Altered smell/taste?

[mrstrejo]

 Hi guys, this is not pregnancy/TTC related, but I hope it's ok to still post. Ok so I'm currently recovering from the flu. It was pretty bad, but I'm like 85% better now. On Saturday, I woke up to this strange smell, but I brushed it off thinking my husband's nephew had made himself something gross for breakfast. Until I walked into Subway with my husband, and the WHOLE place reeked like that smell I had in the morning and I realized it was me. I've been like that for 3 days now!. It's not everything, I can eat chicken, eggs, fish, tortillas... but so far, tartar sauce, limes, beer (or maybe the clamato), mayo, pineapple, strawberries (after-taste only), ranch, all taste like shit (I'm sure I'm forgetting other stuff). Also some non food stuff, like sweat smells like that. I can't even describe the smell, it's like a warm-ish, musky?, pungent, god-awful smell. I'm pretty sick of it already. Have any of you experienced anything like this after the flu before? It's not like when you have a cold, and your sense of smell is compromised, I can smell/breathe just fine, just smelling certain things differently. 

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I've been like that for a bit right before I get really sick. Same with things tasting differently than they should.

Did you have a question or did you just want to know if you were the only one?

[teraiin]

Not really smells for me, but it took me weeks to be able to stand the taste of peanut butter after a particularly bad bug/cold I had a few years ago. I was told it would pass and it did eventually.

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:33:03 GMT -5 @led said:

I've been like that for a bit right before I get really sick. Same with things tasting differently than they should.

Did you have a question or did you just want to know if you were the only one?

I wanted to know how long it lasted, and how many of you guys experienced it before. I've never had it happen to me. And yeah, also if I'm not dying from an obscure disease lol jk. 

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:34:30 GMT -5 teraiin said:

Not really smells for me, but it took me weeks to be able to stand the taste of peanut butter after a particularly bad bug/cold I had a few years ago. I was told it would pass and it did eventually.

That's good, I hope things go back to normal pretty soon so I can eat a sandwich!

[getzystark]

This is bizarre and sounds terrible. It's never happened to me though so I don't have much to add except for my condolences.

[queenbabee]

The flu can do this although I am very impressed that you were so adventurous in your menu with said flu. Clamato & beer? Maybe stick with water and you should be feeling better soon?...

[joy]

This happens to me around my period sometimes. It's so weird. Things taste different and smell different. I've had my husband taste things sometimes to prove that it doesn't actually taste like soap (or whatever) to other people. It usually passes within a few days.

[sister13]

Do you promise you're not fishing for someone to tell you that it happened to them and they were totes pregnant?

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:44:23 GMT -5 queenbabee said:

The flu can do this although I am very impressed that you were so adventurous in your menu with said flu. Clamato & beer? Maybe stick with water and you should be feeling better soon?...

Lol it was my husband's michelada. He wanted me to taste it and I took a sip of it. It was yesterday, so I was feeling mostly better. I was barely eating when I was in the thick of it last week.

[daisycat]

I get this sometimes if I've been sick. I blame my sinuses.

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:48:03 GMT -5 joy said:

This happens to me around my period sometimes. It's so weird. Things taste different and smell different. I've had my husband taste things sometimes to prove that it doesn't actually taste like soap (or whatever) to other people. It usually passes within a few days.

That is so bizarre. I've been having my husband smell stuff too.

[wanderingheart]

Feb 2, 2015 14:49:02 GMT -5 sister13 said:

Do you promise you're not fishing for someone to tell you that it happened to them and they were totes pregnant?

Glad I'm not the only one who smelled something fishy...smelled...get it??

I crack myself up.

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:49:02 GMT -5 sister13 said:

Do you promise you're not fishing for someone to tell you that it happened to them and they were totes pregnant?

Hahaha no I promise that's not it AT ALL. I don't know where I would expect to pull that kind of crazy, obscure pregnancy symptom out of. I've been really sick, and feel way better now, I just wanna get back to eating normal.

