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.
getting more worried every day 8-|
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.
getting more worried every day 8-|
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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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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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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.
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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I am at just over 100 days since my first op.....went to the hospital yesterday and had the news ive been dreading. My taste loss may be permanent damage from the emergency op when i hemorrhaged. Apparently as they were trying to save my life they must have been a little rough and nicked my nerves running to the back of my tongue. I still have flavour sense but no taste sense so its a double blow as my brain is receiving messages that i should be able to taste but i cant. So its a torturous situation. Im on steroids and he says it may last a year, I may get 50 to 60 percent back but I have to face the possibilty it may well be a permanent thing.
I felt like dropping to my knees..its been 4 months of very little or no taste and most things actually taste like mud.....my throat still feels uncomfortable and ive had pills/nasal sprays/acid reflux medication and now steroids....all for nothing.
I hope its not the case and that you all gat it back too......its such a loss i never could of imagined the feeling i have when i consider a life like this......i just pray gratitude and try and remain humble and thankful that its not as bad as the illnesses and difficulties others live with in the world.....
J :'(
I felt like dropping to my knees..its been 4 months of very little or no taste and most things actually taste like mud.....my throat still feels uncomfortable and ive had pills/nasal sprays/acid reflux medication and now steroids....all for nothing.
I hope its not the case and that you all gat it back too......its such a loss i never could of imagined the feeling i have when i consider a life like this......i just pray gratitude and try and remain humble and thankful that its not as bad as the illnesses and difficulties others live with in the world.....
J :'(
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WOW, I had no idea this could happen, and I even researched prior to surgery! Everyone I have spoken with has since regained their sense of taste, but apparently it can take several months.
I did not realize I had this problem until about 4 weeks post op, as I started being able to eat more normal foods than just soups and popsicles. I can hardly taste anything at all, which is so frustrating, and I constantly have a funny taste in my mouth like I havent brushed my teeth, even though I use gum and mouthwash constantly!
At least I have no more pain, as I had strep and tonsillitis 6 times in 4 months, hence the surgery...and the last episode never did clear up, so they had to come out infected! I sure hope this situation resolves itself. It is just no fun at all!
Good luck to all of you!
I did not realize I had this problem until about 4 weeks post op, as I started being able to eat more normal foods than just soups and popsicles. I can hardly taste anything at all, which is so frustrating, and I constantly have a funny taste in my mouth like I havent brushed my teeth, even though I use gum and mouthwash constantly!
At least I have no more pain, as I had strep and tonsillitis 6 times in 4 months, hence the surgery...and the last episode never did clear up, so they had to come out infected! I sure hope this situation resolves itself. It is just no fun at all!
Good luck to all of you!
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I am will be 4 weeks post op tomorrow. 4 days after I got my tonsils and adenoids out, I bled badly enough to require a second surgery to re-cauterize my throat. I can't taste the sweetness of anything in food. I can taste everything else, but no sugar/sweetener. It's awful..you have no idea what sugar does to enhance food until you can taste everything else in it! Looking back, I think the issue began after my first surgery, but I can't be certain. I kept writing off the variance in taste to the bacteria in my throat, which was very substantial. I've been in contact with my surgeon and he doesn't understand why I'd lose only the ability to taste sweetness, but assured me they didn't get close enough to any nerve endings, and he HAD warned me pre-op that my taste would change. As far as how permanent it is, they can't tell. I'm hoping not. Keep us posted if you hear anything! We're in this with you!!
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It's 12 days since my op and I have to say the consultant never mentioned to me about loosing my ability to taste anything. I am glad to know there are others out there like me, I can't taste much at all - or should I say nothing tastes like it use to. I thought I would have been able to eat better than I can by now as well, but even getting tablets down is painful. I only had one tonsil and a cyst removed, well that was all I had, and I shouldnt have had that really as I'd had my tonsills out when I was eight, and I'm now 52!!!!! I sure hope we all get to taste food real soon.....
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