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Vanilla Orchid wrote:Some years ago I lost my sense of smell after using a zinc nasal spray only once when I had a bad cold. It stung and I never used it again.
debknott wrote:I lost my sense of smell in late 2019. I had been sick but did not realize for a long time that I had had covid. All this time later and I can still only smell bleach and not much else. I have decided to appreciate that I cannot smell obnoxious smells and not worry about it.
Mom+Me wrote:I'm so sorry this has happened to you, Vanilla Orchid!
The only thing I can think of is, a year or more ago when a relative lost his senses of taste and smell after having covid, I gave him small containers to smell several times a day and to take at least 10 deep breaths of each each session. One was of coffee beans, one a cotton ball with lots of drops of lemon essential oil, another with peppermint essential oil, another with clove essential oil. He said it helped some, but he never kept up the schedule. If you search covid and smell therapy, you may come up with some ideas, even though you did not lose your sense of smell from covid. By the way, that is scary that you got it after only one use of the nasal spray! If only people knew of the potential side effects....
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