Hello everyone...I have a bottle of Peppermint Oil that I used for my hair... it's from the NOW brand on Amazon..I started sniffing it..I took Big Sniffs for like 30 -40 seconds at a time before work and before bed... It helped me to start smelling again... and I only used peppermint oil that's it..I had my smell back in about a week.. thank Goodness because it was horrible without smell....I thought it was crazy at first.. but I tried it and it really worked for me..I REALLY HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE..I FEEL YOUR PAIN..I didn't realize how important the sense of smell was until I lost it. I was a bit depressed without it 😢
i have lived without the sense of smell for 3 years and its only sometimes when all of my friends smell something bad, that i feel like its a bit annoying not to be able to smell anything. But normally, i dont think about it at all tbh.
Thank you! I just ordered some. I think my loss of smell has negatively impacted my weight. I think not being able to smell effects taste which means you could potentially eat more because the enjoyment is not there.
I found your video when I lost my smell. I used oregano, cloves, coffee and peppermint. I found the first time I tried the coffee it was like a caramel smell and the peppermint tea bags was so slight. After doing the exercises after about 5 days my smell came back and it's now day 10 my smell is heightened. Thank you for your video.
Don't worry guys it will comeback I steamed my face with lemon and eucalyptus oil it changed to about 35% and it's my third day so great improvement their hope you guys recover.
The loss of one or two of our senses as a result of this Virus really deserves much more publicity. If Covid took other senses such as sight or hearing, people would be rioting in the streets! The loss of smell & taste is only part of it, the effect on mental health is massive too. I’ve been wondering if the vaccines made a difference, as in does it return faster in the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated? I wish all who have had this happen to us a speedy recovery 😔
No, the vaccine shouldn't increase recovery time of anosmia/parosmia. Correct vitamins and minerals in your diet is what seperates people. I'm not vaccinated personally and caught and got over covid in 2-3 days, on day 4-5 I lost my sense of smell and taste entirely, on day 6 my taste returned but I developed parosmia, normal foods now smelled rancid and foul. Zinc, Vitamin A, B12 and a B complex on day 10 now and my sense of smell is already back 80% of what it was. Whereas people complain about it sticking around with them for close to a year, it's very very likely they're not getting vital vitamins/minerals in their diet, thus taking considerably longer for their body to heal.
@@TehLiquid I had read this too prior to catching covid, I’ve been taking vitamins continuously since surgery a year ago to regain my health, thankfully I think I’m at about 30% smell & taste, oranges were the first thing I could taste so I’ve been upping my intake of them too. Also working with essential oils & drinking lots of water. Feeling stronger every day. Thanks for your reply, wishing you good health & luck ⭐️
I am partially deaf. My eyesight isn’t great. My sense of smell and taste is how I navigate the world. Losing it has been so depressing. Reading your caption touched my heart because it’s so true and validating. I feel very robbed of a key part of my life.
It's been over a year now since I had covid and I still haven't fully regained my smell and taste and it is the most depressing thing I've ever had happen to me!! I get massive panic attacks just thinking about the fact that I'll never be able to smell again like I used to, I had the nose of a bloodhound before this disgusting virus and now most of what I smell is mixed with that "covid smell" as I call it and I can no longer smell my cosmetics, perfumes, the smell of summer or anything else and it can take you to some dark fucking places! My taste isn't as bad, I can still taste a lot but some foods don't taste the same as they did before and food products I used to enjoy I don't anymore. I am so desperate but I honestly don't think there's anything that can be done here so I just hope and pray every day that I'll get it back, but with every passing week and month I loose more and more hope as I see no improvement in sight 😢 I feel so angry being in the few % of people who haven't gotten it back months later and I definitely often wallow in my sorrows thinking "why me!!". Even though there are people out there who have it way worse in life then me and all that, having any of your senses taken away like this is a massive hit on your whole life and with no hope in sight because this is such an unknown disease makes it even worse!
Hello, I’m there with you I as well have lost my smell it’s been months I believe it’s been 9 moths for me.It’s frustrating not to be able to smell my own cooking and everything else and especially not knowing when it’s coming back or if it’s coming back😢
@@evelynmelara4662 It is honestly the worst thing ever! I feel more and more depressed as days, weeks, months and now years go by as it's been over a year since I had covid. I miss my husbands scent, the scent of all my cosmetics, the scent of food, the air, the seasons and everything else. It's absolutely horrible 😢
@@Bleeperblopper497 Yeh I've heard something about this smell training and I'm going to try some of that out. I have an appointment with an ENT doctor this month so I'm going to see if he gives me any pointers too.
