On: Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicato...

[danso]

How long did it take to recover your senses, and do you feel that their recovery has been 100%?

Edit: nm, I see it was answered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24665323

[rindalir → danso]

When this happened to me I recovered my senses within about two weeks, but coffee smelt like a combo of burning plastic and rotting flesh for several weeks after. To this day (six months later), certain things smell different than they did before: low tide, poop, some foods when heated. [edit: and they all smell like the same thing]

[dTal → rindalir]

Wow, that's weird. Can you describe the "new" smell?

[rindalir → dTal]

Not particularly well - it's ... less offensive, and sort of a combo of fishy, oily, and vegetative?

[gdsdfe → danso]

I have the same questions ... I heard reports of people that didn't recover their senses weeks after recovery

[andrewla → gdsdfe]

My wife lost her sense of smell and taste, likely from COVID, back in March and has not yet recovered it. She has recovered "impressions" -- things smell or taste bad or good, but can't distinguish an actual identifiable odor.

[rodolphoarruda → danso]

In my case the symptom lasted for 3 days. In my wife's case, 1 week. In both cases the recovery was 100%.