Question:
Does anyone else find their sence of smell has changed?

Hi guys and girls......does anyone else find that certain smells of foods make them sick now? Garlic and cup of soup make me wanna vomit now......but didn't before surgery. I had the rny. Also, that their sence of smell is stronger than usual? For example....my parents went out for dinner and ate bruschetta pasta...(garlic).....and after sitting in the back of our vehicle for 5 minutes and smelling them..I thought I was literally going to be sick! LOL Any thoughts?!    — Jennifer M. (posted on April 29, 2002)

April 29, 2002
I am 8 weeks post op. The first 4 or 5 weeks I did believe that my sense of smell was so much stronger. When I went back to work and had people sitting across my desk from me talking I could smell them food opn their breath very strongly. It wasn't too pleasant. Now I am either back to normal or I am used to the heightened sense.
   — Susan M.

April 29, 2002
I can't think of any occassions where smell made me feel ill, but my sense of smell is most definitely stronger now! I walk around all day commenting on things that I smell. I quit smoking the day of surgery and thought that may have something to do with it too.
   — PaulaM

April 29, 2002
Yeah smelling food made me nausus the first 2-3 months. Weird. It hardly happens anymore. Sure wish it still did as I lost most of my weight when food smelled awful! lol. It won't always be that way. Once you are healed things will smell fine again.
   — Danmark

June 6, 2003
YES,WENT GROCERY SHOPPING, WALKING NEAR WERE YOU GRIND YOUR OWN COFFEE, GOT SO NAUSES HAD TO GET AWAY FROM THERE QUICK..DEB D.
   — DEBORAH D.