Did your taste buds change ... in reverse?

I have heard a lot of people say that they no longer like certain things after surgery and their taste buds change.

I am wondering if anyone did not like something before surgery...and ended up liking it after.

For example, I hate hate hate fish.  I really wish I liked it -- I got to wondering if my taste buds can change so I no longer like certain foods, maybe it could go the other way?

Anyone experience this?

It has happened to me I didn't like cottage cheese before surgery and now I actually like the taste.

The other way was popcorn, I loved popcorn before surgery, now it tastes weird and butter flavored is just plain gross.

Hopefully you will like fish after surgery.

Good luck!

Before surgery I thought yogurt was just OK, but now I love it.

So far it hasn't really happened.  I say really because it's not that I don't like the taste - I just don't like the result.  I used drink a lot of skim milk pre surgery. Now I get really nauseous.  So I still like milk but since I get nauseous, I don't like it.

I still don't like broccoli or fish.

I lost my sense of taste for a short time.  I think it has returned to almost normal.  Some former favorites just don't appeal to me anymore. 

I think the taste buds thing is the power of aversion therapy. I used to love grilled bratwurst, makes me nauseous just thinking about it now. But like you, I don't like fish, still dont. You cant get me to eat seafood of it was the last thing on the planet, I'd rather starve. Now I have found myself enjoying a lot blander food than before surgery, I used to put hot sauce or salt on everything, couldn't stand weak flavors, now, I prefer them, and dont like thigs too salty or spicy.

I used to despise mango, cauliflower, and refried beans. Now I ADORE them! I also LOVE broccoli and steak, whereas I just tolerated them pre-op. On the other side, I used to eat everything with ground beef, spaghetti, chili, taco salad... Now, I can't stand anything with ground beef. I am sad to say goodbye to so many old favorites:( But I love my new faves and now I look forward to trying things as if I had never tasted them before.

 Sushi.   Before, I would eat it on rare occasion, and in small amounts.
Now, I find myself hitting up the local sushi bar several times a month. Sometimes I crave it. 

And iced tea.  Same as with the sushi. I'd have it now and then, it was good. Not my favorite drink ever, but good. Now I could live on it.  I have a gallon pitcher in my fridge at all times. 
I think because I gave up soda entirely, iced tea is a sort of replacement. Gives me a little caffeine, and that little touch of sweetness (I use Sweet n Low) without the bubbly, sugary acidity of soda. 

yes amazingly my taste buds did change! My surgeon told me it would happen and I didn't really believe him. 

So I used to love chicken could eat it every day, multiple times a day, fried, baked, grilled etc. Now chicken tastes like paste to me.  LOLOL  Unless its like in chicken noodle soup or something that its blended in, I can't take it plus it hurts going down. 

Now I dispised oatmeal before didn't like the taste and could almost gag while trying to eat it. Now I can actually eat a few teaspoons of it at a time. 

I always like spicy food but now I want everything spicy!  I add more cayenne pepper, crused red peppers & jalepenos to all kinds of things. 

The only noticeable thing right now is Peanut Butter...I LOVVVVVVE it!  Now it tastes like burnt peanuts.   Hoping that will change in time....I hate fish too....hoping I can try it again and like it....hubby cooked him some one evening and I had just eaten and there was no way I was getting another bite of anything in......also bought som albacore tuna to fix up for lunch one day.  :)  Good Luck!!  Sherry