Taste buds cannot taste anything sweet;

did you find a solution for your probleme because i m having this too !!!!

That probably won't work. I thought the same thing; however, because I can't taste, I am not satisfied, so constantly looking to eat something that tastes good.

I have also lost my taste of salt or sweet. I went to the doctor said has no clue what is going on. The doctor was a ENT and said he has no answer's. This is crazy.

It might be hard at first, but the key to dealing with a lack of sweet taste is to change your perspective. What caused it? Who knows. It's time to get over that - embrace WHO YOU ARE NOW. Here's something you probably didn't realize: lack if sweet taste is actually a good thing for you in the modern day. In the long past, tasting sweet was useful to our ancestors for finding what was good in nutrition, so that they would eat a lot of it. In the modern day, with obesity rampant in society, this works against us. In fact, your lack of sweet taste is a benefit to you.

Your first step you need to take is stop eating things because of your memory of them. Cool Whip isn't going to taste like anything. Unflavored IceCream. The insides of plums. Various candies that rely on sugar. Sodas. Coffee that's not black. Stop consuming them all. It's pointless, and you're just harming yourself.

Now, find the things you do like. Even though a bunch of sugar has no effect on me, I still taste many things that are delicious. I absolutely love many fruits - and more sour things. I also love honey, peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. I am not sure if this will be the same for everyone else, but by all means go ahead and read this post and give it a try. If you like chocolate, maybe dark chocolate? Salty things are still good as well! Mm, and cheese...

Once you learn what you like and what tastes like nothing, managing lack of sweet taste becomes very easy. You will not have to ask 'Hey, this tastes like nothing to me. Is it sweet?' anymore, and instead will know before you even take a bite whether you will like it or not.

Clive oil in toothpaste, mouthwash or gum. Takes a few weeks to get taste back. I have stage 4 cancer with tumors in my brain and eye. I can taste salt but not sweet and my sense of smell is hyper sensitive. Meat taste rotten and coffee is bitter. If you're not on medication and rule out fake cinnamon and mint (Clive oil) get an MRI. On your brain.

Yes, I too started using the same mouth rinse and lost my sense of taste about two days later. I'm also going to call Crest.

I've been dealing with loss of sweet taste for more than two years...Your advice is the best I've heard. I'm feeling better adjusted just from reading it. Thx!

I lost my sense of taste when I was about 25 years old, in 1974, from one meal to the next. I had been having disturbing neurological effects from medication I'd been taking and had tried several times get off of. After several attempts over a few weeks, not realizing that withdrawal was a serious issue, the third time I took it again the taste loss occurred, from one meal to the next along with some other equally, or even more disturbing, neurological damage, which I won't get into here. I had already had some neurological issues, but these were new and even more debilitating, and I believe they were related to the medication. The sense of sweet and salty were pretty much gone except for a sort syrupy sensation for sweet, and slightly acidic sensation for salt, sort of like the difference between black & white and color. Bitter and sour came through more strongly but I don't believe they were the same as before either. My sense of smell was fine. These functions have never actually recovered although I have adapted. It's interesting that even though I don't tastes sweet as such, sugar still counteracts bitter and sour, when added to coffee, for example, or adding honey to yogurt. What little sensation of sweet I do have is additionally degraded for about a half an hour after I brush my teeth with toothpaste containing sodium lauryl sulfate, which is most of them. A year or two after this occurred I went to the Taste and Smell Clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC, headed by Dr. Robert I. Henkin. Although I haven't been back, this, now private, clinic is still there, still headed by Dr. Henkin, who is the world's leading authority on taste and smell disorders. I got a day of testing back in the mid-1970s and he couldn't determine what caused my problem. I talked to him about 12 or 15 years ago by phone and he remembered my case and suggested I come back, as they had learned a lot and had new treatments, but I never did--I believe mine has something to do with changes in the brain or the neurological pathways and would not be helped by minerals such as the zinc, which I was taking already, and enzymes, etc., but I'm not sure. When I was there for that day of of testing in the mid 1970s, there was an attractive young blonde woman who had cracked her skull after falling off the back of a motorcycle when it accelerated sharply from a start and had completely lost her sense of taste; I assume it was from the injury and not any treatment she received, if she received any. Obviously this would be a case of the area of the brain relating to taste being affected. I find after all this research that they can't seem to determine whether the losses are from the taste buds, the nerve pathways, or the brain itself. I know my maternal grandfather, when he got older, lost his sense of smell and later, I believe his sense of taste. He had smoked cigars for a good portion of his life, but don't know if that was the cause, as it happened after he cut down or stopped. His opinion was that it was an area of the brain that was affected. It's ironic that, as I had lost my sense of taste before he did, if we were to go out to eat dinner, he would ask what I want to eat, and I would say I don't know because I can't tell what my taste preference is because of my loss of taste. After he lost his sense of taste he would say the same thing, and I said "Now you know how I feel".

