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New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly

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Re: New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly

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Post by fgsfds028374 »

MisterBastahrd wrote: post #6
Daviey wrote: post #2

I'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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Post by Klathmon »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #3

Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.

I just had it last week, and I almost completely lost my sense of taste and smell.

I'm feeling better and no longer testing positive this week, but I still have basically no sense of smell.

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Post by jandrese »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #3

Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.

I managed to avoid getting COVID until August 2023 and I lost my sense of smell. It took over a month for the sense to slowly come back, even after I tested negative.

The interesting thing is that I tested positive for COVID and went into quarantine, but didn't lose the sense of smell until a couple of days later. Seems like it set up shop in my lungs to start and only migrated up to the sinuses later. I also only really felt bad (low energy, aches, chills) for the first day, afterward I felt fine except for the loss of smell/taste but tested positive for another 5 days.

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Post by arrosenberg »

Daviey wrote: post #2

I'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?

Different variants may selectively target the common binding site in different areas of the body.

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Post by mahidol »

This will be nice. Came down with delta in 2021 and lost all sense of taste for 2-3 weeks. Lost sense of smell for close to 3 months.

Truly one of the most sobering experiences when everything tastes the same way (ie no taste), and when smell is removed from one's life altogether.

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Post by throitallaway »

ndr wrote: post #4
TurkishPoptart wrote: post #3

Sounds 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=...

Or people are just aware that Covid does that and don't need to Google it anymore.

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Post by throitallaway »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #3

Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.

Nov 2022 first time Covid-er here. I lost my sense of smell for about 2 weeks. I noticed it ~2 days before the illness really hit me (it mostly just drained me of all energy.)
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