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Loss of taste after liver transplant

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Hi Cherismike @rosemarya asked me to share some of my difficulties after transplant with eating. I'm not sure which drug it was but one of them sure made food taste bad. The 2 things I really likes the most are salads and whole meat and both of those seem to give me a feeling of severe nausea. My poor wife was so frustrated that I barley was eating and forcing down a few bites and she is a great cook. Luckily it only lasted about 2-3 months for as they lowered my meds down my appetite and taste buds started
Improving.

It seemed whole type foods like say chicken breast or a salad almost any whole meat like hamburgers or sausage were hard to eat. So my goto items seemed to be any soft foods. Particularly mashed potatoes, soups, pudding , these stick out the most and scrambled eggs were OK. Stuffing jello most of those were my goto. Plus I was doing the protein shakes but I found that one certian brand was the best. Now realize I'm someone who likes almost all foods so it was the strangest experience I ever had. Now almost 5 years later I'm trying to remember exactly how long it lasted but it wasn't super long. One other thing was eat small frequent meals also. Like 6-8 a day but maybe only a few bites each.
Mornings also were my worse time and the doctors got me an anti nausea pill to take if I felt like I was going to vomit Particularly if I was taking my meds. Hope that helps and I would say keep testing different foods, consistency seemed to me to be how it was made like solid vs soft, again the strangest experience I had with my transplant which was a heart but typically the meds are similar. I think it was the Prednisone but don't hold me to that as I was on 5 other heavy meds at the same time .
Please if I can help further let me know.
Your doing great and as my wife will attest the caregiver is an Angel to us when we are going thru this so hats off to you for helping her thru this.
Blessings

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thank you for share the symptoms after Transplant thank God I did not feel this, after the transplant Doctor told me I can eat anything and I ate all the Hospital allow me to eat they had a list of food I can eat as well. After my 30 month of the transplant my issues were the Bile Ducts and made my Liver leves went up then 9 times of the ERCP were done, finally my leves are normal today. But 6 month ago I had Portal Hypertension and the Cirrosis started again then add Nadolol to control the Hypertension and live until my liver allow me to live. Thanks God for allow me to live day by day I have faith I will live longer