When do you get your taste back?.
- Thread starter keithmac
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It must be bad enough not enjoying food any more, but there could be a fatal outcome if there was a gas leak and you couldn't smell the gas! 
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Smell is also handy for detecting shorting-out/arcing mains electrics. The plastics they use in junction boxes, sockets etc gives off a distinctive whiff.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
I also wouldn't have thought the burning sensation was just a taste thing. While my previous post was just a bit of fun, in all seriousness, why not see how hot you can go while you have the chance? Hopefully you won't get another opportunity like this.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Just what i need to hear.My b-i-l lost his sense of taste 15-20 years ago and it hasn’t come back.
Dayvo
just passin' through
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His wasn’t Covid-related.
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keithmac
Guru
Derrick's wasn't either unfortunately.
I wonder if the cold damaged your BIL's smell receptors beyond repair then?, pretty bad outcome from a cold.
I smell electronic components and wiring at work as well to gauge severity of a fault, never thought of that one!.
Might try a Grim Reaper curry, that was my limit spice wise and oddly enjoyable so will be interesting what it tastes like now.
Chewed a couple of whole dried Chipotle chillies yesterday and nothing at all.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
That's the same as me.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Neither is mine.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Some lost their taste in the 1970s when beige first appeared
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Lost my sense of smell and taste around 15 years ago. Diagnosed chronic rhinitis. Happened during the building of a house extension when builders were cutting concrete and stone with cutting discs producing clouds of dust. I spent my working life working with clay and plaster and had become sensitized to them, resulting in dry cracked skin if I even touch them, and I think this is connected. After some years I regained partial sense of taste and smell, but then a year ago moved to newly built house and both senses lost again - fine dust from plaster and building work nearby thought to be responsible. Food can be very boring, and I do worry that I can't smell solvents and petrol 
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.bonzobanana
Guru
Christ I never realised so many people were suffering from a lack of sense of taste and smell. I felt sorry for myself at the height of my worst experience of covid when I was outside in my dressing gown unable to breathe and desperately waiting for the ambulance to arrive to give me oxygen at 2am in the morning but that experience was relatively short although very extreme and due to my body damaging my own lungs fighting covid but I live for food and would really not appreciate losing my sense of taste and smell over the long term. Best wishes to all and a rapid recovery. This image probably best expresses what I felt like at the time.
