Taste and Smell, frick and frack!

[Boppie]

I recovered my sense of taste around 9 months, and now I am having numb tongue issues again.  The numbness comes and goes for as much as a week at a time.  Sometimes I think I smell things that other people can't smell.  Strong odors, like paint, upset my sense of taste for a few days.  Anybody else experiencing this?

[Brendalu]

Oh yes, strong smells seem to throw my sense of taste off for days and with all the painting going on here nothing tastes right.  Smells seem to make the headaches worse.  I can eat rice cakes and they taste the same as Cinnabons!
BrendaO

[Crazycat]

My taste and smell are perfect for the most part. Still some residual numbness on A.N. side but gradually improving. I still have the occasional salty and metallic taste that really does not interfere with my normal sense of smell and taste. It's like putting the constant, roaring tinnitus on my left side on the backburner and focusing only on the good hearing coming in from the right ear. These nerve nuances effect everyone differently; they're all variations on a theme - the theme being Acoustic Neuroma. I'm at about 1 year and 2 months out from surgery now.

   Paul

[lmurray69]

Boppi how long has it been sence you had surgery..I am having taste and tung tingles,, scares the crap right out of ya...nothing taste good( I went to kfc to eat and i couldnt taste the chicken so i got hot sause. it tasted better, my husband said he was waiting for fire to choot ou tmy nose it was texas hot sauce..I had heart burn all night..

[Boppie]

Linda, I had surgery one year ago December 15.  I just keep on eating what I need.  Sometimes my throat gets very dry, too!  I guess the facial nerve damage went a little further than just nose, eye, cheek, chin.  All of that has recovered.  It is just the tongue that is bothersome, now...just like frick and frack, off and on.