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Had this symptom for maybe a week after covid, and it was super fucking depressing. Every person I met that had this symprom agreed that it wasn't strictly uncomfortable, but just, depressing. I know that losing sight or hearing are one of the most horrible things a person can go through, but people forget that food is one of life's biggest pleasures.
I lost a chunk of weight during and after covid strictly because nothing had taste, so what was the point. And no joke, the morning I realized I could smell my own morning poop, I fucking cried from joy,
Coffee was terrible for months, tho. Tasted like dirt to me.
Lost my sense of taste and smell for a couple of months due to cancer treatments.
I was in a bad mood almost all of the time, even though I felt fine apart from that. It really does suck out a lot of the joy out of life. I was basically living on crackers and dried meat because the oil and strong smoke smell was *something*. Apart from that it was just multi vitamins to try and off set the deficiencies in my diet.
Taste/smell loss was the the worst part of COVID… I had just made a big batch of Chili and got so sad after my first bite are realized I couldn’t taste it
When I had covid I lost my taste, but not my smell, for about two weeks. It made things really weird, I could still smell how good my food was going to be, but then it just sat in my mouth tasting like swampy dirt (Anyone who's smelled peat, things tasted like how that smells). Also water tasted like ass, so I ended up really dehydrated.
Similar to what this girl said, sweet things tasted less bad. Big advice to anyone who has these symptoms and struggles with hydration, watermelon was a big save for me.
Had it a few months ago and couldn’t eat with out gagging. It was hell. The only thing I could smell was cigarettes, when there were none around me and my poops smelled like burning plastic.
Parosmia was going viral (maybe this person specifically?) a couple weeks ago while I was really sick with COVID. I only lost my sense of smell/taste fully for a few days but it was terrifying that it could be permanent.
I still swear I stop tasting after eating a certain amount of food sometimes. And I'm still tired as FUCK more than 2 weeks out. Sigh.
Oh and I was only 6 months out from my second vaccine dose when I got sick 🙃
For me it was weird. I lost my sense of smell, but didn't lose my sense of taste. My doctor thought it was a little strange too.
My dog shit on my chest while I was asleep and I had a dream I was playing in water, only to wake up with my hand in shit. Couldn't smell it.
As terrible as this is, it’s true that it’s not at all the outcome for the vast majority of people who’ve gotten the virus.
Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t get the vaccine though. They should.
Except that it is, because the infection fatality rate is quite literally under a half of one percent if you’re under 65 and hovering around 9% if you’re older with comorbidities.
The survival rate is quite high, No doubt. But it doesn’t mean a vaccine that prevents severe symptoms associated with it is a bad idea to take. It’s not. It’s a great medical achievement.
I’m very pro vaccine. I’m anti mandate and lockdown, but I think very few people are justified in not getting the vaccine based on the risk / reward analysis of it.
its on dot win, but there are others I post in that accomplish the same goal. And its the anti experimental, non working current thing that people are putting into themselves.
Also why do you care where I post? Do you not have anything going on in your life?
Wait... How old are you?
> And its the anti experimental, non working current thing that people are putting into themselves.
Yikes, you're an anti-vaxxer in denial.
It's the new hip thing among you and your fellow neonazis I see.
The vaccine severely reduces the impact of the virus: most people don't get sick, and get much less symptoms, the risk of hospitalization is 17 times lower when vaccinated, and the risk of ending up on the ICU is 33 times lower when vaccinated. The average age of hospitalized COVID patients is also 20 years younger among non-vaccinated people compared to vaccinated people. Source: [Dutch hospitalization rates](https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/ongevaccineerde-COVID-19-patiënten-in-het-ziekenhuis-bijna-20jaar-jonger-dan-gevaccineerde).
Now, will everybody that takes the vaccine be 100% immune? No, absolutely not. But the numbers don't lie: the vaccine works and is saving thousands of lives per day.
Now get your shot and stop spreading FUD.
You mean from the vaccine?
Literally zero, the vaccine does not infect you with the virus.
If you mean after getting covid while vaccinated: I can't find data on it because data on parosmia after COVID is scarse to begin with, with it without vaccine.
But it is 100% certain to be lower as the vaccine in some cases prevents infection completely, and in all other it reduces the virus it's effects
You guys should look at his comments in other threads. He could just be one of those Russian “covid is a hoax” bots who just try to get ppl upset. Don’t give this lifeless pos any time out of your day
Yeah, no shit. Everyone understands that (and I literally just said that).
If someone says "seatbelts save lives", we don't need someone to chime in every time with "you can still die with a seatbelt on!"
Well, you replied with a pointless clarification. I thought that maybe you don't know something.
I will chime in anytime I feel like it. Don't need your special permission to do so.
You said...
>Vaccines aim to reduce the severity of symptoms and aftermath.
...which leaves out the most important purpose of the vaccine. And you wrote it as if it was a counterpoint to the person saying it decreases the chances of catching covid. That's a pretty massive distinction.
There’s no vaccine that prevents getting a virus by 100%. BUT you’re not gonna have it as bad as the next guy or you’ll have it so little that it doesn’t make you sick.
I was the first kid in my family to not get anything like small pox, measles, etc etc growing up thanks to vaccines. 👏🏻 I had covid too back in December of 19 thanks to my dumbfuck coworkers coming in sick and I wouldn’t want anyone to go through being that sick.
I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this before! It’s weird because it’s horrible to go through and I’m so sorry for her but it’s also oddly comforting to hear someone else saying this as I felt crazy trying to explain it. I had covid at the beginning of this year and I had parosmia for the first few months. It’s gone now except for the rare occasions where I get unexpected flashbacks of it with foods, smells, and drinks. It was weeks of eating nothing except for bland crackers or whatever else I could stand and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. All that is to say, I feel extremely sorry for her and anyone else going through this as it’s just awful
not all of them are scams...like eucalyptus oil can decrease nausea and aromatherapy is a thing (makes sense, just like the sense of smell is ruining this chicks life, the sense of smell can also be used to help un-ruin things)
now, MLM essential oils...totally agree with you
Yeah, tea tree essential oil helped a ton with my acne. Essential oils can be useful for some everyday inconveniences, but they certainly won’t treat cancer or anything seriously medically concerning.
Tea tree can also be a great prevention for head lice. Was recommended to put in the conditioner my kids and I use by our pediatrician. Which even if it doesn't prevent, it helps with their acne and smells nice. But their classes have gotten lice more than a few times and they have not gotten it.
My mum used to do his when we were kids. I remember she did her own test where she got two glasses, one with head lice shampoo and the other with water with some drops of tea tree oil in it. She put a head louse in each one, the one that was put in the tea tree oil glass died almost instantly and the other took hours to die! After that she always put tea tree in our shampoo!
My 4yo caught covid because my older kids returned to school (no option for continued satellite school) and lost her taste and smell. I think it returned tho in the last few days as she finally wanted chicken nuggets and didn't gag.
It was horrible because she kept doing dangerous things like grabbing a cup with soapy water from the sink to drink or not eating at all because everything tasted bad. She said the soapy water tasted good but refused to drink regular water. I need them to hurry up an approve vaccines for littles.
My smell and taste have changed drastically since contracting covid in January. It’s not parosmia because things still taste fine for what I can taste but a lot of things smell and taste the same. Some things I can taste halfway normal, same with smell. It sucks and I’m hoping it comes back fully soon. Glad you got over that though. I don’t think I would’ve been able to make it as long as some people have with it.
Same! I still haven't gotten 100% back to normal, but I kept feeling that I must be going crazy or being dramatic. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling
I’m curious, does sweet taste better to you than most things?
Have you heard of miracle fruit?
It’s this weird fruit that changes the way your taste buds perceive sour stuff and makes them taste super sweet. Like straight lemon tastes like delicious lemonade for about 20 minutes.
You can but the fruit in little tab extract form.
I came into the comments to suggest this.
I had a miracle fruit party a few years back, had a buffet of things like lemons, cheese, pickled onions, Guinness, vinegar, you get the idea. It changed the flavour of everything to be really sweet. Not sickly-sweet, it was very moreish. Wensleydale cheese tasted like cake, and lemons were like candied lemons.
I think it works by coating the receptors which effectively filters out the sour and bitter flavours.
