Weird feeling in Mouth.

[Zalanicht]

When I was ever in the hospital for Crohn's I always had something wrong with my mouth. Hard to explain but it felt the texture of my tongue changed and everything I ate or drank had the exact same taste. I was wondering if anyone else has had this? I'm thinking it was either the Dilauded or the antibiotics I was on through IV cause I never got this through oral ways of taking those. Or maybe just another wonderful side effect of the Pred I was on. It would go away right away as soon as I got off the IV.

 

[seaofdreams]

I get a weird "furry" feeling in my mouth when I'm on hydrocortizone and pred, maybe it's the same kind of thing?

 

[roundtuit]

That's weird....I often smell skunks! Have never been able to put my finger on it.
Flagyl gives me yucky tongue/taste.

 

[2thFairy]

Mucosal sloughing

The mucosa sloughs off inside my mouth...not classic oral ulcers, but the lining sloughs off. This isn't connected with any of my meds, either; it started before I was on any. More recently, the center of my tongue is numb. That started before prednisone and hasn't changed three weeks into prednisone. I told the doctor and he wasn't concerned about the tongue, but did make a note about the sloughing tissue.

 

[CyCrohn'sGuy]

Metronidazole (Nidagyl) leaves an awful metallic taste in my mouth. I've just come off it after a month and slowly my taste buds are returning. I believe in Europe and the US this drug is Flagyl. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Costas

 

[roundtuit]

Yep CyCrohns Guy...
Metronidazole is Flagyl.
I pity you having to take it for a month, I only had 10 days... holy cow that is a nasty drug!!!!
The worst part for me was that plain water tasted horrible ( YUK!!!!) and I like water! A body need water when it is that sick.
Congrats on being done with the stuff!!!!

 

[ameslouise]

I agree - it's probably the antibiotics - what are you on?

Ive been on Flagyl for a month as well and it's hideous. Aside from not being able to enjoy an occassional glass of wine, the taste in my mouth is ridiculously disgusting. Chewing gum helps - peppermint gum also helps with the nausea I get from it. I find myself wanting to eat really salty food just to cut thru the nasty film on my tongue.

 

[MysteryLocket]

That's weird....I often smell skunks! Have never been able to put my finger on it.
Flagyl gives me yucky tongue/taste.

!!!!! I had that happen yesterday to me!!! o.o !!
and i was inside, there were no skunks around. No openings to the outdoor. I even started trying to sniff it out and couldn't find the source, thinking it might of been from our recently discovered male cat.
Then I smell it often before this. but I was always out side, so I could rationalize with myself that it was prolly a skunk around somewhere.
But my bff tried smelling it before when I was inside and she couldn't smell anything.

I've also gotten the nasty meds taste from the anitibiotic-ivs, and found a fuzzy in the back of my throat and tounge. currently I have this sweet taste.. i dont' know why. Or what med is doing it. I thought it might of been the pain meds, but now that I don't have any, it can't be them. lol. But I DO notice the taste goes away, and the same exact taste will be back after a round of meds. (take a lot at one time sometimes, so can't really wait and see what's happening). I also know potassium can leave tastes in your mouth. The IV postassium left a nice little subtle sweet taste in my mouth. But the liquid potassium over did the sweet and added a handful of salt into the sweet. (Stayed like that for a few days too- ick! .. I wanted NOTHING to do with either the sweet or the salt in any kind of food that went into my mouth after that for probably a good 2 weeks. lol)

 

[Dallies]

Hiya Zal, lots of antibiotics can cause oral thrush. Could it be that? Just a thought. Let us know how you get on, thinking of you xxxx

 

[Astra]

Hiya Zal

Yeah Metronidazole gives you a metallic taste.
But the funny feeling on your tongue? is it like you've burnt it with hot coffe? and there's no feeling? I've got that, it's the Pred!

 

[Zalanicht]

Ok so I'm pretty sure it was the Flagyl and the Pred together causing that side effect.

 

[georgiegirl]

This is something I woke up with this morning, and I've only been on pred for a little over a week! What other interesting things are gonna happen to me over the next few months?

Oh well, at least it's a normal thing - I seem to have gotten really sensitive to any changes or weird feelings...paranoia anyone?

Having said that though, I actually feel much better now. I still have D and everything, but just feel a lot more awake and alert - all those vitamins are starting to kick in!