OMG, I have been on my preop since Monday. I have a horrible, horrible taste in my mouth. I can't get rid of it.

Could I be in Ketosis? It is horrible and I haven't even had surgery yet!

Yes it is most likely ketones. And it is a wonderful, wonderful thing! That rank taste is your body burning your stored fat. Find joy in the nastiness :-D

I know this is frustrating but it gets better, I promise. Just remind yourself when you notice this, and foul smelling urine, that your body is working with you for once and doing what you want and need it to do. It is burning that fat!

Congratulations!

I <3 ketosis!

Ketosis - the place I never want to leave lol.

I went through ketosis horribly over the summer and all I tasted was vomit or snot, yuck! It got better though and I no longer taste funny stuff.

Yep, ketosis is like something crawled up and died in your stomach or mouth. Dry, sticky tongue with a whiteish film and you can smell your own breath. Great weight loss stage to be in preop and post op.

Keep a toothbrush nearby and since you are preop stage, you can chew sugar-free gum to battle.

Congrats on your upcoming surgery.

Gum even 4 months later bothers my stomach with gas (go figure I have no problems with straws though??!?) sugar free sunkist candies, sf wherthers caramel apple candies and sf mints were a life saver when I was allowed to have them! It was nasty but also lost the most weight fast!

Yep, ketosis is like something crawled up and died in your stomach or mouth. Dry, sticky tongue with a whiteish film and you can smell your own breath. Great weight loss stage to be in preop and post op.

Keep a toothbrush nearby and since you are preop stage, you can chew sugar-free gum to battle.

Congrats on your upcoming surgery.

I have brushed 3x today and I am chewing gum as I type....my husband was like WHOA!

As the token counterpoint to the discussion, you can avoid most of those nasty side effects by keeping your carbs up some - the extreme ketosis state is not essential to burning fat or losing weight (though by the Atkins hypothesis, it might increase the rate of loss to some degree.) I'm glad I never had to put up with it.

As the token counterpoint to the discussion, you can avoid most of those nasty side effects by keeping your carbs up some - the extreme ketosis state is not essential to burning fat or losing weight (though by the Atkins hypothesis, it might increase the rate of loss to some degree.) I'm glad I never had to put up with it.

It is not by choice, but the result of my pre-op diet which I am following as written.

I recognize that now - the pre-op thing that some docs do usually is a low carb program so this is often unavoidable. Once you get through that and past surgery, then you get a bit more flexibility to tailor things for your needs rather than the surgeon's (depending upon how much of a low carb enthusiast your surgeon is in his post op program.)

I recognize that now - the pre-op thing that some docs do usually is a low carb program so this is often unavoidable. Once you get through that and past surgery' date=' then you get a bit more flexibility to tailor things for your needs rather than the surgeon's (depending upon how much of a low carb enthusiast your surgeon is in his post op program.)[/quote']

I had no idea that this would happen, but it makes sense. It is gross!!! Not liking ketosis. I don't think mt husband likes it either. He is such a great sport!

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