No taste!

[Lynne1946]

They said you should not be able to smell,but you can taste. I am just the opposite,no taste but can smell. Is anyone out there like me?

[ddmagee1]

Both my taste and smell are affected by PD, I believe. Sometimes, I think some things really taste bad, that I used to like. My wife says they taste the same, so it’s me, not the food! I don’t like that I have those problems at times, but it does fluctuate. There are times when food tastes as it should and then other times, when, for lack of a better word, food is just tasteless( or yucky) to me.

[Lisl]

I can smell most things and when my neuro tested me with the sniff'n sticks as per the standard PD test some years ago, my sense of smell was normal. However, my sense of taste has been really bad for a long while. For example I can smell coffee but can't taste it, though I can taste bitter, so I know if it's a bad cup of coffee. At the moment I have a perpetual salty taste in my mouth.

Do you have a young onset form of PD?

[Lynne1946 in reply to Lisl]

No I am 71! I can smell everything,but can't taste anything. I keep wondering if there is some other cause related to not tasting?