Im the same Anna (see above) Lets go on a 'Journey of smell rediscovery' Its been almost 10 months now for me and Christmas is coming, Trees, candles, cooking etc - my best time of year for smells ruined by this poxy infection. I WILL find a way and let you know :-)
My smell has been gone for over a year now. Its horrible. You dont notice how many times people say, "hey smell how good this is!" I cant smell fresh cut grass, my favorite smell. And now I've experienced some things taste horrible, which only happened recently, about 2 months ago. Such as peanut butter, coffee, chocolate, certain oils, citrus, and mint. I have also experienced some air fresheners I can smell, some smell good some terible. Any floor cleaner smells so bad. Also some things I can smell for a split second, but then it goes away. I want my smell back man!!!
I understand everything you have just expressed. I have lost my smell for 2 1/2 years so far (started in july 2020). the ENT doctor said that I have phantosmia, where I sometimes smell things that are not really there. I can smell some real things, but very faintly . The doctor said that if we can still smell the baseline of somethings even though it is distorted, we are likely to get it back. However, The doctor said that the virus is too new to understand if the smell will ever come back and/or proper interventions to get it back.
I had COVID in October of 2021 and I am still unable to smell several things. Every now again I’ll smell very strong things… but my smell is nothing like it used to be…
@@danagold7115 I have the same issue and trying many smell training since Nov 2022. And still I can't smell many things. However sometimes, (It's very rare) I can smell a few things for one or two days, After that I can't smell anything again. Not sure what to do!
You all of you are 3 brave person for go for going through this. Really hope that your sense of smell eventually come back. Thank you for your courage and a big hug for you
My sister lost her taste and smell last march...her smell is coming back slowly. Taste is not great she picks up on smokey flavors and sour flavors...chocolate too. I pray for her everyday and just want to have clarity for her that this isn't permanent for her or anyone else. =/
I lost my sense of smell around 4 days into my symptoms, but somehow I still retained my taste which I'm grateful for. It's been over a month since I had covid in December, and my smell is still screwed up at the moment.
@@starbabymady Yea, it came back steadily over time, took me around 4 to 6 months to fully get my smell back Edit: I caught COVID again earlier in this month, but I didn't lose any of senses this time around.
It’s been 14 months for me. I’ve tried everything from smell therapy, nasal flushes, zinc plus all the other vitamins everyone has talked about, the burnt orange thing. Everything smells exactly the same to the Exception of a very potent rose bush I have in my yard. Otherwise everything smells like it’s spoiled. As far as taste goes I can tell if something is spicy but dairy products, eggs and meat all taste rotten to me. Some fruits are ok but I can only taste a faint flavor. It’s been rough and I honestly don’t know what else to do.
It’s been 3 months for me I have tried everything I am tired of trying I can eat only some sweets everything smells like spoiled rotten or burnt I am fed up of cooking and eating
it has been 5 mos for me and everything tastes like copper, like i am sucking on a penny! very nasty. I have tried it all too and still nothing brings back my smell or taste. lost weight so that is a good thing :) I hear you and feel fro you too :(
Lost my sense of smell and taste-can't smell or taste a thing. It has been 3 days of zero sense of smell and today I ate pineapples to help inflammation and hours later I could smell my lunch but had to be really up close. So there is a glimpse of hope even though the smell was very faint. What I have been doing was smelling anything in the house for the past couple of days. I also drank warm liquids to help loosen decongestion and finally I applied coconut oil in my nostrils 3 times a day. Pineapples were key as well.
I'm pregnant and lost my smell and taste completely 3 days ago because covid. It's been really hard. I just want to smell and taste again. Your videos have been super helpful.
I lost all sense of taste and smell in the last few hours. It's fascinating and so weird. Everything mentioned in this video is exactly me. I realised I can just about detect salt but only on a small area of the tip of my tongue. Food has become instantly boring and so I will inevitably eat even healthier and definitely have more porridge. But I didn't have COVID. Just a bad allergic cold due to a lot of back to back travel and insanely variable temperatures and humidity levels. Air conditioning in planes and hotels didn't help either. So I do wonder what has triggered this condition of mine. Thank you for the video. I found it to be calming and reassuring. All the best.
