Yesterday I can taste my ejuice just fine, today..I am tasting nothing8-o is this normal? I can taste food fine but I am getting a dull taste when I vape. I thought it was my cartomizer so I loaded a new one with fresh juice and got a dull taste again, so I tried dripping on my atomizer and no luck, went back to a cartomizer and bump my vv mod to 5v and barely taste. It's like I'm vaping unflavored ejuice. Anyone experience something like this?
What is happening to my taste buds? help!
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Hasn't happened to me to that extreme but even 3 months into vaping, taste sensation changes from day to day for me. One day, a juice tastes just fine, next day I can barely taste it. I think we all screwed up our taste buds with the stinkies and it will just take some time for them to recover........... I'd give it time. You may also be dehydrated. Vaping has a tendency to dehydrate you, drink lots of water, that may help, too. 
Can you tell me what flavor you're using? Believe it or not, some flavors do that. Have you ever opened and smelled violet perfume, only to think there is barely a scent there. Then after you close the bottle it seems like you're drowning in flowers! The scent of violets has an anesthetic property.
What I would do is spend some time vaping as different a flavor as possible!
What I would do is spend some time vaping as different a flavor as possible!
I'm having the same problem and started a thread about it earlier today. Juices that were delicious last week have zero to a slight flavor yesterday and today. I did follow someone's advice and drink a lot of water and that helped some. I guess we just have to be patient, change flavors often, and wait for our taste buds to come back to life.
On a completely unrelated note, when my daughter was 8 yrs old or so, she called them "taste bugs". I always got a chuckle out of that.
I'm still pretty new to vaping and just 17 days into being analog-free, but I've been wondering the same thing today. Suddenly, my two favorite juices seem to be giving off no flavor and all I can think of is maybe it was that spicy bbq pizza I had earlier today that has dulled my sense to my juices. I tried fresh batteries, even upped the voltage on my eGo Twist and still, it's like I'm vaping blanks.
Then I thought maybe I've gotten too used to (bored with?) the pina colada and need to try something different. So, I tried one of my newer flavors I've been vaping a lot and I get the same thing. Just vape. Even the throat hit seems gone.
Had to be the zap to my taste buds from the spicy pizza I guess. Or like Ratchet said, maybe I didn't get enough of an intake of water today.
Did you eat anything extra spicy today?
I dunno.. I'm turning in early tonight and hopefully I can wake up to some flavor again..
Then I thought maybe I've gotten too used to (bored with?) the pina colada and need to try something different. So, I tried one of my newer flavors I've been vaping a lot and I get the same thing. Just vape. Even the throat hit seems gone.
Had to be the zap to my taste buds from the spicy pizza I guess. Or like Ratchet said, maybe I didn't get enough of an intake of water today.
Did you eat anything extra spicy today?
I dunno.. I'm turning in early tonight and hopefully I can wake up to some flavor again..
When you quit those nasty things (you know what I mean), your body goes through a recovery time. Your lungs clean themselves out (causing us to cough up nasty stuff for a while) and our taste buds start firing again. From what I've read, it's not uncommon for our taste buds to shut down as it were every once in a while during this process. Also, if you're dehydrated, they tend to shut down as well. You need to drink a lot more water than you're used to. Vaping is very dehydrating (I think I read somewhere it's the Pg but I'm not sure). What I do is I have a water glass set up by the kitchen sink. Every time I walk by, I fill it and drink.
I've been wondering the same thing, ever since I got to Afghanistan, my juices haven't tasted the same. And although I've not smoked in a while, things just didn't seem right.. Hearing that about being dehydrated makes it make sense.. It's about 100 here, and coming from the Pacific Northwest about a standard 60, I'm sure my water consumption isn't up to par yet. Looks like I'll be drinking more water and less coffee from now on.
Even after 3 years of vaping, my tastebuds will still go through periods where I can't taste my liquids. It's happened a handful of times since I started vaping.
The first thing I do is drink some water. If that fails, I'll drink something that I don't usually drink like soda.
If that also fails, I'll eat something bland and drink more water.
If they haven't recovered at that point, I switch to my unflavored DIY liquid that I always keep on hand as backup. I know my buds will recover and I don't want to waste my yummy flavors on a dead tongue lol. I also keep unflavored around for times when my flavors just seem to strong (the other end of the spectrum) or when I'm drinking something that just isn't going well with my flavored liquids.
My taste buds will usually come back within a few hours but sometimes take days and up to 2 weeks once. It is pretty normal for this to happen. You will eventually find your own methods of vaping through it.
The first thing I do is drink some water. If that fails, I'll drink something that I don't usually drink like soda.
If that also fails, I'll eat something bland and drink more water.
