smitty0705
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- Aug 31, 2009
I used a neti pot at about day 12 and I think that helped clear things out and my taste/smell came back shortly after.
I had Covid-19 in August’20. Very mild, no congestion at all. Lost taste and smell. In October I started to get a whiff of a few things, everything was faint and mild. Then in December I was giving a perm and thought I would pass out. The smell was metallic and burning metal sorta. My client made the comment “perms don’t smell like they used to, thank God!”
The next several months everything smelled like that perm ( which didn’t smell anything like a perm!)— water, shampoo, soap, toothpaste, etc. it was horrible!
Then in May’21 that smell left and another one started. Very specific: Popeye’s chicken— like leftover in a car on a hot July day. Oh gag. To this day I smell that smell quite often.
I’ve done essential oils since the Fall of 2020, trying to reconnect something to something . Orange smells like (strong) wet dog. Lavender smells like faintly like lavender. Someone gave me a Fireside Marshmallow candle and I get a hint of sweet from the marshmallow but no fireside. I can smell faintly the Beach Club ( lobby) candle that Dan sent me. And it smells as I remember the BC smelling!
My husband’s coffee smells like there’s a skunk close by. Bacon tastes like greasy meat. Every once in a while cigarette smoke wafts by.
I don’t want to give up but I’m at 1.5 years…
I completely sympathize with you. Most people can't understand how much your sense of smell affects your life. As someone who has always had a hyper sense of smell, even the most mundane of smells can bring on a horrible reaction. The worst is they way people treat you like you are crazy and overreacting. They would always say, "I don't smell it", as if that makes any difference. With so many people now being affected, I wish there would be a public campaign to educate people on how offensive perfumes and colognes are to a lot of people. My hope is that people stop wearing scents in enclosed areas like airplanes. I wish you luck and hope that your sense of smell returns to normal.
No way to really know unless you get tested. Hope you feel better soon.I was just put on 10 day Quarantine by Nordstrom ECC based on my symptoms. I'm going to try and get tested at Kaiser tomorrow, but did any of you guys have similar symptoms from COVID?
Moderate fatigue
Moderate muscle aches
Mild nausea
Mild sore throat/cough
It's a coinflip whether this is COVID or not, and considering I'm triple vaccinated and mask/distance everywhere I go, and don't leave the house unless it's for work/volunteering/weekly errands (which I do on the same day as volunteering to save time/fuel), I'm going to be very upset if it really IS COVID. I did everything I could to protect myself and still got it in the end?
I was just put on 10 day Quarantine by Nordstrom ECC based on my symptoms. I'm going to try and get tested at Kaiser tomorrow, but did any of you guys have similar symptoms from COVID?
Moderate fatigue
Moderate muscle aches
Mild nausea
Mild sore throat/cough
It's a coinflip whether this is COVID or not, and considering I'm triple vaccinated and mask/distance everywhere I go, and don't leave the house unless it's for work/volunteering/weekly errands (which I do on the same day as volunteering to save time/fuel), I'm going to be very upset if it really IS COVID. I did everything I could to protect myself and still got it in the end?
One of my autistic sons is a super smeller/taster. He smells things none of us can smell and he is a very selective eater because of how strongly some things smell. I can cook a food like onions and he will continue to be able to smell it a week later, well after I have stopped noticing it. I have to open windows and crank up the hood vent to high when I cook certain things he can't stand the smell of. Some smells literally make him gag and feel sick to his stomach.
If you or someone you know went through this, how long did it take to be normal again?
it been 9 days so far and I’m feeling pretty discouraged. I’m the cook in the family and it’s been hard to do it with loss of these 2 senses.
I feel like a big part of life has lost its pleasure.
These are all the symptoms I had when I had it. No lost of taste/smell, but these were pretty much exactly my symptoms. Luckily I felt bad for about 3 days and then was better. Very mild for me, thankfully.