So I had Covid about 4 months ago. Did all the vitamins, minerals, supplements, etc. I got over it in about a week. Wasn't the worst, wasn't the least cold/flu I've ever experienced. FF to about a month ago. My morning commute takes me very close to the shore of the Florida Keys. We had an unusual high tide that seemed to last for a week, or it seemed that the tide lined up to my passing every morning to be very high. Then I drove past low tide, and it was the most intense nastiness I've ever smelled from the ocean.
I asked around at work and got tepid responses. Everyone was "meh" about the smell. Cue the next several days. Suddenly I started smelling that swamp smell everywhere! I take a shit, there it is. I cook bacon, same smell. Beef. Pork. Chicken. I'm now hyper sensitive to the actual swamp smell that I'm the only one who notices it in a group.
The condition I have is called parosmia. I've researched that it can go away if I train my brain to remember what smells are supposed to smell like. Apparently the virus destroys smell receptors in the brain and when they grow back, they don't grow exactly how they used to be.
I'm writing this post for anyone who is suffering from this and thinks they're going crazy like I once thought. I don't think my sense of smell will ever be the same. Luckily for me though, it is not as bad as other people are saying. I can still eat bacon. It's like in the Matrix where the kid is bending the spoon. Don't think that the bacon is sour, instead, think that the bacon is not there at all.
SINUSITIS (loss of taste and smell) has ALWAYS been a symptom of the common cold, flu or sinus infection. The media simply rebranded the symptom the same way they rebranded the common flu as COVID-19™️
This is 100 percent not the same thing. Name 1 virus or illness that makes it so your sense of smell actually CHANGES after 4 months. I went from loss of smell and taste, to muted taste and smell to what I have now, everything smells and tastes like a rotting dead animal. I had covid 4 months ago.
Different people can have different symptoms/reactions to the same virus. This isn’t new.
But the same person wouldn't have different symptoms for the same virus. I've gotten the flu like 4 times in my life and its always been the same. Except this time.. very very different. None of the typical stuff and only new stuff
Same person can absolutely have different symptoms for the same virus. This is virology 101. You could of had a “very very” different strain of the flu. You don’t know, and neither do the tests.
already take it both daily.
Engrams.
I had it and couldn't even smell Pinesol or bleach for a week straight. Never like a cold, where there would be muted smells and tastes. This instead was complete loss. The taste came back after the 7 days but it was muted a week more. The smell came back after a month or so. I took matcha tea (quercetin and EGCG source) with 2 pieces of 70% dark chocolate (zinc source) every morning, was outside in the sunlight, and walked long distances every night, too.