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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

So I still don't have my taste and smell back yet which is the weirdest covid annoyance because it's completely blank, not like when you lose them with a cold and you still have some, it's just...nothing. So I have to load my food up with salt, spices, and chilli's, and I have to have about 4 or 5 sugars in my tea, because I can tell sweetness, saltiness, and heat. Absolutely nothing else. Also have weird constant aching pains in my legs below the knees.

I get chronic sinusitis with most colds and it's the same (zero sense of taste and smell, might as well be chewing on cardboard) and I hate it... it makes me genuinely miserable. I get properly down about it. But that usually only lasts 2 - 3 days, the longest I think was about 9 days (I got paranoid that it was forever on about day 6).

I can't imagine it going on for weeks/months ... I'd lose a tonne of weight and muscle mass... my wife has to remind me to eat when it happens because I just can't be bothered sitting chewing away on what feels like nothing. I end up just eating dry slices of bread or a handful of crackers because why bother making anything?