Comments like these show just how hard life is for people dealing with the alteration or loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19. At Swirl of Hope™, we hope to bring people together who share these conditions to create an informative and supportive community.
- I hate grocery shopping. The meat department is the worst. I wander around, but nothing inspires me to cook for my hubby. Half the time I go home and I don’t have an entree to cook.
- The brain says, “Oh that looks nice!”. The senses say, “There’s nothing that I can remember.”
- At the grocery store, I feel like I’m in a maze and can’t get out.
- How can you stand living again after losing your sense of smell, how can you ever feel normal after this?
- It’s hard. I think of it like being in mourning for a loved one. It’s like getting used to a new way of life without something that was once so important.
- I am the only one I know personally going through this, so I have a special appreciation for those in support groups.
- With lots of news coverage in the USA, loss of taste and smell isn’t mentioned often as part of Long COVID.
- Everyone deals with this differently, and for some of us, it causes social anxiety. Our most basic senses are taken away.
- Tonight, I made chicken and rice casserole. My family thought it tasted good. I thought it was horrible, rancid. Why won’t this end?
- My ENT is no help. He told me it will be like this the rest of my life.
- So sorry, hang in there. I thought I was alone until I found these support groups. Show your family these groups.
- I can’t tell you how many people that know I can’t taste, still ask me how my food is. It’s so hard.
- We all take taste and smell for granted until suddenly it’s not there.
- Yes, just eat to stay alive. It’s a chore now, not a feast.
- Someone said, “Oh wow! You lost your taste? God, I’d lose so much weight.” It’s so insensitive, I just can’t.
- Cucumbers and melons taste like snot, coffee tastes like poop, and poop smells like bread.
- My second baby is ten months old, and I’ve never smelled her baby smell. It’s devastating as a mother to not smell your baby. I lost part of my bond with her and I pray every day for one single sniff of her.
- Sometimes I smell small things, but just for a few seconds. It’s so crazy! I feel like I’m losing my mind. I keep praying and now take meds for anxiety.