Thank you! Your videos bring HOPE through a very unpleasant and prolonged experience! I got the Rona just before Christmas, it's now August! Non-vaxed (is anyone ever asking that?). Lost smell completely (not taste) for about 4 months, began to smell flowers (thank God) in the spring. Then toward the end of May, everything started to smell like rotten onions. If there is a scent, that is what I smell. Coffee, onions and garlic are the worst, but evertthing--gasoline to smoke to flowers to fresh baked bread all smells the same sweet, rotten nasty! I'm here looking to put an end to this, it robs life of so much, I will never take any of my senses for granted again!
Going through COVID for the second time. First time it happened was exactly a year ago. I lost my sense of taste and smell for at least about 2 weeks until it slowly returned after sniffing these essential oils you recommended. I saved all those oils, and after having COVID for the past week and a half, I just noticed about an hour ago after eating some chips and salsa that the sense of taste and smell has become limited. I reached for those oils again and have already started sniffing them periodically, hoping that maybe I can nip it in the bud early. My nose has been running for over a week now. However, after the nose stopped running this evening, the sense of taste and smell dissipated. I had no problems smelling or tasting food when my nose was running. Now it stopped running, but the taste and smell is starting to go. God help me.
I had sinus cancer about 15 years ago. Treatment was radiation therapy and chemotherapy. I lost my sense of smell. They said it would gradually come back (it didn't). Taste is diminished, but not gone. I had a strong whiff of something floral recently (source unknown and not apparent). Taste is weak and smell is gone. I'm 78. My hopes are not high, but I would work to get some smell back. I am far less reluctant to clean the cat pan now! (I will work on your therapy since a little smell would be nice. Thanks, -Jan (Dutch for John)
I really hope you have recovered your sense of smell completly. Going through this for second time.. wow. I'm on day 6 or 7 of complete smell loss, day 9 of covid I'm on almost 0% now. How are you at the moment?
2.5 year of smell loss and taste. Very slight smell and slight taste. I’ve done smell training off and on. Since posting your video, is there any new information you can share? Thanks.
I am a perfumer, lost taste and smell for 2 weeks in July. My smell is still off and it's hard for me to work as you can imagine, my sense of smell was so acute before covid. I use coffee beans and just keep smelling different aromas in between. Some faint ingredients that i could always smell I can't even detect. Patchouli used to be my favorite scent, now it smells like burnt tar. I hope this gets better!
@@batman7401 **UPDATE** My smell is back to almost 100% Patchouli is still off but not as bad as before. Retraining using different aromas and patchouli in between each one is helping a lot. Thank you for asking!
@@rachaelt3294 Keep smelling individual aromas and remember what they smelled like to you before, this connects the brain to the senses and makes the connection. Be patient.
I’ve had the same issue last year, my taste and smell camed back in 8 months. About 2 weeks ago, I got COVID-19 again, I’ve lost my taste and smell in the day 3 since the infection, but after 5 days, since I’ve lost them, I’ve recovered them. I can say that last year, having them lost for so long was indeed very difficult and depressing. I wish everyone will recover their taste and smell back.
I got mild covid 10 days ago and I lost my smell and taste completely for a few days. It has come back after 10 days but not fully and maybe I have some distorted smell or maybe Im overthinking it. Hopefully my recovery will continue. Im grateful I didnt lose it 100%. I am going to try smell therapy and vitamin A drops as well as omega 3 supplements. The good news is that you are not alone. I pray for everyones full recovery
My husband and I had Covid last August, he almost died from it, he spent 30 days in ICU. Neither of us can taste or smell, it’s been over 8 months. It’s really affecting us emotionally.
My taste and smell has been gone for about 1 Month. I get hints of both once in a while. Garlic is one taste/odor that I can detect (fortunately, I like Garlic!). Sometimes I can detect others, but only fleetingly. I hope it normalizes again, But I am acclimating to this new "state of being". I'm 61, in good health... have had 'THE THING" 2X. It would be nice to be able to smell the Spring-time flowers, but I can live with this if not. Take care...
Been over two years with altered smell and taste. Garlic is strong and recognizable, spaghetti sauce, chili has very bad taste- ice cream only thing that taste right - black coffee has been terrible for me! Thanks for video it was a big help!
Hi my name is Grace and it’s probably over 2 years since I had lost since of smelling my kids are very worried about me not smelling so one of them suggested me to boil orange peel cinnamon sticks and cloves which I will cover with water and simmer for 20 minutes and it will make the house smell nice. Thank you so much for your information. God bless you….
