Of corona viruses past
Aug. 29th, 2020 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI was reading a thread in r/Coffee this morning where posters who had come down with COVID-19 described the lasting effects it left even after they had recovered. There was the usual array of symptoms like fatigue, heart palpitations, lack of energy and lingering shortness of breath, but the most frequently cited aftermath was a long-lasting loss of taste and smell. Some complained that they'd caught it back in March, and even now they were finally only able to start smelling pungent things like vinegar. One writer complained that even smelling salts couldn't punch through it - making his eyes water a bit, but otherwise leaving no impression on him.
A few commented on how even after they got their sense of taste/smell back, everything smelled like sewage or sulphur.
Which is why I am convinced that a cold I had a couple of years back was a corona virus rather than rhino virus, or one of the other varieties. It was a comparatively mild and short-lived cold, but it completely knocked out my sense of taste and smell, even after the other symptoms had cleared up. It dragged on for a couple of weeks, to the point where I began to despair that whatever virus I'd caught had done permanent damage to my olfactory sense. When they finally did start coming back, everything smelled like sulphur.
It was bad enough having that linger for weeks - I can't imagine losing those senses for months at a time.
A few commented on how even after they got their sense of taste/smell back, everything smelled like sewage or sulphur.
Which is why I am convinced that a cold I had a couple of years back was a corona virus rather than rhino virus, or one of the other varieties. It was a comparatively mild and short-lived cold, but it completely knocked out my sense of taste and smell, even after the other symptoms had cleared up. It dragged on for a couple of weeks, to the point where I began to despair that whatever virus I'd caught had done permanent damage to my olfactory sense. When they finally did start coming back, everything smelled like sulphur.
It was bad enough having that linger for weeks - I can't imagine losing those senses for months at a time.
