Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in patients with Covid-19

Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by dham on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:55AM (#31004354)

It will get better, I promise you. Have you tried a smell training kit? I'm doing that with an almost meditation, thinking back to childhood and such with each smell. That could be helping along with just time. It's like severing a nerve, eventually it will reconnect (depending on case)

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by giardini on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:25PM (#31004782)

I second this.

I once lost the sense of smell (anosmia) and feared it was gone forever. Later I went through a stage where my brain was getting incorrect signals: awful hydrocarbon phantasm smells came and went.

Then, one day, long after I had given up trying to do anything about it, I realized that I could smell again! My old friend was back!

Total time from loss to restoration: about 4 years.

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by MisterBastahrd on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:19PM (#31004706)

I lost my sense of smell in Dec 2020. Smell training has done nothing.

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by giardini on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:35PM (#31004937)

Does oral cortisone (a.k.a. prednisone, the pill not the sprays) have any effect? [I'm fairly certain most ENT doctors would prescribe that, not as a continuing prescription, but as a test].

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