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Daetra t1_iw2e2d1 wrote

My sense of smell still hasn't returned and it's been what feels like two years.

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BeastofBurden t1_iw2zo47 wrote

My colleague just said the same thing. It’s just starting to come back for her, and everything smells terrible to her.

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Menarra t1_iw3flf4 wrote

I had that when mine first started coming back! It was really hard to describe but it was like entirely random things, and not always the same things, had this background cat piss ammonia smell with it. That's slowly faded but I've never gotten all of my smell back...ironically I can't smell litter boxes xD

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AberrantRambler t1_iw4noto wrote

Interesting. I had just assumed the cats had been pissing everywhere, but that’s exactly what happened to me (though I definitely smell litter boxes)

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Menarra t1_iw4tv8l wrote

Yeah that was the best thing I could finally compare it to was cat piss ammonia, because that's a distinct smell. It wasn't EXACTLY that but that was the closest comparison, and it was very unpleasant for a few months before that finally faded.

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BrothelWaffles t1_iw38tw1 wrote

I used to have a pretty good sense of smell, and now mine seems to just go from weaker to stronger randomly, and it's not nearly as good as it used to be. The weird part is, I never lost it completely when I had Covid, it was just "dulled" I guess you could say. Other than a little brain fog here and there, that's luckily the only symptom I have. And honestly, the brain fog could just be from the 15 years of heavy drinking I did. Went to rehab a little over a year and a half ago and finally got sober, but came home with Covid, go figure.

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Daetra t1_iw399lh wrote

Same here, my sense of smell has just been dulled since covid. Like I don't always smell my BO like I use to, or if there was something rotting in the garbage, I'd need to be right over it to smell it.

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QuickPassion94 t1_iw3zowo wrote

I thought it would be a blessing, I would be disinterested in food and lose a few pounds. The opposite happened as I ate more trying to find something that tasted normal

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RandomBoomer t1_iw6rrpk wrote

One of my co-workers is in your situation. Last time I spoke to him, he was resigned to having lost his sense of smell. After two years, no sign of healing.

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