Metal Taste

I really don't know what to suggest. It will go away eventually. You need to ask the staff at the Chemo centre, but does anything taste even a bit OK? It's cold comfort, I know. Maybe you are landed with it, but for me, it only lasted a short time. One meal. Try all the things you hate. Even a Macdonalds would taste better afterwards.

Or try things that already taste metallic like tomatoes.

Good luck and I'm sorry I couldn't help. I just couldn't bear you not to have any answers.

Ruth

Thanks Ruth,

I havent tried tomatoes funnily enough so i'll try them, ive had it since last wednesday..Had chemo last year and had the sam but I cant remember how long it lasted..Ive got my daughter in law getting me some Aniseed sweets...the nurse will be round at 3m so i'll ask her to, it actually makes my tongue sore to...no nothing tastes like it should, I had a sausage last night and it tasted off! lol...had to get my daughter to taste it for me just in case it was..wasnt tho was just me :o)

Thank you again

Linda xxx

My partner is having chemo and always gets the metal taste. She has found that sucking fresh pineapple chucks helps to rid her mouth of the taste of ir for a short while. Dunno give it go if you like pineapple. x

Hiya. I don't really have much advice, but I have heard that using plastic cutlery (is that how you spell it?) instead of metal may help. I agree with the pineapple thing too. Hope the taste goes away soon! All the best xxx

This is a subject that now seems to creep up in various topics the cure for which I have mentioned in a number of my threads.

I have copied part of one of these earlier thread's "Radiotherapy Treatment and ability to Eat Following Extensive Throat and Neck Radiotherapy"

You can see my main story in Other / Multiple Cancer and Lung Cancer forums suffice it to say I have had over 800 hours in patient (six days at a time) multiple Chemo treatments gastroscomy and pegg (feeding tube) + four/ five weeks multiple site radiotherapy - and albeit I should have been pushing up the daisies two years ago I am still fighting multiple cancers and certainly holding my own.

After my extensive Chemo and after about two weeks of Radiotherapy the taste of food had become SO ABSOLUTELY GHASTLY that it was permanently causing NAUSEA.

I could of course just continued to survive on 8 bottles of Fortisip a day through the stomach tube - but I was actually cooking meals for my wife every day and actually fancied eating something and having to fill syringe and inject through the stomach tube was not terribly conducive to having friends for dinner.

THE TIP TO EVERYONE

I talked to people including the Radioloigists, who seemed quite surprised that when they said "how are you today" my reply was OK but I just wish everything I try to eat didn't taste so utterly gashtly. Further discussion and I was asked what do use to eat with? well a knife and fork I replied, Metal? Yes....ah there's your problem go and buy a set of plastic cutlery and also don't eat or dink anything from stoneware crockery.

Within a couple of days I was able to eat a very small amount of "food" and in doing so maintained the ability to swallow.

It seems that the residue of Chemo and or Radiotherapy remains within the mouth and reacts with principally metal cutlery and to a much lesser degree stoneware crockery now in the words of Michael Cain "Not many people know that".

Stop using metal utensils and or stoneware plates mugs etc and within a few days you will find the metallic taste starts to subside - it certainly did for me and lots of oyther users on this site has followed this tip and had good results.

If you want to see the full text of this and other threads I have started look up my profile and the topics I have started ( click the more tag at the bottom of the page) there are quite a few tips about various aspects of getting through problems associated with Cancer treatment etc.

Matt

Hi Linda horrible isnt it? it does go away eventually i have just had chemo 4 and it lasts for a day then goes off, i put pure apple juice lollys in the freezer that i make in the Ikea moulds on the day after chemo when its really evident they do tend to help a bit. anything is worth a go even eating a Macdonalds as the other lady said its so disgusting its better than the horrid taste!!

Good luck with your chemo journey, it soon passes i am half way through now and it has gone quickly.

best wishes

janis xxxx

Hi Guys,

Thank you all for your replies n suggestions, I will certainly be trying out that pineapple one...love fresh pineapple anway so thats no hardship lol

Ive had this taste now 7 days and it hasnt got any less awful as yet so i'll be getting some plastic cutlery n a plate today! :o)

Thank you again guys

Linda xxxx

hi linda

try also cordials..like orange, lemon, redcurrant and apple... orange lozangers....
i had 18 th chemo yesterday (my last one) and the metal taste still there but all this stuff can aliavet a bit...
just think that the chemo is destroying the small c!! and u are winning the battle...
so the side effects are tough but the results are greater..so keep going girl!!
mayte xxx

p.s pineapple is divine and refreshing and also watermelon.... or try too kiwi...plenty vitamin c and very refreshing...

Hi Linda

My wife has KC....she had the metal taste for quite a while and hated it, everything tasted bitter too...she dosn't have the problem now as she has lost her taste nearly altogether.
Her best form of relief though was anything sweet....chocolate or particularly cerials Rice Crispies were her fave...and eat spicy food...curry's....and she used a mouth wash quite a lot.....not for the curry's...lol
hope this helps

Kezzie

thank you chocolate is just fantastic for taking away the taste, it really works trouble is i want to eat it all the time but hey there is no better time for eating it when you have cancer there is no excuse not to eat as much as you like lol.

thank you kezzie :o)

Could be just me but I think spicy food is good.

I wouldn't normally like curry or things like that
but since I've been in hospital getting chemo those
type of things taste really nice!