I lost my taste and smell completely in March of this year. Has anyone found after commencing treatment that this returns? I meant to ask the neuro consultant when she diagnosed me but was in a bit of a daze so didn't think of it.
sue
This is fairly common amongst PWP, and can also be a result of some of the meds we take. I tried the slow release pamipexole and found my sense of smell sky rocketed which was caused by the very ingredient that enables the med to release slowly I am highly allergic to, after only 4 days on this med I came home from work and walked into my kitchen and all of a sudden I found my sense of smell was so heightened I thought I was in a greasy spoon cafe. During a consultation with my PD specialist he said in all his years of treating PWP I was only the second person he had come across with that problem. Taken off that med back to to general release my sense of smell normalised about two week's later. My consultant ask me if he could write a paper on it. I agreed, my sense of smell now weak but that is much more acceptable to me. I have been told by others with our condition that the meds can help restore smell and taste, how true this is I don't know.
Hears hoping you find it is Lexi.
BB xx
Thanks BB. I really hope so as I'm someone who usually enjoys their food!! Not having taste and smell though hasn't stopped me eating tho!! Not on meds yet so I suppose time will tell. A pain though!
sue x
Hello Sue
Well I was told I would lose my taste and smell abilities in 98 and I did and unfortunately the have not returned so from 98 until 15,, thats 7 yrs,, oh they also told me it would mangle my mathamatical capabilities and my spillineeen but Icant say eyeve nohticed, any dyfferince, sorry eye am not the barere of good tyedeens Sue,
Regardes Broadsword
Hi Broadsword,
Well, maybe not good news but your bit about the spelling did make me chuckle! Keep that sense of humour as its a positive thing. I'll just have to keep those mental pictures in my mind of what I'm eating and remember how things tasted.
Best wishes to you
sue
Thankyou Sue
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My wife was diagnosed 2 years ago and lost her sense of smell nearly 40 years ago. Theres nothing wrong with her taste buds.
not sure why I lost both. Perhaps they will never return now which is so frustrating but never mind. Glad your wife can still taste though.
i tend to buy spicy meats or marinated or add in and tangy cheeses i think i still associate taste and smell with different foods even though it maybe lessened to what it was. squirt on a bit more lynx though just too be sure lol.
Conveniently, my sense of smell for my roses, chosen originally for their scent, returned after meds but my ability to smell the sewage farm type of smell. is completely absent. Enjoy my food so taste seems little if at all affected although smell is supposed to be a large part of taste
Although in every day life I can smell quite a few scents,. when I do the battery of tests in the research project I am involved in,, frustratingly, I can hardly identify any of the - in fact all I can really smell is the carrier substance - at least that's what I think.
Maybe there's a bit of hope then of their return.
i was just reading this Topic about loosing taste and small. My story in Feb 2019 I went to see my GP i had sores in my nose and use to get very blocked up when try to breath. The worst was at night I would wake up trying to get my breath. The GP gave me an nose spray but after a few times of use it made my nose bleed. I thought that I had just a cold so i put condition on back burner, Then i found that my taste was slowly going, I saw my PD nurse in Oct 2019 and think I mentioing it to her, but not sure, any way with this virus and other health problems again put it on back burner, The worst thing is I do like my food I can tell different textures and taste one best thing is that i can till taste chocolat. I have not got a really horible taset in my mouth, i clean my teeth twice a day use mouth wash. this does not seem to help. I am due to see/phone chat with my nurse in November so I will keep you posted. In the mean time if any member can help/ advise on what to do., it will be much appreciated.