Lost my taste... again.

[Bridgette]

What a horrible way to ring in my "100 Days Cigarette Free"....

I lost my taste.... AGAIN.

All my favorite flavors are tasting terrible. The last time this happened it wasn't quite as bad - I had burnt my tongue on some food and then for several days afterward I couldn't get ahold of that creamy taste in all my vanilla/carmel/butterscotch yummy juices. This time it's so much worse... it's that PLUS now it's like I can taste this funky smoke/tobacco taste. It's bizarre. Like right now - I'm vaping Cotton Candy 18mg 100% PG - aged 6 weeks - and it tastes like an ashtray to me. What's up with that? When I was 2 weeks in to vaping I went through a 5ml of this same mix in a day.

Tips? Advice? ....I know... I need to drink more water.

 

[enree]

Yes it does make you thirsty if you vape a lot. Try using menthol more than, say, vanilla or other flavor. You body is trying to cleanse those 'poisons of cigarettes'. It wants to forget.

Have a wonderful journey to the world of vaping.

 

[tybin]

yup. keep losin my taste too. let me know if you get the ultimate answer lol!

 

[fakefunk]

I may be off but because you talked about the smokey taste .. have you cleaned your atty or tried a diff. one?

 

[Bridgette]

Yeah - both my egos have clean, fairly new (2 & 1/2 weeks old) attys on them. I notice the taste is worse on the one that I've been dripping with. The one with the cartridge tastes OK - but only for about 4 or 5 hits after I fill the cartridge. That one uses a LR atty.. it seems to burn the juice up so fast. And the LR doesn't taste good with the drip tip. I just ordered some sweetener and flavors from the Perfumer's Apprentice. I really hope it's my juices. I tend to let them sit a month or so before I use them... they always seem so bland when they first come in the mail. Maybe a month is too long?

On my ego that I drip with - I notice after I let off the manual battery button... I hear a slight crackling noise that sizzles out after about 1 & 1/2 seconds.... is that normal?

 

[Godzilla]

Have you removed the wick in those attys?

YouTube - How to remove your Wick (Mod)

I had 2 attys that got a burnt taste, and when I removed the wick, they were black and nasty from burnt juice. I use tiny needle nose pliers, or you can use a toothpick and tweesers to get the wick threads out of there.

 

[Vapenstein]

It'll be back tomorrow. I am having one of those days myself. Kept me from doing the reviews I wanted to do.

 

[fakefunk]

def sounds like you need to clean your atty's. I would say you have some funk cooked on there and the wick isnt absorbing correctly. my 4082 gets dirty like that when I drip alot or overfill the cart.

 

[Bridgette]

I do have some de-wicked ones... I'll give them a try and see if they can amuse me. Thanks

This suuuuucks. It's days like this that cost me a lot of money.... "MMMmm... that description tastes good. Add to Cart."

 

[irefine]

This happened to me last week. Everything tasted like rasberry or something it was gross. I switched to menthol for a couple of days and my taste came back. It might not be the atty because I tried new/old, standard/LR, 510/306, 3.7/6.0, bridge/no bridge and it didn't make a difference. I am sure it was my taste buds not the equipment.

 

[irefine]

BTW... I have had days where I couldn't taste anything at all. Big plumes of vapor but no taste???

 

[Vapenstein]

on the plus side, I now have two juices I can get flavor out of on bad flavor days: VS Djarum Mild joins Wyatt Earp as another juice I can actually taste when the rest have nothing.

 

[tybin]

hmmm. i spent the evening triing some new products. passthrough with 3.0 ohm gp carto and a higher olm (2.3-2.6 ohm)lr gp atty. the vape was warmer and all of a sudden....i can taste all flavors in all my pvs! yes!!!!

 

[xg4bx]

i don't lose flavor much but occasionaly i do lose throat and lung hit, i keep vaping and vaping and just don't feel it.

 

[WillieB69]

I lost my taste for about 3 weeks after I started vaping. Just about the time it was coming back, I'd burn my tongue or something and lose it again. Fortunately, it's back and I haven't had that problem since.

 

[Caffusss]

How do you dewick an atty and why do they have a wick if they are better without them?

 

[WomanOfHeart]

How to De-wick an Atty

Some people feel that juice builds up on the wick and causes it to start tasting bad. De-wicking is very easy and I have a few de-wicked attys. It's great for dripping. There are also drawbacks to de-wicking. The wick helps pull juice to the bridge where it's atomized and turned into vapor. Removing the wick means the juice isn't getting any assistance to the bridge. You can still use carts, but you have to take some time between hits to allow more juice to get to the bridge.

 

[markfm]

I get the no-taste or blech-taste periodically, just flip to menthol or peppermint for a day, ride it out.

 

[Hygroscopic]

How do you dewick an atty and why do they have a wick if they are better without them?

If you are using carts then the wick catches the juice. If you are dripping, then you'd possibly want to remove the wick. You can clean an atty and the wick threads will clean. However they also might burn and that is where removing the wick becomes beneficial. Especially on dark and/or thicker juices. You can clean burned threads, but they're still burnt.

I've used carts with a de-wicked atty and it worked fine. I am just not a fan of carts. If I need to pre-fill anything I'd rather go with a carto because I'm driving or on the run.

Right now I know I'm going through a taste change phase. Tastyfinger went from cocoa/butterfinger to a cocoa/severely chocolatey 555. (Thankfully I like 555.) Been trying to figure out if I'm fighting something or if it is just a taste change phase again. No taste/decreased taste I also kick over to a menthol. That way I know something is wrong if I can't smell or taste menthol at all.

 

[smokingRN]

I've been vaping for a few months and have lost my sense of taste a few times. I can taste food but not the flavors when I vape. I taste a soap or celery type of taste. Before I kept getting a peppery taste. I think that may have been from a high nic content. Is the soap taste from PG or VG? It does this on all my attys and with a drip tip. I'm sure it is not the juice. I have about 20 and they all taste strange. Is this from irritation in the throat or nose? I tried the sinus rinse and it didn't help. I guess I have to wait it out like before. I just want to know what causes it.