But even with the knowledge, it doesn’t make it suck any less. So I knew I was in for a long recovery time.
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I did my research at the beginning when it wasn’t officially linked and went by the recovery rate of other viral infection caused loss of smell/taste. I can’t taste it, but it burns my lips and throat and just makes me feel something while I’m eating which is oddly nice. Its actually ruining food for me more than when I couldn’t taste at all. Then that changed on May 28 to where everything tastes like canned metally tomatoes. Around April 15 I began to be able to tell when food was overly salty or overly sweet when eating it. Starting May 19, my mouth constantly felt and tasted like I ate a Twizzler 30 minutes ago, no matter what I was eating. I’ve been doing smell training since April 16.
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I lost my sense of smell back on March 19 before any of this was really linked to Covid. Hi everyone, very happy to have found this. Which means I won't be going out with friends for meals. But in the future, when things settle down to sort of normal, I'm not going to spend money in a restaurant if I can't taste the food. Right now, in NYC, we're still in quarantine, so no one is going out to restaurants. I have a lot of anxiety about living like this for years or the rest of my life and how it will affect my quality of life in the future. In addition, a small percentage of people who have had other coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS have had loss for years. However, I've heard of many people who are negative for COVID19 and still have loss of smell and tasted. I was told by a COVID nurse that the reason I have loss of smell and taste this long is because I'm still testing positive, and that when I test negative, I will get back my smell and taste. I had loss of smell and taste since early April. Tested positive twice-once in April and once in May.
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Although I tested negative for COVID19, my test was self-administered which reduces the chance of the results being accurate, and I find it odd that in 42 years my phantosmia - which science suggests is viral - should occur alongside a novel virus such as the coronavirus that is affecting people around the globe. I have ongoing phantosmia which I suspect is related. In fact, we found that two-thirds of users who tested positive for coronavirus infection reported this symptom in our app." This is much-welcomed news, as data collected from you and millions of other app users published in top medical journal Nature Medicine suggests that losing your sense of smell or taste is a stronger predictor of coronavirus infection than fever. I'm sure most people have already seen this, but the COVID19 Symptom Study App team wrote in their email to participants today that "This week, the UK government added loss of taste and smell (anosmia) to their official list of COVID-19 symptoms.