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Personally, it f***ing sucks. by LondonDomer

I can still "taste" in the sense I can detect sweetness, sour, and bitter. So a cup of coffee "tastes" like bitter water. A glass of orange juice tastes like slightly sweet water. It's hard to describe exactly what it's like when you can only detect this sort of "core" tastes. Bitterness literally all by itself is weird.

Most food, you can sort of detect what you're eating, but really just based on texture or some level of saltiness or bitterness. Everything is incredibly bland. Some things are downright gross. I tried to take a sip of bourbon and it's just the burn of alcohol and nothing else.

I'm a person who likes food (maybe too much). I've lost 12 pounds in the last two weeks because eating has almost no appeal. Even when I'm hungry, I'll only make it about halfway through what I normally eat before I just don't want to eat anymore.

The lack of smell is really, really weird. I can put my face inches away from a bowl of garlic and deeply inhale and not get even a hint of garlic. Literally nothing. Sucks.

I'm dealing with it alright and am definitely anxious for it to come back, but I can see how some people would have mental difficulty handling it. I underappreciated how much the sense of smell adds to your day-to-day life. The scent of your kids hair when you give them a kiss, the smell of fresh rain, pulling on a clean t-shirt, breakfast cooking in the morning -- lots of little things that are small joys that are just totally gone.

Do not recommend.