Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery
Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients
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Does it also fix the post exertional malaise and constant exhaustion? POTS? Neuropathy? Chronic myocarditis? The other 200 symptoms?
Tbh, the sense of smell and taste is a minor problem for people with long covid.
Well fuck these doctors for trying to help, I guess
How dare they do something if they can't do everything‽
Especially with something so minor in our lives as eating
It's a specific procedure for a specific symptom where the disease harmed the olfactory area in particular. COVID can harm a lot of areas in different people and so far nobody has come up with a way to reboot all of them at once. In the meantime, research that focuses on individual areas can mitigate the misery. This surgery will help a significant number of people, giving them the normal safety against poisoning and a source of joy they had been robbed. Might even give them the hope they need not to choose death before other treatments get developed.
I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off...
Turning back on, well... I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren't very reliable.
