If you lost your sense of smell/taste...

[CliffordMouse]

How long did it take to come back?

I'm only a few days in after losing mine entirely (though there's a constant slightly weird smell in my nose) and I miss the taste of food! How long until yours came back?

I'm interested too. I lost mine on Friday it's driving me mad!

My son lost his sense of smell/taste last Sunday, and it's starting to come back today. He's very relieved!

Months. In fact, it's now some 17 months later and while it's 'back', I definitely don't have the tasting skills I used to have

Hi

I had covid last april I regained my taste after a week but I lost my sense of smell for about 6months. It just gradually started to come gradually.

For me, taste was only out a few days. Less than a week.

Smell took longer — more than a fortnight but less than a month IIRC. It came back in increments.

(I wasn’t really measuring, I had covid super-early before much was being discussed re sense of smell so I wasn’t paying much attention.)

One week for me. One week for my OH but his taste is off - garlic, onion and citrus.
My boss had Covid at the same time as me, he hasn't regained either taste or smell 6 months on

My friend had what she though was a cold early/mid March 2020 - she lost her taste. Never tested, but sadly a close family member lost their life to covid around 21 days later. It was only in May this year she mentioned her taste was coming back.

Started to come back after a week, but still not right 7 months later. Most things smell faint, some are non-existant. Some smell wrong and some foods I previously enjoyed taste and smell awful. I also smell things that aren't there, such as burning...

@Figgyboa

One week for me. One week for my OH but his taste is off - garlic, onion and citrus. My boss had Covid at the same time as me, he hasn't regained either taste or smell 6 months on

Garlic, onion and lemons are some of my issues too - cooking onions smell revolting, I used to cook a lot from scratch but the smell puts me off.

4 weeks post Covid and mine hasn’t returned yet. I get a tiny snippet of flavour with some things but it disappears straight away. It’s driving me mad!
DH’s returned after a couple of days.

I had it late Feb 2020, it started coming back around April. But not fully, yet.

Just a few days, but double vaccinated when I had it.

My DH had it over 6 months ago and he still can't smell or taste a thing

It has resulted in a large weight loss as he has completely lost interest in food

His BMI is now under 20 and he looks gaunt and unwell

Mine took about a week.

A week for me

After about 2 weeks it started to come back gradually. Sense of smell took a while to recover fully

Months! I had Covid in early November, completely lost taste and smell until at least February when it gradually began returning... still not 100% what it was...