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Currently using API master kit with vials. I am having a hard time believing some of its results so am looking for better options.

What is the best tester/kit for nitrate levels?

Are there digital monitors that can be left going all the time?

Appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.

Last October I started to loose my sense of smell after having a bad cold.

It has progressively gotten worse. A lot of things have no smell at all, and the rest can be grouped into like 4 different smells. Each of these smells is more sour and nauseating version of the next.

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I don't miss a lot of things, like the cat litter box, fish pond filters, the garbage can, and so forth, most things that were actually nasty, have no smell.

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The absolutely most unbearable smell is that of dish soap, body wash, laundry detergent, and dryer sheets. Makes me dry heave sometimes. (Yes I am working on finding different flavours that are bearable, and oderless are NOT oderless 🤢. Medical/dental clinics are pretty high in the gross too.

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I miss being able to figure things out that I would normally smell to satisfy. Such as laundry, and it seems the less it smells, the more it definitely needs to be washed. Also wish I could smell fire! I am constantly asking someone if they smell something burning, cause I do! But when we have an actual stinky camp fire, i smell nothing, nor the smell my cloths would normally be left stinking like the next morning.

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I miss eating the most. Everything is becoming nasty. Oven fries are even becoming gross. I've lost 10Kg this year already.

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No one can figure out what's wrong with me, even had an MRI of my brain.

Mildly infuriating.

EDIT. it was not COVID, I was tested

I've had COVID 3 times, confirmed by tests, and only knew I had it cause I was dating a nurse and she got it often from the hospital.

All 3 times my only symptom was an uncomfortable pressure behind my eyes. All 3 times. I tested positive each time she got sick.

This cold I got quite sick, not typical COVID syptoms but significant. And I tested twice negative for COVID.

So I'm pretty sure it was not COVID.

EDIT 2: all those that have COVID related loss, all share a similar description of a complete loss of smell. My loss is not complete, lots of things have no smell, however other thing have developed whole new smells, all over time getting worse. Not the same.

Looking for advice please.

Been a long time customer at no.1 Autobody. Haven't been in a while, however I recently had to go back, got my car back and the dash cam was disabled. I then checked the mileage on the invoice vs what the car now has. There is over 450km extra on the car now.