I guess I won the brain damage lottery because cilantro no longer tastes soapy to me
Ah damnit, I got the version that makes my soap taste all cilantro’y.
Bone apple tea!
I’m pretty sure I’ve never regained my sense of smell. My 2 year old will poop and I typically can’t tell unless I visually confirm because he’s walking weird… I also can’t tell if something in our fridge has spoiled.
My wife uses my dulled sense of smell as a litmus test. If I can actually smell something it must mean it’s horrifically rancid…
Same here, although it was so gradual it took me years to notice. Also I can smell some things even if they’re relatively subtle, but only for a second or two. Then nothing at all.
I know that human sense of smell gets used to constant sensation and ignores it. Apparently, mine just does it super quickly. I learned to trust my instincts, because usually the ability to smell something goes away before I notice it consciously and I can’t just smell it again.
Wow, that’s pretty crazy
Idk if it was the Covid but when i made my homemade tacos with cilantro it was amazing but before that every time it tasted like soap
Cilantro tasted like soap to me before 2011, after that it was delicious. Not necessarily covid that caused your change, cant explain mine except that I was eating a lot of it in delicious meals so who knows
A lot of people have changes in their sense of smell after contracting covid. It will be interesting to see if the “soap” taste comes back to you eventually.
Yes I have bad nose blindness. I get hints of things then it goes away.
Hell yeah, cilantro is the shit!
I wish I got that.
Damn, the first time I had it, it made chocolate taste like soap for months. Probably better for my diet.
Unfortunately, ever since the second or third time, raw carrots all taste like soap. I used to eat carrots with half my lunches, and now I can’t stomach them.
I feel like my brain never fully recovered after COVID, and now im just slightly dumber.
Covid set off my menopause. So I have Covid brain and menopause brain. I’ve had to quit my job.
I seriously think this explains much of the MAGA crowd.
Naw, they were just as stupid/malicious/anti-American pre-covid.
Any effect it had on their brains has been obfuscated by their chimpanzee-esque baseline.
I lost my name recall during the COVID years. I can hardly remember anybody’s name anymore. Both people in real life and celebrities and such. I used to be able to name any face I’ve seen. Now it’s just, “that guy”.
I think it seriously harmed my short term memory.
You’re also just older.
I slightly wonder how hard it is to find individuals who have not contracted COVID even once. I think all the people I know got it at one point or another.
As far as I know, my young kid and I have never caught it. My husband caught it at a birthday party the three of us all attended. We were in close proximity with my husband the three day before he finally tested positive andy kiddo and I tested multiple times and never tested positive.
Part of me wants to believe my kiddo and I are just incredibly lucky and never caught it, but more likely we are just asymptomatic carriers.
I got COVID pretty badly and for a month or two after I just felt like I had no gas in my tank - I’d try to vacuum the house, for example, and I couldn’t get through it in one go. I thought “Oh, this is that fatigue they’ve been talking about.” But then that sort of wore off and I no longer lacked the energy to do stuff like that, except I just couldn’t bring myself to do those things. I’d be sitting there thinking “I really need to vacuum,” but it was like an insurmountable hurdle to go to the closet and get the vacuum out. Once I did, I could do the house without issue.
One of my employees had COVID about the same time as me, and we were talking about it when we were both back. Damned if she didn’t start describing the same sort of psychological fatigue-like thing. I was dumbfounded.
It lasted like another couple months and slowly went away, but man it was a bitch.
I had a little fatigue but no long term issues thankfully. I live life like the latter part of your post though. Sometimes just making a phone call or carrying something across the house to put away feels like the most difficult thing in the world. On days when I get a spark and jump that first hurdle, I have to ride that wave the rest of the day. I’d love if that went away, but I’ve just learned to cope some.
My FiL has been suffering from long COVID for a long time now. Gets extremely fatigued easily and has some latent achiness. It’s super sad to see, and nobody has been able to really help him.
Ugh, that sucks for both of you. Sorry to hear it.
No matter how many times you’ve had COVID, it’s not too late to start wearing a mask indoors in public. N95s work really well, I’ve been attending college while masking and haven’t got sick with a single thing.
Lost my sense of smell for a while. It gradually returned and some things tasted funny for some time.
Bigger problem was that I started dozing off if anything got boring. Half an hour drive to work became risky and on some days i needed ways to cause myself paint to stay focused. It lasted for 1,5 years.
This tissue loss could result from reduced oxygen supply or severe immune system inflammation during the infection. Conversely, a few studies reported localized increases in gray matter volume.
Cystic fibrosis also shows an increase in gray matter in several areas of the brain, by a pretty considerable amount too. The hypothesis with CF is that it’s due to hypoxia, I wonder if this the same or similar phenomena.
I wish there was an active community for nootropics or something similar there’s a lot of neuropharmacology papers I want to share
“The COVID vaccine, more like!”
~ Morons
It’s likely that this is true considering how vaccines work.
Vaccines definitely can have side effects too. But the people who loudly argue against them instead of understanding what they are for are still morons.
There are still so many conspiracy theories about the vaccines circulating. I saw one like a week saying that autopsies of vaccinated people showed that 95% of them had weird multiple-feet long blood clots. I don’t know if that was AI generated, good old fashioned trolling, or people who actually believe it… but the fact that these sorts of things are still circulating years later is insane. They said we would all be dead within months, then they said we would all die within years. I’ve had like 5 vaccines, where’s my promised death!?
Except the part where the infection is made physically incapable of entering body cells, recreating and destroying the cell in the process
AFAIK, I was basically asleep in 10th grade biology
This tissue loss could result from reduced oxygen supply or severe immune system inflammation during the infection.
This basically says exactly that. Its a side effect of the infection being that, not something covid 19 itself does.
Unfortunately, that is what was advertised in a lot of official channels but not remotely what was delivered.
A ‘perfect’ vaccine does work like that, where the specific entry-point the pathogen uses gets patched and completely prevents infection. Very few vaccines work like that unfortunately.
The vaccine that was delivered was instead a ‘communication blitz and drill’ to train the body ‘if you see this guy kill him real good!’ where it used mrna to directly put COVID onto the immune system’s priority kill list and supplies some target practice.
The problem with the second type is the immune system can’t be everywhere all at once and so some amount of infection does occur which does result in those ‘side effect of the infection’ occuring. In addition that ‘target practice’ can and does cause similar side effects.
All that said, imagine how much worse those side effects would be if the virus was allowed to infect more in addition to hangig around longer!
It’s wild how different the symptoms and effects of covid can be. I know people who have been asymptomatic, a few died, or have had major long-term health issues. Even the regular cases of it vary from a light cold to a bad flu.
A virus that really highlights how different genetics and overall heath affect each person who gets infected.
I never had taste change because of covid and had it at least 4 times now. I got it for the first time after the vaccinations though.
Yeah. The vax drastically reduced the effects.
i was vaxxed twice years ago, and got covid 3 times. each time it changed my sense of smell a little bit more, and it never returned to normal
It’s so strange how covid has such drastically different effects on everybody. To some it’s like a cold or flu while others get life long effects from it.
