] ] ] BFSON wrote: ] ] > A good friend is going to be having a hysterectomy next month. She's a very ] > accomplished wine taster. She and her doctor are debating removal of her ] > ovaries at the same time. She's asked her doctor about the effect of the sudden ] > lack of hormones on her sense of taste. His reply was that no one has ever ] > asked him that question before. He has no idea of the impact. Does anyone in ] > this news group have any information or experience about wine tasting for a ] > woman after ovarian removal surgery (or menopause)? ] ] Bob, ] I have no scientific data for you, but I highly doubt that estrogens are at all ] implicated in olfaction. On an anecdotal level, I have tasted with several ] post-menopausal women who were still quite acute tasters. Take from that what you ] will. ]
My qualitative experience jibes with Mark's. A friend who just underwent this operation, and with whom I shared a glass last week, reported no lack of taste. Also when my wife began hormone therapy (which simulates menopause) she didn't report a change, but obviously her taste apparatus was already off kilter. HTH.
-E