A little over a year ago I was recovering from Covid. I had it bad. I spent about 7 days in the hospital.

I remember about a week before going into the hospital loosing my sense of smell.

I noticed a few weeks after getting home my sense of smell was back however unless it was a strong odor almost everything smelled the same.

Some things had a strange odor like my tap water smelled bad even tho my wife said it did not.
I also noticed a super sensitivity to certain odors like, of all things cardboard.

Another friend who had Covid and lost her sense of smell ended up using aroma therapy to regain her sense of smell.

To this day I still do not think my sense of smell is fully back and it had now been over a year, anyone else?

Had it in aug 2021, lost my smell and taste…about six months later I started smelling things and tasting-but it was all wrong. So it’s been over a year, I can taste spices, bitter things like lemons limes..sweets, but my taste and smell are still jacked up.

Coffee is starting to smell like a roasted thing…but it’s not coffee.

And my smell for smoke has returned…so when we go get brisket I can actually smell and taste it-although it’s a very light smell

I’m hoping with more time I’ll get all my smell back.

But frankly it was/is depressing.

And I’ve tried everything short of meeting a man at midnight at the crossroads.

I had it last year in July. My sense of smell took several months to begin coming back, and yes some everyday things smelled awful for awhile. I remember standing in our house while it was being framed in the hot Texas sun, and not smelling fresh lumber. For me it was probably almost a year for it to return.

About six months from my last go-round in February when I was asymptomatic, but just happened to have my sense of go totally out of whack. Everything smelled wrong, tasted wrong, I kept smelling what I can only describe as stale cigarette smoke. I'm still not 100%, and I've had to accept that I probably never will be.

We're 13 months out from having it. We were only down for about 4-5 days.

I lost taste/smell for about 48 hrs.
My wife still doesn't have either. She gets a whiff from time to time & some things taste normal, but over a year & not 100%, maybe 15-20% if I had to put a number on it.

My sister, took about a year to get it back to mostly normal.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Had it in aug 2021, lost my smell and taste…about six months later I started smelling things and tasting-but it was all wrong. So it’s been over a year, I can taste spices, bitter things like lemons limes..sweets, but my taste and smell are still jacked up.

Coffee is starting to smell like a roasted thing…but it’s not coffee.

And my smell for smoke has returned…so when we go get brisket I can actually smell and taste it-although it’s a very light smell

I’m hoping with more time I’ll get all my smell back.

But frankly it was/is depressing.

And I’ve tried everything short of meeting a man at midnight at the crossroads.

This- almost exactly. Feb 2021 for me. It came back a little after 6 months and a little more over the ensuing months but nowhere near what it was prior to covid as I had a very keen sense of smell and taste. It does suck.

Around 2 days for me and Mrs. Flash

I never lost it completely. I'd say about 50%. Mostly recovered after about two weeks. Fully-recovered after a couple months or so, I guess.

Was worse for my wife. Double or triple those numbers.

I had a mild case of the Wu Flu. Hit my wife very hard. Not quite hospitalization hard, but damn close.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
About six months from my last go-round in February when I was asymptomatic, but just happened to have my sense of go totally out of whack. Everything smelled wrong, tasted wrong, I kept smelling what I can only describe as stale cigarette smoke. I'm still not 100%, and I've had to accept that I probably never will be.

I had the cigarette smoke thing too! I quit in 99. Went on for about a week six months out from C19. every breath was smoke, uggghh. I’ve had it return for a few hours three or four times since then

I have had Covid twice. Once at the very beginning before they had a name for it. I still smell smoke occasionally. Makes it hard to sleep at night thinking your house is burning. My wife has had Covid once. At the same time as my second bout. Her sense of smell was not affected, but nothing tastes right to her now.

Lost it completely for about 2 days (couldn't even smell brake cleaner or Hoppes), and then it took about a week or two for it to fully return. So far as I can tell, I have no lasting loss of taste or smell.

Fall of 2019 I had what I thought was a BAD chest cold. In early 2020 when "covid" became a thing I realized that the symptoms suggested I (and my wife) had had it.
I still am lacking in taste and ability to smell things. Wife in the same condition.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
About six months from my last go-round in February when I was asymptomatic, but just happened to have my sense of go totally out of whack. Everything smelled wrong, tasted wrong, I kept smelling what I can only describe as stale cigarette smoke. I'm still not 100%, and I've had to accept that I probably never will be.

I had the cigarette smoke thing too! I quit in 99. Went on for about a week six months out from C19. every breath was smoke, uggghh. I’ve had it return for a few hours three or four times since then

Now that I've read this, I still get remnants of what smells like cig smoke out of nowhere.

Took me 5 months. God Bless

I tested positive in Nov 2020. Lost smell completely for a month or more. As it came back everything smelled like burned onions. It took a long time for my smell to come back to what it is today. I would say I have 70% of the smell I did before Covid. My sense of smell was above average and could smell things a lot of other people could not. For example there is a dairy farm just outside city limits, and probably less than a mile from my house. When they stirred their manure pit it was almost unbearable at times. I rarely smell it at all these days.

Taste was also dulled, but I would say I am at 90%+ pre-Kung Flu.

I had it in April of 2022. My sense of smell is still muted and I frequently “smell” something burning. My sense of taste is also still muted.

I had one of weak variants (assuming) back in June. Started Ivermectin a day after feeling like I had a cold and tested tested positive with home kit. Was only down for a day and never lost smell/ taste.

I ended up in Intensive Care for about a week (actually 5 days there, then a covid ward for two or three). I don't recall losing my sense of smell at all, though I was pretty sick.

My wife got it first, but was really almost asymptomatic, except, sure enough, she lost her sense of smell and it took over a year to get it back, though not as "good" as before the covid.

Bob

Losing taste and smell was how I knew I had finally contracted COVID confirmed by a test at Walgreens a few days later. It happened in about a day. Getting them back started a few weeks later and happened gradually over another few weeks. Things just started to have a taste and/or smell that wasn’t right to things tasting and/or smelling normal.

Close to 8 months for me.

I knew it was coming back once my brain was telling me something tasted good even though I couldn't taste it. That was how the last 2 months felt.

So no taste for 6 months and weird tasting realization for 2 months. If that makes sense.