Turning a disability into a gift

I've recently lost my sense of smell completely. Alcohol, candles, ammonia, onions, farts, I don't even get the tiniest whiff of it. My nose might as well be 100% dead.
As it turns out, if you lose your sense of smell you almost completely lose the ability to taste anything. I can't really taste anything but I can get a general undertone of the general flavor, I can roughly tell if something is sweet or salty other than that I might as well not be eating anything.

Since this happened I've completely lost the urge to eat. Today I had a bowl of bran flakes and a handful of almonds.

Can you guys direct me toward the perfect diet? One that doesn't regard taste? Literally anything is on the table.

put a bunch of kale, oranges, milk, tuna or chicken, almonds, eggs, and assorted vitamins into a blender and drink it.

how the fuck do you just lose your sense of smell? i water-fasted for a day and my sense of smell was stronger than normal. maybe try that

I had an infection, after I cleared up I noticed I couldn't taste smell anything.

>I've recently lost my sense of smell completely
You can eat ass more efficiently

I lost my sense of smell for years and it just started coming back. When it was gone I (for no understandable reason) had a sense of taste.

Just eat a shit ton of dark green veggies. If your taste and smell come back, then you'll be used to it and for some reason you'll be able to tolerate it better.

Eat 2 onions of each color and become a demigod.

THIS

OP go onto tinder and post a profile saying you lost your sense of smell and you are open to no strings attached ass eating

sounds like alzheimers

Ammonia doesn't give you any response?
Normal sense of smell is done by the olfactory nerve, but noxious odors like ammonia trigger a response from the trigeminal nerve.

Can you smell nice smells or just not bad smells?

Something unironically like this. You can now eat pretty much anything in any form. Obviously cook anything that needs to be cooked, but yeah.

Start thinking about textures more than flavours. Think about heat, cold, etc; how your tongue detects things like chillis and jalapenos, how your hot oatmeal has chunks of frozen berries in every mouthful. Think about the presentation of your food; the artistry around making a perfect sunny-side-up egg that oozes when you slice it.
Also make a tinder profile that says about eating ass, that's seriously such a good shout by

Nothing. I bought a new bottle of ammonia from a dollar store just to make sure.
I would but I live alone, not many people to make presentable food for. I do like crunchy fruit and the texture of well cooked chicken though.

Start eating insects for sickening gains

Fart porn OP there is no other option

I'm a plumber and this would be awesome. I'm not even grossed out by stuff but sometimes I literally can't control my body's reactions and I almost puke.

You should be a plumber my dude, think of them forearm gains.

Did you take antibiotics?
Your nose has flora and shit like your gut, antibiotics are great for killing off a bad infection but they also kill the good stuff too.

There are a lot of ways. My mom lost hers because she used some expired nasal spray that was on clearance at the pharmacy

Hijacking this thread

Is there any way to actively prevent losing your sense of smell?

I make $45k/y base pay and I have benefits, It's slightly unlikely I'd change jobs.
I lost it before I took medication.

I'm sure your doctor told you this, but be careful. Since you can't smell, you could easily poison yourself.

Try not to have any accidents; I lost mine after falling over and breaking my nose.

Look into steroid, corticosteroids, etc; they can actually help restore a sense of smell; they've worked for me.

>currently have a sinus infection from rhinitis over the autumn
>have had it for like a month and symptoms haven't gotten better

Do I need to get antibiotics for this? Like, I've had them before and they've always gotten better on their own. Every morning I wake up with slight swelling and itchiness in my nose and if I do anything I sneeze like 20 times and end up congested.

Do I absolutely need to see a doctor over this or is there some way to help treat it on my own?

Please eat only raw fruits and veggies.
Do things every day that provide a sense of fulfillment.
Do not use chemicals in hygienic items, use toothpaste/shampoo/soap that is naturally derived.
No animal products whatsoever, no wheat, no beans, nothing but fresh veggies and fruit (dried fruit with no preservatives or additives are great as well).
Stay away from cooked food, especially anything with starch.
I promise you will be healthy in a short amount of time, don't give into anything. Stay strong friend, you will persevere.

If your loss of smell and taste is permanent, I hate to tell you but there is a high rate of suicide amongst people with your condition.
Pic related was the lead singer of the 80’s band INXS. The man was a literal vagina renovator and he lost his sense of smell and taste after a minor head injury. Hung himself a few years later.

Do not listen or be put down by such a weak attempt. Dry fast for 1-5 days as much as you can and you will reach levels of health and cleanliness throughout your body you have never thought possible.

Right now I'm eating some chicken cooked in some tomato sauce and I can almost taste the tomato. But I can see why people would feel a bit sad at not being able to smell.

Eat your maintenance calories in nothing but raw onions. Post results.

I have an exceptionally limited sense of smell/taste. Lost it from years of chemical exposure (use a fume hood kids). I can only taste STRONG things, think uber-spicy, hella-sour, mucho-garlicy, bananas, super-bitter, mega-metallic, etc. Everything I eat is based on texture. Regular lunch is a tuna/peanut butter/kale/spinach/orange sandwich on pumpernickel bread with enough hot sauce that I get called Smaug. Find foods that "feel" right in your mouth. I can't eat avocados because it's just mush and feels like barf, but tortellini and granola are really fun to eat. You'll need to relearn eating, for example taking correct size bites was hard for me to gauge once I couldn't taste anything. If I put enough spicy on I can taste the spicy a little bit, which I find is better than nothing.
Also if your in uni, get a job cleaning up after house parties. Me and a few Hispanic guys (they don't give a fuck about anything and work hard) cleaned up vomit for $100 a room and made BANK. Bodily fluids are less gross when you can't smell them

The study was redone. Weak correlation between smell-loss and suicide after factoring out increased suicide due to head trauma. I'll try to find the new article

Somewhat the same story as you OP.

I had a case of influenza A and B at the same time, hit a 41 degree C fever and my sense of smell was badly damaged.
It wasn't exactly lost, but I smelled absolutely nothing but varying intensities of phantom sulphur. It wasn't very pleasant.

After 7 months of pure fucking hell my sense of smell came back. There's hope.
It's not quite as good as before, and I still occasionally smell sulphur, but you take your blessings.

I've lost my sense of smell and have for the last three months. I'm utterly despondent. I basically just go to work, sit at my desk, and come home, cook up some rice and beans to stay alive and take sleeping pills to sleep whenever I'm not working. I want it back so damn bad.

That seems to be the norm with this ailment. My suggestion is to become an adrenaline junky.
Go skydiving or diving with sharks to begin with and live a life based on tempting death by finding increasingly dangerous scenarios to put yourself in.
I always think that no matter how bad life gets, I can always have a nice bowl of soup.
But you just get a bowl of warm wet, so fuck it, live hard.

a fever that high can also make you deaf and blind

so err, at least it's just smell OP is dealing with and not hearing or vision. any studies done on suicide rates of those folks? never really thought about it

it sounds like allergic rhinitis. you can deal with it easily with nasal steroids - please note, nasal steroids and not nasal decongestants. the most common one used in australia is Nasonex, but there are plenty including some which have the steroid and an anti-histamine component (Dymista)

Really good idea OP do this.