Bariatric Tongue??
The first time I had to have a scan done with barium after my RNY, I got physically ill. I had already ingested the large dose of nastiness and then they gave me the gas producing crystals and some thicker barium mix, and as I was leaning against the table/platform (up off the floor), I tried to tell the technician that I was going to throw up (and that, as a RNY patient, it could come up very quickly and that I had almost no control over it). She said that lots of people feel like they are going to be sick, but that they don't actually vomit. I insisted that she needed to bring me a basin PDQ, and she got there just as it was coming up (but the first half of it went on the floor, anyway).
The next time a RNYer said they needed a basin, my guess is that she got them one!
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
"Teeth are wearing little sweaters" 
In my family we say that our teeth have fur boots on LOL!!
We say squirrels knitted sweaters whilst sleeping!
When it is REALLY bad we say raccoons did the same. :)
HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!
I've seen people talk about a "bariatric tongue" and I have no idea what that means. It sounds really gross. 
Do you guys know what that means??
I use the term...basically for me it means that I have very different tastes post-op than I did before surgery. And sometimes I will make something that I love and my husband loves, but my son finds it unappealing. So then I have to dress it up in some way for it to work for both a standard tongue and the bariatric tongue.
In the beginning, I chalked it up to the need to brush my teeth 22 times a day, but my husband is out of the high loss period and it has remained for him. A number of people say that they have a different taste approach even years later. Which I guess is a good thing, because I literally don't even WANT bread for example and would be AOK if that is always the case. I can live without bread. :)
Hope that helps...and it is only my perspective, I am speaking for no others.
HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!
I've seen people talk about a "bariatric tongue" and I have no idea what that means. It sounds really gross.
Do you guys know what that means??
I use the term...basically for me it means that I have very different tastes post-op than I did before surgery. And sometimes I will make something that I love and my husband loves, but my son finds it unappealing. So then I have to dress it up in some way for it to work for both a standard tongue and the bariatric tongue.
In the beginning, I chalked it up to the need to brush my teeth 22 times a day, but my husband is out of the high loss period and it has remained for him. A number of people say that they have a different taste approach even years later. Which I guess is a good thing, because I literally don't even WANT bread for example and would be AOK if that is always the case. I can live without bread. :)
Hope that helps...and it is only my perspective, I am speaking for no others.
Hmm, no, that's not it. (At least I don't remember getting that impression when I read it. I remember it being more like something along the lines of what the others are suggesting (bad breath or something else gross).
But I see what your saying. Thanks!
I've seen people talk about a "bariatric tongue" and I have no idea what that means. It sounds really gross.
Do you guys know what that means??
I use the term...basically for me it means that I have very different tastes post-op than I did before surgery. And sometimes I will make something that I love and my husband loves, but my son finds it unappealing. So then I have to dress it up in some way for it to work for both a standard tongue and the bariatric tongue.
In the beginning, I chalked it up to the need to brush my teeth 22 times a day, but my husband is out of the high loss period and it has remained for him. A number of people say that they have a different taste approach even years later. Which I guess is a good thing, because I literally don't even WANT bread for example and would be AOK if that is always the case. I can live without bread. :)
Hope that helps...and it is only my perspective, I am speaking for no others.
Hmm, no, that's not it. (At least I don't remember getting that impression when I read it. I remember it being more like something along the lines of what the others are suggesting (bad breath or something else gross).
But I see what your saying. Thanks!
I just had a little voice in my head say "palate" - like we have a different palate after surgery than before ... ?
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I've seen people talk about a "bariatric tongue" and I have no idea what that means. It sounds really gross.
Do you guys know what that means??
I use the term...basically for me it means that I have very different tastes post-op than I did before surgery. And sometimes I will make something that I love and my husband loves, but my son finds it unappealing. So then I have to dress it up in some way for it to work for both a standard tongue and the bariatric tongue.
In the beginning, I chalked it up to the need to brush my teeth 22 times a day, but my husband is out of the high loss period and it has remained for him. A number of people say that they have a different taste approach even years later. Which I guess is a good thing, because I literally don't even WANT bread for example and would be AOK if that is always the case. I can live without bread. :)
Hope that helps...and it is only my perspective, I am speaking for no others.
Hmm, no, that's not it. (At least I don't remember getting that impression when I read it. I remember it being more like something along the lines of what the others are suggesting (bad breath or something else gross).
But I see what your saying. Thanks!
I just had a little voice in my head say "palate" - like we have a different palate after surgery than before ... ?
Aaah yes, that makes sense. Is that what you were going for, PetHairMagnet? ("bariatric palate"?)
My tastes haven't really changed since surgery. I was extremely picky before and I'm still extremely picky. Haha! I was hoping that I would come out of surgery magically liking vegetables, but alas, my palate is still the same. Waaaaah!! 
I've seen people talk about a "bariatric tongue" and I have no idea what that means. It sounds really gross.
Do you guys know what that means??
I use the term...basically for me it means that I have very different tastes post-op than I did before surgery. And sometimes I will make something that I love and my husband loves, but my son finds it unappealing. So then I have to dress it up in some way for it to work for both a standard tongue and the bariatric tongue.
In the beginning, I chalked it up to the need to brush my teeth 22 times a day, but my husband is out of the high loss period and it has remained for him. A number of people say that they have a different taste approach even years later. Which I guess is a good thing, because I literally don't even WANT bread for example and would be AOK if that is always the case. I can live without bread. :)
Hope that helps...and it is only my perspective, I am speaking for no others.
Hmm, no, that's not it. (At least I don't remember getting that impression when I read it. I remember it being more like something along the lines of what the others are suggesting (bad breath or something else gross).
But I see what your saying. Thanks!
I just had a little voice in my head say "palate" - like we have a different palate after surgery than before ... ?
Aaah yes, that makes sense. Is that what you were going for, PetHairMagnet? ("bariatric palate"?)
My tastes haven't really changed since surgery. I was extremely picky before and I'm still extremely picky. Haha! I was hoping that I would come out of surgery magically liking vegetables, but alas, my palate is still the same. Waaaaah!!
I have degrees, credentials, and certifications in this area...with lots of letters after my name, so I know stuff...yes, 'palate' is a better term to describe a preference or taste. While the tongue does a large part of the sensing and tasting, the term 'palate' is the accepted nomenclature...as in a refined palate.
Interestingly, contradictory to so many reports that tastes change, mine really haven't...at least not yet. The only real change I've noticed is spicy foods are MUCH hotter, and food has more flavor. I attribute this to smaller bites and more chewing, which draws in more air and saliva that are critical to taste. As for foods tasting hotter, i think it's because I don't have as much food and such left behind because I eat far less.
I've read this and have tried to figure out how, physiologically and neurologically, this surgery would change one's actual taste buds. Now, your taste buds renew themselves every ten days to two weeks, so to me, that dismisses the whole "surgery changed my taste" theory. I suspect it is something psychological. I'll have to research this theory further.
I can definitively say that my sense of smell has changed! For some reason it is heightened...the smell of raw meat makes pouchy turn...and I keep thinking I smell cigarette smoke where there absolutely is no smoke.
