• flicker@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The following comment is NSFW and n=1 and also I wouldn’t post it if I wasn’t anonymous so here goes. Don’t keep reading if you’re easily grossed out. Content warning; urine.

    Knowing that I had lost my sense of taste from covid, I reviewed the things I could do that not having a sense of taste might benefit from, and I asked my boyfriend (who I’m aware has a mild watersports fetish) if he’d like to take advantage of my lack of sense of taste…

    And he did.

    And later that night, shortly after our experiment, my sense of taste came back! I don’t know if it’s a revolutionary treatment for Covid, but if you’re desperate…

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    If you figure it out let me know. It’s been 2 years for me.

    I have heard of Stellate Ganglion Block which blocks the nerve and kind of reboots it. People talk about it literally working instantly. About $500/side (they can do one or both) and you have to find someone that can do it near you.

    God I miss the taste of good coffee.

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      11 months ago

      I recall reading about Alpha-Lipoic Acid as a supplemental treatment for post viral loss of smell. I took some when I lost my smell after a bout of covid and mine did come back, YMMV!

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    You don’t!

    Remember this next time you interact with a conservative. They did this to you.

    Doesn’t that make you mad?

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        A lot, considering we politicized the fuck out of that virus, which lead to global pushback against mitigating its spread and ultimately resulting in avoidable infections, unnecessary suffering, and senseless deaths. You’re on the receiving end of that attack, so previous poster isn’t wrong to include your personal suffering into the broader generalization of the covid dumpster fire as a whole.

        That said, his delivery was shit, and he was wrong about the “You don’t!” bit - you can absolutely retrain your senses. I’ve got nothing but heresay on the ‘how’ side of that though, so my advice would be to make an appointment with your doc and see if he or she can point you to an effective sensory therapy process.

        And for real, good luck. I’ve gotten that shit twice now, and honestly losing taste was among my biggest fears. Food is one of the only things I can consistently look forward to on a daily basis… losing the ability to enjoy food would be depressing as fuck. Like literally, clinically depressing as fuck - food is a massive part of pretty much every culture, and our social events pretty much all revolve around food. Contrasted against the “it can kill you” side of covid, the taste and smell thing is kind of permanently out of the spot light, which doesn’t do justice to the (albeit nonlethal) severity of that symptom.

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    11 months ago

    Mine gradually came back after some time (I think maybe a week or two before it fully recovered?)

    Some things that helped me in the meantime while my taste buds were dead was orange juice. That’s was probably the only thing I could taste and kept my sanity up throughout the ordeal.

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    Allegedly Zink should have a role in sense of taste, so supplementing Zink may help restore poor sense of taste.
    Vitamin D also plays a role, but you should probably be taking Vitamin D anyway. You can only make vitamin D when you are in the sun when it’s at 45° or higher, and it’s near impossible to eat food that has sufficient Vitamin D.

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      While I will agree that everyone should get vaccinated to stop the spread, my best friend is a nurse and fully vaccinated, and he still got covid, and while still not as bad thanks to the vaccine, he still lost his taste and hasn’t recovered it yet.

      Your comment is ignorant and rude.

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      11 months ago

      It’s spiking again, in fact.

      But also, it’s possible OP had COVID back in 2021 or some such and just still hasn’t gotten their sense of taste back. You should look into “long covid” if you didn’t know COVID could cause symptoms (sometimes debilitating symptoms) for years after the initial infection.