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Lubrana061302 · 2021-08-26T16:12:58+00:00

Has it helped you stop eating for the sake of it? I am currently isolating as I tested positive for covid on Sunday. My smell and taste only went on Tuesday and I'm finding it a struggle to even eat anything as I can't taste a thing. I have been living on soup. Previous to this I would eat and eat just for the sake of it. Has anyone found that this has changed post covid?

Mum32021 · 27/08/2021 13:06

Still no taste here 12 days in, I'm to eating when I'm starving really odd as I'm a snacker with the kids but I can't taste anything so seems pointless! I've had a few glasses of wine tasted like it had gone off but I powered on through 🤣 have a lovely bottle of prosecco in the fridge for later 😋

Kindleandacuppa · 27/08/2021 14:31

@Mum32021 are you 12 days no taste or 12 days since you tested positive? I lost my taste/smell a few days ago so days 5&6 of covid and while I am over the moon to be feeling much better in general (currently on day 7) this no smell is really getting me down 😭 I can sort of taste sweet things as in I know they are sweet but no actual flavour and I know if something is salty but it's just shut. Smell is absolutely 0% but I know it's early days. I'm going to try some cold beers tonight as hoping the cold fizz sensation might trick my brain into enjoying it! I'll get a buzz if nothing else

If anyone gets their smell back please update us & give us hope 🙏

Mum32021 · 27/08/2021 14:39

@kindleandacuppa I'm 12 days since symptoms started, I lost my taste about 3 days in, so 8 days no taste or smell 😫

Smell is coming back slowly but that's only if I take a big sniff and its still very faint 🤣

Waxonwaxoff0 · 27/08/2021 15:13

Still no taste here. Tested positive 13 days ago. I have completely recovered apart from smell and taste! I opened the spice cupboard and got a faint whiff, I can smell herbs and spices when Iean close to the jars and inhale. Can't smell milder smells like shampoo at all. I can feel the heat when I eat spicy foods and the mint when I brush my teeth but can't actually taste the flavours.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2021 15:46

My smell came back and now things smell weird. Toast, just about the only thing I can keep down, smells horrible. I'd rather have no smell at the moment, to be honest!

Kylorey · 27/08/2021 17:53

@piggywaspushed I had that. It started in March and things are the last few weeks getting back to normal. My advice is to experiment with still trying the things that are not totally unbearable, to try and train your senses. Look up smell training. You don't have the buy the kit, things like sniffing lemons and thinking 'lemon, lemon' etc can help - scents you know. A lot of mine is still off but what I can eat is really expanded now.

idontlikealdi · 27/08/2021 18:02

Mine has just come back. I hardly ate anything for a couple of weeks but what I did eat was stodgy so no weight loss benefit...

Mash, Mac and cheese, buttered toast, pasta, ready meals like shepherds pie. It had to be that sloppy consistency home made wouldn't have worked.

I really struggled with it, it was hard to think what to feed the kids when I couldn't face any of it.

idontlikealdi · 27/08/2021 18:03

@Waxonwaxoff0

Still no taste here. Tested positive 13 days ago. I have completely recovered apart from smell and taste! I opened the spice cupboard and got a faint whiff, I can smell herbs and spices when Iean close to the jars and inhale. Can't smell milder smells like shampoo at all. I can feel the heat when I eat spicy foods and the mint when I brush my teeth but can't actually taste the flavours.

Mine took around three weeks to come back - I was sniffing the marmite, fish sauce, horseradish to try and just smell something!!

HesterShaw1 · 27/08/2021 19:31

At least I can't smell my own Covid farts. Every cloud and all that.

HesterShaw1 · 27/08/2021 19:33

[quote Kylorey]@piggywaspushed I had that. It started in March and things are the last few weeks getting back to normal. My advice is to experiment with still trying the things that are not totally unbearable, to try and train your senses. Look up smell training. You don't have the buy the kit, things like sniffing lemons and thinking 'lemon, lemon' etc can help - scents you know. A lot of mine is still off but what I can eat is really expanded now.[/quote]
That's really interesting - thanks for sharing.

Smell is such an important sense, which we don't miss until it has gone! I read that a lack of smell sense was associated with depression. Michael Hutchence apparently lost (and taste) his after he was beaten up and had a brain injury, and it caused him deep mental anguish.

Piggywaspushed · 27/08/2021 19:39

DS and I will both do smell training!

