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Loss of smell and taste after head injury
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Oct 13 11:11pm | Replies (56)Comment receiving replies
After my stroke, my sense of taste and smell was affected. As I recovered (and continue to recover, more than five years later), I went through a series of changes.
At different times, my senses were very acute, then absent, then in-between, with periods when favorite flavors seemed disgusting, and then back again.
To be honest, it was maddening. Now, it has moderated pretty well, back to about where I started (except that peanut butter smells really, really good to me).
In short, please be patient. Brain injuries are mysterious, unpredictable, and can't be hurried. I'm no expert, but it wouldn't surprise me if you woke up tomorrow with your taste and smell back.
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very very sorry Scott. That must have been enormously difficult.
Excellent advice, thanks for caring about other folks on here...
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Thank you. And thanks for mentioning the vile taste. I've named it the dead rotten stench of dead rat. It's in the medicine cabinet (Mint). Coffee is gross, the smell of it. Pepsi / Coca cola is chemical in nature. Bacon ? Vile. Pulled pork- vile. Wheat, onion, garlic are triggers for grossness. Apparently, I was on antibiotics, and not placed on probiotics, so now i have this FODMAP issue. From January to May, the Occ Med MD didn't want me on sedation, so there was this vile odor, stench taste, emanating from my throat- I honestly thought I had stomach cancer. The EGD and colonoscopy was 100 % clear.