Taste change

[Motherhen]

Hi everyone, has anyone else taste changed since being diagnosed. Everything either tasteless or sweet.
Feel like I don’t want to eat unless it’s spicy X

 

[Lucyr]

Have you done a covid test? That’s not a standard diabetes symptom as far as I’m aware.

 

[Felinia]

I find my unsweetened tea with milk tastes sweeter, so I've switched to proper coffee as it is more bitter. And I don't miss sweet foods as much as I thought - I prefer savoury now.

 

[Motherhen]

Have you done a covid test? That’s not a standard diabetes symptom as far as I’m aware.

No I haven’t but will just in case. I can taste but it’s different.

 

[Motherhen]

I find my unsweetened tea with milk tastes sweeter, so I've switched to proper coffee as it is more bitter. And I don't miss sweet foods as much as I thought - I prefer savoury now.

I think lots of stuff is tasting sweeter. Funny I don’t miss sweet stuff either.

 

[zuludog]

Many people find that their taste changes after diagnosis, but I think that there is, for want of a better description, a subtle explanation

It's not the fact that you have diabetes itself that alters your taste, rather it's that when you have D you stop eating a lot, if not all, sweet & sugary things, and your taste adapts to that
So when you might eat something sweet you find it much sweeter than you had before

But I still do have a sense of taste, for all the various savoury things that I eat, and also for the occasional sweet thing, which I now find very sweet & sickly, and so I don't eat much of it

 

[Motherhen]

Many people find that their taste changes after diagnosis, but I think that there is, for want of a better description, a subtle explanation

It's not the fact that you have diabetes itself that alters your taste, rather it's that when you have D you stop eating a lot, if not all, sweet & sugary things, and your taste adapts to that
So when you might eat something sweet you find it much sweeter than you had before

But I still do have a sense of taste, for all the various savoury things that I eat, and also for the occasional sweet thing, which I now find very sweet & sickly, and so I don't eat much of it

I think you could be right. I got diagnosed in June and started taking tablets, think it all started then. I find the spicier the better but can’t eat that all the time. Il get used to it……or not

 

[ianf0ster]

My taste has changed, but I attribute that to my Low Carb way of eating rather than to my diabetes - in any case my HbA1C is back down into the normal range.

 

[Matchless]

i had a bad dose of flue about 6 years ago and ended up with only bitter and sweet which comes from the tongue the rest comes from the fine hairs high in the nose that where destroyed by the flu which is permanent i had it diagnosed by a ears nose and throat doctor ,