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very weird problem with loss of taste

Hi guys. So a little background. I've been vaping for 3 months. Formerly a pack and a half day smoker. Started on a little eGo AIO and got a Smok Procolor with big baby beast two weeks ago. It was intended to replace the eGo, because i had broken it at work.

I have been loving my Pro color and especially love fruity vapes so the other day I ordered a Cabana Punch Grapleberry Ice, and a generic Banana. The banana tasted great and strong, so i emptied the tank back into the bottle, and loaded up the grappleberry. I swap out flavours quite often as i haven't found one that i would call an all day vape. I also don't mind the 3 or 4 hits i take where the flavors are mixed. Something weird happened though. The grappleberry is a popular flavour at the store i got it from and all reviews say its a strong flavour, but I puffed and puffed and tasted nothing except for a tiny bit of mint on my lips. I was getting decent clouds but it just tasted like licking a t-shirt. I thought maybe it was vapers tongue, or that my coil was nearing the end of its life, so i switched back to the banana. It tasted good as ever. Today i bought a new flavor on my way home. twelve monkeys kanzi. I tasted nothing. lots of vapor. no flavor. Loaded the banana again.... no flavor!

I have since primed two more coils, always taking care to saturate the cotton, start at 32 watts for awhile then build up. all my vape juices taste like nothing. or taste like licking a t-shirt. lots of vaper. no taste at all. I've cleaned the connection the coils make with the bottom of the baby beast; same thing. I'm using the .4ohm Q2 coils. I desperately need answers, because i cant go back to smoking, but vaping wet t-shirt isn't much of an option. Is there something wrong with my mod? My tank? I don't think its vapers tongue, as i dont use my vape at work (first one broke because i didn't realize it was even in my pocket). So i went go all day without vaping. Its also not a gradual "getting used to" the flavors. The flavors aren't just diminished. They aren't there at all.

Thank you and sorry if this is in the wrong section. I was planning on joining a vapers forum anyways. I'm not *just* here because I have a problem. I'm really desparate here
 

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Sounds to me like it may be vapors tongue.
Maybe try to close off your airflow a bit and lower the wattage. See if that compression gives you a bit of
Flavor.
If not, try a pallet cleanser: something like ginger or lemon juice.

When I get the vapors tongue I either vape a menthol juice for a little bit, eat a piece of pickled ginger or drink a bit of lemon juice. I hate menthol but it helps reactivate my taste buds.
 
That was my thought too, but usually when I get vapors tongue, changing out the flavor fixes things. Thats mostly why i switch out my flavors once or twice a day. I've tried using listerine. I'll go to the gas station and get a little 10 ml bottle of 5 dollar mint juice and see if that works. This just seems so odd.
 

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That was my thought too, but usually when I get vapors tongue, changing out the flavor fixes things. Thats mostly why i switch out my flavors once or twice a day. I've tried using listerine. I'll go to the gas station and get a little 10 ml bottle of 5 dollar mint juice and see if that works. This just seems so odd.
It can happen like that though.
I used to get it a lot when I first switched. The last couple of years, I’ve vaped the same juice 90% of the time and haven’t had it.
Your tastes will also change the longer you stay off the cigarettes. New tastebuds open and you notice certain flavor notes differently. (Some more than others)
It May help to change flavor profiles drastically from time to time. Also.
 
I think you were right. I'm getting the mint off this cheap menthol. Just wasnt expecting vapors tongue to be so drastic that banana, mixed fruits, green apple, etc all just lost their taste completely for me. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to taste again. As I only really enjoy fruit flavors so far
 

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I think you were right. I'm getting the mint off this cheap menthol. Just wasnt expecting vapors tongue to be so drastic that banana, mixed fruits, green apple, etc all just lost their taste completely for me. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to taste again. As I only really enjoy fruit flavors so far
What you enjoy will change in time...
just mix up your vape profile from time to time.
Try an apple pie or something along the lines of a desert.
 
How long does one usually need to wait? I've been on the menthol about 20 hours now. Just tried a fruity juice and still taste absolutely nothing. :(
 

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Everyone is different and has different remedies to the vapor tounge

That said, I’m usually good after I switch for a day or so.
 

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Welcome @banaar and hope you enjoy your stay~!

Cures that work for me with vapers tongue are as follows:

Lemon Flavored Water
Sorbet
Eat a Pickle
Spicy food

Good Luck and vape on safely..................
 
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, it's been two days. I've eaten spicy foods, smelled fresh ground coffee beans, eaten pickles and still taste nothing but wet t-shirt. Can taste mint, but nothing else. I have nothing else but fruits though, as I'm in a small town with no vape shop. Gonna order some different flavour profiles to see if I will like them. Have to wait to get paid though.
 

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Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, it's been two days. I've eaten spicy foods, smelled fresh ground coffee beans, eaten pickles and still taste nothing but wet t-shirt. Can taste mint, but nothing else. I have nothing else but fruits though, as I'm in a small town with no vape shop. Gonna order some different flavour profiles to see if I will like them. Have to wait to get paid though.
Sometimes that just happens. I have one friend in particular that has very different taste experiences than I do. I'll be raving about a juice and he'll go "don't taste a thing", and visa visa. Once he gave me a bottle and said tastes like pure coconut and I hate coconut. I could only taste strawberry. Go figure.
 

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