Smell and taste. How long?! 😪

[Coronachristmas21]

Can still smell a little. Taste is bland so probably toing to get worse yet! How long did it last for you??

I know what will be will be but only asking as I didn't have much taste last Christmas either so two years in a one is 🤯

It wasn't covid last year as tested negative. It was a mix of tonsillitis and also a wisdom tooth infection. I was using corsodyl and it killed my taste buds for a month as damaged my taste buds 😪

A couple of weeks here

2 months and 1 week for my sense of smell to return. Was jumping for joy when I realised I could smell the flash kitchen spray!!

Some smells & tastes started to return at around 8 weeks for me but they're not the same as before, not as strong. It's 10 weeks now and most things I still can't smell & most food tastes bland. I can taste salt but have gone off red wine!

Taste didnt go.

But smell started to return slowly after 2 weeks

I'm on day 9 and mine is already coming back! I had total loss too, so don't lose heart. Since I lost it I've been obsessively smelling everything in an effort to jump start it - don't know if that helped.

I'm on day 9 and mine is already coming back! I had total loss too, so don't lose heart. Since I lost it I've been obsessively smelling everything - don't know if that helped.

Mine were only gone for about a day and half so don't lose hope!

About two weeks or so, and it went fairly quick but came back more gradually. Still not 100% a month or two later but almost back to normal.

When did it go for you all ? I'm on day 5 of isolation ( friend reconds it's actually my day 7 as she's counting it from first day of sneezing/cold symptoms started ). I still have have both taste and ability to smell .

@itspartytime for me it happened really suddenly on day 4.

@itspartytime within a day for me. Dp lost his last week within a day of testing positive too.

For me it's not fully gone yet though. Taste has pretty much gone but I can still smell somethings. So it will get worse for me for sure.

Thanks all 💕

1 day for me. About 4 days in

Mine came back within 3-5 days, loss all taste and smell then it started coming back gradually. I don't know if it's coincidental but I was taking zinc supplements which I heard can help

7 months.

19 months so far for smell.

About a week after it went and it’s already starting to come back.

I did a lot of sniffing of strong smells like olbas oil and ginger and when I realised there was a vague whiff it gave me hope!

I lost mine on about day 5 - I’m now about a week later and it’s starting to come back.

Smell came back first, then sweet fruity tastes. I still can’t taste anything subtle but there was definitely a hint of flavour in my dinner and I enjoyed a picnic bar afterwards!

3 months and no smell. It sucks

Oh gosh - feel so bad for those still suffering . Hope you get things back asap.
Fingers crossed that I stay as I am just for now at least .

I never lost my taste and lost some of my smell. 5 weeks post isolation and smell still hasn't returned 100%. I can't smell citrusy smells but I can smell strong smells like garlic.

Anyone had "Wuhan Sewer" as my teen called it?

It's where you can't really taste or smell, but when you can it's like gin juice.

Didn't last long for her thankfully but my mates had it for months! She's lost 3 stone. Silver linings I guess as she wanted to...

I'm on day 7

Every day I have a good hard sniff of the vicks jar but so far nothing 😐

*bin juice but autocorrect knows me well 😆