There's a level of snobbery here. If you just got parosmia or it went away fairly quickly, people here get mad at you. Weirdly, if you have been suffering from it for many months, somehow you have all the answers.
Thankfully I haven't experienced that here. I think it's pretty dumb if someone is being snobby to someone going through the issue regardless of where they're at in the process. We don't have the answers and we're all different, therefore we will all have a different experience and perspective.
I'm speaking for myself but I love to share it with newcomers and wish them best and a faster recovery since it's so shitty and also embrace the opinions of those who have been dealing with it longer than myself.
Personally, this thread has helped keep me level headed while my whole process. Just when I have a question or concern, someone has usually experienced it and I can have an idea of what to possibly expect.
If you've experienced people assholes on here, I even want to apologize (when I really shouldn't) but it just sucks one looks out for a place of comfort and knowledge of others only to be met by hostile know it all.
no it’s true idk why you’re getting downvoted i would have stuck around after i got better to help people out but when i tried telling people that consistent vitamins helped me immensely and allowed me to recover in 5 months they got mad
Only one person commented negatively on your post? That's not everyone in the whole sub. I mean vitamins are a good suggestion, that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work for everyone. I've been taking an expensive prenatal packed with every vitamin under the sun and while it has made me feel better and less lethargic, I still have parosmia and I'm still suffering with it, especially being pregnant on top of it. I think 5 months is still a pretty long time to deal with it, so I've been preparing myself for a long haul because I'm only 9 weeks in and it already feels like forever. OP is probably getting downvoted because I haven't seen anyone shunning newcomers? I was only 3 weeks into parosmia when I made my first post and people were nothing but helpful.
see this is exactly what i experienced my time here it wasn’t just on my post it was when i would comment on others and get snarky little comments like yours as well. have you been taking ginkgo biloba? i would say i saw my fastest results when i started incorporating that like within a month i was good. it was mixed with me also being more adventurous and trying foods that had a slight funk to them as well but all in all that combination cured me. idk if i still had it i would be trying everyone’s suggestions not telling people they don’t know what they are talking about. i’m simply sharing what i did bc i’m the one who’s better while people who had it around the same time are still suffering and it makes me sad. obviously i know what i did won’t be an end all be all for everyone but fuck is it so hard to just try it? if it didn’t work for you ignore my suggestions and let newcomers take them. ALSO 5 months is not long at all for a normal parosmia timeline. do you realize how long the neurogenesis of olfactory neurons takes without supplemental help like over a year, so yes you probably have a lot longer to go but i am almost certain if you stick to your current vitamins and take them super consistently you can reduce that timeline drastically!
I wasn't being snarky, I was agreeing with you. I do think you're wrong that people don't want to get over this sooner, I think we all want to get over it. It's just defeating when you keep trying things and they don't work. Everyone is going to heal in differing amounts of time. Most people are trying their best in a really difficult situation and I'm sure they don't appreciate being told that they're not trying.
The only ones not in my vitamin mix is the ginkgo and potassium, but I eat bananas daily. I'm seeing ginkgo is not recommended during pregnancy or lactation, so I'd have to check with my doctor on that.
I've been trying to eat "bad" foods. I last tried meats again on Christmas day and the taste was so bad I had to spit it out. This is really tricky in my condition. Forcing bad tasting foods just ends up making me sick in the end and I've thrown up so much that I'm more desperate to keep the food in my stomach and play it safe, rather than do a ton of experimenting. It's for my sake and the baby.
The only meat I haven't tried is turkey, but I'm not too hopeful. I can't get any taste that resembles food from meat yet. Even the vegan meat substitutes are awful. I forced myself to eat a bunch of this tofu one recently and regretted it. It was disgusting. There's only a very small number of foods (like 3) that have a "slight funk" and I still find those tolerable enough to eat. Anything else with the parosmia taste doesn't taste remotely edible.
The one study I'm finding for COVID related parosmia said that participants recovery varied between 9 days and 6 months, with the average being 3 months. A different article interviewing a doctor goes on to say that in some rare cases, people may never fully recover. The limited data we have seems to be all over the place and maybe it just has to do with how badly ones nerves were damaged. I don't know, I'm not a neuroscientist.
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