New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly
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#2I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.
The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
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#3Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.
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#4Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.
Google Trends confirms it looks way milder now:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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#5I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully. The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
IIRC there’s decent evidence that the incidence of anosmia from Omicron is much lower than from earlier strains.
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#6I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully. The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
I've been buying "test bags" of mandarins every 4 months or so since I contracted it for a second time around Christmas 2021. Yesterday was the first time that I was able to taste any of the background notes you would normally associate with orange flavors. Before it was like just taking a concentrated spray of orange oil to the mouth.
I was so excited I ended up eating half the bag, lol.
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#7I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully. The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
The first time I contracted COVID, the other symptoms were wild, and I gave myself even odds on dying. However I did not lose my sense of smell or taste.
The second time I contracted COVID, it was mostly just a miserable fever but I lost my smell and taste, and they still have not come back completely almost a year later.
My theory is that COVID does a random walk when eating away the brain from wherever it enters.
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#8I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully. The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
Likely your body had built up immunity. It's unclear if later strains had less of an effect on taste or people were just better prepared.
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#9Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.
It's provably not lost, I know 2 people who experienced loss of smell/taste in 2023. Hopefully though it's reduced in severity and frequency.
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#10I lost taste/smell for about two weeks in the late summer 2022 from covid infection. Very wild to lose taste/smell. Not just diminished ... gone. You could have put a turd under my lose and I wouldn't have known the difference. Not only that, I stopped drinking coffee during that time because again ... what was the point if I couldn't taste it?
Took a few weeks to completely recover from all of the side effects of a covid infection.