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0 pointsgivinguflac4y ago0 comments

I personally know two people who have reduced or no sense of smell after a year post infection.

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nickysielicki4y ago· 2 in thread

I've been infected twice.

I can smell, but it's muted relative to how it was previously. It also feels like the spectrum of smells was shifted -- I can smell stuff and identify it fine, but it's not how I remember things smelling before. I've been unable to really put this into words.

njmartina4y ago

This is my experience as well. Was infected February 2021 and was totally without smell for around 4 months until it slowly recovered. But like you said it's different now, where certain things smell differently but I can still identify them. Same goes for taste, in particular onions smell and taste almost entirely different than before I got sick.

dangom4y ago

Very curious. Is there anything that smells the same, or is absolutely everything different? Also, how much of a difference is it - slightly off, or completely new?

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