Unpleasant taste

[Saz94]

Keep a diet and medication diary? Sounds most mysterious.

Yeah I've been racking my brains to see whether I've been doing anything different recently. But I haven't changed any of my medications or supplements. I have tried some new foods recently, but as one-offs - nothing which could logically cause this "every other day" symptom pattern!

 

[lunarainbows]

Yeah I've been racking my brains to see whether I've been doing anything different recently. But I haven't changed any of my medications or supplements. I have tried some new foods recently, but as one-offs - nothing which could logically cause this "every other day" symptom pattern!

This is so weird. I would agree with maybe keeping a food diary, maybe even sleep diary, anything even slightly different you’re doing throughout the day.
Are you doing more on the days you feel better for example.

 

[roller*]

... secret virus production in the taste buds ?

Taste buds do not contain a resident immune system and TRCs account for all cells within taste buds.

In contrast to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the olfactory system where it is the sustentacular cells that are affected our data show evidence for infection in the taste apparatus per se i.e. the taste buds.

Replication of virus can likely then occur undisturbed and allow for transmission from the taste bud into circulation, and locally infect lingual and salivary gland epithelium, oral mucosa and larynx and even on into the lungs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8077572/

 

[Arnie Pye]

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can alter the degree to which we can taste at all, or can alter the flavour of what we taste.

 

[Levant]

I don't know how rapidly our oral microbiome can change/fluctuate. Could that be a factor?

 

[Invisible Woman]

I'll add another. Dental problems.

Used to the weirdness that is ME, taste problems and all,.combined with the difficulty of actually access help for anything much I just ignored this when it happened to me.

Turns out I had a cavity developing in the root of a tooth that had root canal treatment years before. As there was no pain it didn't occur to me that itmight be a dental problem.

 

[Andy]

I sometimes smell burning when there isn’t anything burning when I’m feeling bad.

Yes, I seem to have developed this in recent years.

 

[Amw66]

Yes, I seem to have developed this in recent years.

Stroke symptom

 

[Andy]

Stroke symptom

I doubt it in my case.

 

[Wonko]

Surely it's much more likely that the entire world smells of burnt toast?

I used to smell overheated metal, exactly the smell that train sets used to make, presumably iron ions coming off the electrified track - this was common for the first few years after onset. I haven't been on the vicinity of a trains set since I was about 10, but I do remember what they smelled like.

These days, burnt toast.

Perfectly normal, people in this universe just like toast a lot, are no good at cooking it, and the smell carries 10 miles into the countryside, that's all.

 

[Amw66]

I doubt it in my case.

I wonder if there is any common signalling.

 

[NelliePledge]

Cigarette smoke, I had no windows open and no neighbours around having a cig in the garden

also toast