Covid after affects.

No, but I think this is quite common.
Sorry it's happened to you.

I had Covid 4 years ago and my sense of smell and taste has never returned to normal.

Sorry if that’s depressing.

Lots of things have no taste at all - chocolate, banana, strawberries, potatoes including crisps and roast 🙁

Others have had their taste intensified to the point of almost orgasmic flavour😳 Olives, pineapples - carrots 🤔

Smells too are either non existent or almost unbearably intense. And sometimes totally phantom.

I read an article that sad that researchers in Cambridge have actually identified changes in brain function connected with taste and smell.

So it’s not just in my head. Or rather it is just in my head!!!!

Depressing outlet then regarding my food?

Yeh, sorry I couldn’t be more positive 🙁

My taste buds changed after a stroke and some things I ate every day were horrible.
... I kept trying them and it seems to be ok now.

🤞 for you.
I know there is a post-covid taste rehab study somewhere. I read about when looking at stroke info.

I had covid 5 years ago and my sense of smell/taste disappeared for a few years. They are now intermittent at best. For me, now, food is about texture. I'm recovering from covid at the moment and awaiting to see any new long term effects. hugs

I shall be watching this with interest. As I lost the vast majority of my sense of smell then and a lot of the hearing in one ear. So I live in hopes of getting back to normal at some point. There is an organisation called AbScent (which one can find on Facebook) that is majoring on losing sense of smell from Covid. The general premise is trying to retrain one's sense of smell by testing it regularly with stronger scents - eg stronger aromatherapy oils being whafted under your nose daily. Unsure whether it would work or no if I kept it up longterm - as I've got a list of about 10 things wrong with my body that I need to work on (Covid things or otherwise) and it starts by feeling a bit much and I'm trying to work my way through dealing with ailments in order of priority and have had to start on skin issues and feet issues and work my way down the list from there - trying to get rid of all of them.

Thank goodness my sense of taste remained uneffected - whew! - as I would imagine that's even worse than losing one's sense of smell.

Patsee

Had Covid 6 months ago and have still not regained any sense of smell or taste. Anyone else with the same problem? It's beginning to get to me now.

I lost both in December 2019. I never got mine back but lots do. You do get used to it.

DianneAngel
It’s a standing joke now that texture is everything 😂
I look on the bright side and the thrill I get when there is the rare occasion when I can smell something.
The odd part is when this happens it only lasts for a couple of seconds.