Hey Everyone............ I can barely believe how long it took me to read all the posts.........Heck, I've been away for 2 weeks and you're all chattering like...
Hi Pat and Aline, Aline I have the same problem - Coke is AWFUL it taste like some chemical. And wine taste like medicine. Pat you had this happen and then...
Hi everyone its four and a half months now since I lost my taste and smell with little sign of improvement. I dont know if homeopathic medicine is practised in...
Nicole- I caught this wierd virus about 6 years ago.............kinda like a flu of some type..Well, I got better, but not my smell. I was FULL anosmiac for...
Thanks - that is really helpful. I have had it only since the beginning of the summer (late June)- but of course I refuse to believe this is forever. Mine was...
I'm not sure but I don't think time per se is a factor on when it comes back. Please read Mick O'Hare's link about viral anosmia.Yours may well be coming back-...
Pat, I went to the dentist yesterday and had a some work done on my teeth. They removed the rest of a tooth that had broken off and replaced the filling in...
Hello, I am wondering if anyone in this group has lost his/her sense of smell/taste due to a head injury. I did 4.5 years ago and would love to talk with...
Hi Nicole. Mine came on the EXACT same way...nose instantly + totally plugged, then RAN like a faucet. This was late March 07. Acunpucture has greatly helped...
Hi, everyone... I am wondering if anyone else has noticed that their "smell" seems to be more prevalent during stressful days? This is just a new theory of ...
Sue, You might be right! I've been home for 3 days now from work and my smell distortion isn't as bad as if I were at work under tons of stress. ALine ... ...
I think stress can make it worse, but I also find that when I have a workday with very few projects or little work driving me, I also notice the stink more....
Hello, I lost my taste and smell when I fell off a dump truck more than eight years ago. All of the information I have been told is that there is no cure. I...
My hyposmia is due to head injury as well. It's been 7 months and I've seen some progress. First I lost my sense of smell right after the head injury, then...
I was just thinking that I didn't get my flu shot last year so I am now wondering if I would have gotten it, would it made a difference in the way I had the...
I was wondering if anyone had gotten the flu shot this year. I asked my doctor just a few weeks ago if I should get it this year since we suspect that it...
Hi Mel, How long after you got your shot did you lose your smell? I lost mine in June and also got the flu shot but none of my doctors have ever suspected the...
I get flu shots every year but I still get sick every year. It might seem like it's the shot that does it but I was getting sick every year without it too. In...
Well I didn't get my flu shot last year so I the viral infection had nothing to do with it. But I am getting a shot this year because I want to go through the ...
Thanks Holly - I'll have to look into Acupunture too. Thanks! fembot93@... wrote: Hi Nicole. Mine came on the EXACT same way...nose instantly + totally...
Holly-good to see the word "hope" in your vocabulary............Glad part of your problem cleared up.Now, we wait,eh?Oddly, I just remembered something;my...
Hello everybody, My name is Karin and I live in Holland. I suffer from phantosmia for more than 20 years now (intermittent, on both sides). Recently I ...
i got the flu shot...2 weeks later i got the flu and lost my smell...dont
think it makes a difference..at least with me it didnt..lol ... From: Aline Bergemann...
Same here. I got the flu shot (for the first time ever) last October, got a sinus infection in Feb 07 and lost my smell. It's been 9 months - I can smell about...
Miliions of people get flu shots. We (anosmiacs) r a small group. I don't think this is flu shot side effect. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ... ...
Hi, Karen. It sounds like your use of high pressure water to get high into the nostril is pretty much what other people do with certain brands of saline that...
Aline, Flu vaccines only cover the top few flu strains in circulation for the current year. The Center for disease Control meet at the beginning of each year...