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During that time, every once in a while I'd get a whiff of something, not really an external smell, but in my sinuses, "It's smells like a cold". It would fleeting, a one time odor.


I was going to mention this in my previous post above. I also had a strange taste/odor through my nasal sinuses and throat.
 
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may 7, 2022 couldn't get out of bed. Three weeks to get half way upright. About 10 days later started over. by end of June was mending, not fully there yet. Sense of smell left me somewhere in there and I didn't notice until it was almost all gone, almost for me is I can smell smoke: tobacco, wood smoke, the dense stuff coming over the mountains from wild fires, charcoal, diesel exhaust. Taste is definitely impaired.No weirdness just tastelessness, like school lunches.

The start date sticks in mind because I was supposed to get on an airplane on the 8th.


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Miracle of miracles! Was mowing the yard today and I ran over a pile of dog poo. And I could smell it!! I haven’t smelled poop or farts or my dog for over a year…today was the day for poo I guess

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My wife and I are both getting over Covid as we speak, tested positive last Sunday. Neither of us lost our sense of smell but my taste is off, nothing tastes good. I’m sitting here with a cup of coffee but it’s not enjoyable. The bigger issue for me is the brain fog.
 
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My buddy had it early, back in summer 2020. Over 2 years later his smell is still not back. He estimates he lost 70-80%. It is so bad that he has to have his family check lunchmeat and milk for spoilage because he cannot sense it.
 
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Had it twice, 2nd time wasn't nearly as bad. Never lost my sense of smell but taste was skewed. Slowly came back but hard to say when? Kind of a gradual thing.

Took forever to finally kick the brain fog though...


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^^^^^^^^^^^Same here. Never lost smell. Things tasted, but not the same. I was down for 10 days. Back in the saddle on day 12. Taste came back online day 14 or so.



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Going on two years and it's still not 100%.


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Going on two years and it's still not 100%.


Same here. I’m at about %80 2 years later.




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I have covid for the last 10 days. Both taste and smell are off. Smell is a little weak but taste is crazy. Bread taste like their is vinegar and is strong.


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I had it bad just before Christmas last year, and then developed pneumonia and was hospitalized December 26 through January 9 due to low oxygen levels. I had it again 3 weeks ago but much less severe; felt like the flu with fever for one day then felt like a cold for the next 3 days. Oddly enough I never lost my sense of taste or smell either time.


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Was a little ill for 5 days w/ a mild temp. a couple nights. This was right after Mother's Day '22. Mostly tired and what I can only describe as kennel cough for a few weeks after.
But only lost sense of smell for a day or two. I stuck my sniffer into a bottle of aftershave to double check. I smelled the burn but that was it.
 
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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?


First time I had covid, I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell. However, the cough that came with it caused me to tear a muscle in my neck.

The second time I got covid (post vax) I lost my taste and smell. It took about a month for it to come back, but things were off. I’d say that to get things back to normal it was about 3ish months.

Coffee tasted like shit. Bread tasted like there was nothing but sugar in it. Milk tasted like water. Water tasted like it was heavily chlorinated and it felt slimy. When I used salt on my food it felt as if I used a cup of it and that’s the only thing I could taste. I love ribeye steaks but those things tasted horrible.
 
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Taste and smell came back in 2 weeks.


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My wife has read that zinc may help with recovering smell/taste. I don't recall the MG or type, but can't hurt to try.




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