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CThomm

1y ago

Struggling with Smelling Food After Brain Surgery

does anyone have issues with smelling food? it's been awhile since I've struggled so hard w this. I had brain surgery when I was 14, a tumor on the gag reflex part of the brain near the brain stem. never had any issues before then. went from 114lb to 175lb in a month from steroids. since then I gag all the time at food. opening the fridge, crackers, soup, veggies, fruits. Ill eat a meal a day for a week or two then eat tremendous amount of food when I can for as long as I can. sometimes I'll throw up 3-5 times a day. I've thrown up on myself driving. food disgusts me anymore. this is killing me. I know this all comes back to my brain surgery. but I'm wondering if anyone else deals with something comparable & ways to deal with it.

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AlannahW

1y ago

Hey 👋 I get when I have bad anxiety as I used to sort of force myself to stop eating at points, I couldn't stand the smell of certain food specially things like bacon or anything that had a high smell, I felt changing abit of my diet helped but I'm now on norotriptoline which helps with this aswell as my anxiety (but everyone's different) hope this helps
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scrow7

1y ago

Last time I noticed I was struggling with certain food scents was maybe 6 weeks ago. There was a continental market in town and I felt physically sick when walking past certain food stalls
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Squidium

1y ago

This isn't nearly as bad compared to what you said and it doesn't happen very frequently, but I have times where I can't eat anything because the smell of food makes me feel like I'm going to projectile vomit. I've never had brain surgery, though, and I don't know why it happens.
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Squidium

1y ago

Also, wish I could help you out with it, but I haven't found anything to deal with it.

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