Metallic taste...

[MollyRN 28]

Anyone notice a metallic taste in their mouth? Started during the pre-op diet. Forgot to ask the doc today...

[zeniada 9]

Anyone notice a metallic taste in their mouth? Started during the pre-op diet. Forgot to ask the doc today...

maybe you are eating or or taking to much Iron??:thumbup:

[Froggie D 1]

You are probably in ketosis. It is where you aim to be on the Atkins Diet as you are burning lots of fat and sparing the Protein. It give you lousy tasting breath. Look it up on the internet. It is interesting. You also lose you appetite when you are in ketosis. You lose the fat in your liver first - the goal of the preop diet.

[MollyRN 28]

You are probably in ketosis. It is where you aim to be on the Atkins Diet as you are burning lots of fat and sparing the Protein. It give you lousy tasting breath. Look it up on the internet. It is interesting. You also lose you appetite when you are in ketosis. You lose the fat in your liver first - the goal of the preop diet.

Froggie....I looked it up and I think you are right. It's a good thing right?? It has gotten increasingly strong. From what I read it means that your body is burning fat, is there a down side to that? You just changed my entire feeling about my metal mouth!!!

[Froggie D 1]

I don't think there is a downside, but different nutritionists might argue the point. My doctor, and many other from what I read on here, request or even require a high Protein, low carb diet preop. If you have been eating a lot of carbs, you will probably go into ketosis. From what I have read, it is not harmful and will result in the quickest weight loss and the least hunger of most any diet. I did a one month preop and did very high Protein and very low carbs in order to get ready for my surgery. I lost 23 pounds. I think it really got me ready as I lost weight in my liver, had a great surgery, recovered easily, and was not hungry.

On a high protein. low carb diet you may have headaches, dizziness, and hunger for the first 3-4 days and then your hunger and head aches go away and you feel really good.

When is your surgery? I had mine in April and am feeling great. I have stopped taking Metformin for diabetes, cut my high blood pressure meds back, and am exercising regularly and not hurting all the time like I used to. It is great!

[MollyRN 28]

I had my surgery on July 26.... this was mild pre-op but now, I might as well be sucking a penny!

[Tally23 0]

Molly- I was banded 9 days ago and my taste has changed quiet a bit. Some things do have a metalic taste or a horrible after taste where before they didnt bug me.

[LapNYC 3]

Have you eaten any pine nuts or pesto? if so, Google it!

[CurvyCat 0]

I've found that I get a metallic taste in the back of my mouth about 20-30 minutes after eating my Calcium chew(s). I only started taking Calcium after surgery, so I don't know if it would have done it before or not.

I get ketosis-mouth sometimes if I'm eating little-to-no carbs for several days, but it's not metallic for me, just yuck.