Smell and taste after surgery

[RobertD16 47]

Before surgery I barely had a sense of smell and taste...Ever since It is slowly coming back...Shampoo and soaps smell awful to me now...Food taste different as well...Anyone else experience this?

[MrsKarenC2008 622]

oh yes ... it's funny but I can actually smell sugar now ... and it STINKS!

Used to love Tomato Soup ... but now ... yuck.

Cant stand banana's anymore ... they stink and taste horrible ...

But yet ... I like spinach now ...

Odd. Who knew !?

[cupples0405 19]

Me too. Use to hate Greek yogurt but now it is yummy. I'm still on full fluids so that's as far as I can go for now but the puréed stage should prove interesting.

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[walnut 12]

Yes! I know what you mean. My sense of smell was very strong after surgery. So much so that the ride home was miserable. Thankfully that's seemed to calm down a little bit a couple months out though.

There are a lot of foods and Protein shakes (such as premier protein) that I loved before that I can't stand the taste of now. My dietitian warned me about that before I had the surgery, so I think it's a pretty common thing.