I lost mine for about a week and a half. It has mostly come back now (3 weeks since 1st symptoms). It is horrible when it happens though. Mine didn't go completely, I could still smell, Ketchup, BBQ Sauce and Vinegar. So nice to have it back though. Spicy food is good whilst smell is absent.
Do I remember how many days it took for your smell to come back Im on my 20 day without no smell I hope it comes back soon but I can smell hint of things but it fades away
Day 2...I can't stand it. My mouth tastes terrible. I find myself craving sweet or salty, just so I can taste something. It's very depressing. Thanks for the video. I hope it returns soon.
Thanks. I em on week 2 of covid - feeling much better. Lost some of my taste & smell went away. A little of it came back and i am hoping it will all return.
@@starbabymady lt did!!!!! It took about 2 weeks for it to start comin back - it came back little by little. I can taste and smell everything as normal. Thank you for asking. I will get my booster soon. Hope you are feeling ok.
@@jchow5966 thank you for sharing I have another question I lost my smell on aug 6 and it been 22 days later and I’m getting hints of smell did the same thing happen to you and I have another question it may be a strange one but was u be able to smell like morning breath I can’t . Feeling nervous it 22 days now
@@starbabymady yes it did! It came back little by little - and it seemed to be better at certain times of the day…. The sense of taste took longer to come back to me rhough. At one point i decided to eat a lot of broccoli because i know it is so good for me but i HATE the taste…. I loaded up with broccoli that had NO taste whatsoever…. then hints of the tastes started coming back. Try not to worry too much because over time your taste and smell have a high probability of fully returning. ☮️
Its been over 10 months now with distorted smell and taste. The smell I do have like when coffee is brewed is some strange vile odor from I would assume Hell smells like! This vile smell sometimes comes to me when there is nothing around me giving off odor"s (confirmed by my wife,children and friends). I would guess that these smells are hallucination odors? I can tell if something is salty, sour, sweet etc.etc. But nothing tastes good or smells right. It is all that same "Smell from Hell!" The whole thing just makes me plain angry and impossible to be around! I only thank God for not suffering from depression! I truly feel for those who do because this could definitely harm you mentally! My message to all the professionals out there DON'T tell us that this is permanent even if it is!!! Let us have hope! Cause if this is forever, I think I found "Living Hell" .
It's been one whole year this Friday since I lost my sense of smell due to covid. I can smell things a little, it's changed the way things smell. I don't enjoy my husbands cologne or my own perfume. I miss the smell of the sea on a walk or just fresh air in general. It's changed my life forever and I'm trying so hard to get it back. In terms of taste, there's more stuff I don't like now than ever before and lot of things just taste mundane. I just want to get better.
Me too!! 13 months nad still struggling. Smell is only under a nose and it's faintly and fading. Taste is just sweet, sour, bitter. What a nightmare and some doctors say it's permanent at this point. Life sucks with this...
May be we're on the same boat...I lost my smell 4 times....The first two times it had got back after a week...third time in March/2021 I lost my smell partially and I discovered I got Parosmia...though I took smell therapy over 3 months....but it was not recovering completely....I only used to have the smell of food but not the air, not soil, grass,garbage......but in the starting of new year on 9 January I lost my smell again and I tested COVID positive......Earlier my food smell was OK but now it has changed and very weak...Has there any possibility to regain my sense of smell as normal way ????
@@Gornik92 Can't you have any single smell at all ? Though I lost it 4 times but every time it came back....but third time I only used to have the smell of food...but now tested positive after 3 days it came back but not as normal..and very weak....I literally so much cried for it and pray to my almighty Allah for recovering ..
This is day 3 of my loss of taste and smell. I’m honestly so upset and beyond scared. I can’t taste anything it’s all gone. I’m scared that I may never recover it back.
I’ve had smell and taste loss for 6 months. Will try this smell training! I have totally changed my diet to anti-inflammatory diet for past couple months now. Have not experienced much improvement in taste and smell so far but sticking with it!
I lost my sense of smell and taste 6 months ago. I actually felt them "go out" in real time at the end of my infection after the other symptoms were over. So far I have a fluctuating sense of smell, but I need to usually have things right up to my face to smell. My sense of taste is almost nil. I can get salty and sweet from the top of my tongue, but nothing else and only "taste" from my nasopharynx. 😖
I have never had a sense of smell (Congenital Anosmia). Texture in foods is everything I also have a cabinet full of every hot sauce imaginable. I also only purchase unscented hygiene products.
