Sorry to hear that Anthony, I hope it come back for you soon. I’m a bit of a foodie so I’d be gutted but on the flipside, maybe I’d eat better if my taste went as I could eat veg quite cheerily instead of under protest…likewise, there’s the obvious downfalls, drinking milk that’s off etc.
But reading through this thread, it’s reminded me of an odd thing I have noticed - my gums, specifically the uppers are quite often freezing cold to touch with my tongue. I have seriously tried to work it out and I believe that my gums are actually ok (not cold to touch with finger), it’s just what my tongue feels that’s wrong!?!
Yes, odd little world is quite true my current MS song is this - YouTube
Sorry, I know Nine Inch Nails isn’t for everyone but for me, I feel like my world has gotten smaller
Thank you for your responses to the thread I started over six months ago. I’m delighted to say that my sense of taste has come back; if not able to encompass the entire spectrum of smells and flavours, but certainly enough to keep me happy. And that takes some doing.
The episode seems to belong in the same category a optic neuritis. The sense of taste disappeared overnight and came back slowly over a few months.
My grandchild did something alien today and the parents had the window open and a candle burning, I couldn’t smell it so I guess my sense of smell has bogged off again too. It comes and goes.
Sinusitis can be a mare - even my neuro commented on my sinuses being slightly inflamed when we were looking at my first brain MRI. Hope you’re recovered fully now.
The ancient Egyptians didn’t have much regard for the brain. When embalming their Pharoes they pulled the brain out through the nose and threw it away. When I die I’m having my entire nervous system removed as a final gesture of defiance.
I’m thinking that’s a jolly good idea and mine might be more use as the basis of a scarecrow, if it wasn’t pinned down it would even blow in the wind, ha ha I’ve got lots of thoughts now. What about on a pole and making a strange clothes dryer for the yard. I saw a pretend skull the other day in someone’s garden that was an actual bird feeder. ? It made me laugh out loud and it did occur that the people who lived there might have thought it a tad strange that I was almost curled up round my stick, laughing immensely at a skull bird feeder.
Are you certain that it was a pretend skull? I might donate mine after death to feed birds out of. It would probably be of more use than it is a lot of the time now.
I am glad to hear you got your senses back, it seems with mine I can slightly taste on the right side of my mouth as the numbness atm is the whole left side of my face. I am hoping in time the problem will right itself and I can enjoy tasting my food once again.
You may be able to describe Anthony as having regained his sense of taste, but by no means can it be said that he’s ‘got his senses back’. (See his Brain Fog thread for further information.)
I do hope that you too regain your sense of taste. It must be pretty unpleasant not being able to taste food. Although for me it would have a side benefit that I’d lose some weight!
You may be able to describe Anthony as having regained his sense of taste, but by no means can it be said that he’s ‘got his senses back’. (See his Brain Fog thread for further information.)
I do hope that you too regain your sense of taste. It must be pretty unpleasant not being able to taste food. Although for me it would have a side benefit that I’d lose some weight!
I’ll take a look at that one, I know I have some permanent sense loss but I am hoping this one is just temporary because as you say it is unpleasant. Considering I am dieting atm then I suppose this can be seen as beneficial right now as all the bad food that tastes so good no longer has really any taste lol.
AD - l watched ‘‘Every loves Raymond’’ -[ its on channel 4 about 8am - ] these cold grey mornings- after getting up to let the dogs out - then feed them - l make myself a ‘proper’ coffee and a hot croissant and go back to bed and watch this american soap - dogs come with me. Just putting you into the picture.
This morning the patriarch [that is the old man Frank] was complaining that he could not taste his wife’s food. His sons covered his food with horse-radish,wasabi,tabasco,salt,mustard and still he could not taste it. lt turns out that he has been taking some herbal medicine, his friends had given him, to improve his ‘manhood’. And the side effects were loss of taste and smell. They came to the decision that both would be happier if he could still enjoy her cooking - rather then the ‘other’.
