No taste buds is so hard for me

jlstacey

I have always used food for comfort. Wrong, I know. Regardless, not being able to taste anything is very hard for me. I've lost 13 pounds ( 8% of my body weight) so far and a big part is probably difficulty getting food down from lack of taste. Does anybody else find this incredibly difficult? Some fruit tastes OK. Anything with fat sits on my tongue. Forget bread. What do you find you can eat? This seems to be getting worse and worse

kcat2013

I found myself salting and salting foods in order to get flavor...in fact I wouldn't salt anything I cooked for the family for fear of over salting it since I couldn't taste. I found things like chips, pickles (odd I know), and spicy foods like green chile to taste the best for me. Unfortunately most of those I could only eat after the worst of the nausea from each treatment passed. So I ate a lot of cream of wheat and oatmeal--things that I could handle with the wicked nausea and things I didn't expect to have a lot of flavor anyway.

How do you do with drinks? Could you do a protein shake?

Kendra

Kicks

I did loose all sense of taste while on chemo - but was what was worse was loosing appetite. It did not matter that everything had not flavor/taste - I just never thought about eating. Hubby had to call me several times a day to remind me to eat 'something'. I never had any nausea - just never thought about eating, just nothing had any taste. I still, 5+ yrs later, have some issues with not thinking/remembering about eating though taste/flavor did return.

I am a 'waterholic' and always have ice water handy so habit just took over and I had no problems with getting enough fluid.

One thing I did eat quite a bit of during Chemo was frozen jello. No taste but the texture was good. I have loved frozen jello since I was very young and put some in the freezer to try to get it to set faster and forgot about it until it started freezing. Love it.