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For the past two weeks I have felt sick to my stomach, nauseous, unable to drink coffee or check nicorette gum which I have chewed for the past 9 years. Nothing taste the same, I have heartburn and a metallic salty taste in my mouth. When running my tongue across my lips, I also get a salty metallic taste?? Also, find myself increasingly anxious....

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December 3 10:48 AM (3 hours and 21 minutes and 59 seconds later)
         
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hello -

im sorry you're having this trouble.

sounds like you may either be zinc deficient or zinc overloaded. Does nicorette gum show zinc of any type in the ingredients? Do you take extra zinc?

stomach signs and symptoms may also be a sign of heart attack - in men it is less common but possible.

did the blood tests check for heart enzymes and did they do an ECG?

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The salty metallic taste can be indicative of the presence of blood (the metallic taste comes from the blood's normal iron content). You may have direct oral bleeding from gingivitis or some type of mouth sore(s) -- or you may be getting the taste from postnasal drip-type discharge -- which can contain blood due to a sinus infection or allergy.

Continual swallowing of blood, even when it is diluted by saliva, is a common cause of nausea -- as is, continual swallowing of postnasal sinus discharge, whether or not it contains blood.

The things mentioned by the previous expert are also possible causes -- and of course, your symptoms may be caused by some odd thing that neither one of us has mentioned.

Any which way, you should have these symptoms (including the anxiety) checked out by your doctor. Be sure to tell him how much Nicorette gum have been chewing -- and for how long -- as your stomach may be rebelling against it.

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