Why does all my food taste funny while taking atomoxetine?
Why does all my food taste funny while taking atomoxetine?
Hello, everyone.
I started Strattera for ADHD in March this year. I changed my breakfast 4 or 5 times already since then, because I can't stand its flavour after some period of time. Sometimes because of that bitter feeling that atomoxetine causes, and sometimes because of breakfast doesn't taste good. Now I'm taking peanut butter jelly sandwiches, which hides that bitter taste of atomoxetine... but peanut butter gives me an awful taste and feeling afterwards, despite the fact that I like peanuts.
I'm tired of this, and I don't know what else I should do. I tried drinking orange juice, I tried drinking milk with biscuits, I tried cheese and ham sandwiches, and now this.
Does anyone suffer from the same thing?
UPDATE: Apparently there is something I missed when I read the instructions. Atomoxetine can cause dysgeusia between 1% and 10% of patients. I'm doomed.
I have been taking Straterra for a number of years now and have not experienced this. It sounds awful.
I had to change my intake from breakfast to lunch. Because I eat different things everyday, I think I'm not at risk of feeling disgust. It worked today, let's see the next days.
Are you saying you are tasting the medication itself? If so, that shouldn't be happening. I don't know what form you are taking it in, but I took it in capsules, and never tasted the meds.
I take it in capsules too, but somehow the taste those capsules give me is really awful, and the taste of my food is altered too, to the point I feel disgusted by it, being juice, milk, yogurt...