Parosmia after Covid

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One_more_time

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Is anyone suffering with Parosmia after having Covid?

I had Covid in September and lost my taste and smell for around about 1 week. At the end of November I started getting distorted tasted and smell of food. Now I can't stomach the taste and smell of any meat, garlic onions and worst of all beer!! It's hard to describe the smell but it's vile and it all smells the same.

Reading up on it stays with people upto 2 year. Don't know how I'll cope that long. Certainly not looking forward to my Christmas Dinner!
 
I don’t know if I’ve had covid or not, but I'm double vaccinated with a foreign vaccine and a booster. I’ve never lost smell/taste. Wife cooked some mince the other day, stuff that we’d had before, the smell was awful… proper turned my stomach, she thought it was fine. Some meats taste a bit funny, almost too strong, to me now too. I think it’s just my tastes changing but I’d not rush to rule out covid as it’s a recent development.
 
I didn't lose my sense of taste but my sense of smell went. It look about two months to come back at all and probably about nine to return to normal possibly longer. I think you can do some work to help it come back by retraining your senses?

I guess vodka will be your best friend at this difficult time! 🤷‍♂️

Hope you have a good Christmas anyway.
 
I'm suffering with it at the moment and in almost exactly the same circumstances as you describe. The smell and taste is absolutely vile. Fortunately it's not constant as I've read for some people but it's making my enjoyment of food and drink almost zero. On the plus side I may lose some weight as I have absolutely no appetite because of it. I hope for your sake as I am for mine that it doesn't persist too much longer.
 
One_more_time said:
Is anyone suffering with Parosmia after having Covid?

I had Covid in September and lost my taste and smell for around about 1 week. At the end of November I started getting distorted tasted and smell of food. Now I can't stomach the taste and smell of any meat, garlic onions and worst of all beer!! It's hard to describe the smell but it's vile and it all smells the same.

Reading up on it stays with people upto 2 year. Don't know how I'll cope that long. Certainly not looking forward to my Christmas Dinner!
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Yeah, my wife is the same.
 
Muttley said:
I didn't lose my sense of taste but my sense of smell went. It look about two months to come back at all and probably about nine to return to normal possibly longer. I think you can do some work to help it come back by retraining your senses?

I guess vodka will be your best friend at this difficult time! 🤷‍♂️

Hope you have a good Christmas anyway.
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Yes been reading up on the smell training. Not sure how well it work but definitely worth a try.

I'll try my best and hope you have a merry Christmas
 
Wistow_Red said:
I'm suffering with it at the moment and in almost exactly the same circumstances as you describe. The smell and taste is absolutely vile. Fortunately it's not constant as I've read for some people but it's making my enjoyment of food and drink almost zero. On the plus side I may lose some weight as I have absolutely no appetite because of it. I hope for your sake as I am for mine that it doesn't persist too much longer.
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Yes I gave been reading up on it and some people can't stand the smell of water or fresh air. Gladly I'm not at that level. Hopefully we will both on the road to recovery soon
 
One_more_time said:
Is anyone suffering with Parosmia after having Covid?

I had Covid in September and lost my taste and smell for around about 1 week. At the end of November I started getting distorted tasted and smell of food. Now I can't stomach the taste and smell of any meat, garlic onions and worst of all beer!! It's hard to describe the smell but it's vile and it all smells the same.

Reading up on it stays with people upto 2 year. Don't know how I'll cope that long. Certainly not looking forward to my Christmas Dinner!
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I'd drink even more beer to try and train your body to like it again.
 
There’s actually a COVID cook book out in the us for sufferers of this.

it sounds horrendous by the way.
 
Thankfully my taste and smell weren't affected by covid. The other half complained about lots smells and tastes being strange while she had it. Now she keeps smelling cigarette smoke, she has never smoked.
 
Mate of mine struggled a bit with this, certain things like chillis tasted really strong, others just tasted different. Went off after a couple of months.
 
I've been struggling with Parosmia for 3 months now.
Basically, can't eat meat/onions/garlic...pr anything with garlic powder in the ingredients..hot food absolutely stinks - and it's the same weird putrid stench I get from my own bowel movements/****/the dogs farts. Eating in general is an ordeal.

I had 3 distinct weird or revolting smells...nothing smells nice.
I'm taking Lions Mane capsules and one of the weird smells have gone. I recommend lions mane...it can't harm you and can only do good for you anyway. Read about it. Also taking zinc tablets and vitamin A and smelling essential oils...rose/lemon/vanilla/clove/eucalyptus.

Good luck to whomever is struggling with this, it really is a total nightmare! I'd gladly go back to no smell or taste in a heartbeat.
 
Sweet stuff tastes nice, so Guinness and blackcurrant is palatable...cider is fine...but yeah, beer is rank!
Which for a pisshead like me is a blow hahaha

Red wines out, but white is OK.

Beans/tinned spaghetti is fine.
Some fish is OK
Cauliflower hash browns taste nice, but not potato ones. Chips are rank, so are crisps. Bread tastes rank and toast stinks to high heaven.

GOOD LUCK AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 
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