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Horrible Taste and Smell (burning garbage) post COVID: Anyone else?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Aug 3 4:06pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
Parosmia sufferers
In 4/21 , and still ongoing shy of two years now, experienced distorted smells. Over sensitive to onion and garlic. Meat smells like a dead deer. Gasoline smells like chemicals. Skunk smells like onions. Toothpaste used to smell like onions. Cannot eat salad dressings. Eggs smell like and taste like metal. Soda smells like gasoline. Can only use certain soaps, shampoos and men’s deodorant. Can only eat cold turkey sandwich meat. This was after second vaccine shot. May have had Covid prior to this but NO symptoms.
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Totally. 2 years into longcovid and can’t taste or smell much, except these weird phantom smells that don’t exist irl as far as I know. This week the smells are on a bizarro spectrum between battery acid and fruit loops. It’s a sliding scale so sometimes it smells like a bowl of fruit loops is burning in an electrical fire and sometimes it just smells like a burning battery, with a range in between. Used to just be gasoline all the time. Much prefer burning fruit loops. Sorry you’re having to deal with this. I’m about to try this clinically tested red light up the nose treatment that’s shown to reduce swelling. Hoping that will help with the weird smells. I’ll let you know if anything good happens.
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Hi @jrg71, you are certainly not alone in dealing with parosmia post COVID infection even without symptoms. To help you connect with others, I moved your post to this existing discussion:
- Horrible Taste and Smell (burning garbage) post COVID: Anyone else?: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/garbageburning-taste-and-smell/