Jumping on the top comment because it may or may not be helpful. Our 14 year-old had an otherwise mild case of covid in April, lost her sense of taste and smell for about two months, then it turned to parosmia (cooked meat smelled/tasted like "rotting corpses", lots of other stuff was off in a very bad way, etc. - she could barely eat anything or even be around food) for 3.5 months. It was awful.
We were pretty desperate, so tried all the stuff that is regularly suggested. Lots of smell training. Nothing worked. What actually did it (we think) is that the night before, she was in bed for a very long time, picturing and imagining - almost recreating in her mind - the specifics of how specific, different food tasted and smelled: the savoryness, aromas, etc. Like an imaginary communion with food. Much came back the next day, and she's probably 90% back a month later.
Parosmia was so awful. If what she did helps one person get their taste and smell back, then it was clearly worth writing this out. Good luck.
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Jumping on the top comment because it may or may not be helpful. Our 14 year-old had an otherwise mild case of covid in April, lost her sense of taste and smell for about two months, then it turned to parosmia (cooked meat smelled/tasted like "rotting corpses", lots of other stuff was off in a very bad way, etc. - she could barely eat anything or even be around food) for 3.5 months. It was awful.
We were pretty desperate, so tried all the stuff that is regularly suggested. Lots of smell training. Nothing worked. What actually did it (we think) is that the night before, she was in bed for a very long time, picturing and imagining - almost recreating in her mind - the specifics of how specific, different food tasted and smelled: the savoryness, aromas, etc. Like an imaginary communion with food. Much came back the next day, and she's probably 90% back a month later.
Parosmia was so awful. If what she did helps one person get their taste and smell back, then it was clearly worth writing this out. Good luck.
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