My post--op super power...

....is my completely enhanced sense of smell.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I'm one week post-op and it's slightly crazy, mostly for the bad.  The main hallway of my condo smells so bad to me now I hold my breath until I'm outside.  My husband said it smells neutral and normal to him.  I went back to work today and the shuttle bus stunk too, mainly like body odor (I suppose it is summer in DC....)  On the 4th of July, I walked around our city's main area and had to cross the street to get away from a Thai restaurant because the garlic and spice smell was so overpowering, and I normally am fine with those scents.  I'm hoping this goes away once I start introducing normal foods again?  

LOL it's totally normal but it's just you I'm afraid.  I thought my husband smelled like onions for 3 weeks.  Couldn't get within five feet of him and not smell onions.

It goes away it's just hormones and such.  I find WLS causes a lot of pregnancy-like symptoms.  Darn hormones!

It was baad for me...I had to put my auto air freshners on off, no candles burning and almost passed right out in the grocery store due to the woman in front of my husband and I...her perfume.

It took me about 6-8 wks to get over that.  It was gross.

tia

I've noticed this also!  I'm one week post op also. 

It's a new Spidey sense but it does get better or becomes more tolerable or just fades away.  Yes to everything Kekosmom said above it's another weird effect from hormones dropping.

Oh, yes! I think only the odds ones don't have this symptom! The smells we hate seem to be individual, but so, so many of us have weird aversions to different odors. Mine were onion, garlic, and cooked seafood of any kind.

Went away by about week 4, if I recall.

Definitely normal! I am a garlic lover and have always used it on everything but for the first 3-4 weeks after surgery I could not stand the smell of it!! If I would smell it cooking or on someones breath I would get super grossed out! I couldn't kiss my husband for a long time even right after he brushed his teeth or took a shower I could smell it on him. I have no idea why but I felt bad for the poor guy lol. I could smell garlic on EVERYTHING and my stomach would do flips. It does get better though, I can even eat garlic again :) and my husband gets kisses again lol.

Thanks everyone!  It's relieving to know that most people experience this and it goes away.  I didn't want to have to go through life with a permanent "this smells bad" face, lol.