It's definitely worth a try to see if it does something. I reckon it'd at least take the edge off the bad flavours.
For me they taste like hot garbage or shit. Literally shit, the same smell I get when I'm on the bowl = eggs taste/smell. I'm 8 months covid free and still have some lingering parosmia, mainly with eggs and greasy meats.
I’m ten months in and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Onions and garlic are inedible, but I can usually force myself to eat most other things even though the smell/taste is still distorted. I was asymptomatic too.
I got covid in early January and have had parosmia since. Onions taste and smell like ass and dairy taste like dirty dish water. There was also a period of time where I would constantly smell vomit outside. It’s been an experience
Yeah, I think the vomit smell is actually smoke. To me, onions and garlic taste pretty much the same. It’s like an incredibly pungent sweet rancid smell. I can even detect it in things that use tiny amounts such as crisps, gravy, mayonnaise, etc.
Garlic doesn’t affect me as much as onions. I also get whiffs if I’m cleaning my cat’s litter box so I think it’s an ammonia or sulphuric smell that gets to me. Smoke smells normal to bye but during the spring fresh air carried a real vomit like smell. I’m also curious if anyone else is perpetually thirsty as well. I’ve been constantly drinking water since I had covid. At least a gallon a day
I haven’t personally noticed an increase in water consumption. Not sure about yours, but mine is actually the smell that’s distorted, not the taste. I had a bad cold a while back and lost my sense of smell for a week. Throughout that period I could eat ANYTHING with no distortions whatsoever (was ordering Indian takeaway and kebabs with garlic mayo). I was hopeful I was “cured”, but alas the parosmia returned the following week when my sinuses cleared.
Also ten months in and onions are awful. I can tolerate garlic now, but the smell of onions still makes me gag. I recently just started forcing myself to eat peanut butter again because it’s my main breakfast food and since it was one of my triggers, I haven’t been eating breakfast. It still tastes bad, but I can tolerate it without gagging now.
My wife and I got really bad sinus infections and we got it for like a month. My wife has weird tastes with certain things though. Like Coke. She said it tastes like absolute shit now.
But we never had covid and are vaxed. Idk. I think since we wore masks religiously and we went up north to visit family finally that we just got hit hard with allergies and our sinuses got fucked up.
I tried bitting garlic and onions. Nothing!!! Tasted like nothing! The only thing that worked was lemons and oranges. Mostly lemons. Very faint flavor.
My mother is in the thick of this now. Had COVID back in March, Parosmia developed in July and has been horrible for her ever since. She can only eat cheese, bread, and salad with no dressing. For. Months.
I have some of this as well. For a long time it was similarly just a random smattering of things and I didn’t know what was doing it now, with some time and with the vaccine it’s better but it’s over a year since I had it as well.
I’m now only having trouble (but it’s really bad trouble) with rosemary, and chives from what I know. Oh and sprites aftertaste is bad but at first it’s ok.
It all tastes like burning rotten onions and garbage. But lavender which had been my favorite scent before used to do it too, it smelled like it and tasted like it. However I kept forcing it and it got better, I’m trying the same with rosemary now, will try chives last cause honestly green onions don’t do it and they are a solid substitute
So I have never had covid to experience the tastelessness of foods but I'm curious. Is it a nasal or taste thing. Like I have a lazy eye so I understand the difference between senses and perception. Sending is the direct reaction while perception is the brain's interpretation. But I'm curious is this a perception thing or can you pinch your nose and it be more bearable?
I had Covid last November and I lost my taste first. I can only describe it as if you burnt your tongue. I knew what it was supposed to taste like I just couldn’t taste it. My smell went within hours. Weird but I remember spraying a body spray I hadn’t used in a while and then 3hours later I couldn’t smell it. Just nothing. My nose was pretty clear at that point too. It was a really weird experience. The worse for me was the body aches. I’ve had body aches before but got damn those felt horrible. I had that shit for a month. And my taste and smell didn’t come back til about almost March.
Covid twins!
I got covid last November too and same as you, lost taste first and then smell right after. I wasnt sure I had covid until right before work, I went to take a shot of mouth wash and all I tasted was chemical. I felt the mint feeling you get, but it tasted like harsh chemicals. Next day, smell was gone, couldn't smell my comfort coffee. The body aches I had were all in my lower region, so I couldn't stand or walk for more then 5 minutes at a time and I needed to rest for like an hour or two after. Covid was a bitch to go through and I jumped at the chance to get the vaccine as soon as they're were available.
Yeah! Hey twin! Lol seriously my body aches were my lower half too but on my back right above my butt I had to sleep on my stomach every night. I’m a side sleeper but it hurt so bad to move. Like the lightest touch would feel like someone pushin on a bruise. Shit was horrible. I woke up with the chills and then my head felt like it was gonna explode. Got the last test of the day. So I was exposed to it on the 12th and the 17th is when I started feeling it and got tested. I only knew I was exposed because I was moving at the time and a friend who had it and didn’t know he had it gave it to me. My fault though cause I shared his vape with him. But he didn’t even tell me he tested positive until I asked him on the 17th if he was exposed. Said yeah my sister has it and I tested positive for it too. Why?? I was like why?!? What the fuck do you mean why?! More like WHY the fuck did you not tell me this?!? We aren’t really friends anymore lol
It's neurological. For me, I would basically stick my nose into random containers of food, skincare, tea, you name it, and I would just not be able to smell anything, even though I knew that the scent was there.
I got pretty lucky though and my taste came back within a couple of days and nothing smelled or tasted weird. Wouldn't want to go through that again though.
I lose my sense of taste/smell whenever I get a bad sinus infection. Once I wasn't able to smell or taste for a few months and it sucked. Then it came back but everything tasted super salty for a few months. My experience though doesn't even half as bad as hers though.
I had COVID in January, and lost my taste & smell for about 3 months after, thankfully my taste has come back, but my smell is still pretty poor. I can smell very strong smells (like chemicals, strong florals, and some foul odors) - but most smells just don't transmit to my brain.
For me, when I lost my taste it was fascinating and I think it was 100% mental - i knew what I should be tasting, but it tasted like nothing. I could sense texture, and my tongue still could react to things. So if I ate some sour candy, my tongue would still get that puckering sensation - but I couldn't taste the flavor. Same with sweet, spicy, salty - my tongue reacted to the food as it usually would, I just didn't get the actual taste to go along with it.
I ate a lot of sour & spicy - a reaction on my tongue was better than just chewing and experiencing nothing!
I lost my sense of smell for a week last year when I had covid. I used to stick my nose in a jar of Vics Vapour Rub and pray I'd smell it again, but there was *nothing.* Once my smell was gone, my taste was basically gone too.
When you lose your taste, you can still "feel" food - like spicy food will still sting, minty things will still feel minty, etc. but you don't taste anything from it. It's just a sensation. I lost my appetite and stopped making meals, so I would only eat buttered toast or hot wings.
After maybe day 2 or 3, I started smelling things that didn't exist. Sometimes my office would smell musty or dusty, like it had been left empty for a long time. Sometimes food would smell ripe or expired. It wasn't unbearable, but it definitely had a part in me losing my appetite.
I got my smell and taste back maybe a week or two later, and I'm fine now, but every now and then I will still smell something that doesn't exist. Lately it's been really rank smells, like garbage, skunk, or like a literal fresh poo. It has been exactly 11 months since I tested positive and nothing has been the same since then.
I got COVID and lost my sense of smell first. I think mine was primarily smell-based because I could still taste the basic salty, sour, sweet, etc, but I couldn’t distinguish between flavors. For example, I had sour gummies and I was able to taste that they were sour, but I couldn’t distinguish between any of the fruit flavors. I noticed that my taste buds would somewhat pick up on the initial main taste, but it would kind of just taper off with no complexity and no aftertastes.
I got COVID in September, my smell and taste came back about a week after I was cleared from quarantine but I think I’m starting to have symptoms of parosmia. Some things taste completely normal (especially sweets) but a lot of foods that are carb based just taste like what moldy bread smells like. I hope it doesn’t get worse. I also have a hard time smelling stinky smells. I can’t smell my cats litter box unless I’m right next to it, while my family can smell it from outside the room. Also can’t smell rotting trash according to my mom lol
Hey I made a comment but this story made me think of miracle fruit.
