Well, to me, “paxlovid mouth” mimics burnt tortillas. It's okay to eat part of a burnt tortilla every now and then because it only makes you appreciate the other part of the unburnt tortilla: the tasty, soft, and pliable part that reminds you of the goodness of Mama's love and care 😀. Not that Mama ever burnt a tortilla because she did NOT. I am referencing the act of reheating a tortilla on a comal and stupidly burning it. That burnt, pungent taste is awful. Most often, if you are anything like this Hispanic gal, burning a tortilla does not elicit throwing it away but rather eating around the burnt part or the edges if it's not a lot. But, there is only so much of the burnt part you can eat before it starts getting too much of a smoky, carbony taste. To me, when I had covid and was prescribed paxlovid by my doctor, and had taken the pills after the first day (6 pills/day, 3 in the morning & 3 at night), it brought on that awful burnt tortilla taste. I had to chew gum and drink ginger ale (Schweppes brand) to respectively mask the taste and get rid of the nausea. So, yeah, even though paxlovid did have a kind of a metallic taste, to me, the burnt tortilla is a better description. The aftertaste of paxlovid is what we learned in the grad counseling program as dysgeusia (dis-GOO-zee-uh), which is a bad taste in the mouth, and it can all be called parageusia. (PAYR-uh-GOO-see-uh). Whatever it is called or however it is described, paxlovid is pungent and repulsive . . . almost as bad as the illness it is helping you recover from or beat: Covid-19. I'll take the bad taste any ole day versus getting hospitalized - or worse. I fear that covid is just here to stay, good, bad, or ugly, it is not going away. It'll just keep mutating. I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, maybe the drug cartel . . . er - I meant big pharma can make paxlovid taste better than metallic, burnt tortillas.
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