When do I get smell back?

[Anonymous No.15256535]

Hi anons, I hate to destroy a thread for this but I'm freaking out and need big brains to tell me what's what. So, I finally caught covid-19 last week after avoiding it for 3 years. I'm unvaxxed, but the person I caught it from was vaxxed and boosted. I was barely sick for a day, literally had 1 day of aches and pains, no blowing my nose or coughing really. But on day 3 of "covid" I noticed my smell/taste nearly gone. Now I'm on "day 6" and I still have hyposmia or whatever it's called. I seem to be able to smell most things, but the smell is faint. Basically every hour I go downstairs and smell everything in the fridge as well as various candles and colognes/perfumes that are in the house. Even my cannabis which is that stinky loud barely has an odor to it, but luckily I can still get a whiff of the piney scent.

From what I've read, I shouldn't worry yet. They say 80% of people get all their smell and taste back within 1 month, and I'm only at 1 week right now. But I am a paranoid individual and can't help it. What is the mechanism for this? I've seen conflicting reports some saying it is due to inflammation in olfactory epithelial cells and others saying it is due to neuronal damage.

So what's the /sci/ consensus here. Did anyone else here get covid and have it affect smell and taste receptors? Did it ever go back to normal for you? If so how long did it take?

[Anonymous No.15256539]

>>15256535
there is no covid faggot

[Anonymous No.15256541]

>>15256535
COVID isn't real

[Anonymous No.15256543]

I've never gotten my sense of smell to full capacity after being sick with a virus when I was a child. don't see the problem. if you are a male, you often don't use smell anyway.

[Anonymous No.15256560]

Your symptoms sounded pretty similar to mine. I could hold a stick of deodorant to my nose and smell nothing, but there were a few particular smells I could faintly smell.

My sense of smell more or less completely recovered in a few days. It took my girlfriend about a month for her sense of smell to come completely back, but her standards might be higher than mine. Your sense of smell will come back don't worry.

[Anonymous No.15256568]

>>15256539
>>15256541
I'm so tired of the "covid isn't real" shills. It's obviously real because it has different symptoms compared to normal cold or flu or other illnesses. This shit was so weird. I was barely sick at all, just some aches and pains, but then two days later my smell and taste are almost gone. That's fuckin weird

>>15256543
glad it's not a problem for you. I enjoy cooking and eating food. I smoke cigarettes and drink coffee. I like to be able to smell my cigarettes and my coffee

>>15256560
thanks anon, that makes me feel better. I read these horror stories about people who still have fucked up smell months/years later. Just opened up my weed jar and took a big wiff, don't even care about smoking it just glad I can somewhat smell it

[Anonymous No.15256574]

>>15256568
You literally got a run of the mill nasal infection. Losing sense of smell is a common symptom of a nasal infection.

[Anonymous No.15256582]

>>15256535
Maybe zinc supplementation?

[Anonymous No.15256586]

>>15256568
there is no proof of covid shill
>t has different symptoms compared to normal cold or flu or other illnesses.
that are?

[Anonymous No.15256595]

>>15256586
retard. This thread is about one them

[Anonymous No.15256610]

>>15256595
that is not true. cold and flu causes that. covid is fake.

[Anonymous No.15256623]

>>15256574
>You literally got a run of the mill nasal infection. Losing sense of smell is a common symptom of a nasal infection.

I did not have a nasal infection. I had one day where I had aches and pains in my body, especially like my kidney area. I never coughed really, nor did I ever really blow my nose. Most colds are worse for me, and when I used to get allergies, allergies were usually worse and involved more blowing of my nose than I had with covid. There was very little that was nasal or respiratory for me. Only nasal symptom I've had is the diminishment of ability to smell that happened 2 days AFTER the most severe symptoms which were themselves very mild.

