[devjab]

Cool. I wonder if they’ll ever discover the reason behind the loss of smell. I lost mine completely for about a year, and I still can’t smell most things. Luckily one of the smells I got back was shit, I say lucky because it’s handy when you have diaper wearing children. In general what I’ve gotten back has been “nasty” smells, I can also smell things like vomit or rotten food. But “good” smells are still completely gone. I can’t smell flowers, I can’t smell candy and so on.

It never really affected me, as I apparently cared a lot less about smells than many other people, but it is a little frightening to lose something because of a disease. I’m happy it was the only side effect I got, I’d obviously rather have had none, but I’d frankly be comforted by scientists knowing more about it.

[michael_j_x]

Have you tried smell training (basically you sniff 3-4 different types of essential oils daily). My girlfriend lost her smell due to covid for a year or so, and got it back about a month after starting smell training

[effingwewt]

I mean we smell with olfactory nerves. Are you saying they can be 'trained' so-to-speak? (Looked it up- sure enough [1])

I've never heard of such a thing but if so I'm glad there's something to at least try.

I don't personally know anyone who still hasn't regained their sense of smell, but for some it was a year or more before it returned fully.

I do know 2 people with 'long covid' who are just super low energy (not a severe case).

Im just excited it's all being looked into now as opposed to being blown off or labeled misinformation.

[1] https://www.uab.edu/reporter/patient-care/advances/item/1000...

[francisofascii]

Interesting. It is like "rehab" for smelling.