Guess I'm lucky in that in that I got 90% of my smell back within 2 months vs 6 month. Did have short lived parosmia to raw chicken in particular. Watched all the related Abscent online video, interesting and helpful thanks. I've already started doing a similar smell-a-thon in an attempt to relearn or awaken the olfactory nerves.

On the plus I've examined my diet added supplements and exercise. Positive that I will get over this within a short period of time. Can taste the bitterness in Fever-Tree tonic water with added natural quinine. Sweet and spicy are the two basic tastes that are the slowest to return.

On occasion order a roti (fav green mango & long bean) from a local Trinidadian restaurant. Use to ask for house spice sauce on the side as it was too hot but was able to eat the medium hot version 2 weeks ago without issue. Umami seems to be at 90+ as I can taste pasta sauce and similar tastes. Salt never left if anything was highlighted early since all else was missing.

The thing I noticed most was that diet soft drinks became totally unpalatable. I am diabetic so have used them for years but the change in taste was profound, very metallic. I never really noticed too many of other taste changes.

Recent NYT article on retraining senses after COVID

"'Super Taster' Who Lost Sense of Smell Is Helping Italians Regain It"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/worl ... smell.html

I've had customers from my apothecary who were commenting that some of my oils such as the 14 year old Patchouli had no scent. Of course Patchouli of any age has plenty of scent. Took a little while to realize that some folks have temporarily lost their sense of smell due to Covid. I've since included a notice in our shop policy.

happycat wrote:Recent NYT article on retraining senses after COVID

"'Super Taster' Who Lost Sense of Smell Is Helping Italians Regain It"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/worl ... smell.html

Could you give a summary? I'm not interested in creating an account to read an article.

bettysnephew wrote:The thing I noticed most was that diet soft drinks became totally unpalatable. I am diabetic so have used them for years but the change in taste was profound, very metallic. I never really noticed too many of other taste changes.

Diet and non-diet soft drinks. In particular Pepsi/Cola/Sprite has this effect on me as well. Metallic is a really good way to describe it now that I think about it.

I also had a relatively mild 'breakthrough' case. It was almost worth it, for how good my first post-covid coffee tasted after the few days without tasting anything at all, pretty much.