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2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)

I started taking zinc not too long after getting Covid and continued to do so up until about two months ago. I never did lose taste or smell when I had Covid or even after. I stopped taking zinc after finding out from my doctor that taking it for too long is not good for you and can cause you to have random muscle aches and pains, some of which I thought was related to my heart. Within two weeks of stopping taking it I started noticing these odd pains had gone away. He recommended only taking zinc when you were sick and for short durations only.
 
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Big_Holla said:
I started taking zinc not too long after getting Covid and continue to do so up until about two months ago. I never did lose taste or smell when I had Covid or even after. I stopped taking zinc after finding out from my doctor that taking it for too long is not good for you and can cause you to have random muscle aches and pains, some of which I thought was related to my heart. Within two weeks of stopping taking it I started noticing these odd pains had gone away. He recommended only taking zinc when you were sick and for short durations only.
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Wow, interesting Chuck! Thanks for heads up...👍🏻
 
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I'll get it a whirl. I had covid in January lost all smell for 2weeks at least. It came back but I didn't notice how weak it is until the shit house cleaning.
 
Bowkills said:
I'll get it a whirl. I had covid in January lost all smell for 2weeks at least. It came back but I didn't notice how weak it is until the shit house cleaning.
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Lost taste and smell in November. Taste came back after a week and smell took at least 2 weeks. To this day my sense of smell still isn't what it use to be. I can't tell you how many things that should have very different smells from one another that now smell the same. Even stranger yet is the fact they don't even smell like anything I can even compare it to when trying to explain it to others. My son was eating some snacks yesterday and it had that same strange smell so I grabbed the bag and had to hold it directly under my nose to get the real scent. He's eaten them before so I knew what it should have smelled like.

I did see the other day that the receptors can be damaged and can take months to regrow. Until they grow back the damaged ones don't send all the information to your brain.
 
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probably damaged my senses during the loss of smell during covid testing all the stuff you shouldn't breath in the 1st place, smoke, acids, perfumes, anything that normally would make you gag with eyes watering. held it up to your nose taking a huge sniff just in aw that you can't smell it.
 
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