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Change of smell

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I've been having to go to restaurants the last couple weeks on business several times and I've noticed a change in scents the last few weeks around meat products. I first noticed it after I made a large batch of chili using Italian sausage, I noticed a weird funk to it. I cant describe the smell but it is different and almost turns me off. I didn't associate the smell with the chili for awhile as it tasted normal. I noticed the smell over the next few days when I would start cooking around the oven and cleaned it top to bottom. Last week I went to a steakhouse and ordered a chicken fried steak and noticed the smell heavily. I thought it must have been me, body oil or something. I went back to that same steakhouse 2 days ago and upon entry I noticed the smell right away. Again yesterday I stopped and grabbed a Gyros and everything in there smelled ok but as soon as I got home and opened the container I could identify the smell right away.

I don't know what it is, to me it might be a sensitivity I'm picking up to oil smells or something. It smells like a hot aromatic oil maybe a cross between cooking oil, copper/iron and slight rich varnish is what I'm picking up. I don't know if it's bariatric related though. Has anyone else had similar issue?
 
Anne23 said:
I have practically gone vegetarian since my RNY almost a year ago. Since surgery animal protein has been unappetizing. I was a total meat lover pre-op! Now I get my protein through shakes, tofu, beans, etc.
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I could see this being me after surgery, I have a lot of issues with meat products due to texture. It was one of my concerns for getting protein after surgery. I was relived to read so much on forums about people being vegetarian before/after bypass and still meeting goals and maintaining.
 
Anne23 said:
I have practically gone vegetarian since my RNY almost a year ago. Since surgery animal protein has been unappetizing. I was a total meat lover pre-op! Now I get my protein through shakes, tofu, beans, etc.
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Me as well. I'm 95% plant-based, at least and my non-plant foods are generally dairy and not meat. The smell, taste and texture don't appeal to me anymore. I actually enjoy my meals more than ever and don't miss meat at all. I thought I would, but I don't.
 
Certain smells give me the dry heaves. Certain tastes just make me full on hurl and heave. I do ok with most foods and so forth now - but in the beginning it was awful. My husband said it was rough on him coming into the kitchen - not knowing what may or may not set off my lovely hurl stage. He said it left him wanting to eat elsewhere when he had to come home and "chance seeing my blue hurl bucket in the kitchen while trying to cook." I told him the only humane thing to do was have the kitchen removed and make the bedroom bigger - and there would be no need for my blue hurl bucket any more. Unfortunately - I still have a kitchen......
 
I love veggies - most all veggies. But I love MEAT more. I like to snuggle my veggies up to my steaks!

I have a daughter that eats/makes black bean burgers - mushroom burgers - I love shroom burgers extremely tasty! She will on occasion eat eggs, tofu - I’ve tried her tofu stuff - it was not a pleasant experience for me couldn’t bring myself to actually swallow it.

My husband looks at the tofu like it’s something from an alien planet - asks for a rare steak. - and will emphasize REAL MEAT only please. My daughter fixed a black bean, shroom, and other veggies steak shaped substance - my husband didn’t find that interesting at all. He just kept saying I want REAL MEAT.

My daughter prefers the vegetarian lifestyle. But I’ve seen her look at my steak - with a leering look - I’ve told her that look makes me imagine her in windowless van trolling the streets looking for and stalking beef on the hoof - while planning how to lure the “meat” into her van….I expect to get a call asking for bail from meat jail….
 
I am a little over three months out from gastric bypass and my sense of smell has gone nuts. Since surgery I literally have not been able to stand the smell of coffee- it smells like rotten dirt. And I am a coffee FANATIC. have been for years. Then suddenly this week I started smelling something “rotten” at every restaurant I went to (have been traveling for work, so eating out every meal) and I figured out it was red onion. I had a bite of onion the other day and immediately threw up. I can’t get within 20 feet of a dish made with onions now and it never bothered me before. This is the craziest thing!!!
 
TraceyT said:
Certain smells give me the dry heaves. Certain tastes just make me full on hurl and heave. I do ok with most foods and so forth now - but in the beginning it was awful. My husband said it was rough on him coming into the kitchen - not knowing what may or may not set off my lovely hurl stage. He said it left him wanting to eat elsewhere when he had to come home and "chance seeing my blue hurl bucket in the kitchen while trying to cook." I told him the only humane thing to do was have the kitchen removed and make the bedroom bigger - and there would be no need for my blue hurl bucket any more. Unfortunately - I still have a kitchen......
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Gentry25 said:
Hi Tracy , I'm having the same issues what are you doing for it ?
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Actually it’s gotten a lot better Gentry. I’m 2 years post-op - certain smells can still set it off. But for the most part it’s a lot better.

If I’m fixing something that gives me the heaves or hurls - I’ll eat a couple of saltine crackers and drink a couple of sips of diet sprite. It may sound weird but it works.

I also had/have certain foods that even 2 post-op I still have issues with. The main one if frying meat. That I don’t stay in the house for. It’s just gross. I can eat it but can’t tolerate the smell of it cooking.

Most all of those issues work themselves out one way or another. Just ride it out. I know it sounds gross but I literally had a bucket in the kitchen when I would cook in the first months after surgery. Best of luck to you!
 
Still happens. Though I narrowed down the odor. This might be harsh for some but growing up hunting for me it smells like a cold deer carcass, specifically when you peel the hide off and the fat layer and hide is exposed to the air. To me it smells exactly like that. I found beef, butter, animal oils, when I pass gass, have a bowel movement....all smells just like that. Passed something dead along side the road, and my wife made comment that is smells like a dead skunk. I only smelled that deer fat smell. I was sort of giddy today, someone's service dog crapped on the floor in walmart and walking by it with my wife goine "Eeew" I smelled that deer fat smell but also a hint of dog feces. So I was relieved I could smell that.

I had Covid back in November but this all came about months later. My guess is that the sinus infection I got later is what is causing it. Hopefully it will wear off soon.
 
Thank the Good Lord that my sense of smell and taste never changed after gastric bypass July 11th. My protein shakes never tasted any differently than pre-surgery. Meat so far smells & tastes exactly like before. I just don't want to eat bread, pasta, most carbs, but that's a matter of self brain washing and not a problem if I eat them. I hope y'all find some relief from all the bad smells & tastes.
 
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