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Parosmia- What are your examples of distorted smells and tastes?

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KneesAreSore · 15/03/2022 16:24

(Sorry for tmi in advance)

Mine are-

Cadbury chocolate tastes slightly like fish

Poo and farts all smell the same- rotten cabbage

Eggs taste metallic

Coffee tastes of gravy

Toothpaste tastes like a combination of mild curry sauce and a strange chemical. It also smells of chemical. The same chemical as washing up liquid. Not a chemical I've ever smelled before though.

Onions smell and taste horrendous

OP posts:
MrsPaperclip · 20/03/2022 21:46

I have covid now, first time. I can't smell a thing. Nothing at all. I can taste things, especially if they're salty, but everything tastes really bland. I had some chocolate pudding today, then 2 lindors (feed a cold, right?! Wink) and some herbal tea with honey and they all tasted really horribly sweet, as though they'd all been made with the most artificial sweetners ever.

SheilaTakeABow · 20/03/2022 21:55

Covid in Oct 2020. Started with the freaky smoke smell that Christmas before it all went properly crackers! Dairy, apart from the most extra mature cheddar, smelt and tasted like rotting flesh, water smelt like blood, meats all smelt weird (can't even describe it), red wine like rotten eggs, Marmite or stock/gravy had a very floral taste Envy

Much better over the past month or so - chicken still a bit weird, butter has a vague fleshy smell and I've not risked Marmite

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