[Anonymous No.15256648]

>>15256543
Same here, another virus ruined my smell/taste worse than COVID did.
I got sick with a cold/flu in 2016 and I completely lost my taste. It came back, but worse. Then I got COVID and lost my taste again. When I had COVID I couldn't even smell 70% alcohol. My taste was completely gone in both instances, but then it came back slowly but permanently damaged.
My taste feels "muted", I can't taste peeps, white chocolate, mild cheeses like Parmesan, chicken flavored cup ramen. Anything with a mild flavor has no taste to me. I can still taste, but my taste is damaged. In my experience, my smell/taste did come back, but less than what it was before. Hope this isn't your fate OP.

[Anonymous No.15256649]

>>15256623
flu

[Anonymous No.15256694]

>>15256535
>But on day 3 of "covid" I noticed my smell/taste nearly gone. Now I'm on "day 6" and I still have hyposmia or whatever it's called.
Couple weeks to a month.
Don't fret. Try retraining your whiffer each day if you want, sniffing different things.

[Anonymous No.15256716]

>>15256535
You gotta retrain the neural connections through Smell Retraining Therapy.
>It is best to start with at least four different scents, especially smells you remember. The most recommended fragrances are rose (floral), lemon (fruity), cloves (spicy), and eucalyptus (resinous). Take sniffs of each scent for 10 to 20 seconds at least once or twice a day. While sniffing, it is important to be focused on the task. Try to concentrate on your memory of that smell. After each scent, take a few breaths and then move on to the next fragrance. It is recommended that you do this for at least 12 weeks (three months), but you can do it longer, alternating the scents if you like.
For once, the cure really is essential oils.

[Anonymous No.15256739]

>>15256535
wear a mask while you're sleeping. in three years you should have your smell back.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Huk3yifWcJS0/

[Anonymous No.15256741]

>>15256623
>Only nasal symptom I've had is the diminishment of ability to smell that happened 2 days AFTER the most severe symptoms which were themselves very mild.
This is consistent with a secondary nasal infection anon.

[Anonymous No.15256742]

Its just a mass psychosis. You dont have lost your taste or smell. Youre just a fag thinking so.

Simple test: buy the meaniest chili sauce from the local mart and drink directly from bottle

[Anonymous No.15256802]

>>15256742
Pain receptors have nothing to do with taste.

[Anonymous No.15256902]

>>15256802
yeah, I literally stuck my nose in a jar of horseradish and I could barely smell it but my nose still kind of reacted as if I did. Hard to explain

[Anonymous No.15256960]

>>15256741
That doesn't seem correct, at least in my experience. I've had a lot of secondary bacterial sinus infections, and they're not just diminished smell. They're painful with thick snot that feels like cement in my sinuses. Sinus infections are known to be a miserable experience.

[Anonymous No.15257216]

>>15256535
I think mine came back about a week after I caught it. It was actually stronger than normal when it came back.

[Anonymous No.15257218]

>>15256543
>males don't use smell
What nonsense is this? Best chefs male, best sommeliers male, best perfumers male - of course men use smell.

[Anonymous No.15257239]

>>15257218
I'm not a best chef, not a best perfumer. I go home, cook my shit and eat, and I don't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.15257376]

so I had dinner, I was able to taste lemonade and the jalapenos in my burger. Seems like taste/smell might be coming back, this shit is so weird

[HoB No.15257384]

>>15257239
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiE5IzSS3A8
Your post gives this energy unironically

[Anonymous No.15257386]

>>15257376
Congrats anon. You're getting it back quickly like I did

[Anonymous No.15257455]

lost my sense of smell for like 8 months. now I can smell things if I sniff them but it's kind of faint, definitely not as strong as it was before. however it didn't affect my quality of life at all, I could definitely live my whole life without the sense of smell.

[Anonymous No.15257458]

>>15257455
Nice, now you don't have to smell stinky cooters.

[Anonymous No.15258746]

>>15256574
Nah brah. COVID is a legit thing, however, it isn't the black plague the media and govt made it out to be (which anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew from day one). I've gotten all manner of infections and sicknesses, but that shit beat my ass for a solid week and a half. about 4 of those days I felt like a tenderized steak marinated in dog shit. Fucked with my head too and gave me some bad anxiety. Lost my taste and smell for about 2 or three weeks. It slowly came back but I could only taste bitter flavors for a week (everything tasted like ass and I had to force feed myself). 2 weeks after I felt better I still had bubbly sounding breath and winded easily. Put me out of work for almost a month before they let me come back.

