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re: When did your sense of smell/taste return after covid?

Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:50 pm to
Posted by Bo Rein 80
Wonder Lake
Member since Mar 2019
195 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:50 pm to
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Heard nicotine works. Try a gum or patch. Or smoke a cig Geaux Zone90


Just curious of all previous poster's suffering lost senses, I have also heard that this has worked. I know that many have rebounded quickly with use of tobacco products. Have any of you tried this or are currently smoker's/ tobacco users?
I chew tobacco, so i wouldn't know... and never been officially diagnosed as Covid positive.
Posted by tigernurse
Member since Dec 2005
30596 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:53 pm to
I didn’t try any of the tricks to regain my sense of smell or taste.

I was working Covid ICU all through the pandemic and it was a blessing to not be able to smell things at work.


Tube feeding poops are about the worst
Posted by latxwoman
Member since Mar 2019
750 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:56 pm to
lost smell for two years, it just returned this month. Mowed grass was the first thing I smelled. It was wonderful. I am allergic to it, but I did not care!
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
9841 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:59 pm to
I only had it once but my taste and smell came back after three days. This was during Easter 2023 and still today some things taste extremely salty to me.
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Ate Campbells Chicken Soup and it tasted salty as hell to me too!
Posted by Colonel Angus
Member since Aug 2007
1653 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:02 pm to
good friend of mine still can't drink any sodas (they smell like anti freeze now) and sandwhiches taste like the plastic bag the bread came in. He had covid back in early 2021.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
16019 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:03 pm to
I never lost my sense of smell or taste when I had Covid. Everything tasted horrible though. For a few weeks afterwards the only things that tasted ok were raw vegetables and fruit.
Posted by MRTigerFan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
4293 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:03 pm to
Taste came back after a few weeks. Smell took longer and was different for at least 6 months. Like things that I know the smell of smelled different. My deodorant and cologne. Wife's perfume. Foods like boiled eggs or sauteed onions. These familiar things suddenly smelled different. I'm not even sure if it went back to normal or if I have adjusted/reassociated
Posted by Rhino5
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2014
28907 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:03 pm to
About 4-5 days. I did test tasting of bitter/sour tastes (vinegar, hot sauce, lemon etc) to try and ignite the taste buds back. Not sure if it was the cure but it came back.
Posted by Sugarbaker
Peachtree
Member since Jun 2023
268 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:10 pm to
My mom has either been unable to taste anything at all or has had a bad metallic taste when eating for a year and a half. Once in a great while she can taste almost normally. On those days she eats everything in sight because the next day everything may taste like tin foil. She has lost 25 pounds. It is quite miserable, especially since she cooks a lot and seasoning things properly is impossible.

Loss of taste and smell was the only way I knew for sure I had Covid rather than a cold. I lost them completely for about a week, then rebounded pretty fast.

This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 5:16 pm
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114111 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:11 pm to
I think its funny people downvote this. I understand being tired of hearing about COVID and I really don't think about it until I see it talked about on here.

Also, like earlier today I went with someone to their appointment at the baton rouge clinic. While they were at their appointment I was in the waiting room. This lady and her 3 kids walked in and all 3 had mask on. I don't care if people wear mask or not, but the ones they had on looked thicker than the average mask. It went about half way up their nose (the first thought that came to my mine was Bain from the dark knight rises), but there were no sides.

They had mouth and nose covered, but no sides.. I guess for air?

Anyway, my point is, its like people hate to hear other people say they have it because it doesn't support some crazy theory that if it never exist.
Posted by H2O Tiger
Delta Sky Club
Member since May 2021
6644 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:24 pm to
Never lost smell or taste, but it took a couple of months before I could get back to my regular running pace. I was just gassed
Posted by tigernurse
Member since Dec 2005
30596 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:24 pm to
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my point is, its like people hate to hear other people say they have it because it doesn't support some crazy theory that if it never exist.


All I know is I’ve never seen anything else like Covid in all my years working bedside.
Posted by dsides
Member since Jan 2013
5433 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:44 pm to
quote:

This last round was a doozy, much worse than when I had covid 18 months ago


Colds suck but you will survive. Nut up baw
Posted by Zarkinletch416
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Member since Jan 2020
8425 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 6:11 pm to
...three days after my fever broke. I was one sick dude.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 6:12 pm
Posted by gatorsimz
cafe risque
Member since Feb 2009
8135 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:16 pm to
Like 6-8 months probably. Smell therapy/training was what got it back for me. You have to retrain yourself. I did the Moxe kit off Amazon.
Posted by ugasickem
Allatoona
Member since Nov 2010
10803 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:20 pm to
Never had Covid. At least that I know of.
Posted by NoBoDawg
Member since Feb 2014
1591 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:22 pm to
What year is it?!?
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10495 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:28 pm to
quote:

My sense of smells is still not normal. Never affected by taste



This for me as well. I got Delta in July 2021 and ended up in ICU for a month and on a vent. Weird thing is taste never left. Smell was gone for almost a year but it is slowly coming back but some things are off and not normal.
Posted by daydranking
nunya
Member since Sep 2019
457 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:38 pm to
my dad still cannot smell or taste. its been 3 years.


im tempted to start shocking him
Posted by Jumpinjack
Member since Oct 2021
6485 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:54 pm to
You'll be fine. It's a cold.
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