So a week ago, I posted that I was suffering with parosmia. Parosmia is the receptors in the brain growing back but in a different way from before so that you forget what stuff smells like. Stuff like bacon, beef, pork etc. smells like swamp. So. I bought a bunch of essential oils and started huffing that shit. "Sir, you're going to have to leave my store" is such an annoying phrase! Anyway, I got about 20 bottles of clinky clanky juice and take that crap to my house. I start out opening each bottle and inhaling. I feel like I could speed this up somehow. I fill a spray bottle with some stank ass rubbing alcohol (the worst smell of them all!) and a capfull of essential oil. I start spritzing the mixture on my shirt so that the fumes can waft up in tendrils up to my nostrils. Swamp, mixed with rose petals, cool.
I do this every 30 or so minutes for a couple days, concentrating on rose petals. Son of a monkey, it worked! I no longer smell swamp when I smell alcohol! And get this; My roommate just popped up some popcorn. How do I know besides the distinctive sound? From the distinctive smell of course!!!! Oh my GOD it smells amazing!! Not swampy at all!
Essential oils are as good as gold. Glad you can smell nice smells again.
Apparently, it doesn't matter what the smell is, as long as it is pleasant.
Since I had Covid, everything smells like poop, and everything tastes like cinnamon.
Interesting. I lost my sense of smell, and one day I opened the backdoor and there was an overwhelming smell of roses. Except there wasn't, it was January and an olfactory hallucination. But things rapidly improved in my nose. Why roses? You really smelled them and I "smelled" them and we both got better.
What better way to get better? It's like the doctor tells you to drink 2 beers and call him in the morning. Easy recovery is my point.
I'm just thinking, rose is one of the common scents in our lives that we have all smelled many times in many variations. Maybe a trigger for you? I did try rose oil on a friend but it didn't register. Or my hallucination was triggered by smelling "something" which could really have been "rotten pecan leaves," and this time a scent got through to my brain which dug around and came up with "rose." It would be great to know more about how to restore sense of smell.
I think rose was a luck of the draw thing. I have never physically smelled a good smelling rose even pre-covid. Living in south Florida, the rose varieties tend to have a bland fragrance. I know what rose is supposed to smell like through smell memory if that makes sense. You could tell me that rose is supposed to smell like Chanel no.5 and I'd be like, okay.
I'm trying to be scientific about this whole process, and also I want to help as many of you suffering from this as possible. These are the trials and tribulations that I went through, maybe other people's journeys will be different.
Congrats on the recovery of your sense of smell. I had a problem with sleep for weeks after getting covid myself and now I have whole new appreciation for it. Hope it keeps getting better for you.
When did you get covid? if you don't mind me asking?
Not quite a month ago.
Keep in mind that I had "Covid" in early August. The parosmia started about a month ago. Keep an eye out for symptoms.
you probably have a sinus infection, it could be fungal. Get some Restore / Ion sinus spray and/or colloidal silver sinus spray. eat some raw garlic or take oregano oil pills.
I've had this for over a year since I had covid. Had to look it up. The only thing with me is peppers don't smell or taste right, gasoline smells like crap. Sewage smells the same. On the plus side skunks dont smell as bad, more like crap. And if someone's taking a mean dump at work it isn't as offensive too💩😂
I've always loved the smell of skunk. Wanna fight about it? Walking in to a steamy bathroom was always dread for me. With the parosmia, if everything smells like garbage, NOTHING DOES!
I do too lol. That's because some of the best weed I've ever smoked smelled like it.
Maybe that's why I like the smell...