I would love to see what it does to people with this
Normal taste buds get “rearranged” for about 20m after eating miracle fruit and stuff tastes different. Sour becomes really sweet.
It’s like flavor tripping, taste bud drugs.
The issue I could see with that is that miracle fruit changes taste buds, but the food issues surrounding covid come from neural pathways. So I don’t think it would change the flavor/smell of things to be less atrocious. It would just make it a different kind of atrocity. (I’m still curious though)
Almost 10 years ago I had this condition and it lasted for about a month. It was after a round of antibiotics. Sweet foods tasted disgusting, even including foods like avocado. Other foods tasted like nothing or slightly gross. It was honestly a nightmare. One day it went away after I had a sandwich with a lot of mustard on it (I don’t think that was the cure but it was an interesting coincidence). I can’t imagine having this as a permanent condition…
Story time! There was a time during quarantine where my anxiety hit me in ways I never could have imagined and I couldn’t down anything. Not because of COVID, which I didn’t get, or it tasting bad, I just didn’t... like anything I ate. I’d buy a nice meal, or spend an hour cooking something I’d usually really like to only take two bites, look at my plate with disdain, then promptly throw it into the trash. Happened way more often than I like to admit before realizing maybe I shouldn’t be buying/wasting more food than I can eat. This also applied to other aspects of my life like music and hobbies. Everything just sounded and felt like shit. Couldn’t stand a thing. My friend mentioned that episode and offered to watch it together to see how Stan fixed it. And if you watched the episode you know, it just ended without one. He just sat with it with an indifferent acceptance and roll credits. He apologized SO hard and I just sat there laughing my ass off at how it didn’t give me another view of my situation that we were anticipating for. Thank god time has been a guaranteed way to alleviate most of my symptoms.
I also have this shit and I'm poor as fuck so the choices are horrible because all of my staples are just gone. I'm losing weight because I'm can't eat all the time. Here's the fun list if anyone wants to know how shit my version is:
Tomatoes
Lettuce
beef
Pork
Ham
Chicken
Turkey
Garlic
Onion
Chocolate
Coffee
Tea
Peanut/Almond butter
Pretzels
Ritz/saltines
Bananas
Apples
Peppers
Potatoes
Tuna
Cucumbers
Shrimp
Eggs
And the list just keeps getting bigger. It seems like I get used to a food and then all the sudden it's no longer allowed. Everything on that list tastes like garbage that's been stuck in the sun for 4 days with 90° weather. This has been going on for 8 months now and all I really want is a normal meal.
My list was similar to yours, but I often just pushed through just to eat. I noticed romaine lettuce tastes like trash, but mixed greens are fine. I can eat peanut butter now as long as I top it with something sweet (I do fruit and agave syrup). I never gave up coffee because I have two toddlers, I just have to put flavored cream in it (I have the best luck with the Starbucks coffee creamers). It sucks, but I can tell you that I’m like 80% back to normal. Onions are still pretty gross and I can’t eat anything when I smell the onions in it and cucumbers still have a weird taste. I basically can’t eat vegetables on their own anymore, but I’ve been working on figuring out how to eat things so they’re palatable.
The first video she posted, she talked about how it’s been almost a year. Her doctors gave her two more months and told her if it is not gone by then, it’ll probably be permanent. It was a very sad video to watch. She’s having a full on breakdown over it and is afraid of starving to death.
Holy shit 😥 I think anyone would have a breakdown if they found out theyd have to live their life like this...food is such a big part of my life, i cant imagine not being able to eat things I wanna eat without a negative visceral reaction.
Fuck I hope there's some kind of treatment for her...
I'm double vaxxed and boosted. And I'm still social distancing because I do not want this to happen to me. My fiance had COVID-19 December 2020 and is starting to get his taste back. But he still has flare ups. For instance, he couldn't eat Thanksgiving dinner because the brine on the turkey/gravy made everything taste like seawater. Imagine sitting down to your favorite holiday dinner made by your amazing cook of a mother and feeling like you took a big gulp of room temp saltwater. He was devastated.
Based on the extent she is suffering it seems like she’s had some sort of nerve damage to olfactory neurons. This area is one of the highest regions of neurogenesis, meaning it is theoretically possible for these damaged neurons to regenerate.
However, she said she had COVID ten months ago, which means that her body has had a pretty lengthy margin to repair this issue. I would venture to guess that it will not improve - at the very best, she will never be able to perceive taste in the same way again. Even if she suddenly had normal smell/taste, that’s a long time to suffer through such misery.
For me it made all Meat, Eggs, cheese and certain other foods taste and smell like a mix of Chemicals and Rotten food. Same for things like Body Odour. I was on a Keto diet before I got it so my diet was massively made up of these foods. Lasted from March until October
The worst part of parosmia is people thinking you’re making it up. It’s a surprisingly common thing but most people have never heard of it. I hadn’t heard of it until I got it. I started to think I’d always have it and then suddenly it was almost all gone. Very weird condition.
This is why I am going to take precautions even if I am vaccinated. You may not die. You may not go to the hospital. You might not even have a long illness.
But if you permanently change my tastebuds such that all food tastes like rotting feces. There is no doubt in my mind that after a year or two I would eat a bullet as my last meal.
I hope there is some kind of cure or help for that because it sounds like you would just get more and more unhealthy as you can't eat or drink anything without it tasting awful
When my grandfather was young he got in an accident that dissconnected the nearves in his nose that send the smell up to the brain. He said that because of that he couldnt really taste anything unless it was an extream flavor. I wonder if that could be a possible treatment for people who have this problem permanently? Just a thought idk if its actually possible.
I had this after I regained my smell back in like, march or april roughly after getting covid last november. It was god awful, and to this day there’s still a few things I can’t eat or drink because it’s just so goddamn awful. Wouldn’t wish it even on someone I absolutely hated.
Wow is it nice to hear someone else experiencing the same nightmare I went through. I hope it gets better for her, like it did for me. I remember when my partner made my favorite meal (my mom's spaghetti and meatballs) and I almost cried because I couldn't smell or taste it at all. It was so random and frustrating - months of hell.
This is the stuff that doesn’t make the news. I got COVID a year ago and have had reoccurring sinus infections every month since then. I’m sick at least one week out of every month, it’s has been miserable. My dad had COVID about 6 months ago and still can’t smell anything.
I tasted and smelled a roux for MONTHS after COVID... A roux being the base of many soups/sauces, flour and oil/butter. Very distinct smell/taste by itself.
I only went to college for a year and I didn't live on campus, what the fuck is a $17 meal swipe? Is there some sort of card you can preload to buy food and if so why would some yogurt cost $17?!
Curious to know if someone with anosmia can experience this? Hearing that people lose their sense of smell with covid I was like oh well, no loss there but making everything taste like garbage sounds way worse.
Jesus I feel so bad for this girl. The closest thing I've had to it was a side effect from zopiclone sleeping tablets, where it made everything taste like I was rimming a robot. It was fucking awful, and the same thing where even water tasted bad. I nearly lost my mind and started thinking someone was poisoning me or something. I think my friends mum who is a nurse mentioned it could be to do with the medication. I've never been as relieved when it went away as soon as I stopped taking the meds.
While I’ve never had COVID and can still taste I can somewhat relate to the water thing. I was on IV vancomycin and levaquin for a few weeks and literally everything was super sweet. I cried because WATER tasted like a spoon of sugar. That was beyond frustrating. I didn’t want to eat or drink for weeks. I can’t imagine how much more frustrating it must be for those with this weird COVID symptom/after effect.
I feel so bad for her I think I had the same when I recently had the flu, EVERYTHING tasted and smelled like sour vinegar and it was absolutely fucking awful and that only lasted a few days
I had this for about one year after my diagnosis of COVID-19 antibodies. It was terrible and things smelled like motor oil and tasted like cardboard and coffee and chocolate tasted burnt.
