3d ago

Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery

www.theguardian.com 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

Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250307001018/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/07/long-covid-patients-regain-sense-smell-taste-functional-septorhinoplasty-surgery

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3d ago

Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery

www.theguardian.com /society/2025/mar/07/long-covid-patients-regain-sense-smell-taste-functional-septorhinoplasty-surgery

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Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery

www.theguardian.com /society/2025/mar/07/long-covid-patients-regain-sense-smell-taste-functional-septorhinoplasty-surgery

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After COVID, my sense of smell returned when I walked in to a room where people were doing coke. It was in the air and that was enough for me.
- I think we should prescribe this instead

My wife lost her sense of taste and smell because of COVID, but just for a week or so. I hadn't considered how soul crushing that is. Food just becomes whatever the texture is. I remember her popping a Reese's peanut butter cup into her mouth, then spitting it out. She said it was like having a lump of shortening in her mouth - all she tasted was the oil. She's a daily coffee drinker, but coffee was just gross to her. She was getting pretty depressed before it came back.

This is amazing news. Had never expected surgery to be able to accomplish this