How long did it take for your sense of smell to return…

599 days. Not that I was counting. 😂. Coffee and onions smelled like rotting flesh and I was so excited for them to be normal again.

Never lost my sense of taste or smell when I had Covid

I know someone who got it back after theor 2nd vaccine (when vaccines were new), I know someone who has never got it back, and outside of that it varies by person

I never lost smell but did lose taste both times. The majority came back within a couple of weeks but I still have a few residual taste issues from my bout in Oct 2022 and soda tastes flat after my July 2024 bout. Dh never lost either - I'm a little salty about that since he's the one who gave it to me both times.

Hope yours returns soon.

My taste is still dull, off, comes and goes. Been almost two years.

No more than 2 weeks

Same here It comes and goes, but most often things just taste 'off'. Been a little over 2 years.

I had covid for the first time in December 2022.

I still barely have a sense of smell, or taste.

My youngest kid also had covid then (second infection), and can barely smell.


Our doctors have said that we just have to wait it out. 

3 weeks and I did the same. I read about a doctor who kept a scented candle on his bedstand and on his desk and it helped him, so I did it. Would it have come back on its own? Maybe - but it was gone for a solid 3 weeks. 

Hope it comes back soon. 

This is a timely question. I had Covid last August. I lost my sense of taste for about 24 hours but I didn't think I lost my sense of smell, at least not that I noticed. The taste came back quickly but I had a weird metallic aftertaste in my mouth for about 8 months. Last week, almost exactly 1 year since I had Covid, I started noticing that things suddenly seemed to smell a lot more strongly. Things like my body wash, laundry detergent, etc. I finally realized that I must have had some loss of smell from the Covid last year and this was my sense of smell returning to normal. 

I lost my sense of smell and taste for a couple of days when I had COVID back in April. I thought I got my sense of smell back when I got my taste back, but lately I'm not so sure. There have been a few times that DSO has mentioned something not smelling very good (like when he spilt coffee in his car) but I couldn't really smell it. I can definitely smell things, but maybe not as strongly as before.