The light bulb just came on.
You mentioned memory problems a while back, and it just dawned on me that this can have a connection with losing one's sense of taste and smell. Are you getting enough thiamine, (vitamin B1)?
This is a pretty long shot, but the reason I ask, is because there is a condition known as Korsakoff's psychosis, in which the brain is deprived of thiamine. The condition is usually caused by alcoholism, but the true cause of Korsakoff's syndrome in chronic alcoholics, is not actually a deficiency of thiamine in the diet, but rather a reduction in the body's ability to absorb thiamine in the intestine. As you are well aware, MC can cause malabsorption problems, especially for certain vitamins, so I would think that this would make us all possible candidates for something like that.
Anyway, you might run this past your doctor, to see what he thinks. It's kind of far-fetched, but then MC is a disease that can have far-reaching consequences. And, as we all know, it affects all of us differently. If your doctor considered your memory problem to be significant enough to justify a memory test, then this might mean something to him. (If he's not familiar with it, he can look it up).
Anyway, loss of sense of taste and smell, and memory loss, are two symptoms of Karsakoff's psychosis, though you don't necessarily have the other symptoms, (yet).
Luve,
Galahad
