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I was banded Thursday and I am having trouble with food smells making me nauseous. I feel like i am smelling everything and everything smells weird. just like being pregnant. I have two small boys and care for them on my own, fixing their eggs sandwiches yesterday almost made me gag! And I swear I can smell the baloney in the frfridgerator from my couch! Yuk! Is this just from being so close out from surgery? I hope my hunger acuity doesn't per innately transfer to some sort of odor acuity.....

I'm telling the boys it's Cereal only today.

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OMG YES! I've never been pregnant but my smells are heightened. I was sitting at Starbucks and a group of women brought some fried chicken into the Starbucks sat next to be started eating I almost threw up. I noticed it too. I had surgery on 11-6

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I noticed this too! Someone sent me a plant with 2 flowers in it and I had to put it in another room b/c the smell.My husbands dinner was gagging too. Now 4 wks out isn't to bad anymore. Hang in there!

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I am 15 mos out and some food smells still make me want to gag. It's not always the same food,. Being banded is a continuing learning process. I learn something new all the time

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The first few days were bad. My husband cooked for himself and made lots of toast which I love the smell of normally. But when I got home from surgery, I had to go outside every time he toasted something because I wanted to throw up and I was afraid of ruining the surgery I just had. It did pass by the 2nd or 3rd week and I am back to loving the smell of toast. Don't know why that is but it was not good! Hang in there it does get better.

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i had this at the grocery store yesterday, my sense of smell was so heightened. i could smell stuff from a couple of aisles away. Day 5 and learning something new everyday

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Yes that happened to me. I was at petco and the smells almost made me throw up so I went to two more diff stores n something.....

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