I had a pneumonia or something that felt similar a few years ago but still didn't have all those side effects (just made me feel like zombie shit). It's just a similar buffed if not outright engineered version of shit we've caught before. The only people at risk of dying from it are people at risk of dying from any disease. I knew a normal functioning immune system would beat its ass so I just let it run the course and got over it like a normal human being. No I'm not vaxed nor will I ever be for something I know the body can beat.

As for OPs question I've heard some people lose their senses for months or more. My cousin lost hers for like 3 to 6 months, but she's a drama queen so I'm sure she exaggerated it. Just keep eating and smelling strong stuff. Once you can start to smell or taste even little or disgusting things then that means your senses are slowly coming back. Your taste and smell might just slightly permanently altered but you won't even notice after awhile.

[Anonymous No.15258768]

>>15257218
The best women are males. 2015 Glamour Magazine even said so. Why are we so good at everything bros?

[Anonymous No.15258929]

>>15256535
I've had long covid for 2 and a half years now. There isn't a straight answer, you could get it back tomorrow, you could never get it back fully, it's literally a crapshoot and nobody understands the mechanisms of action that are triggering the symptoms let alone how to treat them. I've been to 9 different specialists in multiple disciplines and they're all prettymuch stumped because it doesn't have detectable biomarkers they've been trained to identify

That said, take some vitam D, try some anti imflammatories, and some people have had luck with antihistamines as well (maybe don't mix all 3 at once, I dont know about interactions, I'm not a doctor, talk to your doctor first)

[Anonymous No.15259059]

>>15257455
>however it didn't affect my quality of life at all, I could definitely live my whole life without the sense of smell.

I guess some of us live truly different lives. My life isn't great, and being able to cook and eat a nice meal is one of the few pleasures I will always cherish. Even just a nice cup of coffee and a cigarette in the morning is something I will always enjoy. If my smell and taste went away, and I couldn't enjoy those things again, it would affect my quality of life more severely than losing a finger.

>>15258929
thanks anon, I think I'm on the mend. Smells are stronger today than they were yesterday, even though I'm not totally back to normal yet

[Anonymous No.15259087]

>>15256539
>>15256541

I pray you get it, and die. I will legitimately laugh

[Anonymous No.15259093]

>>15256539
>>15256541

[Anonymous No.15259094]

>>15259087
>literally begging the covid god to kill me for doubting its existence, for committing blasphemy
kek
already had it anyway tard

[Anonymous No.15259102]

>>15259093
why do covid cultists celebrate the deaths of fellow humans? are the psychopaths?

[Anonymous No.15259116]

>>15259102
you're not a cult if you're the majority you faggot

[Anonymous No.15259129]

>>15259116
appeal to popularity, put your mask back on faggot

[Anonymous No.15259244]

>>15259116
The masses aren't a cult, just mind numbingly daft peasants. Consoom and do whatever the picture box tells you to do. Literally cattle.

[Anonymous No.15259270]

>>15256535
>last week
Don't worry. I think I had the coof a couple months ago. I had a dulled sense of smell for 2-3 weeks after but it came back.

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15259647]

>>15256535
oh shill, so big effort in vain.

[Anonymous No.15259924]

>>15256535
It comes back but faint. For me dark chocolate restored most of it, but it has to be true chocolate, that is 70%+ cacao, rich in cacao butter, not the corporate pig urine americans eat.

[Anonymous No.15259931]

>>15256535
Stop interacting with mutants, they are poison factories.

[Anonymous No.15259935]

>>15256541
COVID is real. Is a bio terrorist weapon developed by the US government that was leaked by accident, and massively released in China by CIA agents to hide its origins.