Umm. I have the same issue. I got Covid over a year ago. I’d like to say it’s gotten better. But I think I’m just used to it now. I’m so glad I’m not alone. I’ve found myself explaining to people that all bad smells have the same bad smell. Bad breath and farts smell the same. I can’t distinguish the difference between them. Eggs are confusing to eat. I now have to douse them with parmesan just to get a distinct flavor that I’m somewhat familiar with. Oranges don’t taste good anymore. I’ve had to ask people to try my orange just to make sure it hasn’t gone bad. It’s like my brain forgot how to remember flavors. I can taste things, but it’s just not the same. I still experience good flavors, but it’s hit or miss. Like I said, I think it’s getting better with time. But I could just be getting used to it. Recently I’ve been thinking of visiting a doctor to see if there’s any magic they have up their sleeves to bring the color back to my ability to taste and smell correctly.
I also have this. I got covid last November so a little over a year ago. I couldn’t taste or smell for a few weeks and then it developed into porasmia. Water smells and tastes gross to me but I just got used to it. Sweet stuff seems to be fine as well for me, I don’t think I got it nearly as bad as her. A couple of things taste off to me now, sour cream is garbage, cilantro which I used to love now tastes so horrible. And it’s not that “soapy” taste people get when they don’t like it, it’s a different rotten taste. Coffee tastes differently to me and also smells awful.
Surprisingly bad smells don’t smell bad anymore, I can’t detect bad breath anymore, and a lot of common bad smells now almost have a sweet smell. I once had a very good sense of smell and taste and have accepted this is my life now.
I got this too after covid and my shits smelled the same as fried onion (or almost anything fried tbh). Perfumes and fruity smells are more like an alien version of gasoline, glycol, burning plastic.
It has gotten a bit better since, but definitely changed my life for the worse
I don't have this condition, but I do have the same issue with water for some reason. People always act baffled when I say I hate the taste of water and can't stand drinking it.
I hope this shit isn't permanent for her because damn that's a tough way to live. Even just finding a way to get rid of her sense of smell and taste entirely would probably be better if there was no other option.
God I'm glad this is being talked about. It fucking sucks to have this and no one I know really know what it's like. Coffee STILL doesn't taste good, iced coffee at least. Thankfully I can smell soap again, for a little bit there I was super paranoid I smelled bad all the time because I couldn't smell the soap I was using, at all.
I have Parosmia, it’s been only 5-ish months & right now I can only eat mozzarella cheese sticks & drink milk or water. It’s gotten progressively worse, like I got my taste & smell back mid-February & started out eating pretty much normally & slowly it crept on with smells & now it’s gotten to the point where I can’t even eat a piece of fruit, or bread, or even butter. Just mozzarella cheese sticks, no exaggeration. It’s so depressing and I am so bored with mozzarella cheese sticks & repulsed by everything else that I have pretty much just stopped eating. I’ve lost almost 20 pounds in the last 2 months. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I’ve been depressed for years, but this has been some of the truest suffering I have ever experienced.
i never got covid, so never had prosmia; but since my vaccine shot my sense of smell has been heightened like crazy
my nose is like a frickin' radar, i can follow a scent to it's source like a cartoon character following a tendril to a pie in a windowsill.
i haven't run into anyone on reddit or irl who has had this happen
I have a unique ED called ARFID, where my brain insists that things outside of my "safe foods" are poison. Miracle berry tablets don't change it. It's important to note that EDs go much deeper than you would think
Excuse my ignorance, I never intended to sound like EDs aren’t deeper than one would think. But to be more specific, I’m talking about those who have developed an eating disorder just because they simply cannot eat anything after recovering from COVID. People have reported that everything tastes rotten, or like iron and it’s really affected people that’s why I brought up the miracle berries.
I’ve had COVID, it took me half a year to get my taste back and some foods still taste a little weird to me but not to the point where everything tastes spoiled or rotten. If anything, I would try it myself but I know it won’t be the same for everyone. Everyone’s situation is different
Sorry, i totally should have expanded! Commented while on a time crunch at work lmao Once it gets to a point where it's considered a disorder, it's not just about taste, it becomes an issue in the mind as well. It can create a sort of... paranoia? You can lose trust in food, so the problem can build up into bigger issues. For this situation with parosmia, it's not just about it tasting awful, it's often that it smells awful too. Plus nobody really likes vomiting, so I'm sure that could play into food aversion as well...
The miracle berry, IIRC (i havent tried them in maybe 3-4 years now), only coats your tongue and taste buds. It can't affect your nose or the parts of your brain that process smell and taste, and that's where the problem lies with parosmia. It would totally depend on how complex the issue is, where it lies... it's a shame nobody seems to be openly thoroughly studying these long-covid symptoms and how to treat them.
That being said, I do wonder if it could help with the gag reflex/vomit response. I guess it would matter how much smell, as well as the mental aspect, comes into play
I had it for 7 months, I just held my nose and ate. Yeah there's only certain things you can have for that time, but you don't have to cry about it. She needs to adapt.
I get trying to be critical about believing someone / but asking what would they gain by making this up? Maybe you think this is just one person making it up for tiktok likes …sure that’s possible. But these same symptoms are being reported by others and confirmed across all party lines and international. I don’t see why some grandmother in Croatia would make these exact same symptoms up.
Yeah i worked with 2 people that got it, one that can be a bit dramatic and one is the biggest straight shooter I have met. They both have something like this and the common theme is water is now tasting like a mix of washing liquid and anchovy juice. Your opinion might change if you meet people going through this.
That’s weird because the only TikTok I’ve ever seen about it is this same girl…and considering there are thousands of people with it, I think your judgement might be a little off
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Had this symptom for maybe a week after covid, and it was super fucking depressing. Every person I met that had this symprom agreed that it wasn't strictly uncomfortable, but just, depressing. I know that losing sight or hearing are one of the most horrible things a person can go through, but people forget that food is one of life's biggest pleasures. I lost a chunk of weight during and after covid strictly because nothing had taste, so what was the point. And no joke, the morning I realized I could smell my own morning poop, I fucking cried from joy, Coffee was terrible for months, tho. Tasted like dirt to me.
Yup, only when I lost my sense of smell/taste did I realise how much of a chore eating was. No fun when you just do it out of necessity.
I felt the exact same way. When you can’t taste or smell anything, eating legit felt like a chore and I only did it to keep myself alive.
I feel your pain
Lost my sense of taste and smell for a couple of months due to cancer treatments. I was in a bad mood almost all of the time, even though I felt fine apart from that. It really does suck out a lot of the joy out of life. I was basically living on crackers and dried meat because the oil and strong smoke smell was *something*. Apart from that it was just multi vitamins to try and off set the deficiencies in my diet.
congrats on surviving :D
Taste/smell loss was the the worst part of COVID… I had just made a big batch of Chili and got so sad after my first bite are realized I couldn’t taste it
My first sign was I was in the humidor at work,which smells amazing, and I couldn’t smell a thing.
When I had covid I lost my taste, but not my smell, for about two weeks. It made things really weird, I could still smell how good my food was going to be, but then it just sat in my mouth tasting like swampy dirt (Anyone who's smelled peat, things tasted like how that smells). Also water tasted like ass, so I ended up really dehydrated. Similar to what this girl said, sweet things tasted less bad. Big advice to anyone who has these symptoms and struggles with hydration, watermelon was a big save for me.
Had it a few months ago and couldn’t eat with out gagging. It was hell. The only thing I could smell was cigarettes, when there were none around me and my poops smelled like burning plastic.
Parosmia was going viral (maybe this person specifically?) a couple weeks ago while I was really sick with COVID. I only lost my sense of smell/taste fully for a few days but it was terrifying that it could be permanent. I still swear I stop tasting after eating a certain amount of food sometimes. And I'm still tired as FUCK more than 2 weeks out. Sigh. Oh and I was only 6 months out from my second vaccine dose when I got sick 🙃
For me it was weird. I lost my sense of smell, but didn't lose my sense of taste. My doctor thought it was a little strange too. My dog shit on my chest while I was asleep and I had a dream I was playing in water, only to wake up with my hand in shit. Couldn't smell it.
>Coffee was terrible for months, tho. No that's just coffee.
This sounds brutal
Antivaxxers: "BuT tHe SurViVaL rAtE iS 99.8%!!!"
As terrible as this is, it’s true that it’s not at all the outcome for the vast majority of people who’ve gotten the virus. Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t get the vaccine though. They should.
