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No smell or taste: What helps to recover them?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Aug 28 11:25am | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
The plasma (part of a clinical trial at Jefferson in Philly) was taken from my blood and then (in a very painful procedure) inserted up both nostrils.
It did nothing….
I was curious about Stellate Ganglion blocks (which is being done by an ENT at Cleveland Hospital). My understanding is that those injections need to be done in the neck—a process I’ve been a bit fearful to try.
I don’t know what else to do….
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Don’t be fearful of the Stellate Ganglion Block injections. They’re done using an ultrasound as a guide to where the injection needs to go. I’ve had 5 and was sedated by IV the last time because my blood pressure gets very high as I get nervous about the procedure. I have been awake for 4 of them and it really is pretty pain free. They give you a numbing agent first and then do the injection. The injections give me more of a salty, sweet and bitter taste on my tongue when I eat something, but I can’t taste any flavors yet. They say that will come. I don’t think that the Stellate Ganglion Block injections are as painful as the procedure you had done, which you say did nothing. This might help you. I would call the Cleveland Clinic and make an appointment. You have to try everything. An ENT that I saw here in the Chicago area is good friends with the ENT at Cleveland who does this procedure. It’s a woman, but I don’t remember her name. I wish you all the best!