Thread: sense of smell/taste
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Old 12-03-2008, 08:31 PM
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Default Lost it so long ago....
Taste seems OK but smell went 20 to 30 years ago gradually. Odd though, I can still smell certain things and they seem to be all "odd" and pleasant. Leaf mould on the forest floor, for example. Wood smoke is another.

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Originally Posted by wackemac View Post
How many of you have lost your sense of smell and or taste? How far along were you in PD before it happened, and did it happen all at once or gradually? I have great fear of this pannening to me. Thanks.
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