Long COVID
Outcome unclearIll for 9 months
Long COVID with complete loss of taste and smell and parosmia, tried an SNRI
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- 9 months
- Last post
- Jan 2023
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Got infected September 2021. I completely lost my sense of taste and smell.
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
Got infected September 2021.
Summary
Infected with COVID-19 in September 2021, Nightjar 56679 lost taste and smell completely. Sweetness returned after one to two months, then parosmia struck around January, everything smelling and tasting terrible for a few months. Taste and smell were mostly normal by summer 2022, though some foods tasted odd and memory issues blurred the timeline. An SNRI helped thinking briefly but caused night sweats and weakness; stopping it felt better.
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What they tried
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- Effexor XR · Worse
Got back on it recently, and while it did help cognitively at first, it started making me feel AWFUL after a while.
In context ↗
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| September 2021 | COVID-19 infection; complete loss of taste and smellGot infected September 2021. I completely lost my sense of taste and smell.In context ↗ |
| 1-2 months after infection | began to taste sweetness again1-2 months later I began to be able to taste sweetness like cookies and such.In context ↗ |
| January 2022 | parosmia: everything smelled and tasted terribleBy January it turned into parosmia, where everything smelled and tasted so terrible.In context ↗ |
| summer 2022 | taste and smell mostly back to normalmy taste and smell mostly went back to normal around summer timeIn context ↗ |
| January 2023 | felt better after stopping an SNRI; memory issues continueI feel much better now that I stopped again.In context ↗ |
Adverse events
- Venlafaxine (Effexor)“Got back on it recently, and while it did help cognitively at first, it started making me feel AWFUL after a while. I began sleeping terribly” In context ↗ Insomnia from treatment
- Venlafaxine (Effexor)“would have night sweats and wake up feeling absolutely awful and weak” In context ↗ Side effects
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Loss of smell or taste
I completely lost my sense of taste and smell.
In context ↗ - Brain fog
the timeline gets very blurry because of memory issues
In context ↗