I know... I just keep thinking we notice it now because everybody is talking about it. In other words, would you have known it before, unless someone pointed it out? Or would it have gone unnoticed because "these things happen" and it's just life. Sometimes smell is more acute and sometimes less.
I know... I just keep thinking we notice it now because everybody is talking about it. In other words, would you have known it before, unless someone pointed it out? Or would it have gone unnoticed because "these things happen" and it's just life. Sometimes smell is more acute and sometimes less.
Erin, when I got covid last year, I lost my sense of smell for a few weeks, and it was very weird. I am sensitive to odours - and it was all gone. (Some of that was a relief!) My coffee tasted strange - just the bitterness and sweetness of sugar on the tongue, none of the olfactory nuances. Same with everything I ate. And it persisted well into recovery from other symptoms, to the point where I checked out what to do about it, and started doing the olfactory retraining with 4 different essential oils that I heard about on YT. (I was already taking high dose zinc, which probably helped with recovery too.)
The olfactory retraining helped me monitor my olfactory recovery too - I was overjoyed when I could smell the orange again!
I've only once in my life had really bad flu, 40 years ago. And even with a mild cold, your appetite tends to diminish so you mightn't notice it while you still had those symptoms (for a few days, perhaps). But this lasted for several weeks, well into the recovery period.
Yup. Not disputing, have had a similar experience. I got really tired of not being able to taste spices in food. Then I hit on adding fresh ginger. It perked up my taste buds right away. :-)
Loss of taste and smell is common with severe cold or flu symptoms. Fresh ginger and other "old wives" treatments which have been known for centuries is how you hit on it. Covid is fake.
I know... I just keep thinking we notice it now because everybody is talking about it. In other words, would you have known it before, unless someone pointed it out? Or would it have gone unnoticed because "these things happen" and it's just life. Sometimes smell is more acute and sometimes less.
Erin, when I got covid last year, I lost my sense of smell for a few weeks, and it was very weird. I am sensitive to odours - and it was all gone. (Some of that was a relief!) My coffee tasted strange - just the bitterness and sweetness of sugar on the tongue, none of the olfactory nuances. Same with everything I ate. And it persisted well into recovery from other symptoms, to the point where I checked out what to do about it, and started doing the olfactory retraining with 4 different essential oils that I heard about on YT. (I was already taking high dose zinc, which probably helped with recovery too.)
The olfactory retraining helped me monitor my olfactory recovery too - I was overjoyed when I could smell the orange again!
I've only once in my life had really bad flu, 40 years ago. And even with a mild cold, your appetite tends to diminish so you mightn't notice it while you still had those symptoms (for a few days, perhaps). But this lasted for several weeks, well into the recovery period.
Yup. Not disputing, have had a similar experience. I got really tired of not being able to taste spices in food. Then I hit on adding fresh ginger. It perked up my taste buds right away. :-)
Loss of taste and smell is common with severe cold or flu symptoms. Fresh ginger and other "old wives" treatments which have been known for centuries is how you hit on it. Covid is fake.