Losing your sense of taste?

[yui.]

In the past few months, I have lost my sense of taste not in the sense that I can't tell the difference between sweet and salty. I just can't seem to find food to be "tasty" anymore. I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Wagyu beef tastes the same as a McDonald's beef burger to me, and it makes me a bit disappointed to tell the truth. I wanted to enjoy my last moments on Earth by feeling the world around me one last time, but I haven't been able to do so. I suppose it reinforces that I really won't have anything to lose by leaving.

Nowadays, I don't even feel hunger as strongly as I used to. When I'm extremely hungry, I just end up falling asleep. When I feel tired, I have to ask myself "am I tired because I need to sleep more or am I tired because I need to eat something before I pass out?" On the days that I don't leave my house, I end up sleeping for 16 hours just because of how comfortable I feel in my dreams.

 

[notthatclever]

Yeah I get what you mean.. I go through that.. nothing tastes like anything.. it all tastes like flavored cardboard.. that's fairly normal when you're deep in depression. You getting any crazy back pain yet? A lot of mine shows up physically now as well.. mind numbing head aches and back pain. I have a bad back too but it's my upper back. Like no matter what I do the tension won't release.. but I just recently went through a four month stint of not being able to taste anything..

 

[evrlastingsea]

I think i had a similar experience. But for me it's not that i can't taste food anymore, but i don't react to it the same way i usually did. I have list of my comfort food and the ones that i like the most. but at least most of this year, i can taste the food. but i don't think i am capable of recognizing if it's good or not. it just tasted like .. ingredients? if that makes sense. for context, i used to be a huge foodie.

i don't feel hunger as much too, and since i still have activities i needed to do, i just rawdog it with food that will efficiently meet my nutrient needs and all . the only time where i eat a lot is when i had period craving (which always disappoints me now, since i don't feel any joy eating the food i crave).

i talked about it to my doctor and he tried to give me meds that supposedly can increase appetite but it doesnt seem to work. so i don't have any advice. just try to meet your daily food needs so you don't feel too tired throughout the day. i usually do shakes