A Question???

handsy
handsy Member Posts: 209
edited 21. Sep 2009, 06:23 in Living with Arthritis archive
i have RA and am taking MTX amongst other things and today i have no taste or smell. I find this very strange, can anyone help to answer this. Part of the side effects f the medication is a dry mouth but this has just happened today. thanks for the great support gang :?

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  • page35
    page35 Member Posts: 1,081
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    sorry this has happend i take mxt and get a good few side effects but not this (yet).
    i think if your smell goes so does your taste, do you have a cold or blocked nose?
    hope it returns soon
    page
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, Sorry I don't take that drug. Although I have had that reaction from a drug used to treat sinus! I can't take that now. Love Sue
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi John

    I did a quick google as I do not take metho and there was mention that this could happen but it was quite rare.

    Trust you to be one of the rare ones! :roll: Makes eating not much fun, I do feel sorry for you. When I have had a bad cold I have sometimes lost my sense of smell and taste and it is horrid.

    Luv
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Handsy,

    I think its more likely Page is on the right lines. A cold can damage your sense of smell and taste for a while though it does usually come back. It can also be damaged by a knock on the head but again does come back. I don't take MTX so I don't know but I hope it sorts out for you soon. Take care, Cris
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi handsy,

    like the others I wonder if you have had a cold recently.

    However, I too take MTX (injections) and have found that at times my sense of smell is affected ..... although not in losing my sense of smell, more that some smells become increadibly unbearable.

    I have a particular problem with hand-wash .... I have thrown so many away, because after a while I start to feel sick just being near the stuff, without even getting close enough to use it! Sometimes coffee does it too, and also frying food sent me reeeling in the market yesterday!

    what we deal with to beat arthur eh?!
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, I remember when I lost my sense of smell. My husband had gone to collect his elerly mother for a few days and I had put the slow-cooker on with a stew, at about 11is I thought theirs something wrong, I can't smell anything, so I checked the plug was swiched on and put in properly, then I opened the lid of the pot and their was my cassarole bubbling away as normal! :oops: Thank goodness, so I went round the house seeing if I could smell anything and it was compleatly goneQ :shock: Then I ate something and it was tastless so that was the start of that!

    I hope you soon get yours sorted out as it spoils the enjoyment of eating and everything. Love Sue
  • issymknight
    issymknight Member Posts: 99
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Handsy I take MTX and suffer from the dry mouth when i wake up mouth is very dry. Sometimes during the day mouth gets very dry. It has not affected my sense of taste or smell so hopefully its just a cold.

    Issy

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