I've had COVID for the last week

And although I've been pretty ill (Bad flu) the lack of taste is actually really depressing.

My appetite has gone due to the illness but then trying to eat food without taste just about takes the pîss.

Eating meat is like munching on leather. I tried rice last night, rabbits droppings. Soup? Diarrhea

Water is even more tasteless than usual.

Its been a shocking week.

 

Same here Winnie. Finished isolation earlier this week. Still feel badly. It's proper whacked me.

 

Best wishes to both of you. Hope everything gets back to normal soon. Maybe you'll be able to taste the sweetness of victory later Terry.....

 

Yet the people continue to act as though Covid has disappeared. Very odd.

 

It hit me on Monday with a raging temperature, elevated heartbeat and the usual Flu / COVID symptoms. I have been feeling like **** all week and I've still a way to go before I come out the other side. I wasn't sure if it was Flu or COVID, as the experts are saying they are going to allow Flu to appear again this year, until I lost my sense of smell and taste on Thursday, I hope it comes back, as eating and drinking is awful.

 

I got Covid last November/December and still haven’t fully recovered my taste and smell. It’s fekin weird, one day I can smell a bit and taste a bit, the next nothing. Hope you get yours back soon. On the plus side you can buy all the cheapest food and drink as it doesn’t make a difference.

 

UK average is 1 in 60 and 1 in 13 school children.
2 of my colleagues have just had it. Loss of smell and taste in both. One has had their sense of taste all mixed up when they came back, vanilla smells like a fart to her.

 

That would be the end of me. Vanilla is my favourite smell ever.

 

I had it a couple of weeks ago but wasn’t really ill at all. Had a cough for a few days and just felt really tired and washed out for a while. Never lost taste or smell at any time. The wife caught it a week after me and was a lot worse. She’s still only got a bit of taste and smell back even now a fortnight later.
It’s so random how it affects people differently.

 

At the current rates it will still kill 40k a year. Flu kills about 10k.

Hope you get your taste back soon!

 

I don't mean to cause further pain but I had it last October and my smell and taste is only just about 80 percent back. I had months with very little improvement and as it as slowly returned things definitely smell and taste different. Some people get it back much quicker in days and weeks, hopefully you are in that category because I know exactly what you are going through and it's not pleasant.
PS it's really odd that when I now drink tap water it tastes and smells terrible both of which I never had really sensed pre covid.

 

Today is my ‘freedom day’ after my ten days isolation, and I have been pretty rough, myself, with it. Still no smell or taste but the worst of it is, it has left me with tinnitus.
Bizarrely, my vaccine passport expired last Tuesday at 12:10pm, and it was that very afternoon I started with symptoms. Obviously, just a big coincidence, but the virus really knocked smoke out of me for a good week or so.

 

TN - did you have the jabs ?

 

I've got tinnitus Had it for 15 years or so. Randomly appeared and hasn't gone since. You tend not to notice it after a while, apart from when someone mentions it. What sound is it? Mine is a high pitch noise, bit like the one you'd get with an old tv.

 

A lot of folk I know seem to have had covid this last couple of weeks. Really hope your sense of smell and taste come back soon.

 

Both the wife and myself were diagnosed 15th of September isolated until 25 after being told we could mingle as we were no longer deemed contagious after that date don't know how they work that out...( posted on the other thread about my symptoms) still not 100% and it's the 16th October
Both taste and smell keeps coming and going still feel very lethargic if I'm honest eyes still feel like I've got mild sun burn around them think I've been through the door apart from the walking around the garden only twice and masked up at all times.since I was first diagnosed ....I've tested myself again got a negative reading...but still can't see to shake it off...been told I've got long covid....so how can I be safe to mix.if that's the case ....I won't go to my mother's or mix with folk on the off chance they are wrong and I can still infect folk....its crazy
Hope you get better TN and same goes to all those who either have it or are getting over it ...recovery seems to be a marathon and not a sprint

 

It's a proper pile of **** mate. Have you tried eating chocolate? Pretty much the only thing I could taste, though luckily everything returned within a few days.

 

Your tinnitis might go. I know it's hard but really try not to think of it
A burst eardrum when I had flu left me with tinnitus but it's only really when it's dead quiet ( like at night) that I notice it.

 

Long covid is just another term for post viral fatigue, don't worry you're not still contagious.

 

Numbers only going one way. We get more daily infections than the rest of the EU combined some days, but it seems that no-one gives a flying fu¢k anymore. On the contrary, as we apparently lurch towards another wave of infections & deaths this winter, it seems to be doing wonders for that lying cuπt Johnson, whose numbers only seem to go up.