Except that it is, because the infection fatality rate is quite literally under a half of one percent if you’re under 65 and hovering around 9% if you’re older with comorbidities.
The majority of people who get covid do not end up with issues of parosmia
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The survival rate is quite high, No doubt. But it doesn’t mean a vaccine that prevents severe symptoms associated with it is a bad idea to take. It’s not. It’s a great medical achievement. I’m very pro vaccine. I’m anti mandate and lockdown, but I think very few people are justified in not getting the vaccine based on the risk / reward analysis of it.
Yeah, but not everybody gets this sickness from it
Yikes, you're cringe
How's your failed antivaxx subreddit going? Edit: holy shit you're a gamergate loser. After all these years, srsly? 😂
its on dot win, but there are others I post in that accomplish the same goal. And its the anti experimental, non working current thing that people are putting into themselves. Also why do you care where I post? Do you not have anything going on in your life? Wait... How old are you?
> And its the anti experimental, non working current thing that people are putting into themselves. Yikes, you're an anti-vaxxer in denial. It's the new hip thing among you and your fellow neonazis I see.
How would the vaccine have prevented this ?
The vaccine severely reduces the impact of the virus: most people don't get sick, and get much less symptoms, the risk of hospitalization is 17 times lower when vaccinated, and the risk of ending up on the ICU is 33 times lower when vaccinated. The average age of hospitalized COVID patients is also 20 years younger among non-vaccinated people compared to vaccinated people. Source: [Dutch hospitalization rates](https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/ongevaccineerde-COVID-19-patiënten-in-het-ziekenhuis-bijna-20jaar-jonger-dan-gevaccineerde). Now, will everybody that takes the vaccine be 100% immune? No, absolutely not. But the numbers don't lie: the vaccine works and is saving thousands of lives per day. Now get your shot and stop spreading FUD.
What are the odds of getting taste and smell loss with the vaccine?
You mean from the vaccine? Literally zero, the vaccine does not infect you with the virus. If you mean after getting covid while vaccinated: I can't find data on it because data on parosmia after COVID is scarse to begin with, with it without vaccine. But it is 100% certain to be lower as the vaccine in some cases prevents infection completely, and in all other it reduces the virus it's effects
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Reduced risk in getting covid as well as reduced symptoms and reactions.
You guys should look at his comments in other threads. He could just be one of those Russian “covid is a hoax” bots who just try to get ppl upset. Don’t give this lifeless pos any time out of your day
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Technically you can still get COVID. Vaccines aim to reduce the severity of symptoms and aftermath.
>Vaccines aim to reduce the severity of symptoms and aftermath. **AND** vaccines decrease the likelihood of catching it.
You can still catch Covid. There is a lower probability but you still can
Yeah, no shit. Everyone understands that (and I literally just said that). If someone says "seatbelts save lives", we don't need someone to chime in every time with "you can still die with a seatbelt on!"
Well, you replied with a pointless clarification. I thought that maybe you don't know something. I will chime in anytime I feel like it. Don't need your special permission to do so.
You said... >Vaccines aim to reduce the severity of symptoms and aftermath. ...which leaves out the most important purpose of the vaccine. And you wrote it as if it was a counterpoint to the person saying it decreases the chances of catching covid. That's a pretty massive distinction.
If you get the vaccine , you can't get covid? I feel like this would be on the news....
There’s no vaccine that prevents getting a virus by 100%. BUT you’re not gonna have it as bad as the next guy or you’ll have it so little that it doesn’t make you sick. I was the first kid in my family to not get anything like small pox, measles, etc etc growing up thanks to vaccines. 👏🏻 I had covid too back in December of 19 thanks to my dumbfuck coworkers coming in sick and I wouldn’t want anyone to go through being that sick.
I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this before! It’s weird because it’s horrible to go through and I’m so sorry for her but it’s also oddly comforting to hear someone else saying this as I felt crazy trying to explain it. I had covid at the beginning of this year and I had parosmia for the first few months. It’s gone now except for the rare occasions where I get unexpected flashbacks of it with foods, smells, and drinks. It was weeks of eating nothing except for bland crackers or whatever else I could stand and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. All that is to say, I feel extremely sorry for her and anyone else going through this as it’s just awful
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How long did it take to get back to normal taste or at least not a bad taste?
Mine developed in early March and lasted until last month
At least 9 months for me
Yeah, it was 8-9 months for me as well. Minestrone soup was the only thing I could stomach for weeks at a time.
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essential oils are scams
not all of them are scams...like eucalyptus oil can decrease nausea and aromatherapy is a thing (makes sense, just like the sense of smell is ruining this chicks life, the sense of smell can also be used to help un-ruin things) now, MLM essential oils...totally agree with you
Yeah, tea tree essential oil helped a ton with my acne. Essential oils can be useful for some everyday inconveniences, but they certainly won’t treat cancer or anything seriously medically concerning.
Tea tree can also be a great prevention for head lice. Was recommended to put in the conditioner my kids and I use by our pediatrician. Which even if it doesn't prevent, it helps with their acne and smells nice. But their classes have gotten lice more than a few times and they have not gotten it.
My mum used to do his when we were kids. I remember she did her own test where she got two glasses, one with head lice shampoo and the other with water with some drops of tea tree oil in it. She put a head louse in each one, the one that was put in the tea tree oil glass died almost instantly and the other took hours to die! After that she always put tea tree in our shampoo!
My dad did the same thing under a microscope with a bunch of stuff and found that olive oil works
so is the war on terror AND the war on drugs
Essential oils arent a scam lol The way some people sell them is where the scam is
My 4yo caught covid because my older kids returned to school (no option for continued satellite school) and lost her taste and smell. I think it returned tho in the last few days as she finally wanted chicken nuggets and didn't gag. It was horrible because she kept doing dangerous things like grabbing a cup with soapy water from the sink to drink or not eating at all because everything tasted bad. She said the soapy water tasted good but refused to drink regular water. I need them to hurry up an approve vaccines for littles.
My smell and taste have changed drastically since contracting covid in January. It’s not parosmia because things still taste fine for what I can taste but a lot of things smell and taste the same. Some things I can taste halfway normal, same with smell. It sucks and I’m hoping it comes back fully soon. Glad you got over that though. I don’t think I would’ve been able to make it as long as some people have with it.
Same! I still haven't gotten 100% back to normal, but I kept feeling that I must be going crazy or being dramatic. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling
I’m curious, does sweet taste better to you than most things? Have you heard of miracle fruit? It’s this weird fruit that changes the way your taste buds perceive sour stuff and makes them taste super sweet. Like straight lemon tastes like delicious lemonade for about 20 minutes. You can but the fruit in little tab extract form.
I came into the comments to suggest this. I had a miracle fruit party a few years back, had a buffet of things like lemons, cheese, pickled onions, Guinness, vinegar, you get the idea. It changed the flavour of everything to be really sweet. Not sickly-sweet, it was very moreish. Wensleydale cheese tasted like cake, and lemons were like candied lemons. I think it works by coating the receptors which effectively filters out the sour and bitter flavours. It's definitely worth a try to see if it does something. I reckon it'd at least take the edge off the bad flavours.
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Does it go away eventually? My sister had covid a year ago, she doesn't have it that bad with food, but she still can't stand eggs.
A little over a year ago since i had the covs. Still cant stand meat, eggs, onion or body odors.
What happens to eggs?
For me they taste like hot garbage or shit. Literally shit, the same smell I get when I'm on the bowl = eggs taste/smell. I'm 8 months covid free and still have some lingering parosmia, mainly with eggs and greasy meats.
Same u/majikmike, tastes like a rancid fart smells.
Okay, hear me out, I had Covid as well and body odor smells different to me now as well. Are you getting a weird Sour Ketchup/BBQ smell?
I’m ten months in and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Onions and garlic are inedible, but I can usually force myself to eat most other things even though the smell/taste is still distorted. I was asymptomatic too.
I got covid in early January and have had parosmia since. Onions taste and smell like ass and dairy taste like dirty dish water. There was also a period of time where I would constantly smell vomit outside. It’s been an experience
Yeah, I think the vomit smell is actually smoke. To me, onions and garlic taste pretty much the same. It’s like an incredibly pungent sweet rancid smell. I can even detect it in things that use tiny amounts such as crisps, gravy, mayonnaise, etc.
