So I had COVID over a year ago. I went through a phase where I smelled cigarette smoke all the time. It was so real that I would go outside and check to see if someone was out there amoking. That went away and I started smelling sewage frequently. Any thing that had a negative smell to me before COVID smelled like sewage and still does. Now the cigarette smell is back. Anyone have a solution to get our sense of smell back and stabilized post COVID?
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Let me relate to you my experience when I went through throat cancer treatments back in 2013. Never smoked a day in my life, but was probably exposed to airborne radionuclides back when I worked around old nuclear sites.
Anyway, after 35 radiation treatments and 4 bouts of chemo, the cancer was gone, but my general taste and smell was gone too. During treatments, while most patients complain that everything tastes metallic, to me it was that everything tasted like it was drenched in butter. Go figure. And my sense of smell was compromised such that I really could not smell much of anything.
As I came out of the treatments I could only tolerate things like oatmeal and grits and an occasional egg, and I had to get my nutrition via a feeding tube. So months later as my taste and smell returned, things I had formerly enjoyed like dark chocolates and blackberries, I could not STAND the taste of them.
So only in the past year has my taste for these things finally returned, NINE YEARS LATER!
We humans are wondrously made, but we're also unique, each one of us having our own responses to colds, flu, covid, cancer, whatever. I imagine your former taste and smell will return to you, I just cannot say when.
Hang in there.
I love kale smoothies, and after corona (Dec 2019) kale 'tasted' like perfume smells. I went into my garden patch and pulled up all the variety of kale I 'thought' was the culprit.
I loved oranges, but they in turn, tasted like the animal hoof taste of geletan.
I finally understood why some people hated great foods - because they don't all taste the same from person to person. What tastes great to us literally tastes like shit to someone else.
Anyway, it's now 2 1/2 years later and I'm getting my brain retrained slowly to love the foods it used to love. I once again have a long row of kale coming along nicely..
Look up the vax detox (basically same as spike detox) by America's Frontline Doctors.
NAC
Ivermectin
Zinc
C
Pine Needle Tea
Dandelion greens
I had covid a while ago, and they gave me remdesivir, not knowing the risks. Now, everything smells the same, doesn't matter what it is. It's like a bread smell, but not exactly.
My sense of smell all but disappeared but has come back somewhat, but in a selective way. I can no longer smell the cat litter box, which is nice. I can smell coffee, and unfortunately brussels sprouts.
You know what takes your sense of smell and always has for millions, sinus infection bronchitis, and all other respiratory issues. There is no covid.
I had it last year and lost my taste for a week then for like a week every thing tasted horrible-everything. A few days after treatment it all came back to normal. I do have an issue with migraines, I’ve had migraines for years and years. One of the symptoms is that I smell burnt toast. I’ve noticed that I’ve been smelling that a lot lately but bc of stress and the weather this time of year I’m getting a lot of migraines. Do you get migraines? Also this isn’t a symptom that I’ve always had with my migraines either. So it’s possible that it’s something like that.
Intranasal Theophylline Treatment of Hyposmia and Hypogeusia
Prescription from an ENT Dr. 3rd week of use and now starting to taste very few things normally. Its been 6 months. Meat is still hideous. smoke and sewage is most often. Chemically too. Study here https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/1392510
Have you lost someone close to you in the recent past?
That happened to me once. I figured it was my uncle who recently passed at the time. He smoked like a tire fire.
Happened to me too. A lot of people will dismiss it but I believe our loved ones who have passed are always with us.
My husband and I had Covid in December. My husband started complaining that he smells cigarette smoke; I was so concerned that I would look around at the electrical outlet, the furnace vents, etc. At the same time I would smell an awful odor...I describe it as a cross between microwave buttered popcorn and a rotten/sewage odor. What I finally figured out was that the smells were NOT there...phantom odors. I have read that by frequently smelling various strong odors, you can re-train that sense. I make a point of "sniffing" things like vinegar(pickle juice), flowers, perfume, bourbon, fruit, dryer sheets, etc...basically anything that has an odor. The buttered popcorn/rotten smells seems to occur less often now. Good luck.
I've been suffering for 5 months post Covid with Candida Overgrowth, including thrush and sinusitis.
Your symptoms describe me exactly.
You have a yeast problem. Get some Nystatin oral solution and start drinking apple cider vinegar, at little bits at a time.
Lay off sugar, the yeast loves the stuff.
If it's as bad as me, just to keep it at bay I need to shove boric acid vaginal suppositories up my nose with a nasal douche.
Everything tastes like rot and spoiled piss...