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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)Comment receiving replies
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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There is a fascinating book called Yoga and the Eye, and it helps to heal ! It's written by 2 optometrists. I found a copy on Thrift Books.
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Hi Lisa
It was gradual, not sure but became more noticeable after the stroke. Age? maybe 70 years of cheap beer and gin but, once in awhile good bourbon -
or accompanying cigars, cigarrettes, pipe, hookah. used to pick butts off thestreet when I was six years old, BUT NEVER anything else. I do like Melinda's Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce. Clears the sinuses.
I am so lucky.