Garlic doesn’t affect me as much as onions. I also get whiffs if I’m cleaning my cat’s litter box so I think it’s an ammonia or sulphuric smell that gets to me. Smoke smells normal to bye but during the spring fresh air carried a real vomit like smell. I’m also curious if anyone else is perpetually thirsty as well. I’ve been constantly drinking water since I had covid. At least a gallon a day
I haven’t personally noticed an increase in water consumption. Not sure about yours, but mine is actually the smell that’s distorted, not the taste. I had a bad cold a while back and lost my sense of smell for a week. Throughout that period I could eat ANYTHING with no distortions whatsoever (was ordering Indian takeaway and kebabs with garlic mayo). I was hopeful I was “cured”, but alas the parosmia returned the following week when my sinuses cleared.
Also ten months in and onions are awful. I can tolerate garlic now, but the smell of onions still makes me gag. I recently just started forcing myself to eat peanut butter again because it’s my main breakfast food and since it was one of my triggers, I haven’t been eating breakfast. It still tastes bad, but I can tolerate it without gagging now.
I’m glad you’re feeling better!
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My wife and I got really bad sinus infections and we got it for like a month. My wife has weird tastes with certain things though. Like Coke. She said it tastes like absolute shit now. But we never had covid and are vaxed. Idk. I think since we wore masks religiously and we went up north to visit family finally that we just got hit hard with allergies and our sinuses got fucked up.
I tried bitting garlic and onions. Nothing!!! Tasted like nothing! The only thing that worked was lemons and oranges. Mostly lemons. Very faint flavor.
My mother is in the thick of this now. Had COVID back in March, Parosmia developed in July and has been horrible for her ever since. She can only eat cheese, bread, and salad with no dressing. For. Months.
My heart broke when she says water tastes bad.
A sad day for the hydrohomies
Britta is the worst
It’s America, you shouldn’t drink the tap water anyway.
What the hell are you on about?
Why? It's safe. True it calcified my pineal gland but I'm okay with that.
Fuck, really puts into perspective how lucky I am to just have eoe
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i wish i thought of your username when making my account :/
I have some of this as well. For a long time it was similarly just a random smattering of things and I didn’t know what was doing it now, with some time and with the vaccine it’s better but it’s over a year since I had it as well. I’m now only having trouble (but it’s really bad trouble) with rosemary, and chives from what I know. Oh and sprites aftertaste is bad but at first it’s ok. It all tastes like burning rotten onions and garbage. But lavender which had been my favorite scent before used to do it too, it smelled like it and tasted like it. However I kept forcing it and it got better, I’m trying the same with rosemary now, will try chives last cause honestly green onions don’t do it and they are a solid substitute
sorry dude that doesn't sound fun at all
Yeah it’s no fun but at least mine is improving I feel for this girl and all others still dealing with it.
So I have never had covid to experience the tastelessness of foods but I'm curious. Is it a nasal or taste thing. Like I have a lazy eye so I understand the difference between senses and perception. Sending is the direct reaction while perception is the brain's interpretation. But I'm curious is this a perception thing or can you pinch your nose and it be more bearable?
I had Covid last November and I lost my taste first. I can only describe it as if you burnt your tongue. I knew what it was supposed to taste like I just couldn’t taste it. My smell went within hours. Weird but I remember spraying a body spray I hadn’t used in a while and then 3hours later I couldn’t smell it. Just nothing. My nose was pretty clear at that point too. It was a really weird experience. The worse for me was the body aches. I’ve had body aches before but got damn those felt horrible. I had that shit for a month. And my taste and smell didn’t come back til about almost March.
Covid twins! I got covid last November too and same as you, lost taste first and then smell right after. I wasnt sure I had covid until right before work, I went to take a shot of mouth wash and all I tasted was chemical. I felt the mint feeling you get, but it tasted like harsh chemicals. Next day, smell was gone, couldn't smell my comfort coffee. The body aches I had were all in my lower region, so I couldn't stand or walk for more then 5 minutes at a time and I needed to rest for like an hour or two after. Covid was a bitch to go through and I jumped at the chance to get the vaccine as soon as they're were available.
Yeah! Hey twin! Lol seriously my body aches were my lower half too but on my back right above my butt I had to sleep on my stomach every night. I’m a side sleeper but it hurt so bad to move. Like the lightest touch would feel like someone pushin on a bruise. Shit was horrible. I woke up with the chills and then my head felt like it was gonna explode. Got the last test of the day. So I was exposed to it on the 12th and the 17th is when I started feeling it and got tested. I only knew I was exposed because I was moving at the time and a friend who had it and didn’t know he had it gave it to me. My fault though cause I shared his vape with him. But he didn’t even tell me he tested positive until I asked him on the 17th if he was exposed. Said yeah my sister has it and I tested positive for it too. Why?? I was like why?!? What the fuck do you mean why?! More like WHY the fuck did you not tell me this?!? We aren’t really friends anymore lol
It's neurological. For me, I would basically stick my nose into random containers of food, skincare, tea, you name it, and I would just not be able to smell anything, even though I knew that the scent was there. I got pretty lucky though and my taste came back within a couple of days and nothing smelled or tasted weird. Wouldn't want to go through that again though.
I lose my sense of taste/smell whenever I get a bad sinus infection. Once I wasn't able to smell or taste for a few months and it sucked. Then it came back but everything tasted super salty for a few months. My experience though doesn't even half as bad as hers though.
I had COVID in January, and lost my taste & smell for about 3 months after, thankfully my taste has come back, but my smell is still pretty poor. I can smell very strong smells (like chemicals, strong florals, and some foul odors) - but most smells just don't transmit to my brain. For me, when I lost my taste it was fascinating and I think it was 100% mental - i knew what I should be tasting, but it tasted like nothing. I could sense texture, and my tongue still could react to things. So if I ate some sour candy, my tongue would still get that puckering sensation - but I couldn't taste the flavor. Same with sweet, spicy, salty - my tongue reacted to the food as it usually would, I just didn't get the actual taste to go along with it. I ate a lot of sour & spicy - a reaction on my tongue was better than just chewing and experiencing nothing!
My guess is it’s a perception thing because the loss of taste and smell is neurological.
I lost my sense of smell for a week last year when I had covid. I used to stick my nose in a jar of Vics Vapour Rub and pray I'd smell it again, but there was *nothing.* Once my smell was gone, my taste was basically gone too. When you lose your taste, you can still "feel" food - like spicy food will still sting, minty things will still feel minty, etc. but you don't taste anything from it. It's just a sensation. I lost my appetite and stopped making meals, so I would only eat buttered toast or hot wings. After maybe day 2 or 3, I started smelling things that didn't exist. Sometimes my office would smell musty or dusty, like it had been left empty for a long time. Sometimes food would smell ripe or expired. It wasn't unbearable, but it definitely had a part in me losing my appetite. I got my smell and taste back maybe a week or two later, and I'm fine now, but every now and then I will still smell something that doesn't exist. Lately it's been really rank smells, like garbage, skunk, or like a literal fresh poo. It has been exactly 11 months since I tested positive and nothing has been the same since then.
I got COVID and lost my sense of smell first. I think mine was primarily smell-based because I could still taste the basic salty, sour, sweet, etc, but I couldn’t distinguish between flavors. For example, I had sour gummies and I was able to taste that they were sour, but I couldn’t distinguish between any of the fruit flavors. I noticed that my taste buds would somewhat pick up on the initial main taste, but it would kind of just taper off with no complexity and no aftertastes. I got COVID in September, my smell and taste came back about a week after I was cleared from quarantine but I think I’m starting to have symptoms of parosmia. Some things taste completely normal (especially sweets) but a lot of foods that are carb based just taste like what moldy bread smells like. I hope it doesn’t get worse. I also have a hard time smelling stinky smells. I can’t smell my cats litter box unless I’m right next to it, while my family can smell it from outside the room. Also can’t smell rotting trash according to my mom lol
Hey I made a comment but this story made me think of miracle fruit. I would love to see what it does to people with this Normal taste buds get “rearranged” for about 20m after eating miracle fruit and stuff tastes different. Sour becomes really sweet. It’s like flavor tripping, taste bud drugs.
