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Sense of smell gone?

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triedandtestedteacher · 24/03/2020 20:45

I had symptoms last week. Not awful but I had a very tight feeling in my chest and throat and a slight temperature. I couldn't get my breath when walking either. I feel a little better this week but yesterday I kept thinking the oven wasn't on when I was cooking as couldn't smell the food then today I realised the malt vinegar in the cupboard had no odour to me. Googled and found that they're kicking loss of smell around as a symptom. Anyone else in this boat? Link to articles I found
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2897385001

www.entuk.org/sites/default/files/files/Loss%20of%20sense%20of%20smell%20as%20marker%20of%20COVID.pdf

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RedRed9 · 24/03/2020 20:51

There’s been a few threads on here saying the same as you OP. Look back through the topic and you’ll find them.

Abracad · 24/03/2020 20:51

It’s a newly identified symptom - taste and smell. And you can have these symptoms and no others. Get well soon.

QuimJongUn · 24/03/2020 20:55

DD came back from London where she was visiting her girlfriend at the very end of February. A week later, within hours of each other pretty much, we all very suddenly (and I mean suddenly, like a wave hitting) came down with similar symptoms: fever, weird sore throat on the left side only, tight heavy painful chests, dry cough and earache. We all said it was like a cold/chest infection without snot. Me and DD recovered fairly quickly, although we've had a lingering tiredness and are still coughing occasionally. DH however was pretty poorly. His temp was really high for days and he developed terrible shortness of breath and what he thought was a chest infection - he even went to the GP which is so unlike him. This was before the advice was to not do so. GP did ask if he'd recently travelled from China though. He prescribed antibiotics for a chest infection which did not work - it took three weeks for there to be an improvement and he's still not 100%.

The reason for this ramble is that one of the most pronounced symptoms DH had was a complete loss of senses of taste and smell. He said it was nothing like you get with a cold, and it lasted for over a week. I had this mildly but nowhere near as bad as his - it was so complete it was actually a bit distressing.

Of course I can't say for sure whether we had CV but given the timeframe it seems likely.

triedandtestedteacher · 24/03/2020 21:08

@RedRed9 oh sorry I must have missed those. I'll have a look!

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