnosed with allergic rhinitis (long time before the problem of bitter taste started)for which I had taken medication(antihistamines, cortisone injection) and I had been cured.

-There are days I feel good (no symptoms at all),days that I have the bitter taste some hours per day and days that the symptom bothers me all the day during.


- During my pregnancy, I didn't have any symptom at all.Bitter taste came back 2 months after delivery.(I was breastfeeding since the first day of delivery)

- Every morning that I wake up, I don't have bitter taste in my mouth. Bitter taste starts with the start of the daily meals.

- Endoscopy (in nose, larynx, pharynx) indicated swollen nasal nipples and there was also an indication of Gerd.
(In the past I was diagnosed with Gerd once again, for which I was given 2 months zurcazol treatment with no reduce of bitter taste symptoms)

- Ultrasonic in upper abdomen was negative.

- At my first brain MRI(2009),I was diagnosed with cavernoma(at the right front lobe) which was a random medical finding and I 'm used to checking it out once per year.

-All the blood tests are negative.

- Most of the times,the back part of my nose is such stuffy that it leads to sore throat,pain in ears,pain in the nose.

- My doctor gave me to try Pulsatilla 200 for the first day and Pulsatilla 30 every morning for 1 month.It seemed it worked the two first days that I took it(no symptoms at all) but now (7th day),I 'm suffering from sore throat, pain in ears,much more than before.

Could sb help me and suggest me a possible solution to my problem?