[Anonymous No.15260507]

>>15256535
Literally all in your head. You heard that COVID affects this and now you believe it's happening to you.

[Anonymous No.15261755]

>>15256535
eat some wasabi or horseradish, make sure to really spread it around the roof of your mouth before swallowing. this will liquify anything and everything in your sinuses. blow your nose with the force of a thousand supernovas. then you should be able to smell your girlfriend's braps just fine, if not better than before. hope this helps OP, praying for you.

[Anonymous No.15261812]

>>15256535
My mom doesn’t have her sense of smell back and it’s been since January 2021. Maybe not for a long time anon. Maybe there will eventually be a type of treatment for it. See your doctor, maybe they know of something.

[Anonymous No.15261966]

>>15261812
She should take COVID-19 boosters, it will cure her of that, along with everything else, forever.

[Anonymous No.15262190]

>>15256535
Study just came out that says Metformin of all things has a strong neuroprotective effect against long covid.
Now it's probably too late for you, you couldn't acquire it in time to matter, and the damage is already done.

But it's really interesting if it turns out to be true. Metformin is a crazy drug. People with diabetus on metformin actually seem to live _slightly longer_ than healthy people.
The fucking thing is a mystery, does a million things that no one precisely understands, somehow seems to reduce all cause mortality, and now also alledgedly protects from long Covid?
Metformin is insane.

Oh, and just wait it out OP. Symptoms seem to improve slowly over a few months, most people recover most of the way.
You might not recover fully. But then again, you were brainwashed, so what can you do.
Most important is that you try not to fall for a conspiracy again next time around, these schizo beliefs really aren't healthy in the long run.

[Anonymous No.15262212]

>>15256539
2-3 weeks. Don't worry it will come back. With each day you will notice it more and more.

[Anonymous No.15262221]

>>15261812
get her some lions mane I'm not sure if it improved my sense of smell or just my awareness of small but I feel like a blood hound after taking it for a few months.

[Anonymous No.15262879]

>>15259270
>I had a dulled sense of smell for 2-3 weeks after but it came back.

thanks anon, it's been 8 days since I felt "sick" from covid, but only about 6 or 7 days since my smell went away. It has mostly come back. Food tastes okay again, but smell is faint. I can't smell coffee brewing for instance.

For me the worst is cigarettes. They don't taste the same, I barely smoke now because I can't even enjoy the cigs. Funnily enough, there was another time in my life when shit tasted weird like this, it was after a weekend drug binge when I did entirely too much mdma, also last time I did mdma. My smell and general senses were off for a while. That's what this feels like

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15262934]

>>15262879
lol, shills improvise. do they pay extra for such bullshit?

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15262938]

>>15259935
scary. no more.

[Anonymous No.15262986]

>>15256535
I got Covid didn't even get sick besides a stuffy nose and lost all smell and part of my taste.

Then a week later every food I ate tasted like rotten flesh and I could smell gasoline. I think it damages the olfactory nerves somehow. But it went away after a month. The way to speed it up is focus on intense smells.

I basically got items that had a strong smell like garlic and I could barely smell it. But I kept smelling it and imagining what it smelled liked this retrains those neurons.

After doing this though my taste is still off Mcdonalds no longer even tastes good especially artificial foods I used to enjoy monster and now it makes me want to puke. But mostly 100 percent normal

[Anonymous No.15262997]

>>15262986
Pretty weird tho Taco bell is sort of alr but I can't enjoy goyslop like I used to.

Maybe this is just how they should taste and my body got used to toxins and artificial flavorings

[Anonymous No.15263003]

>>15262997
>Maybe this is just how they should taste and my body got used to toxins and artificial flavorings
It's this. Hating goyslop is natural, you just accidentally detoxed.

[Anonymous No.15263008]

>>15263003
I just wish I could drink monster energy one time and enjoy it the same way.

[Anonymous No.15264702]

>>15263008
bumping, I hope your taste fully goes back to normal someday

OP here btw, smell seems slightly improved today. If I hold an unlit cigarette to my nose, I can somewhat smell it, but it's very faint. Burning cigs still smell weird to me.

