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Anonymous Mon 12 Jul 19:48:50 2021 No.13385836 View Reply Original Report

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What the fuck is the cause behind my taste and smell loss?
I think I am over the worst of the covid symptoms now, but my taste and smell is GONE completely. It is freaking me out because I have a friend who was infected way back in January and he still cannot taste and smell either.

Is there anyone here to recovered their taste and smell after being infected? I fucking hate this, its awful. I miss the simple pleasures like delicious food, nice perfume, smelling my farts. If I walk into a stinky toilet I would have no idea.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Jul 2021 20:38:56 No.13385937 Report

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>>13385836
Is there a way for this disease to be used to kill the kikes that survived it?

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 02:43:15 No.13386814 Report

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>>13385836
Take Zinc.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 03:59:16 No.13386925 Report

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>>13385836
sorry you got infected before you got a chance to be vaccinated, bro. I know you did your best to quarantine and practice proper sanitation. sadly, a small fraction of people who catch covid-19 get permanent taste/smell loss. I hope it's not you, fren

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 04:11:49 No.13386950 Report

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>>13386925
Some people here are getting infected after being vaccinated.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 11:01:43 No.13387648 Report

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>>13385836
ask your doctor, if that doesn't help: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FLCCC-Alliance-I-RECOVER-Management-Protocol-for-Long-Haul-COVID-19-Syndrome.pdf

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 11:06:39 No.13387659 Report

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>>13386950
i doesn't prevent infection, it only reduces symptoms which can reduce transmission rates

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 13:52:09 No.13388182 Report

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>>13387659
...in a fucking flu.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 13:52:45 No.13388185 Report

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>>13385836
it's brain damage

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 14:09:37 No.13388238 Report

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>>13385836
Some people have told me they took like 8 months before starting to gradually recover the smell. I don't remember whether I was told or read that a person recovered a different sense of smell, which in turn changes your taste smell as well; e.g. he liked milk before, but after recovering it milk smells and tastes bad to him. I'm not sure how the smell loss works. The explanation used to be that when the virus goes into your brain you lose the smell because of reasons, but a couple weeks ago I saw in the news that some damage to a thing in the face nerves is what causes it, according to some. There's a treatment in western Europe to recover the smell using concentrated fragrances. Some dude invented it after having the same problem and the doctors are actually using it. I think it's in France or Spain or something.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 15:04:02 No.13388379 Report

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>>13385836
Our perception of sell and taste adjusts itself so as not to be dominated by our own odor and that of our immediate environment. So it's most likely that you are the smelliest thing in your life. Basically, take a fucking shower, wash your bedsheets, then go apologize to people for stinking so badly that they didn't dare talk about it. Once you do the last thing, they will finally just tell you, even though it's too late.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 15:08:51 No.13388391 Report

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>>13387659
>it only reduces symptoms which can reduce transmission rates
I thought it was so dangerous because it could infect whilst being asymptomatic. At least that was the reason the governments everywhere destroyed millions of lives everywhere

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 15:56:03 No.13388516 Report

Quoted By: >>13388664 >>13389172

>Is there anyone here to recovered their taste and smell after being infected?
Yes. I caught covid same time as my 2 roommates. We all lost smell and taste completely. Mine came back within 14 days. By 21 days all 3 of us had recovered.

I have a cousin who lost her smell and it never came back, from what I've been told it's been months and she still has no smell. Not sure about taste.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 16:04:04 No.13388546 Report

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>>13385836
Had it in Feb along with my roommate, who had a severe cough for a few days, but I didn't feel a thing except very vague, minor soreness and altered taste/smell to this day. There's a constant sort of phlegm-y taste in my mouth/nose, though it comes and goes in intensity. And anything charred or burned tastes a little revolting now.

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>>13386814
I take 11mg in a multivitamin daily but was doing up to 90mg when I 'had' COVID and it helped immensely.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 16:42:36 No.13388664 Report

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>>13388516
So now you can't notice/remember any differences in your smell and taste compared to the previous times?

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 16:59:11 No.13388722 Report

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>>13385836
in my country they do something called smell therapy, you could look into that
i heard it has some success but its gradual

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 17:35:24 No.13388834 Report

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>>13385836
Some people told me that they still don't have their sense of smell after 2 YEARS.
They tell me they just have a constant smell of poop in their nostrils. If that isn't enough to get you maxvaxed, I don't know what is.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 17:45:29 No.13388877 Report

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Lost my sense of smell for 2 weeks (taste was weird, but I think it was mostly because of lack of odors). Then it came back gradually for months.
I think it's more or less stabilized now, but my sense of smell didn't came back to normal: there's a few odors which vanished completely (like poop smells nothing now), some are altered (like onions or garlic), and the rest is normal.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:11:12 No.13389172 Report

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>>13388516
>she still has no smell. Not sure about taste.
Taste is like 90% smell.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:14:59 No.13389188 Report

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>>13388238
Had Covid back in November, my smell is still a mess and taste is still affected as well

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:27:04 No.13389234 Report

Quoted By: >>13389263 >>13389420

>>13385836
About 4 days after onset of COVID symptoms I lost my sense of smell and taste over about 3 days. First smell, then taste.

