Just gotta wait it out.
It’s spiking again, in fact.
But also, it’s possible OP had COVID back in 2021 or some such and just still hasn’t gotten their sense of taste back. You should look into “long covid” if you didn’t know COVID could cause symptoms (sometimes debilitating symptoms) for years after the initial infection.
The US is currently in its second biggest spike of COVID infections ever. At the estimated peak on the 11th, they’re expecting 2 million new infections per day. The current strain going around is supposedly different enough from the ones the vaccines up until September were designed for that it is effectively immune to those vaccinations.
COVID never left, and in fact the more recent strains have been more infectious and more severe than the original ones were, but we haven’t heard much about them because basically everybody who can be is vaccinated.
I have read it could take about 3 months but may vary among individual cases. Ask your GP.
Eat spicy food. I ate the hottest wings I could find and my sense of taste started coming back the next day.
The following comment is NSFW and n=1 and also I wouldn’t post it if I wasn’t anonymous so here goes. Don’t keep reading if you’re easily grossed out. Content warning; urine.
Knowing that I had lost my sense of taste from covid, I reviewed the things I could do that not having a sense of taste might benefit from, and I asked my boyfriend (who I’m aware has a mild watersports fetish) if he’d like to take advantage of my lack of sense of taste…
And he did.
And later that night, shortly after our experiment, my sense of taste came back! I don’t know if it’s a revolutionary treatment for Covid, but if you’re desperate…
Oh eff me, the first comment after moving from kbin is about getting pee in my mouth.
We need a larger sample size to be statistically significant. Please report back after 29 more attempts.
I don’t think it can work that fast, but there is connection between zink and sense of taste, and sperm has high level of zink.
