Has anyone else went through a tastebud crisis?

[brokepainter]

My wife has a very good sense of smell mine isn't as good. But a do worry about the smell when I vape just as I did when I smoked that I dont want the vape cloud to go over in their face.It's funny to me because I know that cigarette smoke is way worse than the vape cloud but I guess the concerns comes from years of smoking.-lol

 

[GoodDog]

Well Tony, that IS the first sign of insanity you know.

 

[Loveridden]

I think it's happened to me about 3 times....1st time was about 24 hours....next about 48 hours and I was really worried but then it was over.....then I think there was a third time that was just a few hours.....hasn't happened for awhile tho.....

 

[hildicat]

I'm coming off a three day cold and am just now starting to taste the flavors in my juice again. Get over your cold before you start taking drastic measures.

 

[Tona Aspsusa]

Well Tony, that IS the first sign of insanity you know.

I know... scent-hallucinations, brrrr.
But seriously, I think it is the other way around: diminished or blunted sense of smell seems to be a predictor for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and even Schizophrenia. Unfortunately the research isn't quite at the point where smelling-tests can be used for diagnostics, or even screening. (Which is a pity, because iirc the olfactory symptoms are said to appear 5-15 years before any other neurological symptoms.)

Oh, and BTW it is Tona. Tony is the guy who is in love with Maria, various other fictive and actual persons, and sometimes my SO's niece. Not me, I've been "TonA" since I learned to speak.

I feel like ever since I started vaping (December, so not that long ago) I am in a continual taste-crisis. Though not so much taste-bud crisis, but olfactory crisis - and that affects taste too.

This was true a week ago, but now I am starting to feel like I am in the midst of a tastebud crisis:
Everything is so fricking sweet!

I normally like sweet (sugar in my coffee and tea, sweet jam on plain yoghurt, custards, jello, semi-dry or semi-sweet wines, etc), but this is getting ridiculous. Everything tastes sweet to me.

I wonder if this is related to the fact that I have been smoking even less than before, only around 5 cigarettes/day for the last 4-5 days (down from the 10-15 since I started vaping beginning of December, which was a huge step down from the 25-40 I was smoking before that).

Maybe my tongue was growing new/polishing the sweet-attuned tastebuds at furious pace while I was whacking them with hot harsh smoke all the time, and now when I am not doing that anymore the brain hasn't yet calibrated to the new more intense messages coming from the tongue?

If you take sugar in tea or coffee, you know how it tastes when you get interrupted by something and accidentally double-sweeten it? Almost everything tastes like that to me now.
I feel in the mood for some fruit, but I fear the only think that wouldn't taste overly sweet right now would be a cucumber.

I do hope this passes. As I said, I LIKE sweet, but I can't enjoy it when it is this overpowering in almost everything.

 

[GoodDog]

Sorry Tona, I was aware your name was Tona so I don't know why I typed Tony.

I still get the overly sweet sometimes too and after 2 years vaping you'd think all the taste bud changes would have already taken place. Some days I can't taste much of anything and other days everything is too strong or too sweet. It's perplexing and difficult to make mixes that can accommodate these changes.

 

[AzPlumber]

It's amazing how finicky we are as vapors when burning paper and tobacco used to suit us just fine.