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What are people’s experiences with this?
Mine began four days after testing positive and was pretty much absolute and is unchanged after seven days.
Impossible to know if or when things change and everyone is different, but it’s getting me down.
Firstly, covid took away my ability to spend time cycling almost immediately and completely due to the changes in routine.
I was putting in 8/9 hours a week and building FTP off of about two years of work. Now I just don’t ride at all.
Food and drink (in moderation) along with music had become my release/hobby, and now that is severely compromised.
Secondly, I just find it generally harrowing that there are severe neurological affects of the virus. It’s not like I’m congested or anything, it’s evidently interfering with pathways in the brain. I also feel that my hearing has been impacted - feels generally muffled.
It’s not possible to gauge what will happen as everyone experiences it differently. My wife at least says it started to come back after around 10 days, but I hear of others saying months.
I actually would be happy to smell shit right now.