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By beth | June 27, 2008
Well one of my coworkers is worse than the ECU student health center when it comes to mis-diagnosing pregnancy. We tried to convince her that there are several important prerequisites to becoming pregnant (one in particular) in which I have ne’er participated, and that it is therefore impossible for that to be the case. But again, just like the student health center, she didn’t believe me.
I’d like to thank all of you, however, who did some serious research and came up with some pretty good theories as to why everything tastes like nothing right now. There are currently three front runners, which I will be attempting to eliminate one-by-one over the next two to three weeks.
- My mother found a website that suggested exposure to certain insecticides could be to blame. And what with the Orkin man having come a-calling recently, this is a possibility. I think we’ll probably not know for sure, however, until the place gets good and aired out or I move (which is happening July 12-ish if anyone’s interested in helping).
- A vitamin B-12/zinc/iron deficiency could be to blame, all of which are often found in meat/fish, which we all know I don’t eat. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for this to be affecting me now after adhering to a (mostly) vegan diet for seven months, but I busted the multi-vitamin back out today, so we’ll see if that helps.
- I got a new mouthwash earlier this week. If that is what’s causing this, you can bet your buttons that Crest will be receiving a VERY unhappy letter from me. Let’s see how much free toothpaste we can get, shall we?
So like I said, I started on the vitamin supplement today. If that doesn’t help, then next week I’ll switch back to my old mouthwash. And if that doesn’t work, then I’ll be moving out of the Orkin apartment on the 12th, so we shall see. Until then, however, I would like to tentatively retract my praise of the Orkin man. You hear that, internet? Please maintain neutral feelings on the Orkin man until his role in this taste thing can be determined. Until that time, no feelings are to be had for him one way or the other. But once we get it figured out, we will either reinstate his royal status for killing the flies (which were mostly attached to the fly paper already, but hopefully he at least kept more from coming in), or we will condemn him forever for stealing all the joy from my dining experiences this week. We shall be torn, however, because the lack of taste has made for a lack of appetite, which will hopefully make for a lack of five pounds or so.
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June 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Hey Beth, So one time I used a new mouthwash (listerine I think) and I couldn’t taste anything for like 3 days. I only used it that one time and now I am back to normal. Well as normal as I ever am… hope your taste buds come back!