I had been a bit sick and I had the realization when I went to sniff some weed and I couldn’t smell it. I’d been able to smell earlier in the day and it was a weird realization. I went around and sniffed everything I could hoping to get a whiff
It was extremely bizarre. I’ve had muted sense of smell and taste because of a sickness but never an absence of the sense
The weird thing is also what happens to taste of you lose your sense of smell. You can still feel the texture of the food, but it doesn’t taste like much. One of the weirdest things I have experienced as a result of a virus.
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn’t smell Vick’s VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn’t have COVID. It’s possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn’t panic about it.
I had been a bit sick and I had the realization when I went to sniff some weed and I couldn’t smell it. I’d been able to smell earlier in the day and it was a weird realization. I went around and sniffed everything I could hoping to get a whiff
It was extremely bizarre. I’ve had muted sense of smell and taste because of a sickness but never an absence of the sense
The weird thing is also what happens to taste of you lose your sense of smell. You can still feel the texture of the food, but it doesn’t taste like much. One of the weirdest things I have experienced as a result of a virus.
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn’t smell Vick’s VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn’t have COVID. It’s possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn’t panic about it.
When was this? For the first year and a half or so, the more commonly used test kits had something like a 40% false negative rate.
I don’t recall. But I took the pharmacy test too, the more accurate one.