Anyone else? My taste and smell came back but has now gone weird again

[SheilaTakeABow]

I had Covid in November last year. Not too bad in hindsight, but freaky at the time.

I completely lost my sense of taste and smell for over a week, then they came back gradually.

However, over the past month or so, I've noticed a lot of things taste... strange. The tastes are still there, but a lot of items have an almost synthetic, petrol-ly tang.

I can't work out if my senses had just been dulled for a while and I didn't notice (being so glad to have them back in some shape or form) or if this is some type of regression

Just wondering if it's happened to anyone else.

I had COVID in November, loss of smell went for a few days then came back. However, in the months after I've had a few occasions where I haven't been able to smell something that someone else can, even a food item that I was sniffing away that had no smell to me.

I've had this all year, I can sometimes smell cigarette smoke when I know it can't be. I thought it was olfactory hallucinations but now wonder if it was a Covid after effect.

@MistakenAgain

I've had this all year, I can sometimes smell cigarette smoke when I know it can't be. I thought it was olfactory hallucinations but now wonder if it was a Covid after effect.

Yes - I'm getting a lot of that random burning smell, and then a strange petrol taste at the back of my throat when eating certain savoury food.

I didn’t lose my sense or taste and smell but it can still be a bit weird sometimes. Coffee, meat and tuna all smell 🤢

Exactly the same for me! Total loss of taste and smell last October that came back after a couple of weeks, but really noticed things tasting weird in the last month or so! Onions and garlic are odd, as is peanut butter and any alcohol. Like a weird sweet yeasty chemical smell and taste

Lost my taste/smell around April last year. Still have huge problems with my sense of smell. Certain foods now smell absolutely repulsive and other things have odd smells which I can't even describe!

Well this is all hugely relieving (strangely, happily, the wine tastes fine)