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Metallic taste

carty

carty

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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I have been taking Metformin SR for 11 years it I have just started to have a metallic taste this has only happened since I started a new batch made by a pharmaceutical company that I haven't had before has anyone else had this ?
Carol
 
carty said:
I have been taking Metformin SR for 11 years it I have just started to have a metallic taste this has only happened since I started a new batch made by a pharmaceutical company that I haven't had before has anyone else had this ?
Carol
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Carty, whilst the active ingredient of your current batch of Metformin may be identical to you've had before, the fillers, stabilising agents and so on can be different.

Not Metformin, but there is one brand of thyroid meds that makes me feel eternal queasy. When I explained to my GP, she happily annotated my notes, and now my repeat script is marked, "Not Teva brand."
 
DCUKMod said:
Carty, whilst the active ingredient of your current batch of Metformin may be identical to you've had before, the fillers, stabilising agents and so on can be different.

Not Metformin, but there is one brand of thyroid meds that makes me feel eternal queasy. When I explained to my GP, she happily annotated my notes, and now my repeat script is marked, "Not Teva brand."
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Thanks I will ring the pharmacy because I have a repeat prescription on order if they are sending the same brand I will ring the GP
Carol
 
My amazing pharmacist has agreed to provide me with a different Metformin and he will have it tomorrow because the one he has in stock is the one I have at the moment
Carol
 
carty said:
My amazing pharmacist has agreed to provide me with a different Metformin and he will have it tomorrow because the one he has in stock is the one I have at the moment
Carol
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Brilliant.

If the taste eases, Carty - ask your GP to add the brand you like, or as in my case the "Not x brand" to your repeat order.

Ideally, we would each stick to one brand being dispensed, but that doesn't seem to be how pharmacies are operating at the moment, although the pharmacist at mine was very happy to oblige, agreeing feeling grotty isn't a positive impact of any intervention.
 
When I was taking metformin, my pharmacy was also quite happy to include a note saying not to give me a specfic brand
 
Hmm - I must be really unlucky with my doctors - I take Thyroxine and when the brand was changed I instantly felt unwell. I told the GP who told me that I was imagining it. The following prescription was filled with yet another brand, and I was instantly better. Mind you - having at one time read my notes with all the sarcastic comments from various doctors over the years, it is probably only to be expected.
 
Resurgam said:
Hmm - I must be really unlucky with my doctors - I take Thyroxine and when the brand was changed I instantly felt unwell. I told the GP who told me that I was imagining it. The following prescription was filled with yet another brand, and I was instantly better. Mind you - having at one time read my notes with all the sarcastic comments from various doctors over the years, it is probably only to be expected.
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You could always have a chat with the pharmacist.

When I was initially struggling with TEVA Levothyroxine, the pharmacists peeled the label off the meds he had just packaged for me to change the brand. It was he who suggested I have the note appended to my repeat.
 
@carty You might also like to consider if there's been a change in your tongue, to ascribe to this change.
Might sound odd, but classically our tongues shed and grow the surface, occasionally all at once, more often it is staged. This desquamation as it's called, exposes our taste buds to a greater or lesser extent, hence changing our sense of taste.
 
Struma said:
@carty You might also like to consider if there's been a change in your tongue, to ascribe to this change.
Might sound odd, but classically our tongues shed and grow the surface, occasionally all at once, more often it is staged. This desquamation as it's called, exposes our taste buds to a greater or lesser extent, hence changing our sense of taste.
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That's interesting how would we know if there were changes ? Does the appearance of the tongue change ?
I shall go and look in the mirror !!
Carol
 
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