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AlaskaAngel · 08-19-2009, 10:51 AM

Hi Carol,

I actually saw your post yesterday and didn't read it because so many posts about taste are from the standpoint of someone currently in treatment. I've become that discouraged over time about it. I'm 7 years out from CAFx6 and my taste buds are still muted too. I'm sorry you are also suffering from this and puzzled by it.

At first I thought it might at least help prevent weight gain, but it hasn't done so, as the hunger is constant and so I eat even though things don't have much taste. Another weird thing is that I don't have the same sense of feeling full that I used to have with eating.

I tend to favor very sour or very salty things for the most part, just to get SOME taste with eating.

I don't know where all of this is based, whether it is a brain thing that was damaged, or the sensory glands/tissues themselves, or the conduction pathways.

Sympathetically,

AlaskaAngel

08-19-2009, 10:51 AM	#2
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	Re: Can you taste? Hi Carol, I actually saw your post yesterday and didn't read it because so many posts about taste are from the standpoint of someone currently in treatment. I've become that discouraged over time about it. I'm 7 years out from CAFx6 and my taste buds are still muted too. I'm sorry you are also suffering from this and puzzled by it. At first I thought it might at least help prevent weight gain, but it hasn't done so, as the hunger is constant and so I eat even though things don't have much taste. Another weird thing is that I don't have the same sense of feeling full that I used to have with eating. I tend to favor very sour or very salty things for the most part, just to get SOME taste with eating. I don't know where all of this is based, whether it is a brain thing that was damaged, or the sensory glands/tissues themselves, or the conduction pathways. Sympathetically, AlaskaAngel