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My sense of taste was completely gone for 3 weeks, smell for about 6-7 weeks. 4 months on I'm not sure if I have 100% of my sense of smell back, I'd say somewhere between 80-90% bit it is really hard to judge what full sense of smell is at this point, just feels like some of the nuance and depth to smells (and taste to some extent obviously) is missing.
The thing about coaxing your senses back is true. I was super down when I got covid for similar reasons to yours, I had been building up some good fitness and then that was shot. I exercise mostly so I can stuff my face so when covid hit and everything tasted like cardboard food turned into a chore, so I just ate really bland calorie-dense stuff as quickly as possible to get mealtime over and done with, that didn't do anything other than make me dread eating even more. Try to eat visually appealing food with lots of colour and strong flavours, textures are important too. Give your brain something to work on as you're eating and be mindful when you eat. Might be coincidence or there might be something to it, but it was when I started cooking properly and engaging with the food that I was eating that my taste started to come back. YMMV of course.
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Day 13 now and pretty much unchanged. I thought I had some slight taste of smoked paprika and red onion yesterday, but couldn't quite tell if I was just imagining it.
Supposed to be going for a nice dinner and cocktails on Thursday, but don't think I can face forking out for something that may as well be chicken nuggets. I just drank Fosters on Saturday night as there was no point wasting my stock of nice beers, so at least I am saving money!
I suppose this is linked with appetite. It's not like I would describe myself as having loss of appetite, as I'd ordinarily conflate that with nausea - it's more like I keep forgetting to eat, then suddenly feel woozy and just eat bread and bananas to sort it out.