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I had a really bad sinus infection about 7-8 years ago. It literally lasted the better part of a year and rotated between my head and my chest. I tried antibiotics, steroid injections, got allergy shots. Tried resting, tried exercise, quit eating meat and dairy. Nothing worked at all. Finally I gradually got better but lost all sense of smell and my taste was just really muted and everything tasted really different. I thought I had lost my smell forever because I didn’t smell anything for years. I looked at the bright side, like when someone would fart in a car or elevator but you don’t realize how much situational awareness your nose brings. I figured that out when I almost burned the house down and it wasn’t until the smoke started burning my eyes that I realized I left the stove on.
The first smell I noticed was my own body odor after day 3 without a bath or AC in a hurricane. It had this really intense smell of onions. Next thing that I smelled was gasoline but it smelled like cupcakes. Urine and poo was also really intense sensation but at the same time didn’t really have a smell. I even started thinking the most primitive importance were the first to come back by design. First thing I started to smell that seemed normal was coffee. My taste started coming back and all the sudden couldn’t get enough really good food. I missed it so much. I’m super sensitive to perfume and fragrance now. My smell is still slowly getting better everyday and I think it’s getting close to normal.
When the loss of taste and smell sensation came out from Covid I could not help but think I probably had a rare, severe case of the common cold with a version of long coronavirus before it was a thing.
I do remember how much doctors blew me off. At the time just thought they were butt crevasses but now I just realize how little we know about viruses and they just realized there was nothing they could do.
The first smell I noticed was my own body odor after day 3 without a bath or AC in a hurricane. It had this really intense smell of onions. Next thing that I smelled was gasoline but it smelled like cupcakes. Urine and poo was also really intense sensation but at the same time didn’t really have a smell. I even started thinking the most primitive importance were the first to come back by design. First thing I started to smell that seemed normal was coffee. My taste started coming back and all the sudden couldn’t get enough really good food. I missed it so much. I’m super sensitive to perfume and fragrance now. My smell is still slowly getting better everyday and I think it’s getting close to normal.
When the loss of taste and smell sensation came out from Covid I could not help but think I probably had a rare, severe case of the common cold with a version of long coronavirus before it was a thing.
I do remember how much doctors blew me off. At the time just thought they were butt crevasses but now I just realize how little we know about viruses and they just realized there was nothing they could do.
