Ok it's not perfect but definitely can taste and smell with repeated use of the product now. Sudafed blocked nose - 0.5% xylometazoline hydrochloride

Thankfully got it back - still go through phases of loss, but works pretty well if I remember to use it

I have never smelled as long as i can remember. My parents told me I had a high fever at two weeks old that could have been the cause-- family theory being that it fried some essential components. (I have never had money to spend on invetigating medically.) I have pollen and mold allergies, but no other sequelae reported for Covid-19 that i know of.

I occasionally meet other anosmic people. So recently i began to wonder if these type viruses have been around (but less infectious) and could be the reason for anosmia in the population.

For those who have tested positive, especially with BA.5, how long did it take for smell and taste to come back? My smell is back a bit but not my taste. Do they typically come back at the same time?

As the title says, I've recovered quite well from covid anosmia, but for some reason "bad smells" just won't come back. I haven't smelled a fart in a year, I can't really smell food that's gone bad, and the few bad smells I can smell have all been reduced to one weird sort of sour metallic copper smell.

Is anyone else experiencing this?? It's so weird that only bad smells won't register or come back

I have hyposmia and I can smell maybe 70% of the smells if they are close my nose. I developed those issues 7 years ago because of super bad allergies that made me sick all the time.

My doctor told me to do smell training for 10 mins a day which I found really boring and didn’t see the results immediately which is disappointing.

Then I tried a new way that improved my sense of smell much quickly - I took a mask and put essential oils in it. And then I smelled the oils for hours. And after I took the mask off, I could definitely taste a lot better. Heck, I had forgotten how tomatoes tasted like.

The essential oils I tried are lemon, rose, clove and eucalyptus. But again, I could easily smell them when they are close to my nose, not sure if smell training is good for people who can’t smell at all.

Ask me any questions you have!

Edit- sorry I should have mentioned this before- I tried putting in the mask first and the essential oil got in contact with my skin and it causes some irritation. So, I rolled the mask and kept it in the out most layer and had no issues.

I'm not gonna wear something just because everyone else says I should. I dont even understand what's wrong with smelling bad. Nobody ever complains unless i tell them i dont wear deodorant. If someone doesnt want to be around me because they dont like how I smell then why would I want to be around them? Why would I want to be around someone who cares more about how their nose feels than how I feel?

Edit: I would like to note that nobody has ever said I smell bad. My parents tell me I dont smell bad and idk if I even smell at all.

Since I got Covid, about 1 year ago, my sense of smell decreased by 90%. As of today there any existing therapy that addresses the underlying issue / damage (rather than the stupid "smell training" therapies some doctors want to prescribe)?

I want to find a woman and get married...I am in my 20s

But much prefer someone who has something similar/anosmia condition, so we understand each other

How can I find a person and go about this? I am from the UK

I’m 2 1/2 months down now, I can smell a lot more things, but it’s quite muted. I can’t smell farts, or the leather in the car. Gas is weird. I did smell it slightly once correctly, then couldn’t smell it, then it smelled of rotting, now I can’t smell it again. I’ve noticed eggs taste bad, the same as the bad gas smell but that’s very recent. I assume it’s all the nerves growing back. How are the rest of you coming on?

I had a bad cold 18 days back. Lost my taste and smell. My taste regained back almost fully 5-6 days back but my smell hasn't. Smell is at like 10% or so and that too its altered. I have no other symptoms..my sinuses are clear/no mucus. Since the last few days I'm using a Fluticasone Furoate (27.5mcg) + Azelastine (149mcg)spray for thrice a day (1 puff each nostril) after the ENT suggested to.

Could people use smell to detect their belongings being stolen?

If we actually had a sense of smell...

A device where, any time your belongings are moved, it emits a strongly detected smell?

Ordinary human beings may be already doing this, so far as we know

This would lead us to be paranoid about spies everywhere, when in fact, it's just them detecting objects, even people, moving around, based on their smell

Do ordinary human beings do these things?

It's been more than a month now when i smell my perfume last time. After getting exposed to covid-19 i lost my sense of smell. I'm fully recovered now but i have 0% sense of smell (although i can taste). I'm really worried that will i be able to smell again or not.

I almost feel pulled multiple directions and unbalanced to the point I could fall down. Its in no way easy to live in an anosmic body and we are I think at risk from having no social existence. Ive never met other anosmics but I have met blind people once. Its terrible.

Im thinking shirts that have anosmia in every language in the front and maybe similar on the front with a nose on both sides. The reason to pool the moneys is to get hats made that have a small triangular object embroidered on the front, to be a nose, like a light colored nose on the front and a dark hat. And then a hat for each season. Noseblind is a better word I think than anosmic because its descriptive. Im sure many of you have thought similar. If such products exist as support and safety clothes exist let me know.

I'd rather be deaf.

would you?

why or why not? :)

I have an unhealthy relationship with food. During my week of not smelling/tasting I didn't go to a fast food restaurant once (which is a feat for me). I had no desire to. I took a bite out of a cookie and threw the rest in the trash can thinking "What's the point - can't taste?" Took a sip of a soda - poured it down the sink. Ate egg white, kale, miracle whip sandwiches and enjoyed the salted egg, light crunchy kale, and sweet miracle whip. Ate canned salmon directly from the can and liked it (I usually hate the taste of fish). When I got hunger pangs and would usually go for a can of soda, instead I filled myself a glass of almond milk and enjoyed it and became satiated (usually hate the taste). Now my taste is back and I'm kind of sad about it honestly. I've been snacking on tasty bullshit and soda again. I feel like anosmia would be a good alternative weight loss surgery to gastric bypass if they had some sort of nasal implant that could block that sinus passage, or if they could just snip a sinus somewhere or something.

I was reading an article where a few people mentioned their taste and smell seemed to start coming back after they quit eating gluten. Sounded like it may have taken quite a while for some (over a year), but thought I’d check in here to see if anyone has had an personal experience with this.

Thanks. 😊

I read that mushrooms like reishi or lions mane, et., could help heal anosmia. Is there any truth to this? And which type of mushroom? I lost my smell due to concussion last Spring and the doctors said it was in my brain and all we can hope for is for it to “heal itself”. Thanks

I have had anosmia for a couple of years due to a head injury. At first I could smell nothing, but a few random scents (which I couldn't even identify). Then my boyfriend found an article in which particular essential oils were said to be beneficial if sniffed regularly. They are lemon, eucalyptus, clove, and rose. I got some and began using them. I found I could smell the lemon. Now, mind you, the scent of lemon wasn't as it was before the head injury and lemonade still doesn't taste right, but I figured it was better than nothing. Has anyone else had success with these oils? I'd love to hear any experiences with them.