If so, how did you know you lost your taste? I am currently under the impression that I don’t taste anything anymore, but I’m not sure.

It’s a bit weird to be honest. Like, if I see what I’m eating and I concentrate on how it SHOULD taste, then I can sort of taste it I guess? But if I just eat or drink without thinking about it, I don’t taste anything really.

So, how do you know if you have lost taste lol? And how long did it take for your taste to come back?

I tried asking people around me, but no one actually lost their taste when they had COVID.

  • @CriticalResist8A
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    I consistently lose my sense of taste when I get the flu. I’ve never lost it the (supposedly) two times I’ve had covid. Edit: but covid is linked to loss of taste and smell, at least the early studies in 2020 indicated that.

    Taste is heavily linked to smell and you will lose the latter first.

    So I think it would be fair to say you’ve lost your sense of taste, but it might not be covid. Have you taken a test?

    One way to know for sure is brew two cloves of garlic and a nail of ginger in a cup of hot water.

    • DankZedong OPA
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      I ate some homemade garlic sauce yesterday that had been left to ripe in the fridge for a few days. Did nothing as well lmao.

      Tests are so far negative, but they say that home tests are less reliable these days.

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  • Black AOC
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    Lost both smell and taste for a few days, but my lingering symptom has been fogging up hard after like six or seven hours awake-- in comparison, the olfactory loss was around for the blink of an eye.

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    might not be covid, could be a sinus infection or something more serious like a head injury, your primary doctor should know how to do a test for smell/taste loss especially now after covid. I had covid but I was asymptomatic, if I wasn’t forced to do a random screening I would’ve never known I had it

    • DankZedong OPA
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      Probably a sinus infection. All my covid tests came back negative so far and apart from scrolling on reddit I don’t see where I could have gotten a head injury. Will ask my doctor today for the taste test though, thanks.

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    Yeah I had COVID back in January and I remember the food I was eating tasting like nothing, really weird. (also i couldn’t smell anything and i had symptoms)

    • DankZedong OPA
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      I ate something pretty spicy last night but it just did nothing for some reason. Never had this happen to me before so it’s pretty wild.

      • @CriticalResist8A
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        If spice doesn’t do anything that’ll confirm it, yeah. Also if it doesn’t make your sinuses run, it means you have a sinus infection of some kind. Again this is pretty normal with me and the flu, that’s when I know I have it for sure actually; try to eat something spicy when my nose feels stuffed and if it doesn’t help, then it’s a virus.

        Might also just be the cold because I seem to catch it every year but it would mean I get very bad colds lol

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    My girlfriend was making some oat bars in the oven and we forgot to set a timer. We did not realize that they were burning until the fire alarm went off and the smoke was already all over the apartment. This was around day 4 after our positive PCR tests (November 2020), while we were quarantining.

    When cutting with onions, I would not feel anything, but tears would still come out.

    When getting back my sense of smell, the first thing I was able to smell were cloves.

    I could not tell by smell whether something was water, listerine, or vodka.

    So, to test, you can stick your nose into a container of cloves, smell some alcohol, or bite an onion. I think I may have bit a lime and felt nothing, but I am not 100% sure of that.

  • @201dberg
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    So i have not lost my taste completely. I am not sure if I’ve ever lost my taste at all, or if my mouth has simply gotten so used to the taste of chili that I feel as if the flavor is lessened. Like people tell me it’s delicious, and I know that it is, but when I eat it now I feel as if it’s not what it used to be. Like it’s lost something. But then I’ve eaten chili for weeks now. So are my perceptions of flavor off or is my body just tired of chili?

    • @mauveOkra
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      Excuse we, one doesn’t simply get tired of chili 😤