It's approaching 12 months for me. The only taste I have had all along is chocolate - but only a couple of drinks of my protein shake then nothing. If I stop and let some time pass, I can take another couple of sips and enjoy the flavor. At first all I could smell was an odd burning wood smell. Thankfully that has subsided. I catch a wif of a real smell every once in a while but for the most part, I can't smell. Covid left me with lots of integestion and my nose is a bit runny. On another note, it evidently attacked my nervous system because I developed so much anxiety I had to retire early. I have never had anxiety issues before this. I could handle a very stressful career without issue. Hoping life will return to normal soon!
I completely lost my sense of smell on 1/8/21. After about 5 months I got about 5% back but sometimes what I smell is not what other people smell. I have taken Zinc for almost the entire last 15 months. I have been doing smell training for close to a year. This week I added vit a drops. I might be up to 10% of smell at this point.
I regained part of my smell back, but not entirely. I usually cannot smell something unless it's VERY strong or right up under my nose. Which yeah, it's nice when there's a really bad smell and I can't smell it, but it can be bad too.
It's been almost 4 years, and my smell hasn't recovered. It's annoying... Now, I can only sense some notes periodically, not always. My favorite parfumes now smell either like alcohol, metalic, or fresh, that's it. I remember how they smelled.
I am not sure exactly when I lost my sense of smell but it had to be around day 4 or so. I am now at week three and I think I am close to getting it all back, which started only I week ago. I tried the smell training with essential oils I already had, but most were similar to the recommended oils. That was so-so for me, and found foods in my cabinet more helpful. Peanut butter I could actually smell. Then I tried that chiropractic assist, I guess you just need to search RU-vid, and yes, that worked! It wasn't 100%, but it was a good kickstart. Finally the next day I started taking NAC since it just recently went back on sale. It was within a few hours I felt a big improvement. I wish It had been available 2 weeks earlier when I got sick, it may have made my case a bit easier. Now to get rid of the stupid post nasal drip and throat clearing. Driving me nuts. With that I will be done. I never lost taste.
What I fear is Parkinson's. My aunt had it. They say 90 something % of Parkinson patients lost their sense of smell and taste years prior to getting the disease. I never had Covid and I have had the issue for years, even before Covid. Then all of a sudden, I'd get it back. Right now it has been going on for months. I need to see a doctor about this.
My smell came back about 2 months out. But I’m 8 months and my taste is still not right. Sometimes I can taste ok, others I can at first and it goes away while eating. Yet other times I can’t really taste. Also sometimes things don’t taste right or how I remember.
It's been 3+ years since I had covid the first time, and I never recovered my sense of smell or taste. I got back maybe 5-10%. I get a brief whiff and then it's gone. 😢
I got Covid in the summer of 2020 and lost my sense of smell and taste for what seemed like a longer time than most. Now, three years later, I have my sense of smell and taste back, but some things are altered. They probably will be altered forever. Yogurt, sour cream, butter and soft cheese are the worst. Wine tastes horrible. Some unpleasant smells like body odor, sweat and flatulence (sulfur) smell much different. It’s just strange, but it’s my new way of life. What can you do… 🤷🏻♀️
Covid finally got me, and so far it has been incredibly mild, EXCEPT for my loss taste and smell. I am a compulsive hobbyist vaper, and have discovered delicious organic natural flavours predominantly tobacco extracts and they are more of a wine tasting or cigar tasting style of vaping, and of course every nuance is now absent with the exception of one that has a bit of a fermented flavour. It’s amazing how much interest I have suddenly lost in this daily pleasure, it’s only been a few days, I could potentially see myself saving some money with this loss but to be honest I am praying it comes back immediately and am terrified of being that small percentage…
I got covid in January and the only symptoms I got were lost of smell and taste. It is now almost December and I still can't smell or taste. I pretty much accepted I lost it for good at this point. Only positive I got from it is I lost a ton of weight and am now the healthiest I've ever been. Since I can't taste shit I decided I might as well eat healthy stuff I normally hated since I can't taste it anyway and eating tasty fast food was pointless.
