Anyone had parosmia for months?

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My DD age 9 got covid in July. No sense of smell or taste for about about 3 months and then parosmia for the next 3 months. She can taste sweet, salt and sour but not specific flavours and most things taste horrible. She has a very limited diet for breakfast and lunch and then wears a nose peg in order to be able to eat a normal dinner. I’ve swapped her toothpaste to an unflavoured one as that was one of the worst things.
Has anyone got better after a long time with parosmia? I feel really sad for her that she can’t enjoy food anymore. I know it’s not the worst symptom of long covid but it’s not much fun.

CatAlice I lost my sense of smell altogether with Covid and didn't regain it for around 1 month. This phantom smoke smell has been happening since then.

Just to say the burning smell has gone now. It provably lingered for at least 6 weeks. The new phantom smells are worse though. Its puzzling how it's varied.

Sorry not read all the posts , just was going to write a topic on this and thought I’d look If there was one

I hope OP you will
Reply as I’ll at the end of my tether, I have this after after Covid , how is your daughter ? It’s making me so drepressed - I’ve never known anything like it , all I smell is grease ! It’s awful , I’ve just ordered a nose peg as can’t cope , but I can’t live my life like this .

Has anything helped or improved for your DD?

Sending love ❤️

[quote CatAlice]@StillCounting123 . Very similar then. Did yours come on straight away? I'm puzzled as mine has got worse sinceI had a cold. It was just once a week or so at first but now it's every day, starts around mid afternoon
Where I live lots of people have open fires so a smoky smell is common, at first I used to think it was real. I'd never know if there was a real fire now.[/quote]
Just reading your messages on here as I’m currently suffereing from parosmia , it’s awfully depressing .

I had Covid October 2021 , lost smell , recovered it came back fine and now January 2022 been told
Have long Covid and this awful condition of parosmia of awful smells that make me sick

(I also had a bad cold from Christmas Eve 2021 ) I need to know we can recover from this - food is my happiness and so is my home and I can’t bear either at the moment

It’s making me so low

😢

Yup, Covid March 2020, Parosmia from July/August 2020 (maybe I got covid again without symptoms and that’s why the delay?)

Was awful for about 6 months - air fresheners smelled like rotting garbage, perfumes all smell like cat pee, cooking meat made me heave, I could only really taste extremes of salty, sweet, spicy - at one point I was surviving on ready salted crisps and spicy pickled onions because I could taste those.

Now it comes and goes some days are worse than others.

I still can’t be in the house with a joint of meat roasting. Spaghetti Bolognese, chilli are out, all I can taste is the mince not the flavouring. It’s horrible.

Sorry to hear that @Overtired201984 and everyone else who is suffering.
The nose peg works for DD when we are having a meat based meal and unflavoured toothpaste has helped a lot but it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
Nasal steroid spray like flixonase or pirinase is supposed to help.