Taste buds cannot taste anything sweet;

I have a spur pushing on C3 which has caused me to lose my taste.  Not everything, but all types of  foods flavor is not up to par.  I am too old for surgery so will have to live with it, but am not losing weight.  Some things have no taste at all and some things aren't to bad.  Will just have to live with it.

I have no taste of food of anykind, no fruit, vegetables, or meat and when I eat a hamburger or fries all I can taste is a grease taste. I quit smoking in August and I had smoked many many years, and I started having the problem with my taste, I asked an Ear Nost and Throat Doctor and he said I had allegies not sinus(like my regular Dr. told me....He gave my some new nose spray...Omnaris...and it has help me breathe all day and night, but I can"t taste anything and it has been nearly 4 months....I can understand about the bannana tasting like a mushy blob, I came back to my regular Dr. and he stills says I have sinus, because inside my nose is still swolllen....But neither Dr. had an idea about my taste buds....It is awful, I jus it to keep from getting hungry...no Dr Peppers any more they tast like soap....I bought some of that expensive Bicideant tooth paste and it didn't realy help either
If you find out any thing that will help use let me know...Shirley

i quit smoking too and i too can

 My uncle has the same thing. He has had it for 5 years and he is still not better. He has been to dozens of clinics and no doctor has been able to know what happen. Can some please please tell me what is wrong with him?

I also have bone spurs in my neck and maybe that is why i don't taste sweets.

I read through all of the posts and I was getting seriously worried.  I had a root canal yesterday and after the numbness wore off, so did my sense of taste.  I found that out when I started eating some yogurt.  I was in a little pain, but I hadn't eaten all day so I wanted something substantive, but soft.  I thought the yogurt had gone bad because it tasted bland and tinny.  I checked the expiration date and it was fine, but I threw it out just in case.  I decided to try a PB&J sandwich.  The peanut butter had no taste and the jelly tasted sour and bitter.  It was beginning to dawn on me that something was wrong.  I opened a piece of chocolate and when that had a sour and bitter taste, I was really worried...and a little miffed too!  I got online to see if anyone had any answers, and ran across this message board and several similar ones.  Unfortunately everyone posting had the same or a similar problem, but no answers.  What was really scary is that some were posting that the problem persisted for weeks, even months.  The thought of not being able to taste sweet or salty for another day had me depressed, so going for another week or month was out of the question!

I decided I'd better try something.  The first thing I did was pray.  The second thing I did was go to my kitchen and pour a little sea salt into the palm of my hand.  I stuck the tip of my tongue in the sea salt...nothing.  I did it again and I got a faint salty taste.  I decided to just go for it and lick the remaining salt in my hand.  In about 10 minutes I popped another small piece of chocolate into my mouth and I could taste the sweet again.  Just to be sure I opened up another container of yogurt and it tasted just fine.  I think that was the best yogurt I've ever had!

I'm not sure if the sea salt will work for you, but I decided to post because I know if anyone else is out there experiencing the same thing, you'd probably be willing to try a few silly remedies before giving up.  Oh yeah...it might have been the prayer too.  It's certainly worth a try! :)

I used to have the same problem, except it hurts to eat, i was scared out of my mind.  then i tried some salt water and it got better....i wish you all the best:)

Lost eye sight in one eye due to cancer and have lost my sense of smell so all I can taste is sweet or salt but no flavors of any other kind.

I know i am having the same problem.I've been searching the internet for answers and no luck..Though there is something else that is bothering me its that the side of my mouth further back is able to taste a lil bit.If any one has an answer to my problem as well. Then please i need an answer!

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I last posted and reported here. I have had some ups and downs with tasting foods in general lately.  Some days all I get is a bad chemical taste when I eat food.  Most foods all taste the same and I also have that bad metal taste in my mouth at some intervals like others have shared with us here.  It’s a terrible situation to be faced with when you can't smell or taste ones food. I have taken many tests for months and months.  There is nothing physically wrong with me. The most recent changes I have had were a root treatment on my upper back chewing molar. I also have many old silver amalgam fillings on my bottom lower bite.  I have recently seen some pretty horrifying footage of what happens when you bite on silver amalgam fillings as the mercury in them leach’s out vapours into your tissues. If you heat them up eating or drinking something hot, they leach for periods of up to one and a half hours.     ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** web addresses not allowed***

Check out this link and see the gas vapours leaching from this old mercury filling. It’s shocking and very scary to say the least.

 I'm pretty sure if we taste a metal taste, then we should be looking to see if we have these type fillings in our mouths?  I can't believe that any health department worldwide would put this type of a leaching bomb that can cause multiple health issues further down the track in our lives. Just to inform you all, I have inquired to remove the silver amalgam fillings from my mouth and spoken to several dentists about it. I was horrified that most said they wouldn't remove them as they had to be removed by specialist in a specialist clinic. I spoke with one of these specialist clinics to be told they would only remove two fillings at a time and replace with new white fillings. I asked why, and I was told that some people have strong reactions when all are removed at the same visit. Some of my teeth would not take another drilling out, repacing a new white filling; therefore it would have to be extracted, or go for multiple root treatments costing thousands and thousands in order to remove the silver mercury filling. This reaction has now informed me of how toxic this material actually is, and it’s in our mouths close to our brains.  This news to me has been shocking and very alarming!  

you are demon possessed

I burned my tonge on coffee 2 weeks ago. I cannot taste anything. Everything tastes like absolutely nothing. I do have a salty taste in my mouth. I dont know when I will get my taste back.

Yeah hi,

usually your taste buds will regenerate within 4 to 6 weeks. Suck some ice for the first few days and keep off the hot fluids as it will take longer for them to regenerate. Take some lemmon and squeeze that into your water for a few days as thats great for creating a good Ph- level in the mouth. Hope y0ou find this useful. Cheers for now.

I am also have the same problem. since last 6 months I cannot taste sugar. I was not aware of that. Once i eat a jilabi which was tasting bitter to me. Then i tried sugar , it was also bitter. I was not having any illness. then ii started taking a homoeo medicine. Now bitterness gone ,but now sugar tastes nothing.

Try going on diet. Eat as little as possible for oil, sugar and salt for 2 weeks or so if you can help. Little to none gravy, butter, cheese, milk. Avoid meat except little amount of steam sea fish meat not skin during the self therapy. In other words, just eat as plain and close to vegetarian. You taste buds should become sharper over time. As we age it is most probably our tissues are failing. I recover from diminishing sweet taste using this method from time to time. However when recovered I always find most food are extremely sweet! The minute I allow it to slip, I began to find most desserts and chocolate bars are losing its sweetness. Honestly I suspect one day this may not work unless I resort to eating plain and simple for the rest of my life. Hopefully it ll work for you. Good Luck, Im 60.