[anothernerd2]

Had covid late 2020. Fever, difficulty breathing, general cold symptoms for like 3-4 days. Wasn’t too bad, the vaccine symptoms were worse

The terrible part was losing my sense of smell and taste. I had my wedding a few weeks after. Couldn’t taste the wedding food. Went on my honeymoon to a 5 star resort in the Maldives with supposedly amazing food. Was barely able to taste anything.

Life was just grey without taste and smell.

It partially came back 6 months later. A little over a year later I 99% recovered.

This may sound silly but my wife’s farts are terrible smelling, but I couldn’t smell them until yesterday, even then they’re more acidic vs the standard putrid rotten egg smell.

I had a hard time with smoked whiskey until recently.

Training my nose by smelling vanilla extract seemed to help a little. Food is a huge part of my happiness and to lose that for a year was very depressing, the farts less so :)

Im in my late twenties

[tluyben2]

The vaccine symptoms you had were worse than difficulty breathing, losing your smell and taste and fever?! I had a sore arm for a day; what did you have?

[anothernerd2]

The 3-4 days of symptoms were better than the body aches from the vaccine. Those sucked, a lot. I was bedridden for 24 hours straight after both doses of the vaccine.

I would gladly go through shitty body aches for 24 hours to never lose my sense of smell again. That was depressing and a-whole-nother level of shit.

Not quite sure why your response has the tone it does, unless I’m misunderstanding it (as is common for non verbal communication)