← Return to Loss of smell and taste after head injury

Discussion

Loss of smell and taste after head injury

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Mar 18 4:48pm | Replies (52)
Comment receiving replies
@lisalucier

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?

Jump to this post

Replies to "Hi, @slowrunner1 - I see you've joined Mayo Clinic Connect recently, so I wanted to welcome..."
slowrunner1 | @slowrunner1 | Mar 17 6:39pm

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.

VIEW AND REPLY
gwenrn74 | @gwenrn74 | Mar 18 12:53pm

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.

VIEW AND REPLY