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Can’t Taste As Well As Yesterday… Eek!
How often do you lose your sense of taste and smell, as someone with CF?
(Or, if you love someone with CF, is this a part of their disease process or cold symptoms too?) Yesterday I chatted quickly about the vaccine, but today I woke up and… well, I couldn’t taste my coffee very well.
In the past I would have said, “Ugh, my sinuses must be infected again,” because sometimes I can taste or even smell something “off” inside, depending on the bug. It’s like I can tell there is an infection purely by how my mouth feels or how frequently I think my loved ones need to take a shower (when, really, the problem is me!)
To be honest, because I’m used to losing components of taste and smell in the past, I don’t think much about dips in proficiency, and certainly wouldn’t have worried about a virus in the past.
Now… I very much do.
“How silly am I?” I said this morning, after instantly worrying about COVID the second something tastes duller, “This is a huge part of CF and not something new to me.” Last night, in fact, I even said, “I’m feeling vaguely strep-y”, since strep is something my body loves to culture… So why worry?
In absence of anything worse and while waiting this out for a few days (assuming it’s, per usual, ‘just CF), I was wondering: How often is your taste or smell impacted by your sickness? And in what way?
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