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Has anyone found they have stopped liking certain foods since having Coronavirus?

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AnotherMansCause · 30/12/2021 22:38

Or is it just me? I lost my appetite quite significantly when I was ill with it, but only for about 4-5 days. I didn't really lose my sense of taste at all, only lost my sense of smell slightly for a couple of days. I've been largely recovered for several days, although I'm still quite tired & have a touch of a cough.

But, I've completely gone off certain foods. Namely, crisps, & chocolate. Two of my favourite things. Sad Before covid I could put away extraordinary amounts of them given the chance, but now I find them really unpleasant. Obviously this will be good for my health. But I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar. I can barely cope with being in the same room as DH or DD while they are eating crisps, it's the crunching... I want them but equally I find them repellent now.

I've not gone off anything else, & everything else tastes pretty much normal. And it's not getting better. Is it normal? Am I doomed to a lifetime of no crisps or chocolate?

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Maverickess · 01/01/2022 23:24

@adagio

Milk (in tea). I went right off all dairy a year or so ago and never got back to normal. I used to love tea! Switched to black coffee.
This has got me thinking! I have gone right off tea completely, I use skimmed milk anyway and only a bit as I'm not a fan of milk anyway, but when I started to get my taste back tea just tasted like liquid salt 🤢 coffee was fine and other drinks ok but I really could just taste salt when I drank tea, I use the sachets of coffee and add a little cold water instead of milk, so I only have milk in tea, I'd not thought of it being the milk, I thought it was just the tea itself. It's got a bit better recently (had covid in August) and is better if I use honey instead of sweetener, but there's definitely still a salty tang to it.
isitnewyearyet · 01/01/2022 23:43

Coffee and tea just taste like hot water now. Really strange.

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