"I had COVID, now food tastes rotten and wine tastes like oil"

Two months later, I still didn’t have my sense of smell back, but I started to smell burning toast. I was a little concerned as there are some suggestions that it’s a sign of having a stroke. But I ended up smelling toast for about a week. Then the smell transformed into that of burning French fry grease. That might not sound so bad, but when you smell it for 24 hours straight, it makes you nauseous.

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It smelt like it was coming off my clothes, that scent was just sitting in my olfactory system constantly, giving me headaches and nausea. Shortly after that, my family and I were on a pontoon boat and my brother-in-law spilled a little gasoline. Perhaps it hit a nerve, because for the following three weeks, I could only smell gasoline…

However, around two months ago, the gasoline smell was morphing into a rotten meat smell. Still now, the scent I smell all the time is rotting meat. Plus, food in general tastes rancid to me. The disortion of taste—called parageusia—is another known side effect of COVID-19.

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