sorry to hear that hope you get it back soon i don’t know if you’ve tried it but frying an orange or lemon(orange probably works better) to where it’s blackened(burnt) a little bit and adding brown sugar to it after it’s done cooking and eating it while it’s semi hot warm kinda helps, it’s really strange but it worked for me for about 5 minutes then kinda went back to no smell/taste but a few days later i got my smell and taste back i’d say it’s at 60% right now but i’m grateful i can smell and taste somewhat again. my dad got it around christmas eve christmas and my mom and sister and I then got it. I Still have a slight cough with nasty thick mucas coming up but it’s weird it feels good to cough it up and get it out but also gross. My little sister has had little to no effects besides loss of taste and smell and my mom she’s had it the hardest seems like she has a low immune system due to past cancer she’s been in remission for like over 10 years i think. But she’s had a fever for like 18 days i’m worried for her she just now got antibiotics like 2 days ago but she’s weak she said and fever and some mucas but her lungs are clear doctors said. She’s just been resting in the house but I just hope she’ll be alright. I can’t wait for all of these variants to go away or be less common and we can all get back to living without fear. I wouldn’t wish the virus on anybody. It’s terrible even if it is like just a normal cold because the effects linger like i’ve had this cough and mucas for at least 3 weeks each day gets better but damn no sickness has made me sick this long.
I just got Covid for the second time. The first time I just couldn’t breathe and was better after a few days. I didn’t loose taste or smell. I’m on my 3rd/4th day of Covid and lost my smell today. So I been thinking about smell therapy. You gave me some hood but this scares me going from having what I call the pregnancy nose to not smelling at all freaks me out.
May God Grace and Mercy be upon you all I'm praying for you I have all of those oils and tried to help people I knew that lost theirs but nobody wants help so it's just sitting in the room
Lost my smell and taste with covid in september. It came back but never really strong and with lots of odd odors instead of the actual smell in the room. Coffee perked and onions smell odd and i smell cigar or cigarettes' often. Going to try the smell therapy to see if it works, thanks for the help!
I lost my taste and smell months after recovering from near death covid. I still can’t smell most things many months later. It’s extremely depressing. Most things smell kind of rotten which drives me mental. My shampoo smells the same as my poop. Funny I know, but it’s true and it’s awful. Even when there is no smells around me I smell the same rotten smell. All I can do at this point is pray that it will miraculously return someday.
September 2022: just got covid 2 days ago & im experiencing symptoms like cough. The one thats pissing me off its loss of smell & feel so worried & traumatized if this is gonna be permanent. What can i do?
How did you stay positive during the 4 weeks before you regained your smell and taste not knowing you might never get it back????? So stressed and depressed
What about when everything smells like burnt blood and sewage? Coffee and meat smell/taste awful an so do eggs. It has gotten a little better but still have a ways to go. Also I have realized when I eat a lot of sugar, then my smell gets worse and meat and eggs smell worse again. Gasoline smells funky too.
Next month makes a year since I've had covid. I still can't smell unless it's really strong and my taste is there, but it's not normal. Things I used to love, I can't eat or drink anymore.
I can taste and enjoy sweet drinks, since I’m an alcoholic, but I can’t taste food, which is what lead me to stop eating and only drinking water and alcohol. I tried the smell therapy but it didn’t help. Is there anything else I can do to get my taste back?
I lost mine I’m on day 10 now seems to be about 85-90% during the day at night it tends to fade off. I think the reason why it takes some people longer then others and none at all is because the virus itself attacks the nerves it doesn’t actully attack the olfactory orb it attacks the nerves that transmit smell and taste to the olfactory orb unfortunately no one can really predict how fast your body remakes those nerves sense training helps because it stimulates the nerves and brain at the same time
I’m on day 20 I can only smell hints of thing during the day and it fades away so I hope both of us get it back soon . In the morning I can’t smell anything but afternoon I get a small smell hint of a smell
My first symptoms of covid-19 was December 10. I noticed no taste an then no smell about the fourth or fifth day. It's been over a month and I still can't taste or smell like I used to. :( I can smell and taste some things.
Hey there is another video, on here that worked for me and many others. You need rosemary and peppermint essential oils dip qtip in rosemary first and rub in each nostril for 10 seconds then dip it in peppermint and do the same. Do it 3 times a day for a couple days i guarantee after the second time doing you will start to regain smell and taste hope this helps
I have done almost all the practice recommended by my noise doctor, non is working for me 😭 is been over two years now... I can't smell 😩 due to covid-19
I had covid back on December 22nd, 2020. I still have not fully recovered yet. I want to try olfactory training but don't know which doctor to go to to get it professionally done and monitored.
I am almost at a year. I had covid 1/16/2022 My taste is also still messed up. At 4 months I got a full-body rash that lasted over 2 months. Now a year out, the rash appears about twice a month.
