For several months now I've been experiencing a bad taste/smell. We weren't sure what it was, thought it was the Sulphazalazine so stopped that. It didn't improve, swapped back to the brand Plaquenil rather than the generic - still didn't improve.
Teeth were fine, sent to ENT to check sinuses which were clear as I'd expected. Anyway the ENT guy (who I've known for years & trust) decided to do an MRI scan to check that there was nothing blocking the sinuses, he though that it might just be my brain mis-iterpretating the nerve messages!!!
Anyway got the MRI results last week & he say that I have got a small pituitary adenoma - basically a small growth in the pituitary gland!!!!
This may be causing pressure on the nerves just above it.
Interestingly as well, following eye surgery 6 years a go I have been left seeing double - this was put down to the brain again mis-interpretating the signals!
It is also one of the symptoms of the adenoma.
So now I got to see an endocrinologist for further tests!
Watch this space!!!