HesterShaw1 · 27/08/2021 19:46

It's a very curious thing to sink my head into something I know smells very strong and inhale deeply, and....nothing!

Neal's Yard rose beauty balm if anyone's interested. It might as well be useful for something - it's definitely not making me beautiful

Kylorey · 27/08/2021 21:38

Initially mine was gone entirely, and I think smell training helps that too. But in March it was replaced with most stuff tasting and smelling exact the same foul, metallic and rotting taste and smell. Nothing is right still, but I gag less and can eat more now. Covid was 8 months ago for me now but still affecting me it's weird

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Lubrana061302 · 29/08/2021 18:17

@Kylorey oh no, 8 months and still not back to normal? I was hoping mines would be back for Friday so I could go for dinner

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BitchIAmFromChicago · 29/08/2021 18:20

I lost mine at the end of May and it still hasn’t returned properly…I would say it’s about 10% back and some things have no taste whatsoever! It has changed my eating habits and I’m half a stone down as a result. I actually can’t stand the feeling of being full and bloated anymore…pre-Covid I’d regularly stuff my face until I felt ill!

HesterShaw1 · 29/08/2021 18:22

[quote Lubrana061302]@Kylorey oh no, 8 months and still not back to normal? I was hoping mines would be back for Friday so I could go for dinner [/quote]
@Lubrana061302 on the other hand mine is starting to faintly re appear after six days. Don't despair! I can mainly smell coffee, but going round the house and garden, I added lavender and rosemary and soap to the list.

Tastebuds still mainly detecting Marmite :o I guess because it's salty!

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Lubrana061302 · 29/08/2021 18:25

@HesterShaw1 ah thank you so much for that. Makes me feel much better and slightly hopeful although it seems to just be the luck of the draw doesn't it, how soon it decides to return.

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HesterShaw1 · 29/08/2021 18:28

Another update: I can smell a BBQ in our street. I'm very happy about this, even if I can't join in.

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Lubrana061302 · 29/08/2021 18:28

@BitchIAmFromChicago I totally get what you mean about the feeling bloated. At the moment I am eating when my body tells me I am hungry and only to satisfy that hunger - not to the point I'm ready to burst or just because it's on my plate. I hope it stays that way if/when my taste returns as I can be very greedy with both food and drink....

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Lubrana061302 · 29/08/2021 18:29

@HesterShaw1 this is extremely good news

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/08/2021 18:31

@HesterShaw1

Another update: I can smell a BBQ in our street. I'm very happy about this, even if I can't join in.

Great news!

I cooked something with fresh garlic earlier and could smell it when I crushed it. Still can't bloody taste it though.

HesterShaw1 · 29/08/2021 18:42

I cooked something with fresh garlic earlier and could smell it when I crushed it. Still can't bloody taste it though.

Some advice: don't eat a whole clove in an attempt to improve your olfactory performance.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/08/2021 18:44

@HesterShaw1

I cooked something with fresh garlic earlier and could smell it when I crushed it. Still can't bloody taste it though.

Some advice: don't eat a whole clove in an attempt to improve your olfactory performance.

I'll keep that in mind! I did bite into a lemon last week to try.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/08/2021 18:46

@BitchIAmFromChicago

I lost mine at the end of May and it still hasn’t returned properly…I would say it’s about 10% back and some things have no taste whatsoever! It has changed my eating habits and I’m half a stone down as a result. I actually can’t stand the feeling of being full and bloated anymore…pre-Covid I’d regularly stuff my face until I felt ill!

I'm hoping that, if it is a long term thing for me, that I might lose some weight too. I've a terrible sweet tooth usually but there's no point eating junk food if you can't taste it!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 29/08/2021 18:46

@HesterShaw1

I tested positive on Tuesday and yesterday my sense of smell utterly vanished. I can just about taste the very edges of salty stuff. I'm not a massive eater, but I do enjoy food so it's quite odd. Much more disconcerting is the total lack of smell though - usually it's such an acute sense for me. My ExH used to complain my "overactive sense of smell"

:o I tested myself this morning by sniffing some milk I knew had gone off ages ago - nope, nothing at all. Dead weird.

Exactly the same time frame as ds,went down with it Tuesday and lost sense of taste yesterday. He's a big eater, it's really upset him, he hate a lemon like it was an orange earlier to prove the point!