Developed parosmia 2 months after covid

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Has anyone developed a skewed sense of smell months after having covid?

Tested positive at the start of Jan this year. Pretty mild symptoms but lost my sense of taste and smell around day 5/6. This lasted about a week and then returned as normal.

This past week I've had a bit of a head cold. First one since having covid. Definitely only a head cold as I've tested.

But here's the kicker. Since developing the head cold, I can constantly smell stale cigarette smoke. Like someone was smoking in the room a few hours earlier.

This happened to anyone else? How long did it last? Any tips to make it go away?!

Yes.

I had anosmia in may 2020 and it didn’t go away until January 2021

When my smell came back - it came back with parosmia

The cigarette smoke comes and goes but the worst of it is that onions or anything with onion powder now smells and tastes rancid like rotting flesh

And I can’t stand the smell of coffee anymore whilst it brewing

The onion thing has caused my diet to be so limited. Luckily I cook from scratch so can easily leave out onions but eating out is a nightmare. I walked into kings cross station the other week through the entrance with lots of eateries - and the smell made me want to throw up. Even Greg’s or PetrolPrices stations that sell hot pasties stink of onion

I feel for you, someone I know cannot be around the smell of food as it smells like sewage. Its been like that for a few months now.

One of my sons had this in Oct 2020, tested positive in October, lost his smell in December and tested positive, no one else in the house caught it the second time so dr thinks same infection, no idea why the smell would just go again

You've just made me realise mine has gone! I had covid august 2021, started smelling smoke and burning around December 2021 time, to the extent I was looking for what was burning in the house...

It must have gradually got better as I can't remember the last time I smelt it!

Exactly the same as you OP.
Covid August 21, quite severely but fully recovered including taste and smell.
December 21 got a mild cold, def not covid. Two weeks later I got phantom smoke smells. It lasted intensely for about a month and now comes and goes.
I don't know whether it's damage to the nose or not, I read about covid causing brain damage in the area that processes smell.

I had covid in November. I only lost my sense of smell for a day and a half but in a couple of occasions since then I've thought I could smell burning for about a minute then it disappears. I hadn't considered that it might be related to covid but maybe it is.