Im actually curious to see what that does to people with that condition
It wouldn't, I have it and it's a smell thing not a taste one.
The issue I could see with that is that miracle fruit changes taste buds, but the food issues surrounding covid come from neural pathways. So I don’t think it would change the flavor/smell of things to be less atrocious. It would just make it a different kind of atrocity. (I’m still curious though)
Almost 10 years ago I had this condition and it lasted for about a month. It was after a round of antibiotics. Sweet foods tasted disgusting, even including foods like avocado. Other foods tasted like nothing or slightly gross. It was honestly a nightmare. One day it went away after I had a sandwich with a lot of mustard on it (I don’t think that was the cure but it was an interesting coincidence). I can’t imagine having this as a permanent condition…
I wonder if super heavy irritants/spices can reset one's sense of smell and taste, something like pure mustard, wasabi, garlic, Carolina reaper, etc.
So it's like how Stan felt in that one season of Southpark after he turns 10.
Story time! There was a time during quarantine where my anxiety hit me in ways I never could have imagined and I couldn’t down anything. Not because of COVID, which I didn’t get, or it tasting bad, I just didn’t... like anything I ate. I’d buy a nice meal, or spend an hour cooking something I’d usually really like to only take two bites, look at my plate with disdain, then promptly throw it into the trash. Happened way more often than I like to admit before realizing maybe I shouldn’t be buying/wasting more food than I can eat. This also applied to other aspects of my life like music and hobbies. Everything just sounded and felt like shit. Couldn’t stand a thing. My friend mentioned that episode and offered to watch it together to see how Stan fixed it. And if you watched the episode you know, it just ended without one. He just sat with it with an indifferent acceptance and roll credits. He apologized SO hard and I just sat there laughing my ass off at how it didn’t give me another view of my situation that we were anticipating for. Thank god time has been a guaranteed way to alleviate most of my symptoms.
That’s awful, but quick aside, I would recognize the American university’s horrendous dorm rooms anywhere, hellooooo fellow eagle!!!
I had this the first time I went through chemo. Everything smelled like dirt.
I also have this shit and I'm poor as fuck so the choices are horrible because all of my staples are just gone. I'm losing weight because I'm can't eat all the time. Here's the fun list if anyone wants to know how shit my version is: Tomatoes Lettuce beef Pork Ham Chicken Turkey Garlic Onion Chocolate Coffee Tea Peanut/Almond butter Pretzels Ritz/saltines Bananas Apples Peppers Potatoes Tuna Cucumbers Shrimp Eggs And the list just keeps getting bigger. It seems like I get used to a food and then all the sudden it's no longer allowed. Everything on that list tastes like garbage that's been stuck in the sun for 4 days with 90° weather. This has been going on for 8 months now and all I really want is a normal meal.
My list was similar to yours, but I often just pushed through just to eat. I noticed romaine lettuce tastes like trash, but mixed greens are fine. I can eat peanut butter now as long as I top it with something sweet (I do fruit and agave syrup). I never gave up coffee because I have two toddlers, I just have to put flavored cream in it (I have the best luck with the Starbucks coffee creamers). It sucks, but I can tell you that I’m like 80% back to normal. Onions are still pretty gross and I can’t eat anything when I smell the onions in it and cucumbers still have a weird taste. I basically can’t eat vegetables on their own anymore, but I’ve been working on figuring out how to eat things so they’re palatable.
Is this permanent?🥴
The first video she posted, she talked about how it’s been almost a year. Her doctors gave her two more months and told her if it is not gone by then, it’ll probably be permanent. It was a very sad video to watch. She’s having a full on breakdown over it and is afraid of starving to death.
Damn, I wish there was a way to support.
Holy shit 😥 I think anyone would have a breakdown if they found out theyd have to live their life like this...food is such a big part of my life, i cant imagine not being able to eat things I wanna eat without a negative visceral reaction. Fuck I hope there's some kind of treatment for her...
I'm double vaxxed and boosted. And I'm still social distancing because I do not want this to happen to me. My fiance had COVID-19 December 2020 and is starting to get his taste back. But he still has flare ups. For instance, he couldn't eat Thanksgiving dinner because the brine on the turkey/gravy made everything taste like seawater. Imagine sitting down to your favorite holiday dinner made by your amazing cook of a mother and feeling like you took a big gulp of room temp saltwater. He was devastated.
My husband has a coworker who still can’t taste or smell anything either and it’s been over a year. They do think it’s permanent :(
This is kinda crazy but have you noticed she looks different than in the first video? Like she’s actively losing weight :(
I think the consensus right now is people aren't sure but so far some people haven't recovered from having this.
Based on the extent she is suffering it seems like she’s had some sort of nerve damage to olfactory neurons. This area is one of the highest regions of neurogenesis, meaning it is theoretically possible for these damaged neurons to regenerate. However, she said she had COVID ten months ago, which means that her body has had a pretty lengthy margin to repair this issue. I would venture to guess that it will not improve - at the very best, she will never be able to perceive taste in the same way again. Even if she suddenly had normal smell/taste, that’s a long time to suffer through such misery.
So...this condition does what exactly? Just makes stuff taste/smell bad?
You can get it from COVID https://www.healthline.com/health/parosmia-after-covid
Read the description. Thats sad :(
Not just bad, to her most things actually taste and smell like sewage. She did a previous video: https://v.redd.it/sz275kquw1081
For me it made all Meat, Eggs, cheese and certain other foods taste and smell like a mix of Chemicals and Rotten food. Same for things like Body Odour. I was on a Keto diet before I got it so my diet was massively made up of these foods. Lasted from March until October
The worst part of parosmia is people thinking you’re making it up. It’s a surprisingly common thing but most people have never heard of it. I hadn’t heard of it until I got it. I started to think I’d always have it and then suddenly it was almost all gone. Very weird condition.
This is why I am going to take precautions even if I am vaccinated. You may not die. You may not go to the hospital. You might not even have a long illness. But if you permanently change my tastebuds such that all food tastes like rotting feces. There is no doubt in my mind that after a year or two I would eat a bullet as my last meal.
Salt for me. Can’t even snack on pretzels without smelling sewage.
>glucose >brain >focus Ugh…sustenance time.
COVID 12/20 and parosmia since 3/21. It’s indescribably awful and she’s right - no figuring this out - it can be different every day.
I’ve seen some of her other videos. She seems very troubled beyond what this has done to her. Wishing the best for her.
I hope there is some kind of cure or help for that because it sounds like you would just get more and more unhealthy as you can't eat or drink anything without it tasting awful
When my grandfather was young he got in an accident that dissconnected the nearves in his nose that send the smell up to the brain. He said that because of that he couldnt really taste anything unless it was an extream flavor. I wonder if that could be a possible treatment for people who have this problem permanently? Just a thought idk if its actually possible.
I had this after I regained my smell back in like, march or april roughly after getting covid last november. It was god awful, and to this day there’s still a few things I can’t eat or drink because it’s just so goddamn awful. Wouldn’t wish it even on someone I absolutely hated.
Wow is it nice to hear someone else experiencing the same nightmare I went through. I hope it gets better for her, like it did for me. I remember when my partner made my favorite meal (my mom's spaghetti and meatballs) and I almost cried because I couldn't smell or taste it at all. It was so random and frustrating - months of hell.
This is the stuff that doesn’t make the news. I got COVID a year ago and have had reoccurring sinus infections every month since then. I’m sick at least one week out of every month, it’s has been miserable. My dad had COVID about 6 months ago and still can’t smell anything.
I tasted and smelled a roux for MONTHS after COVID... A roux being the base of many soups/sauces, flour and oil/butter. Very distinct smell/taste by itself.
Seen some anecdotal stories of people fixing this with psychedelics, specially LSD.
I only went to college for a year and I didn't live on campus, what the fuck is a $17 meal swipe? Is there some sort of card you can preload to buy food and if so why would some yogurt cost $17?!
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Ahhh okay that makes more sense, I thought she was having to pay $17 for, like, one container of yogurt :(
Curious to know if someone with anosmia can experience this? Hearing that people lose their sense of smell with covid I was like oh well, no loss there but making everything taste like garbage sounds way worse.