Hi, Tim! I have a question, I dont know if you have the answers. I lost my smell and taste, two weeks ago. I'm able to smell some odors when I'm close or the odor of the candles. I'm able to taste some things... One day, I can smell a thing and few hours later, I lost it. Sometimes, I lost a lot and then, it comeback few days later... As exemple, 2 days ago, I smell my sweat a little bit, and then nothing... Do you think I'm in the healing process? Can I lost everything again or it's how the healing process works (you find, you lost, until it stay)? * I still can't smell my own odors or the one of others ( sweat, sh''t, as exemple) or the C02 of the cars... Thanks a lot!!!!
I’m going through the same thing now everything you said thank u cause those are the words I’m feeling . I wanted to know did u get it back and how long it took.I’m on day 20 without no smell I lost my sense of smell since aug 6
Do u recall when your smell was like improving I’m on my 20 day and I’m getting hint of it only when I’m close to an item I’m going to Puerto Rico on sept 12 and I hope I get at least 70 percent back I might be like 10 cause I can’t smell anything from outside or myself do u recall what date u had a good sense I appreciate your time . I’m 45 and I’m just a scare woman . Everyday I wake up hoping I get a smell but I think I only can tell if one day I wake up smelling my own morning breath 😢
@@jonathanbriere6497 hope I get mines back I feel the only way I know if I ever wake up in the morning to smell my morning breath . Did I get a like maybe 70 before the 2 months I’m on my 20 day now
@@starbabymady I don't really remember, it just came back here and there. I couldn't smell all the things in one day. It was just a few over there and few more over there. It took time to have it completely back.
I was very ill my first time, but didn't lose my ability to smell. Recently, I had a mild case I guess. It was just a head cold to me and I lost my smell. It's going on three weeks now. I miss my smell. Not being able to smell if something is spoiled is my fear. I don't want to get food poisoning.
I had covid in September 2021. I lost my taste and smell fully for about 10 days during the most symptomatic time of the virus. Most of it came back, my sense of smell was less...I used to be able to tell when someone was making a pb&j from the other room as the peanut butter smell would waft around. But now I have to put my nose INTO the jar to smell it. And now soap smells awful, my dawn dish detergent is really odd smelling, like a pungent rotting thing. And just in the last few weeks I noticed all fruit smells and tastes very bitter, like the high end brightness of the acid. I made a tomato based chili the other day and that's all I could taste, the over all metallic taste of tomatoes. I also have some sinus congestion along with this, not like I can't breathe through my nose, but the pressure and swelling of my sinus cavity. (this could also be because its winter and forced air heat is drying, but we run humidifiers) So I'm wondering if there is nerve damage with the whole olfactory system and we need the therapy to restart the process. Thanks for the video!
Same here also. Its been 2 years. I can't smell things. I can smell some cleaning products but I use Grove products I used to love the smells of the product and now I can't smell any of it.
I have had covid before back in 2022. But I got sick in April 2024. Do not know what it was but I assume it might have been covid again. The illness wasn't that bad. But a lot of runny nose and stuffed. I usually lose sense of smell for 2-3 days whenever I am sick with a runny nose. This time however it went away and I only got back like 10%. I can barely smell and it's well now June 17th. So basically 8 weeks or so by now. I can taste, but have lost that "nuance" you have with taste when you can smell. Its super annoying.
I got my sense of taste & smell back 3 monrga after being diagnosed with covid. Gang in there people - try mot to panic. I took small sniffs of nice smelling Philosophy shower gel several times a day.
Hi tim.i had covid for months ago. The bad smell and taste started 7 weeks after covid. Food taste awful and smell is horrible with certain foods. A bad smell acts like it's coming out of my pours. Very dicurging. Occasionally a food may taste ok.
🪑 Hi. My name is Shayna. It will be 9 months next week. My son came home from college to visit today. I instinctively leaned in to sniff his shoulder during a hug but got nothing. That hit me hard.
Dr Isibor on youtube has the best solution to anosmia, my sense of taste and smell was restored completely after the use of his natural herbal medicine
I have been dealing with loss of smell since 1991. I had a flu ignored it whent on holiday. By the time i returned i had a resistant upper rispitory illness. It has never returned. Loosing a sence of smell after a flu is not new. Recently 2023 had a sever allergic rhinitis, again i lost my sense of smell. The barrier between the top of the nasal cavity and brain might get damaged by the cov test stick that got stuck up the nose. Could it have gone to far?
