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Hepatitis C Main Forums => Living with Hepatitis C => Topic started by: Flaco on March 14, 2016, 11:25:05 am
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Not really ;D
No, what it is is this: Has anyone besides myself lost his/her taste for any food or drink that you've loved all your life?
Tl;dr hint: You can get the gist by just reading the next two sentences, and then skip to the second-to-last paragraph. ;)
For some reason coffee does not taste good to me any more. This has been going on since December, so it has nothing to do with treatment. I have loved coffee for over 50 years. For the last six years, since I retired, I have ramped up my involvement with the brew. I'd buy the green beans and roast them at home, and if I must say so myself, I have produced the best coffee I've ever tasted. In my life! Others have agreed. I have over half a dozen ways to brew it. I have books on it. I read coffee forums. I progressed from roasting in an iron skillet to an old bread machine I re-purposed (called a BMHG - bread machine, heat gun- or Coretto as it's known to my Aussie coffee snob friends) to a "proper" roaster I got for Christmas in 2010. I'm a coffee geek. Or was...
After not having roasted in a while for various reasons basically having to do with a sort of long period of not feeling well, I roasted what I considered a bad batch. So, paying more attention to the process, I roasted another. No good. I bought fresher green beans and still couldn't make anything work. :( After much experimentation and shameful waste of coffee, both my own home roast and store-bought specialty coffee (in other words freshly roasted store-bought), I finally decided it was me - NO coffee tasted good to me. :(
So the common denominator is me, not the coffee. I'm hoping this is temporary. What do y'all think? Anyone else have a similar problem? Did it ever go away?
I know this problem sounds pretty lightweight compared to the major physical ailments I read about on here caused by liver disease (which are heartbreaking!). And it is - I only mention it because it's my hobbies which keep me sane. Anything to keep my mind off my liver and my shortened life span.
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Hmmm. I did experience changes in my taste sensation after I started Harvoni. For example, a stick of bland string cheese was suddenly and inexplicably too salty to eat.
But that doesn't explain your situation. ???
Btw - you may have the coolest avatar on the board!
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I have been on Harvoni since Feb. 2, 2016, I have also mislayed my taste buds. Coffee tastes really strong right now but hubby says it is fine so I know it is just me.
The same thing happened when I was on the Ribavirin, Interferon treatment a few years ago. The tastes do come back. I find everything tastes too salty or like cardboard. Keep on chugging along. It will get better. J hiscock
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Btw - you may have the coolest avatar on the board!
Thanks! I wish I could say I invented it, but I'm reasonably honest. :) <-- (beatific smile) It was something in a spammy snail-mail I received. I scanned it, made it black & white, and made it 120x120 pixels. OK I said I'm reasonably honest. ::)
I kinda like Beto's avatar. It has a very Mexican sort of look, ala Día de Muertos or something.
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Thanks, Jo-Anne. Good to know.
I don't remember much from when I was on PEGint/Riba. There's a hole in my memory where that year belongs. I do remember having no appetite, though. Maybe it WAS that nothing tasted good.
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Flaco, I did have a metallic taste in my mouth during days 50 to 53 of my 12-week treatment. Others had reported it before me. What was really interesting was that the metallic taste was at the back of the mouth, so I could still enjoy the taste of things as they entered my mouth.
Gnatty
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Me too. Directly associated with Harvoni treatment though. Also, I recall early threads about this. In my case (and I heard others as well) tastes were amplified...especially sweet and astringent. Sometimes a food I loved tasted horrible. A natural sugar would explode in saccharin, metallic bursts. It was intermittent and my normal taster returned.