PS to my post just above. It took me a little while to realize that I had to adapt my eating so that I would make sure to smell the food, both as it approached my mouth, and especially when it was in my mouth, allowing the aroma to travel back up through the nasal passages, because 60% of the perception of taste is aroma. After a little while of consciously doing it, it became automatic.

I had 3 brain aneurysms, and underwent open brain surgery to have them clipped; This was almost 3 years ago; From day one after surgery, I can detect sweet, salty, sour, but zero flavour, and zero smell:( On occasion I get an odd and undescribable chemical smell that makes no sense. I get this when my husband uses body wash, and sometimes with certain laundry soaps; It makes me nauseous and I get a headache;

This is just a random reply.12 years or so ago I lost my ability to taste sweetness. Then it came back about a week later. Then soon after that I got the flue. After the flue subsided I lost all my ability smell anything.This took eight years to return to near normal. The doctor said it was a viral attack of the smell receptors in my nose. From other reports I’ve read, I consider myself lucky. During that 8 year period I also started to have strong phantom smells, reminiscent of a really low quality, powerful sweet perfume It took me two years to accept that it had to do with my smell sensors and not some external source. I still have them, however not as often. Just recently I have had influenca A and again I have lost my sense of sweetness and I suspect some of my smell capacity. So in short, I think it has to do with a virus attack and I hope all goes back to normal as my biggest passion in life is wine, in particular Champagne. The real stuff. Hope everybody recovers. It’s amazing how much we take for granted.

Hi, goofy granny 66667--wondering if you have gotten your taste back? I lost my taste about 2 months ago. Found out I had a failed apicoectomy and had that redone with the hope that that would be the cause of my loss of taste. It's been 2 1//2 weeks and things are a little better (the nausea has quieted down) but the I am still not able to stomach sweet foods. I can smell them, but i taste them and they are ok for about 2 seconds and then they taste disgusting and I have to spit them out (sorry for being gross). You are the first person that mentioned any jaw infection, so I'm hoping you have some good news. Thanks!

Hi, --wondering if you have gotten your taste back? I lost my taste about 2 months ago. Started out like a stomach flu and I thought once that resolved, i'd be ok. Found out I had a failed apicoectomy and had that redone with the hope that that would be the cause of my loss of taste. It's been 2 1//2 weeks and things are a little better (the nausea has quieted down) but the I am still not able to stomach sweet foods. I can smell them, but i taste them and they are ok for about 2 seconds and then they taste disgusting and I have to spit them out (sorry for being gross--but you are right; it tastes like it was mixed with stomach bile
). You are the first person that mentioned any jaw infection, so I'm hoping you have some good news. Thanks!

I, too have noticed a loss of taste and have just started a regimen of rinsing with Listerine Zero (no alcohol with no burning) 2X per day. I have not been exposed to the other items in your post, so I just wanted you to know that the LZ is highly suspect for this condition. I will be call their site on Monday. and let you know what I learn. good luck!

I do know that Zinc can absolutely cause you to not taste anything.... I experience that about 8 months ago. When I stopped the Zinc, my sense of taste returned. In the past week, I have noticed I can not sense the taste of sweetness..?? I keep trying to eat thinks that I know what they should taste like but nothing taste the same. It makes it difficult when preparing food as I usually just use my sense of taste to guide me. I can still taste spicy things..?? not sure about sour ?? I think the salty sense may be affected also, but since I don't use much salt it is hard to tell.