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please help, rotten taste in mouth i think from stomach

about 5 weeks ago i went out ate a big blt sub, had several heavy beers, the next morning i woke up with a constant taste in my mouth that tasted like feces.  nothing i tried helped.  i checked for tonsil stones and found none.  i am not congested though i do have allergies.  i have never had this problem before and i am 32 male.  it kind of faded, now it is coming back and i really taste it especially after taking large sips of water, several seconds after the water goes down, up comes this pungent fowl taste.  i am changing my diet and cutting out beer. my ENT thinks it was some old congestion that came out of my nose but i seriously doubt it. i have been taking imitrex for years and prior to the start of it had taken quite a bit so maybe it upset my stomach or threw it out of wack?
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in case anybody has a similar problem, i found the issue with mine and it was really causing me to worry.  it was tonsil stones.  however, i could not see them when i looked at my tonsils.  i bought a water pic and it took many times spraying the tonsils everyday until i broke somethign up and brownish gunk came out.  i don't know exactly where it came from, somewhere in or around the tonsil.  i still get them, but i know more about how to get rid of them.  just knwoing its not a stomach issue put me more at ease. if anybody has a terrible rotten crap taste in mouth, especially when swallowing, and can't see any white tonsil stones when opening mouth, its possible that it is still your tonsils as it was with my case.  
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I would start a probiotic.  Get Metamucil pills and take them with a glass of water.  For my boyfriend, this stops him from getting heartburn, apparently from stopping splashing.  Give it a try.  It helps with digestion and cholesterol as well.  

  
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