To ask if you've experienced this (post) covid symptom?

[GretaGip]

I suffered from covid in September, no Hard Symptoms, just fluey.

3 weeks out of quarantine I suffered total loss of smell, and 3 months later I would say I have 10% of it back.

Over the last few days I've noticed an intermittent sense that I'm sitting in a cigarette cloud. Brings back chilling in The Local Arms with Mirage and Lemonade grooving along to Fine Young Cannibals.

It's not quite a taste, not quite a smell, more of an overall sensation of acridness.

We've got a Woodburner, I'd attributed it to perhaps a rope failure in that until I experienced it in the essential Spirit aisle in Waitrose.

And today I was in the middle of a field many miles from home, so I'm ruling out Woodburner or smokers outside a supermarket.

AIBU to ask for any other's similar experiences?

I had Covid in March. Before I had a very acute sense of smell. Now the weird thing is that it wavers. Some days it's normal, some days it's weaker, and some days I get faint phantom smells (mostly sort of damp and mouldy). I don't mind that much. It's always weird when it comes back. I'd bought all of these cleaning products last months and the other day got a massive stinky floral blast from them.

When I was pregnant I decided that very few smells are nice, most are bad, so unless you want to be a professional wine taster or something a super-powered sense of smell is mostly a hindrance.

I've had this for a few years now to do with my migraines

Yep, my partner had covid in august. Just mild cold symptoms but lost her smell.
Often smells burning....

Have this now, and its driving me mad!

@PeckyOwl Still have the tinnitus here too! Since March. It's horrid. V high pitched. Have you got ear ache too at all? Mine kind of burn randomly.

I recently read somewhere (on a perfume forum?) someone's account of a similar symptom. His/her sense of smell was returning after having Covid, but everything was still "off" and scents that would normally be appealing for them instead were unpleasant. The responses were encouraging. I believe someone said this was actually a positive sign that the sense of smell was recovering.

Good luck! I hope everything sorts itself out soon!

Yes I’ve been suffering with parosmia since June

Yes, I had Covid in April and I still have a distorted sense of smell and taste. Smells like burning oil all the time

I believe I had COVID back in March - no test or anything but was ill for 5 weeks with symptoms. I've noticed since then I have smelt pot all over the place. No idea whether people are just entertaining themselves during lockdown or if I'm having post-COVID olfactory hallucinations.

If people experience the altered sense of smell, is that applicable to taste too? Do things taste different as well?

@hollieberrie No pain, maybe you should get that checked out? Just jingle bells here.

Last time I had the flu I had my sense of smell go really arid, like I'd snorted a line of dust or something.

I've got Covid now, it's wreaked havoc with my sense of smell - I can still taste and smell more or less OK, but the past 2 days I've been smelling "off" smells, like rotting garbage, vinegar, and ripe cheese.

Today it's more like the dusty/arid kinda smell.

I bet my friend wishes she had this symptom. She has anosmia due to Covid and almost burned her house down. Lucky one of her kids came home from school and asked what the burning small was!

@Flippyferloppy

I bet my friend wishes she had this symptom. She has anosmia due to Covid and almost burned her house down. Lucky one of her kids came home from school and asked what the burning small was!

Bloody hell that's awful.

Hope your friend is okay

Yes, definitely. I had Covid in April and for weeks after I recovered I could smell charring meat, on and off. Like someone was having a BBQ in the room.

Also got the tinnitus.

The worst by far was the nausea and vomiting.

Yup, had COVid last March.

Smell and taste still isn’t great - somethings smell rotten, Christmas Day was a nightmare because the turkey smelt vile to me, everyone else said it was fine, some air fresheners smell like rotting garbage.

Perfumes are all off - things I’ve loved for years smell off - like cheap perfumes that get right up the back of your nose and linger.

I’ve also had phantom burning electric smell - again Christmas was a nightmare because I was convinced the Christmas lights were burning, I wandered round the house sniffing plugs most days

My friend is fine thanks, although it was a bit of a shock. Strangely enough, she can still taste sort of normally, except for certain things like red wine.

I have not had covid that I've known of but have had this recently. Keep smelling smoke and randomly cherries

Yes I've had this too and most recently just a couple of days ago. I had COVID back in March when we first locked down and one of my symptoms was loss of taste/smell. Still haven't fully got it back but this overwhelming heavy smoke smell and sensation, almost thick and choking like you'd expect an old pub to be comes now and again.

I've also had a terrible cough for the last 3 weeks that I cannot get rid of. There's so much shit sitting on my chest that I just can't shift. I tested negative for COVID just over a week ago and I'm due to go for another lateral flow test this Friday.

So I'd say for sure it's a long COVID symptom.

I cannot get to sleep at the moment, don't think it's been before 3am for a week at least.

I'm concluding it's because of the smoky sensation - my brain is probably alert to the danger that the sensation presents, and won't allow my body to sleep.

It's shite.