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I'm someone with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. When I had COVID (the first time) at one point my sense of smell became corrupted. I didn't realize it
by mancerayder 3y ago
I'm someone with an extremely sensitive sense of smell.
When I had COVID (the first time) at one point my sense of smell became corrupted. I didn't realize it at first. For days I smelled a tangerine smell in my apartment (where I was mostly holed up in those days). I kept thinking that they were cleaning the building carpets with some sort of new cleaner, and it was coming in the vents.
After days of this I opened the window and smelled this smell much more intensely in the wind. Then with some experimentation I realized, it's me not the world.
I worried that everything would smell like that forever, but luckily it came back. Something similar happened with smoke, where I felt like certain smells (coffee, for example) smelled like someone was smoking. Another confusing experience.
- reportgunner 3y agoI had the same, corrupted is the right word. During the period my smell and taste was corrupted there was a big set of foods and smells that smelled and tasted exactly the same, kind of like burning plastic but without being so disgusting. At the same time I was oblivious to certain smells, I remember one time I was walking a dog with a friend and friend complained about heavy smoke smell in the air - I took a deep breath and all I could smell was fresh cold air.