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Is this normal?

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Since becoming diabetic in 2016, I e noticed that I taste more alcohol and more sugar is some drinks. I drank full fat coke during a hypo and it was just sooo sweet, when before I was diabetic I could drink a family sized bottle of it. And when I have alcohol, cider or alcopops as a treat I can taste more of the alcohol when before I just tasted the fruitiness of it. Is this normal?

By the way I don’t drink these often I have full fat drinks when I’m hypo if nothing else is helping it go up and I have alcohol once or twice a month as a treat.
 
People finding their tastes change happens a lot on the forum as they change their eating habits.

I certainly find many commercial sweet things unbearable sickly nowadays.

I think you get desensitised to things you eat lots of, and when you’ve avoided it for a while your tastebuds have a chance to ‘reset’.
 
I had a hypo the other day and drank a can of Monster Energy. It tasted SO sweet and sickly
 
Some things taste very sweet to me now , I used to be a choc o holic , not anymore.
 
Rosiecarmel said:
I had a hypo the other day and drank a can of Monster Energy. It tasted SO sweet and sickly
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Doesn't it always taste like that to everyone and if not, why doesn't it?

You know, lots of stuff invented for the masses in the last 25-30 years feel like they will instantly destroy your teeth as soon as you taste them, to me. And, always did when I was little - let alone more adult prior to diabetes. Don't get me wrong - I always liked fudge - but that wasn't available every week where we lived and in any case when it was (eg on holiday somewhere else in the UK) I'd have maybe 2 squares and then I'd had enough so didn't have any more until tomorrow.
 
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