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Cyberg
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 Posted: 11/16/06 - 15:49 Post subject: Post tonsillectomy taste disturbance |
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Please help, I had a tonsillectomy over 6 weeks ago, and have experienced a most unsettling side effect to my sense of taste. Most foods seem to be masked by a most unpleasant flavor that seems to well up from the posterior of my mouth. Wet foods, like soups or stews, seem to be affected to a lesser degree. Dry foods, such as bread or crackers are just plain awful.
I love to cook, and this is a terrible result, I'm unable to properly assess the flavors in what I make and so have limited my cooking.
I read an article from a British medical journal that described this in some patients and it lasted for more than 12 months. Please, someone tell me that it has never been a permanent condition.
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| Posted: 11/17/06 - 09:20 Post subject: Moderator question |
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| Why did you move this post to the "Pregnancy" topic? No one looking under Pregnancy is likely to have any interest in the posting. |
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| Posted: 11/17/06 - 10:50 Post subject: Taste lost after UPPP & Tonsil |
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| Is nice to know at least I can look forward to eating soups and stew! I too worry my loss of taste is permanent b/c I love to eat. Of course it is better to eat due to hunger rather than ohhhhh, that looks good, I'll have that too. So, the good side is at least I won't be eating much fattening food for awhile. No point in eating the good stuff if I can't even taste it. And....I've lost 20 lbs. |
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| Posted: 11/19/06 - 09:43 Post subject: |
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I've lost about 20 too, and certainly could afford to lose them. I'm really trying to pay attention now to what taste good and what doesn't. I find that even the foods that I love that also happen to fit into the "wet" catagory don't taste 100% like I know they should. My wife made a big pot of her wonderful chili, and although it tastes better than most other stuff, I know that it doesn't taste to me exactly as it should.
Restaurant visits are pretty unexciting these days, and Thanksgiving, for which I'm the prime chef is not going to be much fun.
Lots of family coming, and I'm not going to want to let on that everything tastes lousy to me. I just hope I don't screw up any recipes, because I wont be able to tell. |
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