Also still can't seem to smell bananas that are unpeeled, even though they're starting to go bad. I used to be able to hold a ripe banana to my nose and smell the banana smell, but now I can't. I just hope it all goes back to normal

[Anonymous No.15264720]

>>15257239
>I'm not a best chef, not a best perfumer.
Shame on you for admitting it.

[Anonymous No.15264722]

>>15256535
My smell came back a few weeks afterwards but it's all fucked up. Beef, any meat in the microwave and human BO all smell identical. My mom was cooking sauce the other day and I had no idea what it was, her sauce used to smell great now it smells like shit. Most soaps smell like vanilla, doritos and chips are absolutely vile to me now.. Hope yours gets better and comes back normal, GL

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15264859]

>>15264722
poor faggots, lost smell, fucking disaster

[Anonymous No.15267066]

>>15264859
>poor faggots, lost smell, fucking disaster

it's annoying. I'm glad mine has at least partially come back, I just hope it fully goes back to normal. Saw a girl on twitter say she got hers back by microdosing .3g of shrooms a few times in a row.

But honestly it sucks. I think I'd actually rather go deaf than have my smell and taste be altered. At least then the world would be quiet, only downside would be inability to enjoy music. But I only go see live music maybe 2-3 times per month, I smell and taste things daily

[Anonymous No.15267912]

bump

[Anonymous No.15267917]

>>15267066
>actually rather go deaf than have my smell and taste be altered. At least then the world would be quiet
Deaf people hear "REEEEEEEEE" all the time.

[Anonymous No.15267981]

>>15267917
No they don't, it's just quiet and peaceful I would assume. Anyway, I just want my smell back to normal, this is taking a while. If it never goes back to normal I will freak out desu

[Anonymous No.15267984]

>>15267981
You can have tinnitus while being basically deaf. It depends on how you lose your hearing.

[Anonymous No.15268034]

>>15267984
oh maan that would be so gay, no wonder so many deaf people are annoying, I would be too

[Anonymous No.15270224]

OP here again, figured I'd bump the thread. Anyway, smell is continuing to improve. I am able to smell unlit cigarettes and unpeeled, yet ripe, bananas yet again when I hold them to my nose. I can also smell my farts again as well as butt/poop smell.

I'm still not 100%, cigs still smell somewhat gross to me, but not nearly as bad as they did earlier this week. I think I am healing bros

[Anonymous No.15271751]

>>15270224
>i am healing
>because cigarettes start smelling good
UUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH SWEATY UR SURE BOUT DAT

[Anonymous No.15272504]

>>15271751
actually yes

[Anonymous No.15272508]

>>15270224
Glad to hear it, anon.

[Anonymous No.15273729]

>>15256535
If you can smell something, even if it's faint and sporadical, that's a good sign. Wait a week or two and I promise you you will get your smells and tastes back.

[Anonymous No.15273775]

>>15270224
cigarettes are supposed to smell gross dude, they're literally poisonous

[Anonymous No.15273839]

>>15256535
I got SARS a couple times in college and I've never really been able to smell since then. Sometimes if there's an *extremely* strong smell or if its right under my nose I can smell it but nothing like when I was younger and could smell things in my neighbors house.

[Anonymous No.15275408]

>>15273775
>cigarettes are supposed to smell gross dude, they're literally poisonous

Yeah but I'm someone who grew up around a parent who smoked, and who himself has smoked cigarettes fairly regularly since I was about 18 years old. I'm not a heavy smoker, but I thoroughly enjoy the scent of tobacco.

Anyway, cig smell is pretty much back to normal. Only complaint at this point is smells still aren't as strong as they were pre-covid. Like, if someone brews coffee, I can't really smell it from upstairs like normal. Hopefully that returns as well. Currently I'm 13 days from when I felt sick, 12 days from when I tested positive for covid. And about 15/16 days from when I was initially exposed (unless I was exposed earlier and it took that long to develop symptoms)