Taste and Smell

[newanatomy]

When do I get back my unadulterated senses? My senses of taste and smell are so way off. I want to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea again!

 

[catecholamine]

Maybe I'm the weird one out, mine haven't really changed much that I notice. Then again, I haven't tried a lot of foods yet.

 

[Cello]

When do I get back my unadulterated senses? My senses of taste and smell are so way off. I want to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea again!

Different for everybody but my return to coffee came at around 9 months. And as I recall was longer than many others. Have heard a number of people say 3-6 months on the tastes that actually do come back. Hoping to see you reunited with coffee in no time!

 

[Cello]

To clarify, at 9 months it suddenly sounded remotely appealing again. Since I'm a coffee freak this hiatus surprised me. With my RNY in 2000, coffee sounded good by 6 weeks.

 

[ProteinSnob]

Things stopped tasting awful at about Month 5. I think it's one of those YMMV things. I think it was @Elizabeth N. that got me hooked on Eastern Shores Starry Night tea. It tastes like Nutella.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

Yeah, I LOVE that tea!

Taste/smell is so weird. I think it's more sense of smell than taste that gets messed up. Everyone recovers differently in that regard as with everything else. I abhor coffee's taste but enjoy the smell, and it took a very long time....I'm thinking probably months....before it smelled like coffee rather than like skunk spray again.

ETA: Y'know, now that I think about it, remember how the Berkley Pit used to smell? Coffee smelled kind of like that, too. Blech.

 

[brooklyngirl]

Things stopped tasting awful at about Month 5. I think it's one of those YMMV things. I think it was @Elizabeth N. that got me hooked on Eastern Shores Starry Night tea. It tastes like Nutella.

Wait, wait wait a minute... There's a tea that tastes like NUTELLA!?!?! Where do I find this magic?

 

[Elizabeth N.]

http://www.baltcoffee.com/products/tea-bags-ribbon-bags/eastern-shore-starry-night-tea-bags

 

[brooklyngirl]

AND it has my favorite painting on the box? Schweet! Is it pre sweetened? Do you drink it plain or with milk and sweetener? I'm gonna order a box now.
*eh, with shipping it comes out to $12 for 20 tea bags. Is it that good?

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I have anosmia (since pre DS)...no sense of smell...so my sense of taste is likely impaired as well. I find lots of things bland or boring...I prefer SHARP or EXTRA SHARP cheddar and I think all the queso blanco stuff people rave about tastes like paper towels. I'm not sensitive about tastes.

But for about two months post-op, even water tasted ugly. And coffee...my usual is extra dark, French Brew...was disgusting.

But it all came back. Eventually.

 

[newanatomy]

I have a good palate normally. It is totally unreliable now.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I have a good palate normally. It is totally unreliable now.

It will return. But right now, it's helping you lose weight, so SMILE,!

 

[jpcello]

It will come back. This is your new normal for now. Patience is the one thing they don't tell you about when you have surgery. This is a marathon not a sprint. Everything takes time. Give it a couple of months and all will be good.

 

[southernlady]

My sense of taste and smell didn't alter from the DS...mine altered later (Jaw surgery).

 

[Sandy]

The differences I experienced thankfully didn't involve my beloved coffee. What changed for me, and is still changed 7 years later, is that salty things taste saltier, sweet things taste sweeter, both sometimes disgustingly so, and I now like spicy foods to be more spicy, as in more heat.