How long before taste and smell come back?

[bee38]

Hello

Just looking for some other peoples experience if you lost your taste and smell with covid.

How long did it take to come back for you? Im on day 13/14 now of no taste and smell (covid negative for nearly a week now) and wondering when it will come back 😫 x

Mine took almost a year to resolve. After it came back post the initial illness my taste abs smell had changed dramatically and I couldn’t stand certain tastes and smells. Onion, garlic, egg yolk, meat, certain drinks, soy sauce, fish all were revolting. My own body odour smelt of onions. Over a year later I can eat most things and the only tastes I struggle with are onion and egg yolk. My body odour still smells odd.

And to add, I had a very mild illness with Covid/

I had covid quite mildly. My taste came back fairly quickly but it was quite gradual, and didn’t happen all at once, I’d say about 3 weeks in total from the day I lost it. Smell took a lot longer, maybe eight weeks.

For about three months I could smell nothing but petrol fumes. It was vile. When it first started I went around the house certain that something was causing it….

Random unpleasant taste in my mouth still ongoing at 8 months post Covid.

It was months before my Ds's sense of smell came back. He caught covid a second time and his taste was not so badly affected that time.

A relative had covid for the 2nd time just under 2 months ago and their smell and taste is still not bad. The doctor said it can take six months.

Thanks for starting this thread OP as I was about to so you saved me a job. Not liking what I am reading so far :(

Up to this point, the only people I have known to have covid have been pupils I teach (lots!) and colleagues. Of those, only some of the the teens have said they lost taste and smell (for a few days) and none of the adults have complained of this.

I don't know when I lost mine. It certainly wasn't an early warning sign. I was in hospital last Sunday and could smell 'new furniture smell' . I reckon mine went somewhere around day 7. I can still taste stuff but it's not proper sense of taste. DS also had covid. He is on about Day 16 and also can't smell anything. We both agree we have a strange tingling sensation in our nose.

I am worried because I have quite bad allergies to certain flowers and perfumes and know to be alert by identifying the smell and moving away.

Once you notice you can't smell anything, you can't unnotice it.