How long did you lose taste and smell for?

[KaleKitchen]

Just that really. DH (who was completely asymptomatic) and I have both lost taste and smell. If you had this, how long before it returned?

My friend said it was a few months

About 2 weeks or so. Sense of smell is still occasionally iffy 10 months later.

I know someone that hasnt got hers back and it's been 6 months since she had covid. She absolutely hates food now she can't taste if its under / over seasoned, she hates cooking and it often gets her down when she cooks lovely meals and cant taste them

I had covid early August. Taste and smell very gradually started to come back 2 weeks later

Although its back, almost 4 months later some things now taste and smell weird

Around 11 months now only about 50% ok and the some are not quite the same.

About a week. I did the same as a PP and smelt a lot of different things like scented candles etc. Also ate foods with either a lot of citrus or vinegary flavours (think balsamic vinegar on salads etc) as they were the only things I could detect. No idea if that helps but made me feel better.

I have absolutely no issues with taste/smell now, about a month on from first testing positive.

About a week for me…not sure as didn’t check my sense of smell until a few days in. It was fairly short-lived though.

About 4 weeks

I think I had Covid early on, my DH and I both lost sense of smell and taste for about a month. And Until recently I would still get a strong smell of cigarettes randomly but that seems to have gone now thankfully

A couple of days for me

I lost it for about a week. DH still can't taste and smell properly 10 months later.

A week or two for both dh and I

Thanks everyone for your replies. Fingers crossed it's weeks, not months, for us.

About a month for me and 3 months post Covid it's not the same as it used to be, my sense of smell especially is weakened.

2 days

2 weeks

Husband a month

3 weeks. Nice smells like almond oil shower gel and shea butter soap came back first. Bad smells like farts came back last.

I’m currently on day 10 of no taste or smell and it’s driving me crazy. Those who have had it return, did you find it came back gradually over a few weeks (getting stronger each day) or just come back suddenly?

About three weeks. But I only lost smell not taste. I became obsessed with sniffing essential oils. It was weird as I could feel the sensation of them on my nostrils but with no discernible odour.

3 months

I’m around 8 weeks in. My taste has come back about 75%, my smell about 20%.

I spent 3 weeks smelling cigarette smoke so strongly that it was like sitting in the smoking room at my old work place. That really got me down as it was 24/7 but has gradually eased off.

I hate not being able to smell properly. You don’t realise how much you rely on it.

Six weeks and still absolutely nothing.

Lost both smell and taste for about 6 weeks before they came back then WHAM 6 weeks later foods started smelling and tasting off. Can't eat chicken, beef, eggs, onions, peanuts, hazelnuts, baked beans, crisps... The list is growing by the day 😢 The taste/smell of these is horrific, nothing like I've ever experienced before. I name it the taste/smell of Covid. I can only describe it as being like rotting meat, rotting fish, sewage & ammonia all rolled into one. Coffee and chocolate are now starting to smell/taste off and I fear they are on their way to being things I can no longer eat.

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3 weeks. Nice smells like almond oil shower gel and shea butter soap came back first. Bad smells like farts came back last.

Lol me too! Over a year since I had it and losing these senses is my biggest worry I'm getting covid again.

Morning breath, poop/farts, BO - last smells to return (and I do think they all smell different now) - maybe because we aren't actively sniffing them?