Tasteless - Frustrating

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miketreeguy

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I've been vaping for approximately a month and have given up the analogs completely. In the last couple of days I have lost my sense of taste with vaping. Even the flavors that were previously overpowering are simply tasteless.
I read this was a possibilty and know it will pass. Still, it is extremely frustrating! :mad:
 

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make ur own juice and put extra flavor in

Problem is I have over 20 flavors of ejuice, but do not have any DIY supplies.

Funny you should mention that Mike as I'm experiencing the same thing. I've been at work all day and probably vaped treble my normal amount just to see if the next vape has more flavour. I get throat hit but very little to no taste. Is this a common thing then?

Yes, I believe so.
 
I went through the same thing a while back.

While patience is a good thing, so is tasting your juice, the two work in opposite directions here.

What helped me out a bit was to hit the vape right after a sip of water. I don't know why this worked for me, however it's been extremely handy since. In my experience ice-cold worked the best.

I think that in some ways it may be related to your mouth adapting to the flavor and taking said flavor as a "baseline" at which point you can't taste anything but something other than your juice. Another way to look it: If you sit down by a campfire, you smell the fire. Sit there for a couple of hours and you can't smell the fire any more -- your nervous system has adapted to the smoke particles and while you can smell the lack of them, you can't smell them directly. I would postulate that the same thing happens with taste as well.

Much like tasting food products professionally is concerned, something to "cleanse the palate" may be in order. For me, that happens to be extremely cold water, give it a try. The most you'll get is more hydrated, which isn't a bad thing. (doubly so as hydration is key to taste in the first place)

Edit: Since taste is a chemical reaction, and despite a great deal of flavored juices, the primary chemical of the juice is the same, I'd think it possible that your taste system is whacked out by the constant assault of PG/VG resuling in a taste equivilent of a false-normal because of the PG/VG. This also works with the concept of flavors coming back in over time.
 
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Problem is I have over 20 flavors of ejuice, but do not have any DIY supplies.

It'll pass, I went through the same thing for a little while...everything tasted the same and had muted flavor. Your taste buds def come back though and you'll find you like certain juices you didn't like when you first started.
 

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I find this a fascinating thread. I smoked for over 45 years. Tasting flavors in juice has always been a challenge. So what became my key element to getting off analogs was vapor clouds, the bigger the better. Over the years I have gotten good at DIY for vapor production and am now really interested in flavor. Over the last three and a half years, my taste buds have finally began coming back. Foods beverages all are just exploding with flavors I just was unaware of. Now the task is to start identifying juice flavors and finding what pleases me.
 

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It's said that if you lose your taste like that...try sniffing (not snorting!) some fresh coffee grounds. That's supposed to help. At least temporarily. The "vape mouth" issue will go away after a bit. The coffee might help in the meantime.

Another thing I found helpful was to have a peppermint hard candy. Sort of cleanse the palate, so to speak.
 

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It's said that if you lose your taste like that...try sniffing (not snorting!) some fresh coffee grounds. That's supposed to help. At least temporarily. The "vape mouth" issue will go away after a bit. The coffee might help in the meantime.

Another thing I found helpful was to have a peppermint hard candy. Sort of cleanse the palate, so to speak.

The coffee thing actually works, and I learned this vacationing in the Caribbean shopping for perfume. The salespeople used fresh coffee grounds between perfume sample sniffing to clear out the nostrils. Weird but works.
 

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When I went through the tasteless phase I:
sucked on lozenges to stimulate the saliva glands
upped my water intake
switched to flavorless juice
added menthol to my juice
Realize also PG will coat the tongue/ oral/ nasal area- I gargle once per day with lemon juice and water and use a nasal rinse once per day.

I've been vaping for approximately a month and have given up the analogs completely. In the last couple of days I have lost my sense of taste with vaping. Even the flavors that were previously overpowering are simply tasteless.
I read this was a possibilty and know it will pass. Still, it is extremely frustrating! :mad:
 

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Yes, very frustrating! Main reason I quit analogs and was able to take up vaping so easily was the taste (Boba's Bounty!) Experimented a little the first week or so with Vivi Nova and then found tanks and carto's and WOW!! Vaping bliss! About three days later - POW!! Literally went from "On" to "Off" in a matter of minutes. Tastes like cardboard and I'm thinking what the heck, did the carto dry out or something? Switched the carto and made sure the new one was well saturated and nothing... more cardboard but clouds of vapor. Switched back to a Vivi and the same thing. ARRRGH!! After some searching I find that this is common in vaping - Really!!?? Where's the giant sticky saying everything will taste like styrofoam a week or two after you start vaping? Oh, and it could take weeks or even months before you even get "some" of your taste for juice back. <sobbing...>

I'm currently going into my third week of vaping and a week and a half of it has been flavorless. Food and beverage seems to taste fine, I mean, my morning coffee still tastes like it always has and so do most foods but e-juice...nada. This is sheer vaping hell to me. Tried all the fixes, saltwater, lime and lemon juice, brushing 5 times a day, gallons of water, you name it, short of actually inhaling the coffee grounds themselves, I'm out of ideas here. <Great big GIANT frowny face>
 
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