Does Your Taste Change After Surgery?

[Shubox 45]

I am wondering because what I am thinking now if my food intake is restricted tremendously now, I want to ENJOY every bite unlike before when it could be dog food and I would just woof it down. There are some favorite foods I enjoy now and hope I still enjoy them after just in less quantity.

[Sheree 10]

Before surgery I LOVED to drink iced tea all day and 1 cup of coffe in the a.m.. Now I can't stand the taste of either one!!! I am 6 weeks out so I am hoping it will change. I haven't noticed it with food but am looking forward to the day I enjoy my coffee and tea again!

[shellbell33081 115]

i'm 4 months out and since surgery i don't care for sweets or most pizza anymore. it doesn't bother me. i know i'm getting healthier and looking great lol

[shrinkydinkme 221]

3 weeks out and still changing.... came home loving the smell of everything good, food, coffee, toast, even our hand soap. I did no longer like Snapple lemon tea but loved the peach. And treat every day was my chewable Vitamin strawberry pineapple flavored. Well this past week my love of coffee had dwindled and my Vitamins make me so sick I can no longer take them So for me for the most part all is well but there are still changes going on.

[Jeniluv1978 22]

Mine has changed. So far I haven't super branched out but I used to love diet lemonade iced tea snapple but it almost made megag!!

[snow_white_39 10]

3 months out... used to **love** sweets (my weakness), now I can't stand chocolate or other sweets, they leave a cloying taste in my mouth. Weird. But I'll take it. And I found that my tastes immediately after surgery were no different than before, they just started to change about a month and a half or 2 months out.

[marie110 33]

im 6 weeks out.. haven't dared explore that much but for me no change with taste hope it stays that way.

[happytohavethesleeve 9]

Oooh, I used to love sweet things. Not anymore. Can you believe I have two huge bags of potatoe chips in my pantry. Sour Cream and Onion and ketchup as well as cheezies. And I think they are stale. Must toss them. I have no desire for them. They seem yuckie. Before I would have ate the whole bag one at a time. lol

[BlueOctoberGirl 111]

I am 1yr and 8 mo out. I love dark meat chicken now and used to hate it. Dont like rice or potatoes anymore. Cant stand lemonaide or any kind of juice. It used to be one of my favs. I will like something and eat it for a month and then one day hate it. So funny how everything changes!

[shrinkingturtle 21]

I am 2 months out and I can no longer handle: eggs, coffee, anything pickled, raw tomatoes, cucumbers, and parmasan cheese. That is just what I have found so far. Hummm

[RawrrAshleex3 137]

Yessss. Can't do any type of broth, my favorite shop rite brand iced tea tastes like over sweetened chemicals, I don't like taco meat anymore, I actually like watermelon now. I always loved! salty carbs and not a huge fan of sweets. I have no craving for salt or carbs, but like sweets now. Craving soda but when I tried to do the "sip and spit" with my beloved diet Pepsi, tasted like fungus-y (like that weird taste when you try to freeze cola yourself). Smells are awful too, certain types of chicken like Perdue pre made or rotisserie make me gag. Walking through our condo breezeway I swear I smell cat pee at the end and no one else smells it!!!!! And I always have this gross vomit taste, my nut told me that's my body in ketosis and when I catch up to the right nutrition levels (I had a lot of complications) it will stop :/ oh the things we volunteer or bodies for! Lol it'll be worth it in the end!!!!!