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In 2012, I had functional endoscopic sinus surgery to remove polyps, improve drainage and fix my deviated septum. Prior to that surgery I hadn't been able to smell in quite some time. After the surgery my sense of smell came back.
Four years later it went away again. I have been bumbling along without it. For a while I had phantosmia, which is smelling smells that don't actually exist. It was quite pleasant, really. I would smell either freshly baked bread or cookies.
Last week I had two polypectomies, sort of like roto-rootering your nasal cavity. Now that the bleeding has stopped I've noticed things are tasting bad. I'd bite into a ripe strawberry and it would have an earthy taste/smell, not sweet or strawberry-smelling at all. Other things don't smell like they're supposed to.
Is it possible for the brain, deprived of sensory input, to forget what things smell like?
In 2012, I had functional endoscopic sinus surgery to remove polyps, improve drainage and fix my deviated septum. Prior to that surgery I hadn't been able to smell in quite some time. After the surgery my sense of smell came back.
Four years later it went away again. I have been bumbling along without it. For a while I had phantosmia, which is smelling smells that don't actually exist. It was quite pleasant, really. I would smell either freshly baked bread or cookies.
Last week I had two polypectomies, sort of like roto-rootering your nasal cavity. Now that the bleeding has stopped I've noticed things are tasting bad. I'd bite into a ripe strawberry and it would have an earthy taste/smell, not sweet or strawberry-smelling at all. Other things don't smell like they're supposed to.
Is it possible for the brain, deprived of sensory input, to forget what things smell like?
Maybe sensory nerve endings were irritated/upset by the procedure? It could be temporary.
This isn't quite the same, but I've noticed that some of the foods I react to don't smell like food anymore, they smell like garbage or chemicals. I've started taking meds to hopefully make me less reactive to everything, and have noticed some foods are smelling like food again to me. I still can't eat them, but I can walk into a restaurant without having an asthma attack.
This isn't quite the same, but I've noticed that some of the foods I react to don't smell like food anymore, they smell like garbage or chemicals. I've started taking meds to hopefully make me less reactive to everything, and have noticed some foods are smelling like food again to me. I still can't eat them, but I can walk into a restaurant without having an asthma attack.
Garbage like smells are usually infections in nasal sinuses
This isn't quite the same, but I've noticed that some of the foods I react to don't smell like food anymore, they smell like garbage or chemicals. I've started taking meds to hopefully make me less reactive to everything, and have noticed some foods are smelling like food again to me. I still can't eat them, but I can walk into a restaurant without having an asthma attack.
I don't know if this is relevant but because of nagging from my allergist, I started using Flonase again. Before long, any kind of meat I ate tasted like rotting garbage.
What happened was that I had forgotten the dosage. Instead of 2 sprays once a day, I was doing 2 sprays twice a day. Once I fixed that, the rotting garbage taste went away.
I did notice this afternoon when I ordered cheese curds at Culver's I could taste both garlic and onion. Before, with no sense of smell, all I could taste was the cheese. I looked at the ingredients list and sure enough, they put dried garlic and onion in the coating. Even their "butterburger", which I've never been a fan of, tasted wonderful.
Maybe the strawberries taste weird because it's not summer yet.
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