Had COVID 9/12/2022 and still have no taste or smell. I am 71 and on no medications. I have been told to eat citrus to shock the taste buds so oranges,lemons,ginger,limes are on my daily menu. Eating BLD by texture to satisfy ion the mind. Lost 27 lbs and I am not heavy guy at 162 now…..My bride of 50 years can’t beleive it nor I because unless you have gotten this from COVID its hard to explain.
Any person on here that can share their experience or medical advice is appreciated.
Did you mean to be on this board? It is for people with PMR and/or GCA.
Hi oznaf! Yes I developed the beloved Covid and was really poorly for a good three weeks. Taste and smell had disappeared and I couldn’t eat. Weight dropped off me, which wasn’t worrying me. I forced myself to eat just a bit, even though taste was like eating tissues. I then noticed after ten months that my taste buds had just started to wake up when I had a cheese sandwich. Slowly returned and as usual I kept a note each day in my diary what I could taste and what I couldn’t. Very interesting reading for me but nobody else. After a month I started trying to smell different things to get my nose buds working again. It worked. Took about a further month. Now fighting fit, So keep smiling, they will return when they want to.
You have reminded me - I'm sure I saw an article that challenging your sense of smell is a recommended approach.
I am not alone then!
There is a bit here
healthpartners.com/blog/how...
Even the NHS talks about it
nhsinform.scot/long-term-ef...
Thank you so much, it really makes sense, particularly that I had forgotten how to smell and appreciate it, good and bad. I use aromatherapy oils and found by asking myself “ which oil is this?”. Sounds crazy but it did help. The one point I noticed they say smell returns before taste, but my didn’t. As they say I had forgotten how to smell! It was after all 10 months or so, so I had switched off. Funny old world but we keep grinning.
Same with hearing - not wearing a hearing aid speeds up deafness worsening. OH was told very sternly he must use them AT LEAST x hours a day when he got his hearing aids. And after a couple of weeks he realised how much he had been missing.
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