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Loss of smell and taste after truck hit me w/head injury. Any hope?

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Oct 13 11:11pm | Replies (56)
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I too lost most of my senses of taste and smell, but I am the cook! I cook for others and I follow tried and true recipes, but always looking for new recipes to try out on my family. Mistakes are made but favorites are found. I cook for them, not for me. I do have to be careful chopping red peppers and not my fingers. Well, time to make my famous peanut brittle - a gift for the shop that services my car.

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Lisa Lucier, Moderator | @lisalucier | Mar 17 2:32pm

Hi, @slowrunner1 - I see you've joined Mayo Clinic Connect recently, so I wanted to welcome you.

I also wanted to encourage you to follow and check out discussions in our Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases support group on Connect https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/cerebrovascular-diseases/.

It's very impressive that you still run and walk after your right frontal brain bleed stroke and that you are competing in road races in your 80s.

Do you know what caused you to lose your sense of taste and smell?

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