Any recent news for smell and taste recovery?

This was in early 2022 when I was told this. They gave no reason why it wouldn’t return or had no explanation for why it had occurred. To be fair little was known about long covid then.

It does help to know others are dealing with the same thing. Most people can’t believe it has been 2.5 years since I lost my sense of smell. It also confirms it is definitely due to Covid.

Hi Linda,
I am also a “Linda”, I lost my taste/smell in December of 2022 and it is February 2024 and I still don’t have it back. I’ve had 2 Stellate Ganglion Blocks, which are injections of Lidocaine into your ganglion nerves in your neck (right side). My taste came back slightly, which means that now I have a stronger taste of salty, sweet, sour, but no actual flavors of anything. I can smell something almost every day, but it’s fleeting and doesn’t last. I’m hoping my next injection in March will help even more. I receive these injections at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago’s Pain Management Clinic. It’s certainly worth a try. I wish you all the best.

It does help to know others are dealing with the same thing. Most people can’t believe it has been 2.5 years since I lost my sense of smell. It also confirms it is definitely due to Covid.

I'm at 4 years (March 2020)
I still have long Covid. Symptoms continually evolve.
I am better off than I was.

Symptoms that remain:
1) tinnitus
2) diarrhea
3) dizzy spells, although far fewer in number, no less severe when they do happen.

Fatigue largely gone, although I do get tired too quickly, if and when I do exersize. Insomnia mostly gone. Rashes long gone (that was beginning only).

Taste and smell might still be a symptom. But now it's swinging the other way. I now taste and smell more acutely. Better (or more intensely) than 30 years ago. This has to be a neurological response. First one way and then the other.

Most doctors I have seen recommend scent retraining. I’m working on that. At least it’s something I can do to hold on to hope. I hope to get some benefit from it.

Don’t just do the scent training, it’s worthless for those of us who just can’t smell it. Call your big hospital and ask for the pain management clinic. If you talk with someone in that department, ask about the Stellate Ganglion Block injection. Look it up. I don’t know where you live, but I live in a suburb of Chicago and have gone to Northwestern Hospital in the city. I know that Cleveland Clinic is also doing it. Good luck! Don’t stop!