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 14:59:21 GMT -5 @wickedcandy said:

Feb 2, 2015 14:29:40 GMT -5 mrstrejo said:

 Hi guys, this is not pregnancy/TTC related, but I hope it's ok to still post. Ok so I'm currently recovering from the flu. It was pretty bad, but I'm like 85% better now. On Saturday, I woke up to this strange smell, but I brushed it off thinking my husband's nephew had made himself something gross for breakfast. Until I walked into Subway with my husband, and the WHOLE place reeked like that smell I had in the morning and I realized it was me. I've been like that for 3 days now!. It's not everything, I can eat chicken, eggs, fish, tortillas... but so far, tartar sauce, limes, beer (or maybe the clamato), mayo, pineapple, strawberries (after-taste only), ranch, all taste like shit (I'm sure I'm forgetting other stuff). Also some non food stuff, like sweat smells like that. I can't even describe the smell, it's like a warm-ish, musky?, pungent, god-awful smell. I'm pretty sick of it already. Have any of you experienced anything like this after the flu before? It's not like when you have a cold, and your sense of smell is compromised, I can smell/breathe just fine, just smelling certain things differently. 

Well if that wasn't just a roundabout way of fishing... And QFP

Sorry, I realize how it sounds. I'm not pregnant or "hoping" it's a sign of pregnancy or anything like that. It's just something really, really weird, and I didn't wanna ask facebook. Hopefully, as someone mentioned above, it's my sinuses or something.

[nuggetrn]

Feb 2, 2015 14:48:03 GMT -5 joy said:

This happens to me around my period sometimes. It's so weird. Things taste different and smell different. I've had my husband taste things sometimes to prove that it doesn't actually taste like soap (or whatever) to other people. It usually passes within a few days.

O my goodness. I made myself a drink last night and it tasted like straight soap. DH tasted it and thought I was nuts. I think it was the straw I was using, because it was a reusable tervis tumbler straw. He claimed he tasted no soap, but it was so gross. 

[RaeLynn28]

Feb 2, 2015 15:20:20 GMT -5 nuggetrn said:

Feb 2, 2015 14:48:03 GMT -5 joy said:

This happens to me around my period sometimes. It's so weird. Things taste different and smell different. I've had my husband taste things sometimes to prove that it doesn't actually taste like soap (or whatever) to other people. It usually passes within a few days.

O my goodness. I made myself a drink last night and it tasted like straight soap. DH tasted it and thought I was nuts. I think it was the straw I was using, because it was a reusable tervis tumbler straw. He claimed he tasted no soap, but it was so gross. 

Cilantro tastes like soap to me....disgusting!

[peanutmuse]

One time my coffee tasted really bad. Turns out I put salt in it rather than sugar.

Another time, my cereal tasted bad. That time, I figured out that the milk had gone sour.

And then one time I drank Clamato and it tasted bad. But then I realized... it was because I was drinking Clamato.

[queenbabee]

Feb 2, 2015 16:32:16 GMT -5 peanutmuse said:

One time my coffee tasted really bad. Turns out I put salt in it rather than sugar.

Another time, my cereal tasted bad. That time, I figured out that the milk had gone sour.

And then one time I drank Clamato and it tasted bad. But then I realized... it was because I was drinking Clamato.

Yeah. I just can't get past it. Clamato. Ofcourse it's gonna taste horrible....flu or KTFU.

[eriniscool]

Feb 2, 2015 14:48:03 GMT -5 joy said:

This happens to me around my period sometimes. It's so weird. Things taste different and smell different. I've had my husband taste things sometimes to prove that it doesn't actually taste like soap (or whatever) to other people. It usually passes within a few days.

It happens to me too, a few days before my period starts. Almost every cycle I feel like I can smell EVERYTHING. A few days later it passes. Apparently I have a sensitive sniffer anyways. I can smell bread mould a day or two before it appears, which I always thought everyone could do. A small wholly unscientific survey of my co workers suggested otherwise.
In conclusion. Sometimes some people can smell more stuff.

[icaughtfire]

I'm sorry no one will just give you the facts -- you're pregnant. SQUEEEEE!!!11!

You're welcome.

[mrstrejo]

Feb 2, 2015 22:23:50 GMT -5 icaughtfire said:

I'm sorry no one will just give you the facts -- you're pregnant. SQUEEEEE!!!11!

You're welcome.

Geez, finally! Thanks alot for realizing it! I can rest easy now!

But actually, thanks for your responses everyone. It seems to finally be subsiding, so hopefully it will be completely gone by tomorrow. It seems it was only around long enough for me to ask stupid questions on the internet. It really might be that my sinuses are still irritated. Sorry I freaked  out about it, I've been having various health and frustrating house issues (appliances giving out on me), and I didn't need crazy shit like that to add to it. Seriously, whenever the time comes that I think I might be pregnant, I know how to purchase a pregnancy test.