3 weeks into this. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
So I got what I assumed was Covid at the start of May, right after my wife and I got back from holiday (I assumed I maybe picked it up on the plane or something) I completely lost my sense of smell and taste, like 100% gone. I could feel something in my tongue with salt but no taste.
Fast forward to July. My wife and I are away with m family for my birthday and towards the end of the holiday I noticed a rancid taste (then smell) eating a pepperami. That’s was it. Just that. A few days later, the exact same thing happened with salami bites from LidL. I assumed it was just off meat products and I’d stay away from them from now on. Skip to last weekend. I woke up fine. Watched some James Martin making beef dishes and steaks etc. it made me crave something ‘beefy’ so I tried some bovril and it was fucking RANCID! I thought that maybe the cubes had gone off/out of date but no, they were fine. Since last weekend everything has changed. Most things savoury smell and taste like the smell you get when pass a landfill. Eggs are terrible boiled or fried, im going to test scrambled tomorrow. Any microwave meal someone makes in work, every dinner my wife made this week (fajitas, beff and pork burgers, air fried chips with onion and garlic seasoning) cold meat for lunch today. The worst smell is the spice/seasoning cupboard in my kitchen. Water seems bad but only after eating something that tastes off after a while. Mouthwash sorts it out and the the water is fine. Im going to try cold lunches at work next week. Chicken, mayo and pasta. Fish seems fine so I’ll try that with pasta or rice.
Any hints or advice a greatly appreciated and I’ll try and do the same for you too, if I can.
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this.