Anyone Gotten their Taste and Smell Back after Covid in 2022?

Yes, I believe so. I haven’t smelled anything for almost 2 years and bought one of the Smell Training Kits. It didn’t work for me, it just gave me a headache from trying to smell things I can’t.

Abscent, clever play on words that predictive text changes! You’ll find lots of fellow sufferers trying lots of different things that I get the impression aren’t being done in US as ganglion block being done on insurance! Abscent in a Uk site, almost single handedly run by Chrissi, and she goes all over world including recently in New York to talk about/ do smell training etc. There is lots of science/ research too.

Why am I not doing anything about my loss of sense of smell and taste? Mainly because I've got bigger fish to fry.
I'm having a hip replacement tomorrow. I have severe arthritis in my lower spine and I'm fused from L2-L5S1 and have severe lower back pain. I can't be fused any lower because the fusion, if done, would fail. So its a Spinal Cord Stimulator, but not until I recover from the hip replacement, but next, before I do anything about the lower back, I need a new R knee. An on it goes. I have severe arthritis; it is very painful. Loss of sense of smell and taste are small issues - they produce no pain.

This is an aside: about 80-85% of hypothyroid sufferers are thought to have Hashimoto’s or either one or both autoimmune antibodies, the most common is called TPO, the other TgAb. I just had high TgAb, 20 odd years ago, apparently an usual 5% according to my endocrinologist yesterday, but they declined to nothing, so yours, if you had a might have been and gone. Even today relatively few drs/ nurses in the Uk use the term Hashimoto’s but call it terms like thyroiditis. Out of curiosity do you get your thyroid bloods ( TSH, FT4 and FT3) tested yearly? Sadly no , covid jabs do not prevent anyone from getting covid…at their best they might reduce severity of the infection, but research has shown the severity of LC in an individual has no relation to the severity of the covid!

Yes, I have had thyroid panel run regularly.

Sort of….I’m no expert, but I tried smelling different smells in various ways. I went by what my Primary said and what I read online.

I did purchase an essential oil kit that I wasn’t wild about. I used some of the oils for my therapy. I also utilized actual food like oranges, bananas, garlic, etc. I would smell it with my eyes closed, imagining what it was.

I can’t say it was what helped me recover, but it didn’t hurt. I understand how frustrating it may be if you smell nothing to try this treatment.

Most of the time I think I could smell a little, though not much. (Although my tests say I didn’t.)

I ate a piece of cake at a family gathering and told my niece it was Lemon cake with icing. My mom had cooked it. Later I discovered it was Vanilla cake! I felt pretty silly. There were plenty of times that I ate food thinking it was something other than what it was.

Has anyone else had symptoms with loss of smell and taste , brain fog at times, fatigue , shortness of breath when going outside , problems with severe heart burn everyday , also my feet and legs swell up at times and get bad headaches cause i have had these symptoms everyday almost for the past 3 years . I had got covid I believe about 3 times and it was one right after another due to my children having to go back to school , and at the same time I had just got a full hysterecomy to remove cervical cancer . So it has been a long struggle to try feel even a little bit better if anyone has any kind of suggestions due to the fact my family doctor had recently retired so no family doctor right now . Plus I am getting calluses and corns on my feet which make it hurt to walk at times.

First of all, I’m so sorry you’re suffering. I too lost my taste and smell with Covid in December of 2022 and still don’t have it back. I’ve been having Stellate Ganglion Block Injections to try to regain it, but not much change so far and I’ve had 6 injections. I will be going in for my 7th one next week Friday and will be asking if I’m wasting my time doing it. I’ve had slight slight improvement only for a few weeks after the injections, meaning that I have a more salty, sweet or bitter taste on my tongue, but no actual flavors of anything. I can’t distinguish a pear from an apple only know that their textures are different. I eat by texture now. I’m doing these injections because if I loose the little hope I have now, it won’t be good. I would suggest looking into having this done. I go to our big hospital, which is Northwestern and I see someone in the Pain Management Clinic. It won’t hurt you and it might actually help. Also, I’m on Medicare and the injections have been completely covered. Good luck!