Just Googled weird long Covid symptom

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For the last couple of months I’ve been smelling cigarette smoke at random times in random places (mostly at home) but DH and DD do not. I decided to Google and it turns out it’s a symptom of long COVID. Anyone else experience similar?

I don’t have that but I had Covid in May and I’ve had allodynia (the sunburn feeling on your skin when you have the flu etc) all down my left leg since.

I was convinced I was going to have a shingles outbreak, but it’s never happened. I just have the constant low level skin burning sensation.

Yes!!! I experience this and not encountered anyone else who has.

I had this for about a year. It's extremely common in LC. I occasionally have the odd phantom smell now but it's mostly gone.

Smelling smoke is also a perimenopause / menopause symptom

@miserableandworried DH and I had Covid over two years ago. Ever since we both have the sunburn feeling on our skin. Not all the time and not always in the same place but frequently.

I've had shingles before and I always think it's it coming back.

Mine moves around from my shin to my bum cheek and sometimes my little finger!

it’s a bloody awful feeling and it’s been pretty constant since May. Did you find anything to help? Or was it just time?

@miserableandworried No, we haven't found anything to stop it. It seems to come back when we're tired and worn down and is completely random in where it strikes, everywhere from our faces to our toes. We thought it was just us.

Yes I have this. For ages after having covid I could not smell anything and then the only smell was cigarette smoke that no one else could smell.

When I had Covid back in 2020 I had anosmia ( loss of sense of smell) it took 3 months to recover. Initially I was unaware of the anosmia it’s actually quite difficult to recognise. It was only when I was stood under a wisteria in full bloom and someone mentioned how lovely it smelled I realised I couldn’t smell it. DH had moaned about the smell of the dog after rolling in something and the smell of DS’s bedroom ( it was lockdown) and the fact I kept burning food because I couldn’t smell it, that it made sense.
The one thing I do remember was the frequent smell of burning while it was coming back. I would wake up in the night and shoot out of bed to see where it was coming from. In fact every morning I would smell burning when I woke up. I read a post by a GP who had had the same experience after the first wave of Covid and it was a known side effect as we discovered more about the virus.

I had covid early in 2020 before the first lockdown, before they observed the anosmia. So it was all a bit vague.