phantom smells?

I'm a little over a week out from vsg and I keep smelling different things that aren't being cooked or in the house.. blueberry pancakes, cake batter and melon, it's very strange.. has anyone else experienced this? 

Yes!  My sense of smell went through the roof after surgery.  And I was always smelling cigarette smoke (no one in my house smokes).  I swear I could smell the cigarette smoke from the people across the street - lol! 

thank you!

I thought maybe it was cravings.. but I don't even like blueberry pancakes  lol

I was always smelling.cigarettes too! Weird. I was so happy when that stopped.

grief,  I couldn't have handled that.. I quit smoking 4 years ago and ever since, even walking past an astray (like at the entrance of stores) makes me ill

You incredibly lucky dog! I developed a smell hallucination a week post-op that lasted about 2-3 months before it slowly faded away. But the constant aroma did not smell like baked goods and fruit; oh, no, no, no. Imagine the smell of plastic and rotten cheese being scorched in a pan over high heat. Num-num. It made my already perilous post-op nausea even worse, as everything, even plain water and fresh air, tasted and smelled like something left over from a waste incinerator plant.

You lucky dog, you!

psychoticparrot

oh bleah!  

I did smell burnt/scorched plastic earlier and thought, oh no, not that as a imagined odor..  but that was my mom forgetting to take the saran off a casserole before putting it into the oven, lol

My sense of smell went into overdrive after surgery! I wish I had smelled more pleasant stuff like cake batter or melon, for me I kept smelling acrid, burnt machinery types of stuff. Like hot motor oil, burnt electronics, that kind of thing. The phantom smells seemed to go away after a while, but my sense of smell is still much more sensitive than it was before, especially for unpleasant odors.

I've been having that, too, but I've always had smell hallucinations, so I never even thought it might have something to do with the surgery. For me, it's usually cigarette smoke. I quit smoking 9 years ago and when I smell it, my reaction ranges from "Oh my goodness, I want one!" to "Oh my goodness, I'm going to vomit." It drives me crazy.