It's been 17 months now that I've lost both senses. I tried everything (vitamin A/E, zync, laser on nostrils and tongue, burned orange, essential oils, chyropraxy) and could only recover 5% of my senses. I'm wondering if there's still a light at the end of the tunnel?
Its been over 10 months now with distorted smell and taste. The smell I do have like when coffee is brewed is some strange vile odor from I would assume Hell smells like! This vile smell sometimes comes to me when there is nothing around me giving off odor"s (confirmed by my wife,children and friends). I would guess that these smells are hallucination odors? I can tell if something is salty, sour, sweet etc.etc. But nothing tastes good or smells right. It is all that same "Smell from Hell!" The whole thing just makes me plain angry and impossible to be around! I only thank God for not suffering from depression! I truly feel for those who do because this could definitely harm you mentally! My message to all the professionals out there DON'T tell us that this is permanent even if it is!!! Let us have hope! Cause if this is forever, I think I found "Living Hell" .
@@frankbisceglia2958 Sometimes I feel 'ghost' smells (beer, onion, parfum), but I truly feel that sometime in the next 2 years I'll be able to get back at least 50% of my taste/smell.
Since early Aug .. Going on 6-7 mos now of parasnomia .. it came back after five days of losing both taste & smell completely..but then disappeared again over more time. (Taste and smell.)
Thanks for your video, but if you can help me, I don't think I will ever get my smell back Do you know how long it's been? okay here you go -- sit down it's been approximately 15 years. The only thing that I can really smell is smoke. I think bec I'm now allergic to a lot of things Terry milk eggs Terry products and having a sense of asthma so having been smelling for years what do I 🤔 think that could possibly help❓ can you do to help thanks.
I lost my taste and smell 3days ago!! And won 2k dollars out drinking two men with 151 Bacardi now i can taste and smell 50% better... It's not for everyone tho...
almost 20 month I cannot smell anything properly from April2021. I can smell few essence but from very close distance and my sense smell for few things got very disgusting like cherry and cucumber. For atmost 1 yr I had no sign of smelling anything at all and I tried everything hot streams smelling therapy with different perfume and foods then I got like 25% of my smell power but I still cannot feel my mother cooking smell from my room , I cannot smell my cosmetic, I cannot smell perfumes, mostly I cannot smell nature I used to love the smell of rain and wet soil but not I can't even imagine how good it feel ..it is depressing..
I lost mine 20 March 2020 and still nothing at all. I tried the essential oils course which I kept up for the first year. I have given up and it it terrible. Oh, It did leave me able to sense salt , sweet and to vinegar and citric, but not the taste.
I feel sorry for myself all the time because my family members are very sensitive when it’s comes to smelling I can’t smell anything ever since I was born and it has affected me all the days of my life and I can’t do anything about it 😔
Thank you, I’m experiencing loss of smell atm, I can faintly smell my herbal japanese oil, but that’s almost it. I do want to try to do olfactory therapy so I can speed up my recovery. I’m 21 years old, so I would really want to regain my smell :(
@@patelhinesh935 I now can taste flavors and smell really good…am I fully recovered? Maybe…I am able to smell most things and have only had one bout with parosmia…so I’m doing well
It's August of 2024 and the first time I had covid was December of 2021...I lost my taste and smell the same morning. My sense of taste came back within 2 weeks but my sense of smell has yet to recover😭
Lost sense of taste and smell 3 weeks ago but it was after a cough and cold. Tested negative for covid with lateral flow test twice. Slight sore throat too. The odd smell wafts by, ie. outside a cafe, but nothing else. Can only slightly smell a Vicks inhaler right up against hhe nose! Taste has also gone, had apple pie the other day and there was a slight tangy feel to it. Not getting any awful smells, just nothing, like you get with a blocked nose but this has gone on for 3 weeks. Saw the doctor, gave me antibiotics but hasnt helped. Reading other comments looks like I'm stuck with this.......
Lost my sense of smell. Something is put next to my nose, it smells like burnt firewood even if it's a nice perfume, to me it will smell like burnt firewood.. I hate this.. I need my life back😥
I lost my sense of smelling for 14 months now, the problem is that i smell few things but its different and its very unpleasent. Food also is different .. A lot of good things are now disgusting for me...
My sense of taste and smell has been interrupted for about 2years now.. but now things smell and taste the same.. does that mean it's coming back but it's taking its time??
So I don’t have any symptoms from Covid anymore I have tested negative after having the virus I have probably 50% of my taste and smell it comes and goes so I’m just trying to figure out what are some helpful things to do in order to gain my sense of taste and smell back
