Loss of Smell & Taste

I’ve seen a few people saying could be 3/4 weeks to return.

Going on a year for my sister now, having contracted covid last xmas, very little return of either.

Imagine it's more to do with loss of smell, given that's 90% of taste anyway.

As mentioned above i did logically suggest that it was a good opportunity to lose weight.

Reply was an equally logical explanation as to why i was still single.

checking in here, taste and smell went yesterday around midday, it’s absolutely horrendous not being able to taste or smell anything but I don’t have any other symptoms so feel a bit lucky too.

Havent had covid but I lose my taste and smell every time i get sick. Its mental alright comes back slowly over time for me usually a week.

I had covid in April 2020. I tested positive on April 8th 2020, but I am sure I had it at least a week before that. I lost my smell and taste about a week after I was tested, for nearly a week, but 19 months later I still have the impressoin that some foods do not taste like I remember they did, so I think that after such a long time the taste is still a little altered for some foods.

Smell seems fine, but I'm not totally sure.

I didn't get covid thankfully but is anyone else experiencing itchy skin and rashes ?

I'm thinking it may be caused by the different hand sanitisers around

Yes, that's it, our tongue only seems to be responsible for the basics of what we consider taste.

How Covid impacts smell is well understood and that mechanism has no impact on taste.

I'm almost a year out from having had Covid and I don't expect my sense of smell will ever entirely recover to what it was previously. My perception of certain smells is still very weak or non-existent, others seem almost normal but just not quite as strong as before.

Loss my taste and smell on Friday. Took an antigen test and it was positive. PCR test confirmed it. So far the loss of taste and smell with a slight cough are my only symptoms. Hopefully they’ll come back. Eating just isn’t the same!

Sense of smell went for about a week, and took another week or so to return fully.

my taste went, got it bac after about 3 days. wasnt vaccinated, had mild flu symptoms.

wife lost her taste for about 6 weeks or thereabouts. she was vaccinated. she was a bit panicky it would never come back tbh.. we like our grub :)

I do think people confuse taste and smell a lot.

Your tongue can taste sweet, salty, bitter and savoury (umami) but everything else, like the taste of an orange or chocolate or a biscuit is actually your smell senses.

Apparently covid attacks the support cells that assist your olfactory cells at the top of your nose. Luckily covid does not attack the olfactory cells themselves, so your ability to smell is not permanently damaged.

I lost my sense of smell last Monday (Day 3 of symptoms). I've been lucky in that I'm vaccinated and therefore my covid infection has been rather mild since Monday and short lived compared to what I was expecting. While I lost 100% of my smell on Monday, I've been training it back since then. Smelling perfume, mint leaves, tea tree oil, tabasco, anything strong I can get a hold of. In my very unscientific opinion, I am of the view that my olfactory nerves are picking up the smell, but my brain knows that it isn't processing it properly. I'm hoping this will trigger the brain to produce more of the support cells, so that I recover my smell senses quicker.

It appears to be somewhat successful so far. I would say that I have about 20% of my smell senses back. I can clearly smell certain ingredients in my perfume, but since it still smells rather faint and completely different, I assume not all my support cells do the same job. I could faintly taste my coffee this morning, I can smell coconut and mint. No tea tree oil yet, or more subtler scents. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

This might be worth looking into a bit further if someone is struggling with smell, they're claiming "that patients who undertook the exercises recovered completely from loss of smell."

I know nothing about the subject just stumbled across it while looking for something holiday related..

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkish-method-to-cure-post-covid-19-smell-loss-gains-traction/news