[jotato]

How is your taste? I lost it completely (not just a little or muted, but 100% gone) for about 5 weeks. It started to come back, but 18 months later things still don't taste right. Nothing is flavorful or stands out as delicious.

[MisterBastahrd]

There are certain things I have no problem smelling and tasting. And other things I just can't smell or taste. The result is that I have a whole entirely new set of sensitivities that I didn't have before. I cannot stand the fragrances in detergents and air fresheners. I used to keep the Fresh Linen scent Febreze fresheners around the house. It doesn't smell like Fresh Linen anymore... it just smells sickeningly sweet like dunking your head into a container of liquid detergent. I can't eat oranges anymore and have basically retired from giving recommendations on cigars because I'm just... broken... in that respect anymore.

[Daub]

Entirely anecdotal, but I had a freind who had been a smoker for fifty years. On giving up he was delighted to smell tomatoes for the first time since his boyhood.

Before that point, I had never before considered tomatoes as even having a smell.

[crims0n]

Sorry to hear that… I hope it continues to recover for you. Mine is okay for the most part I think, I have never had a complex palate though so the taste of food is something I haven’t historically valued outside of “this is edible, and this isn’t”.