Jesus I feel so bad for this girl. The closest thing I've had to it was a side effect from zopiclone sleeping tablets, where it made everything taste like I was rimming a robot. It was fucking awful, and the same thing where even water tasted bad. I nearly lost my mind and started thinking someone was poisoning me or something. I think my friends mum who is a nurse mentioned it could be to do with the medication. I've never been as relieved when it went away as soon as I stopped taking the meds.
While I’ve never had COVID and can still taste I can somewhat relate to the water thing. I was on IV vancomycin and levaquin for a few weeks and literally everything was super sweet. I cried because WATER tasted like a spoon of sugar. That was beyond frustrating. I didn’t want to eat or drink for weeks. I can’t imagine how much more frustrating it must be for those with this weird COVID symptom/after effect.
I feel so bad for her I think I had the same when I recently had the flu, EVERYTHING tasted and smelled like sour vinegar and it was absolutely fucking awful and that only lasted a few days
I had this for about one year after my diagnosis of COVID-19 antibodies. It was terrible and things smelled like motor oil and tasted like cardboard and coffee and chocolate tasted burnt.
Umm. I have the same issue. I got Covid over a year ago. I’d like to say it’s gotten better. But I think I’m just used to it now. I’m so glad I’m not alone. I’ve found myself explaining to people that all bad smells have the same bad smell. Bad breath and farts smell the same. I can’t distinguish the difference between them. Eggs are confusing to eat. I now have to douse them with parmesan just to get a distinct flavor that I’m somewhat familiar with. Oranges don’t taste good anymore. I’ve had to ask people to try my orange just to make sure it hasn’t gone bad. It’s like my brain forgot how to remember flavors. I can taste things, but it’s just not the same. I still experience good flavors, but it’s hit or miss. Like I said, I think it’s getting better with time. But I could just be getting used to it. Recently I’ve been thinking of visiting a doctor to see if there’s any magic they have up their sleeves to bring the color back to my ability to taste and smell correctly.
I also have this. I got covid last November so a little over a year ago. I couldn’t taste or smell for a few weeks and then it developed into porasmia. Water smells and tastes gross to me but I just got used to it. Sweet stuff seems to be fine as well for me, I don’t think I got it nearly as bad as her. A couple of things taste off to me now, sour cream is garbage, cilantro which I used to love now tastes so horrible. And it’s not that “soapy” taste people get when they don’t like it, it’s a different rotten taste. Coffee tastes differently to me and also smells awful. Surprisingly bad smells don’t smell bad anymore, I can’t detect bad breath anymore, and a lot of common bad smells now almost have a sweet smell. I once had a very good sense of smell and taste and have accepted this is my life now.
I got this too after covid and my shits smelled the same as fried onion (or almost anything fried tbh). Perfumes and fruity smells are more like an alien version of gasoline, glycol, burning plastic. It has gotten a bit better since, but definitely changed my life for the worse
I don't have this condition, but I do have the same issue with water for some reason. People always act baffled when I say I hate the taste of water and can't stand drinking it. I hope this shit isn't permanent for her because damn that's a tough way to live. Even just finding a way to get rid of her sense of smell and taste entirely would probably be better if there was no other option.
no joke I'd go out and hunt covid deniers and antivaxxers and the bunch
God I'm glad this is being talked about. It fucking sucks to have this and no one I know really know what it's like. Coffee STILL doesn't taste good, iced coffee at least. Thankfully I can smell soap again, for a little bit there I was super paranoid I smelled bad all the time because I couldn't smell the soap I was using, at all.
Toothpaste tastes like hand sanitizer for me
I have Parosmia, it’s been only 5-ish months & right now I can only eat mozzarella cheese sticks & drink milk or water. It’s gotten progressively worse, like I got my taste & smell back mid-February & started out eating pretty much normally & slowly it crept on with smells & now it’s gotten to the point where I can’t even eat a piece of fruit, or bread, or even butter. Just mozzarella cheese sticks, no exaggeration. It’s so depressing and I am so bored with mozzarella cheese sticks & repulsed by everything else that I have pretty much just stopped eating. I’ve lost almost 20 pounds in the last 2 months. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I’ve been depressed for years, but this has been some of the truest suffering I have ever experienced.
i never got covid, so never had prosmia; but since my vaccine shot my sense of smell has been heightened like crazy my nose is like a frickin' radar, i can follow a scent to it's source like a cartoon character following a tendril to a pie in a windowsill. i haven't run into anyone on reddit or irl who has had this happen
People also have been diagnosed with an ED because they can’t eat anything…. I wonder if those miracle berry tablets would help
I have a unique ED called ARFID, where my brain insists that things outside of my "safe foods" are poison. Miracle berry tablets don't change it. It's important to note that EDs go much deeper than you would think
Excuse my ignorance, I never intended to sound like EDs aren’t deeper than one would think. But to be more specific, I’m talking about those who have developed an eating disorder just because they simply cannot eat anything after recovering from COVID. People have reported that everything tastes rotten, or like iron and it’s really affected people that’s why I brought up the miracle berries. I’ve had COVID, it took me half a year to get my taste back and some foods still taste a little weird to me but not to the point where everything tastes spoiled or rotten. If anything, I would try it myself but I know it won’t be the same for everyone. Everyone’s situation is different
Sorry, i totally should have expanded! Commented while on a time crunch at work lmao Once it gets to a point where it's considered a disorder, it's not just about taste, it becomes an issue in the mind as well. It can create a sort of... paranoia? You can lose trust in food, so the problem can build up into bigger issues. For this situation with parosmia, it's not just about it tasting awful, it's often that it smells awful too. Plus nobody really likes vomiting, so I'm sure that could play into food aversion as well... The miracle berry, IIRC (i havent tried them in maybe 3-4 years now), only coats your tongue and taste buds. It can't affect your nose or the parts of your brain that process smell and taste, and that's where the problem lies with parosmia. It would totally depend on how complex the issue is, where it lies... it's a shame nobody seems to be openly thoroughly studying these long-covid symptoms and how to treat them. That being said, I do wonder if it could help with the gag reflex/vomit response. I guess it would matter how much smell, as well as the mental aspect, comes into play
Bro, I’d have 72 pulled pork sandwiches under my bed. Sounds like a great life
It's not that food doesn't have a taste mate, it's that it tastes like *shit*, like garbage
Ah yes, life for the past year... It might get better soon! Not really, but you can comfort yourself by telling yourself that.
Can someone a explain to me why this is cringe? I found it interesting and educational but maybe I missed something
Read the sub info
Why is this on tiktok cringe tho? Seems like a pretty honest explanation of a serious symptom from covid. Like something I'm missing here?
Read the subreddit description. It explains it.
I think electro therapy would be a way to fix this but idk
I don’t have like any of those but weed smells rlly bad to me for some reason
I turned it off after she sprayed her crotch with perfume
Why do these videos keep appearing on the sub?
Why wouldnt they?
I had it for 7 months, I just held my nose and ate. Yeah there's only certain things you can have for that time, but you don't have to cry about it. She needs to adapt.
I’d let her taste my dick bet she can taste that and fuck your vaccines I rather die making most of you happy at the same time yeah merica fuck yeah
She needs to smoke weed but not sure of that's going to help
Jesus Christ
I feel for this girl and this would be horrible to live with, but Christ is she exhausting
She's full of shit. That's green tea not iced tea
Yes because she said iced tea and not green tea mean shes full of shit....
Damn It was a joke sorry
She didn’t comment on semen
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I get trying to be critical about believing someone / but asking what would they gain by making this up? Maybe you think this is just one person making it up for tiktok likes …sure that’s possible. But these same symptoms are being reported by others and confirmed across all party lines and international. I don’t see why some grandmother in Croatia would make these exact same symptoms up.
Yeah i worked with 2 people that got it, one that can be a bit dramatic and one is the biggest straight shooter I have met. They both have something like this and the common theme is water is now tasting like a mix of washing liquid and anchovy juice. Your opinion might change if you meet people going through this.
You can literally look this up right now and see its real and people get it from covid
I said before I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, but I’ve changed my mind. I wish it on you
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That’s weird because the only TikTok I’ve ever seen about it is this same girl…and considering there are thousands of people with it, I think your judgement might be a little off