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Well my experience is that I have had colds and flus all my life and they never affected my smell or taste at all. I got Covid once and lost 100% of my smell a

• flagrant_taco 3y ago
  I've actually had the opposite. I have lost my sense of taste for a couple weeks with previous illnesses. With what I'm pretty sure was Covid I had a killer headache on day one and a cough that lasted weeks, but never lost smell or taste. I say I'm pretty sure it was Covid because the timing, exposure, and symptoms all lines up but I never actually got a positive test result from at home tests.
• cout 3y ago
  I lost 50% of my smell from covid. Not that I could smell things at half strength, no. I got out all my spices and smelled each one. Lemon pepper, yes, Cumin, no, oregano yes, cloves no, and so on. I could smell half the spices just fine and the other half not at all. I've never experienced anything like it in my life.
  • flagrant_taco 3y ago
    That's a really interesting one for sure, though still it's anecdotal and I at least haven't been able to find a solid study showing a higher frequency of loss of smell symptoms with Covid.