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gemengelage21 karma

Yeah, smells are weird. Most foods smell the same for me as before I had COVID, if just a bit less intense. The most notable exception are eggs - they have a weird sulphury smell and taste to them now. The scent of my own body smells increasingly weird to me.

The weirdest experience I had thus far though was standing in my kitchen where I forgot some sausages on the stove, the whole room covered in smoke, and I had a very distinct smell of the meat in my nose, but I didn't smell any smoke, even though the room was completely smoked up.

My changed olphactory perception is apparently a whole lot more dangerous than I initially thought.

gemengelage15 karma

I had COVID in April and this sounds exactly what I am experiencing. My wife had COVID at the same time and while her sense of smell recovered a lot quicker and better than mine, she had some weird phantom smells, especially since she's sometimes not aware that they are phantom smells. When I have that, I either stop perceiving it after a few moments or I'm weirdly aware that that's not the actual smell of something.

My wife on the other hand asked me with a straight face why it always smells like milk-chocolate in one of our bathrooms. There was also this one incident where she was convinced that we had a gas leak because of (what we now both assume was) a phantom smell. Both me and the guy from the gas company couldn't smell anything (though that doesn't say a lot coming from me). I'm just glad that everyone is safe and that calling the gas leak hotline was not only free, but also extremely helpful.

gemengelage4 karma

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