Struggling with Taste and Smell Changes After Surgery

Seeking advice, I am a little over a month out of surgery, from the minute after, everything smells and taste the same, a horrible taste. I went out to eat for the first time the other day and dam near had to leave the place, I can't even cook a meal with out the overwhelming taste and smell. (and it is all the same, no matter). Is this something that will pass, or do different appliances make a difference?  I have tried different things in the pouch, but it makes no difference and am not sure it is even relate to the problem.  Suggestion or advice will be welcomed,  even if is I have to learn to live with it.

Not sure I understand your issue?  Are you saying that the odor from your pouch is impacting how food smells and tastes?  If so, is the odor from the pouch prevalent all of the time or only when you empty?

if you are on chemo, or just getting off it....then it will take awhile till your taste returns to normal. i love diet coke...while i was on chemo just the smell of one would darn near make me puke, it will pass. be patient and have faith.

as a side note: i took my chemo shots every week and declined the minor surgery to install a port/pump. the same nurse in my dr`s office gave them to me every week, after the ordeal was finally over i had to go back for a checkup every 6 months. for 2-3 years afterwards, everytime i saw that paticular nurse, i got a wave of nausea sweeping over me...... the brain remembers after the body forgets...
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The taste and the smell is Constance,  hell it can be any thing it doesn't matter,  it is all the same , food of any type, chemicals, deodorant, even empting the bag, (which doesn't smell like s##t LOL)   a conversation with the doc the other day , he suggested it was the antithesia , which he point out was a poison and can sometimes take months for the brain to readjust to all kinds of thing.   I think maybe it is going away or I have gotten a little accustomed to it.    I am just hoping it does go away, the surgeon said it was a major factor to maintain my weight and that will be hard as I presently force myself it eat.  That is why I wonder if appliances made a difference.  I tried some of the different deodorant drips in the bag, but they seam to make me a little sic.

Yep,  I understand stand about the chemo,  I feel the chemo may have been a major factor in the colon perforation,  my treatment original cover three days and about 23 - 24 hours,  my first secession knocked my leukemia in the head for nearly three years, than the blood flipped, and the doc tried a "less invasive" cocktail that knock me in the head, the blood got real bad, I am positive I rode out a perforation with that cocktail,  had a colonoscopy and they find nothing, doc went back to original cocktail and a few shots to get white cell back in line, than hit me again, it was the third day of treatment that the colon perforated,  they surgeon was scared to do the surgery but had no choiceand if the white cells had not rebounded the week before the surgery, according to the doc, I would not have made it out of the hospital.  But I know the affects of the chemo , it always lasted about a week, but this deal is totally different.  Maybe just need time.

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