Sense of smell and taste

[Concat]

Anyone else feel like their sense of smell and taste has been permanently shot?

When I first started vaping, I was excited to see an increase in my smell and taste, but it barely happened. Sometimes I can't even taste the juice I'm vaping

I got some Maple Rum Tobacco from Juicy Clear and the stuff smells delicious straight out of the bottle, but I can't taste it! It's like I get hint of it every now and then. And then the grape kool aid. Everyone says it tastes quite potent. I get it and sure, I can taste it, but I wouldn't call it potent at all. Same with their Black Cherry Tobacco.

I know Juicy Clear prides itself on creating all day vapes, and maybe they opt to create subtle flavors over making everything punch you in the face. That's a good thing I suppose... but I can't help but think that my taste buds and sense of smell are just useless. It's like my palate needs to be absolutely clean and rejuvinated before I can taste anything. Perhaps I should carry around those slivers of ginger that they give you with sushi... haha.

A common scenerio amoungst my buds:

Bud - "Do you smell that?"
Me - "Smell what?"

 

[rolandpibb]

Have smells "changed" for you? What I mean is, does something that smelled a certain way, now smell differently?

 

[EastSideToker]

its been 2 months for me and i notice a little .. like how bad analogs smell .. also most of the tobaco flavors i liked at the start taste kinda blah now ..

 

[Concat]

The only real thing I noticed is how much nicer fresh outdoor air is. I breathe deeper and easier too.

Sigh, you know, when I was a kid I found a bottle of "glacial acid" in my parents medicine cabinet. My dad is a pharmacologist, so it wasn't unusual. Probably used it as a wart remover. Anyways, I remember I opened it and I got a whiff of a very strong vinegar smell. Being the dumb kid I was, I put the bottle up to my nose and sniffed. It burned my nostrils something fierce. I'm starting to think maybe I messed up my sense of smell permanently back then. :/

EDIT: I just read the wiki entry for glacial acid (essentially "pure vinegar") and it said the fumes are corrosive. Eek. I guess that's my problem after all? haha

 

[rolandpibb]

The reason I asked about smells changing is because it happened to me.

Over the course of a few months, smells changed. Diesel all of a sudden smelled like fried onions, onions smelled like diesel. I just couldn't smell some other things, but other odors remained the same.

I told my doctor about it and he whipped me in for cat scans and I think an MRI. (happened when I was a young man). He thought I had a brain tumor, as a tumor in the olfactory would cause messed up smells.

Turns out I have a mild case of anosmia, probably leading to my eventual Alzheimer's.

What the hell was I typing? French toast please!

 

[Dusty_D]

Took me about 4 or so months before my sense of smell and taste returned, and boy did they come back with a vengeance. I could barely take the myriad of smells suddenly all around me. It was almost nauseating at times on the subway etc..

Now, I do lose my sense of smell when I have a cold, or due to allergy meds etc. It switches on and off and is very disconcerting to me.

Eg. I'll spray some cologne and realize I can't smell it.. Oh no! Where has it gone? Reach for a tissue, blow nose.. is it back? No, crap! Some time will go by and I will suddenly smell it again. Ah, it's back.. LOL.

Weird and funny rediscovering these senses. Enjoy the process!

 

[Kbut655]

My sense of smell came back really quickly.
Where I've noticed most is with food, I use half the amount of salt as I did before because I can actually smell and taste the food!

 

[Concat]

Do you think... err... "other smoke" could also cause or continue the degradation of your sense of smell/taste?

 

[Kams Cats]

Yes I think other smoke can cause that degradation. It makes sense if you think about it.

Now, in my house, my sense of smell came back much faster and better then my S/O's. His is coming along but not at the same rate as mine. Yet I smoked twice as much as he did. Who knows why.

 

[EastSideToker]

if you mean "other smoke" as in "other smoke" than i dont know .. i still enjoy my "other smoke" quite often .. an I still notice slight differences in my taste "buds"/Smell...


Edit: My Wife notices the difference in her since of smell ... no more 3rd hand smoke =)

 

[ec!gg]

Mine came back completely after about a month. Everyone is different, but I hear some people it can take a couple months or so.

 

[NoizMaker]

My sense of taste and smell were dampened for over a year of continuing to vape and not smoke. It actually wasn't until this year that I could smell flowers when walking down the street, so it is once again a case of your own body clearing out the garbage from cigarettes in it's own time.

Everyone is different. I noticed that my first sense to start changing was taste, my favorite junk foods no longer tasted so good and fruits, veggies and white meats started appealing to me more. Then as the months passed I noted that scents started to become "fuller".. if that makes any sense at all.

Now I am used to the smell of the world around me and had no clue that analogs had effected my taste/ smell so negatively until a few months ago.

 

[Switched]

Dunno! I can smell a smoker from 100 yds away. No seriously my sense of taste and smell have returned to normal I think. I started smoking at 12 so it is hard to say what normal is.

 

[sam.8]

I've almost hit three months and my sense of taste and smell have hit big time. I notice outdoor smells intensely, most of the time they are good smells Taste is hitting high gear now. I'm glad nic curbs hunger or I'd be out of control at the moment Had a booster juice today and it was almost too flavorfull!

 

[just Ridge]

I'm still waiting for my tastes to come back either that or I didn't have them in the first place....

 

[Pipeous]

I woke up the other morning to the smell of eggs cooking. my door was closed but I woke up hungry (odd for me, all I ever want is coffee when I wake up normally). I love being able to smell and taste things differently. I notice fruit tastes different, coffee doesn't need to be black mud to have lots of flavour now, I enjoyed light ales tonight where I normally like the darkest beers