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Around 15 years ago I broke my nose which eventually led to a loss of taste and smell. Around 8 months ago I had surgery on the internal structures of my nose w
by pjot 3y ago
Around 15 years ago I broke my nose which eventually led to a loss of taste and smell. Around 8 months ago I had surgery on the internal structures of my nose which in addition to allowing me to breath again, I can also taste and smell. The experience has been completely mind blowing.
On the flip side I can no longer order the spiciest of spicy Thai and Indian food from my usual restaurants. The owners poke fun at me now.
- smith7018 3y agoThat's fascinating because it implies that our ability to feel/respond to spicy food is all psychological. I would have figured that you would have felt at least some pain build while eating really spicy food but I guess not.
- dekhn 3y agoThe response to spicy food is not all psychological. It's due to activation of heat receptors by capsaicin. Note: many factors affect the subjective experience of taste sensation.
- Supermancho 3y agoI have been put into atrial fibrillation by the aggravation caused by spicy food from a popular indian restaurant in north Seattle. I had to get cardioverted. Was it due to stress? Was it due to the sustained rise in blood pressure? Was it caused by GI? It doesn't matter. I have to avoid it now, for safety.
- lwhalen 3y agoI, too, have dined at Taste Of India, and paid the price. I'll do it again too!
- HelloMcFly 3y agoMy mouth can handle the spiciest food one can order. Unfortunately, my GI system isn't quite so tough.
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- froh 3y agofascinating. the receptors for hot / chili are in your tongue and not in your nose. mind to elaborate how you can't eat chilly any longer?
- tomjakubowski 3y agoIn the name of science, go ahead and stuff some diced chilis in your nose and report back.
- froh 3y agowhy on earth do you eat with your nose? don't do that! even for science, really just don't. I don't either. in the name of science.
- mancerayder 3y agoYou can probably already find that on TikTok.
- dumbfounder 3y agoHe probably doesn’t know how. But it’s an interesting point. I never thought about it before, but the event I went through had a similar link between taste and smell, and in hindsight I now don’t get why. In college I made a bet with a friend that I could hold dominos wings hot sauce in my mouth for 10 minutes. At the time, the wings from dominos were actually very spicy. It was painfu, I spent about 30 minutes washing my mouth out after that. I lost my sense of taste AND smell for an entire year. Why did I lose my sense of smell and not just my taste? Any docs here to explain?
- mancerayder 3y agoIt feels like damage like that is (speculation from reading about covid effects and causes) often neurological. Maybe the intense overload of the pain receptors triggered some immune reaction that damaged nerves as collateral damage?
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- dm03514 3y agoI noticed this too, after losing my sense of smell/taste in june 2022 I've been able to easily tolerate spice that I wasn't able to tolerate prior.
- giardini 3y agoI had a similar injury with on-and-off sense of smell since. What type of surgery did you have done? I'd like to bring it up with my ENT doctor (who treats my nose as his personal polyp farm), and has prescribed only steroids (which DO work but have bad side-effects).
- pjot 3y agoI had a septoplasty and turbinate reduction. The recovery was pretty brutal - there’s many nerves and pain receptors in the middle of your skull apparently. In all it’s amazing to not have a “stuffed” nose all the time.