Loss of smell is normal with many infections, apparently due to inflammation of the nose/sinuses. Loss of taste is apparently a completely different mechanism - salty/sweet etc are detected by the taste buds, rather than the olfactory senses, so taste is lost due to neurological effects (either the taste buds themselves, or the pathway to the brain, or the brain).

In my case, I had completely lost my sense of smell and taste for about 3 days, and recovered over the course of a week. By completely lost, I mean that there was no difference in experience between ice cream and tuna other than texture. In fact, I became hyper-aware of texture presumably due to the loss of the other senses, and began eating based on health and texture only. Flavour, salty/sweet/bitter/umami were completely lost. Notably, I could still feel the burning from spicy food, but it was completely devoid of flavour and somewhat dulled. My sense of taste recovered first, with the sense of smell recovering afterwards, both gradually. In total I had about 3 weeks of diminished senses. I have not noticed any lingering effects - both senses appear to be operating as before. I cook a lot, and the complete loss was short in duration, so I'm pretty confident that the recovery was full.

During my infection I consumed a large amount of raw garlic and lemon juice every day, I took many vitamins, including zinc and vitamin D, and had a healthy diet and good rest. I was not vaccinated, and did not take any other treatments.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:34:34 No.13389263 Report

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>>13389234
There are anecdotal reports of Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, vaccination, SSRIs, zinc + azithromycin, and other COVID treatments alleviating long COVID symptoms, including the taste issues.
There are also smell therapies as mentioned before, which uses strong concentrated aromas to help re-learn the sense of smell. Many people with loss of smell have found success with this method - it is similar to physical therapy, in that it attempts to forge new neural pathways to restore the previous function.

It may very well restore itself within a month. But, personally, were I to be infected again, I would probably take Ivermectin with Zinc/Azithromycin. If you still have problems a month from now, consider the various treatments for COVID itself.

To clarify taste/smell as they are often confused - taste is aromatic sense, the flavour of things. Taste is salty/bitter/sour/sweet/umami, and maybe some other basic sensations.

When you have a cold the inflammation of your sinuses generally reduces your sense of smell - the inflammation physically blocks the olfactory sensors with surrounding inflamed tissue and mucous, but it does not affect your taste buds, or the neurological functions of taste. So, your chicken noodle soup 'tastes' less like chicken noodle soup, has less flavour, but tastes just as salty. One concerning thing about coronavirus is that this sense of taste impairment implies neurological damage.

I'm personally looking into SSRIs for long covid symptoms, as that seems to be the most direct. The idea being that SSRIs (notably Fluvoxamine) reduce brain inflammation, and so might help with some of the symptoms - although again even the vaccines/ivermectin/etc have anecdotal reports of helping neurological long coronavirus symptoms. The whole long covid thing though is pretty nascent, and so nothing is really solid unfortunately.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:34:47 No.13389265 Report

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OP here this is fucking terrifying
I really dont know how I will manage to continue living without these two senses.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:40:59 No.13389290 Report

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>>13389265
you'll get it back no worries, its one of the things they try to scare people with

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:48:18 No.13389321 Report

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>>13389265
It’s gonna get worse anon. The fact that you haven’t regained your sense of smell and taste pretty much guarantees that you’ll get alzheimer

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 19:52:05 No.13389334 Report

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>>13389265
I have heard people without smell or taste from back in March. It is assumed they will never get it back. Guess you should have worn the mask when they told you.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 20:13:11 No.13389420 Report

Quoted By: >>13389453

>>13389234
holy shit how do you brain, i remember jackshit, i lost my taste, smell for a week, then it came back. the experience was entirely alien, but my brain cannot remember to this detail.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 20:19:18 No.13389453 Report

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>>13389420

I've been tracking coronavirus closely since mid-January 2020 and so when I got the virus I was paying very close attention to it. Also, losing my sense of taste was terrifying, as food is one of my greatest pleasures - if it were permanent I might have kms'd myself. Eating was pretty disgusting during that time, very off-putting.
This was only a few months ago, so it was pretty recent.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jul 2021 20:41:58 No.13389566 Report

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>>13389453
OP here, for me the loss was immediate and without warning.

I remember feeling an intense pain quite far up my nose, and if I inhaled by my nose it really hurt. Also, at the same time my tongue and the top of my mouth suddently felt very dry and rough, like it was being sandpapered. I thought almost straight away 'oh god my taste and smell is going' and popped a pizza in the oven for lunch.. I gave it a sniff and there was no smell. Ate it, no taste. It was scary as hell ad utterly bizarre. I really do hope it comes back because I really like food as well and everything feels like tasteless sludge, like I am just chewing on unseasoned boiled potatoes. It is really offputting.

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