funny taste in my mouth

well,  when i was hospitalized for 7 days a few weeks ago, my dr. was giving me 50mg hydrocortisone injections 4x a day.

this gave me mouth thrush.  also caused by prednisone.

anyone else have this happen to them?

it is like soggy bread caked onto the insides of your cheeks and gums and tongue and back of your throat and you CAN'T scrape it off or brush it off with toothbrush.

it just sits there and is uncomfortable.  that is mouth thrush.

well, when i got home and started the prednisone as well as mouth drops Nystatin (mycostatin) it pretty much went away.  just a teeny weeny bit sometimes.  i take 1ml dropper full at night before bed.

since the hospital EVERYTHING tastes OFF. its really weird. the flavor is there in all my regular foods, but its all just OFF a little.

has anyone else had this problem?

is it the prednisone

is it the mouth drops?

is it something else?

its starting to bug the hell outta me.  i just want everything to taste like its supposed to taste. its just not right.

HELP!

For a while after I started pred I couldn't taste anything really.  Like my tastebuds quit working.  I'm not 100% positive it was caused by the Pred, but eventually I got my taste back.

about 16 years or so ago, I got a yeast infection in my throat/mouth (I have NO idea how I got that!) and had to gargle some awful antibiotic rinse or whatever it was. It took a while for the infection to go away (none too soon either because oh boy did it hurt!). But the medicine I had to use threw my taste off majorly. Everything tasted rotten for the whole time I was on the mouth rinse. about a few weeks after stopping the rinse, my taste buds went back to normal.

if you can eat fresh pineapple without it upsetting your tummy, it will get rid of the thrush, i had it a bunch of times from taking antibioitcs and it sucks so bad!
the pred is probably the culprit of your funny taste though. The only thing that i found that worked (and this is complicated, lol) is to take it with something with a really strong taste, like really sour lemondade, or orange juice, somthing like that, and then immedtiaely pop a piece of Big Red chewing gum in my mouth, and i mean right away, as soon as your mouth opens up and chew it for a few minutes, that actually seemed to help me, because it kept the taste from getting in my mouth in the first place.
ANyway, hope it gets better!

thanx for all the advice... gonna try it them and see what works.
i just want my food to taste the way its supposed to!

its probably a mix of the mouth thrush, medicine drops and the pred all together.

yes, the pred does give me a metallic taste in my mouth.........