If they haven't recovered at that point, I switch to my unflavored DIY liquid that I always keep on hand as backup. I know my buds will recover and I don't want to waste my yummy flavors on a dead tongue lol. I also keep unflavored around for times when my flavors just seem to strong (the other end of the spectrum) or when I'm drinking something that just isn't going well with my flavored liquids.
My taste buds will usually come back within a few hours but sometimes take days and up to 2 weeks once. It is pretty normal for this to happen. You will eventually find your own methods of vaping through it.
Hi Thraizer, Yes I have had the same experience as you are having. It lasted for a little over a day. I changed my flavor from my usual to sonething totally different. I think i was vaping a strong menthol as my all day vape and changed to a watermelon. I know they are opposite ends of the spectrum but thats why I did it. I could almost taste the watermelon when I started and by day two it became apparent that my buds where in recovery. I continued for another day with the watermelon until it was what I remembered from when I first tried it. So I went back to my all day vape and it was just as I remembered it.
I believe that the culprit here is our brain to be in kind of a reseting state where we are accustomed to the ash and chemichals bombarding our tastebuds so after we have ceased this practice our brain begins to right itself once again. It will pass on its own and just about as suddenly as it has begun. Keep at it, its normal, for some of us...lol.
I believe that the culprit here is our brain to be in kind of a reseting state where we are accustomed to the ash and chemichals bombarding our tastebuds so after we have ceased this practice our brain begins to right itself once again. It will pass on its own and just about as suddenly as it has begun. Keep at it, its normal, for some of us...lol.
I'm using Kona Cream from vaperite which is my work vape and my around the house vape is Roasted Cocoa Macadamia Nut and those 2 juices got some strong but mild flavor which I really like. Whats weird is that it happened after I ate dinner, nothing spicy just some steamed broccoli, baked potato, and some lobster tails.
Drinking water now, I hope I get my vaping taste buds soon!
Drinking water now, I hope I get my vaping taste buds soon!
If being dehydrated kills the taste bugs it explains how they can tolerate their own food over there. I'm kidding I like their food actually.
I have also noticed this. (I mix my own juice) About a year ago I started smoking vg with nicotine - no flavor, since I couldn't taste what I was vaping anyway. Ironically I didn't like the flavor of flavorless juice so I started adding a little coconut one day, a little mint another day, basically mixing it up and only using a hint of flavor and I like it like this. Some days I still use blank flavor.
Off topic, but I was going to say.. They're food is amazing. I had some lamb and potato stew last night that was amazing. Nothing like fresh meat, no matter what it is.
Seems I've had my daughter on my case forever about coffee being dehydrating
Not giving up my coffee but I am most definately drinking a lot of water (ugh) since I started vapingIm 2 weeks in. A few days ago I lost all taste as well. I figured it was a nasty head cold. Sinuses were all clogged up, no taste, just miserable. Just getting over it now. Maybe its my body getting rid of some of the gunk?
The buds thing... Sometimes it just happens. It will pass. I've gone through several bouts of it. The main trajectory though, is of having to decrease my flavor concentration. I DIY and Regularly over the 9 months I've been vaping, all of the sudden my juice will just be too flavorful and I have to reduce the flavors. I've reduced the flavors in my all day juice by more than half of what I originally thought tasted good. So despite the occasional day or two of not being able to taste flavors at all, the overall trend has been for increased sensitivity to flavors.
Oh, one other thing. Chewing really flavorful gum completely overwhelms my buds and I can't taste juice for a good 30 minutes afterward.
WRT the coffee thing: Caffeine: Is it dehydrating or not? - MayoClinic.com
Just had to post that as I love learning that things I'd always believed to be true actually aren't. Lol.
Oh, one other thing. Chewing really flavorful gum completely overwhelms my buds and I can't taste juice for a good 30 minutes afterward.
WRT the coffee thing: Caffeine: Is it dehydrating or not? - MayoClinic.com
Just had to post that as I love learning that things I'd always believed to be true actually aren't. Lol.
Im glad i ran across this post. I did not know vaping was dehydrating. That explains alot and i know i havent been drinking enough water lately
Here's an interesting thing. Just last week I had a killer sore in my mouth that just wouldn't go away. I thought it might be due to dry mouth from propylene glycol, so I went and got some special mouthwash that is supposed to help dry mouth (Biotene).
Got it home, used some, then read the label. Guess what the 2nd ingredient is?
I don't really understand how that works, but the mouthwash did seem to improve that dry feeling.
Got it home, used some, then read the label. Guess what the 2nd ingredient is?
I don't really understand how that works, but the mouthwash did seem to improve that dry feeling.
Had to check that link out. Love my coffee so I guess I'mm in that 5cups and over category.
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