If it weren't for loss of taste and smell, I wouldn't have noticed I had COVID. I didn't have a cough nor any strong symptoms. I had some body aches and felt somewhat tired and chilly for about 24 hours.
Then a day or two after that, I noticed I couldn't smell anything. NOTHING at all. When I heard of that symptom I didn't believe it. I thought it must just be a reduced sense of smell. I have an extremely sensitive nose, almost annoyingly so. But post-COVID, I could not smell even gasoline when it was 1 inch from my nose. Absolutely flabbergasting.
Smell returned after about 10 days to two weeks. Someone less healthy than me had it several months ago and his sense of smell has yet to fully return.
I quickly recovered to 100% in all areas. Like I said above, if it weren't for the loss of sense of smell I basically wouldn't have noticed that I had COVID.
I thought the same, it's just reduced like any other cold. No, this was a complete and total loss of smell. Nothing, not even overheated cooking oil, not that super-strong pine cleaner that makes your nose burn, nothing. About two weeks and it was back.
Some things still taste wrong, the commercial brewer coffee we use at work tastes off, and artificial sweeteners still taste - wrong. That's the only way I can describe it. Maybe watery?
I had a couple days where I had that got a cold achey feeling, and a runny nose for a couple weeks. That's about it.
There are a few things that still smell a tiny bit off for me. Certain oils like olive oil, or more chemical things like rubbing alcohol have a different scent to them now. But other than that, my sense of smell has basically completely returned.
Wow the commercial coffee and artificial sweeteners taste wrong to you now? Seems like corona fixed your previously gutter tier tastebuds
Sorry Mister Starbucks.
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