Vapor's tongue or doing something wrong?

[mix1983]

When I first joined here I had seen a thread about vapor's tongue. I pretty much instantly wrote it off, didn't seem plausible at the time.

Also to note, I'm pretty new at building coils. I've had my Lemo (first rebuildable) about a week and I started off with a simple run-of-the-mill coil. Then I decided to build a chimney coil, which was excellent. The flavor and vapor, that is.

So for the last couple days I've been enjoying that build. Just this morning before work I was vaping after breakfast just fine. Got to work, took a nice long lung hit and this taste hit me that was no where near Sweet Tart. I thought I had burnt something up. Either burnt the cotton or I had done something wrong and the coil gave out already.

I went into the bathroom and dumped perfectly good juice and broke down my Lemo. Everything looked fine. No indication of an issue.

The taste that hit me at work is still in my mouth, 12 hours later.

Once I got home I tore the chimney coil out and wrapped another basic 1.9 ohm coil. When I vape now, there is no re-introduction of that taste, but I'm really not tasting much of anything other than the residual taste that is in my mouth from 12 hours ago.

So, am I experiencing vapor's tongue? Is this a result of vaping the same juice for too long?

Or did something happen in my build that I just couldn't see?

The only real way I can think to describe this taste is when you wake up the morning after a long night of drinking and have that bleh taste in your mouth.

This was the chimney coil. Too much, too little wick? The MVP kept reading the coil at 1.8 and it looked fine upon inspection, so maybe there's something I
don't know.

Any ideas?

 

[Katmar]

I don't know, but let's bump you up for an answer!!

 

[smkfree]

What PG/VG and juice are you using?? Nicotine level?? Might be the juice. Are you still getting good vapor from your build. Might have to charge the battery.

 

[sisu]

There is not enough information to know. The primary symptom is the inability to taste flavors, not just one flavor. Try 6-8 juices with different flavors. Different types such as fruit, pastry, bread, tobacco,etc . Some with a mild flavor such as cantaloupe. Some with a strong flavor such as cinnamon or licorice. Some with multiple flavors mixed. Some with single flavors.

A bad taste is rather rare but certainly not impossible. I cannot vape custards. They taste like burned/scorched boiled eggs and shells. Nicoticket is the worst. I think it is due to the amount of "egginess" in the custard base. There are a few creams I can vape for 20-30 minutes before the burned boiled egg taste appears. There are a couple of creams I can successfully vape it I add and make the dominant flavor stronger which hides the distant yucky taste.

FWIW, I have had "vapors tongue" for 3 months. The problem is not the tongue but the sinuses. Think about how foods taste when you have a cold. The difference is food flavorings in vapes can play tricks with our brains. The only "vapors tongue" trick that worked for me was to gargle some cheap discount mouth wash that was in the back of the cabinet. Little taste. Lots of alcohol. I think the alcohol opened my sinuses some. The most success comes from using a neti pot or similar system to rinse out the sinuses. Using saline solution without preservatives while in the shower works fairly well. Decongestants and nose drops may also work.

Try to use mild flavors if you can. Rotate flavors. Use unflavored. Add a couple of drops of flavor to the unflavored to break the routine.

Changing to the Aspire BVC coil opened a new world for me. I can taste flavors that i could not taste before and most exciting is I can taste individual flavors in multi ingredient juices. The improvement is not 100%. I use clearos that give the best taste for each juice. It is a combination of Aspire, Kangers and a variety of cheap plastic clearos. The cheap clearos are used for the juices that have some taste but nothing special when used in the more expensive devices.

Don't try to taste test 12 juices in one sitting. Spread it out over several days. I have the best luck tasting a new formula first thing of the day, before any other vaping. I have a Banana Nut Bread that tastes and smells wonderful in the morning. In the evening it tastes like the cardboard on the inside of a cheap generic box mix. If nothing else it is fascinating how our brains can interpret the senses of taste and smell.

Hopefully, your situation is an isolated incident. Most often "vapors tongue" resolves itself in a few days or weeks. If so, you may find a vaping or lifestyle pattern than can cause it to happen again.