I lost my sense of taste and smell back in January and it still hasn’t come back. All I can taste are certain salts. I don’t know how to explain it, but I do have that sensation of certain foods. If it’s sour or bitter I know or if it’s really sweet I know. I just can’t TASTE it. I’m getting really peeved and just need some advice., because this has gone on for too long now. Can anyone suggest something?
(It’s really bugging NOW because now that I have braces, food is no longer enjoyable to eat and I don’t really want to eat)
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Hi, there. Welcome to COVID. I caught the virus about a year ago and still struggling with what you are going through. My taste and smell is finally coming back, slowly but surely. If it is COVID for you, hang in there, it should get better. Like you, I could taste sweet or sour but that’s all. If I put peanut butter in my mouth, the only way I could tell it was peanut butter cause it stuck to the roof of my mouth. 🥴 oh, and salt, yeah.
I’m glad you can eat reg food now and braces is not so noticeable anymore. Hmm you can taste the salt. What about when stuff is citrusy like lemon juice, can you tell?
Good afternoon, My sense of taste and smell varies and I have completely lost both before now - I have found taking the supplement Zinc with copper really helps improve my taste and smell.
Just FYI, I had covid in January also... and my hair turned gray. I mean, I have a line of salt-and-pepper-gray hair growing out so that it looks like I suddenly stopped dying it...but I never DID dye it, so there was nothing to stop. It's about 4-5 inches now. I figure that works out to about five months ago. Isn't that weird?
My daughter--who gave her covid to me thank you very much--lost her taste and smell and it only came back last month, so hang in there.
I suspect my salt-and-pepper-gray hair is permanent :o(
Covid and then my reactions to the vaccines has turned me, a middle aged woman with underlying health conditions, into an old woman. I completely lost my taste and smell with covid in January and it has come back somewhat but like the op I am best sensing with salty, etc. I know because I'm eating a lot of plain, nonfat Greek yoghurt and I could never really tolerate plain yoghurt well before covid. I make a salad and mostly can't taste it.
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