Not Alone...

Ughhh... For weeks I've been having the nastiest taste in my mouth and finally I find out I am not alone. No matter what I eat or what I do the sour nasty taste will not go away.

I called and made an appointment with my dentist because I was getting worried that the problem wasn’t going away.

Today, I just couldn’t take it anymore so I decided to do a little research and find out if other pregnant women were having the same problem. I thought I was weird or crazy because everyone I asked around me said they had never heard of pregnancy causing a bad taste in their mouth.

What I found was that tons of women have this problem. I was so relieved to read post by other women having the same problem.

Here’s wiki answer to the problem…

Dysgeusia is the medical term for a distortion in our sense of taste. In the pregnant patient is a less-common but nonetheless unpleasant and frustrating side effect of normal pregnancy.


There are many theories surrounding the reasons why some women experience a lasting, unpleasant taste in their mouths during pregnancy (some describe it as "metallic" or "sour" but not all women who report this symptom seem to agree on a description). Most evidence points to increasing levels of estrogen that alter the body's interpretation of taste and smell. Some research indicates the taste buds on the tongue actually grow bigger (hypertrophy), which accounts for the distortion of taste during the course of pregnancy.