How long did you lose sense of taste/smell for?

[SunStruck]

As the title says... currently have Covid and I am so gutted I can't taste anything! I'm a massive foodie too and life is just SO boring!

I've made the mistake of googling this and it comes up at months, sometimes years for some people! Hence this thread, just want to know what normal people experienced...

More than a year
It’s just started to come back, maybe got 30% of what I use to.

Taste came back quite quickly but sense of smell has never recovered. It's very weakened

DH had it a year ago. Still no sense of smell. He never lost taste thankfully.

Happy to report taste as come back slightly!! I am SO RELIEVED! smell is still not back yet (tiny bit), I'd say taste is 15% and smell maybe 5-10% back... but I'm getting more hopeful 😄😄😄

About a week to ten days. Apparently taking turmeric can help so I had a dose of that every day and it did seem to help.

@20viona

About 2 weeks things tasted weird like ketchup tasted like acid but it wore off quickly.

I had this with ketchup too! Everything else was fine but ketchup tasted vile.

Started coming back after a few days and back to normal within 2 weeks.

Total loss for about 2 weeks. Very slowly over months most of it came back, but it's still not fully back and some things still taste and smell wrong or I can't taste or smell them fully, going on 13 months now. Think I might be stuck with this level forever now. Crips is one thing that just tastes wrong, it's so sad.

Smell: 3 weeks for it to start returning. 3 months before it was back to normal.

Taste: 3-4 weeks for it to start, 4.5 months later and it’s only just really properly back.

And like @newusernamelouise there are things that don’t taste the same. It is sad.

3 days for me. Like you I found it quite distressing!

My partner’s took months to return