Nooo... what's happened to the taste of chocolate?

[Yoyo-nomore]

For the last 40 years I have had a love affair with chocolate going on... we loved eachother with a degree of passion.

12 days post bypass ... tried chocolate buttons, jaffa cake etc... all tasted vile to me...

What is going on? How could this be?

:cry:

 

[Brunetteandred]

I'd call that success!

 

[Tullyhaz]

Excellent....

Wow that's really excellent, hope the same thing happens to me!

Hazel xx

 

[j.u.s.t.l.i.z.]

tastes change more with a pass than a band, i dont understand it but its like tounge/tastebuds rewiring as well as ya plumbing, baffles me, i put a thread out about it a while ago im confused how it happens.

 

[shelbell]

while it's a good thing, eating chocolate and jaffa cakes so early post op is not the brightest idea!

 

[babyflower]

while it's a good thing, eating chocolate and jaffa cakes so early post op is not the brightest idea!

Have to agree - just as well you didn't have a major dump on it and pass out. Best to keep off sweet stuff, that's the idea of a bypass...

Good luck.

 

[starry]

believe me dumping is BAD NASTY AWFUL CRAPPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[FEDup1981]

Gosh ur braver than me, im 2wks post op and wouldnt dare even try choc!!
its a good thing you dont like them any more!!! xxx

 

[Brunetteandred]

Hence my posting calling it success! lol!

 

[cazbandy]

Hi there, I am in the same boat, from about a month and a half ago I have almostly completely gone off the stuff too.

I used to eat chocolate everyday and now I might have a little on the top of a hobnob with my tea. Occasionally I love Lindor balls but after 2 I feel that's it I have had enough. I used to be able to muller a box!!!

I like more natural tastes, fruit, nuts etc and now tend to end up with a bar from a healthfood shop if I fancy something sweet.

I think it's because you learn that you need to give your body good nutrition and after a while your taste buds change.

I know mine have as I also don't drink coffee hardly at all anymore and I used to do 3-8 cups a day.

Now I love tea....

 

[Yoyo-nomore]

Thanks all. Talked to the dietician today who advised that some people have taste buds that ''wire'' the brain post bypass that if you eat it, you'll dump. He reckons that if I had "gone for it" with the jaffa cake I'd have been in trouble.

Still.... feels like a break up....

Had a really bad experience tonight with dinner. Have moved onto 'purees'... so pureed a tiny dinner. Ate 5 mouthfuls and had to stop with terrible heart burn like restriction in my chest. Obviously had over done it with the 4 or 5 teaspoons of real purreed food rather than liquids. Oooh it hurt... couldn't be sick even though I desperately wanted to be ...... worried I might have over laden the delicate pouch or staple line.. and I won't be doing that again. It's 2 tea spoons of food for me! (Odd as I can drink as much as I like on liquids)

Mercifully it's passed....
yoyo

 

[zetacatty]

Hi Yoyo - sounds like a steep learning curve. Don't worry, I don't think you could have done any harm. Interesting about the taste buds though - I suppose the body knows best.... Zxx

 

[shelbell]

Yoyo the feelings you described don't sound like over eating, but wind in the pouch. this is caused by taking too big bites and eating too quickly, and is extremely painful. You need to burp but because of your new pouch and how close it is to your oesophegus this feels like needing to be sick instead.

Remember to take tiny bits of food (the size of a pencil top rubber) and chew till liquid (even with purees), swallow, then wait a few seconds before the next one.

 

[Yoyo-nomore]

OMG you angel..... sounds right.... (it was awful).

Thanks!!!
yoyo

 

[quetiapina]

Hi Yo-Yo, I guess as with any break-up there will be sense of loss - even if it was you who chucked chocolate. Ol' chocky has been around for a long time in your life, but you will get over it. Time is a great healer!