My condition seems to be more unique and difficult to recover from due to its cause. These articles don’t give me much hope but facts are facts. There is a slim chance that I might get my sense of smell back in months or years–that is if I am lucky enough..
Recovery of olfactory function following closed head injury or infections of the upper respiratory tract:
“During an observation period of approximately 1 year, more than 30% of patients with post-URTI olfactory loss experienced improvement, whereas only 10% of patients with posttraumatic olfactory loss experienced improvement. Furthermore, age plays a significant role in the recovery of olfactory function. “
Treatments for olfactory loss from Head trauma(HT)/ Post traumatic injuries:
“…the olfactory system has the ability to regenerate. Indeed, there is the potential for recovery after a head injury and animal studies have demonstrated that recovery is possible. Costanzo recorded cells from the olfactory bulb of a hamster and demonstrated recovery within nine months. However, in humans the prognosis is much lower and the estimated possibilities for recovery vary widely from 15% to 39%.”
“It is generally believed that this aetiology can not be treated with drug therapy. However, approximately a third of sufferers do recover with the most likely cause being natural regeneration of the olfactory system. The onset of regeneration usually occurs within three months of the trauma ; beyond one year then the chances of recovery are slim. Early recovery may occur due to mechanisms such as the disappearance of blood clots, and later recovery, due to regeneration of neural elements. Complete recovery may take approximately five years.
CAUSES of OLFACTORY LOSS
| Aetiology | % patients |
|---|---|
| Head injury | 19* |
| Post URI | 17* |
| Nasal/sinus disease | 16* |
| Idiopathic-nasal | 17 |
| Toxic exposure-nasal | 5 |
| Multiple | 5 |
| Congenital | 2 |
| Age | 1 |
| Idiopathic-oral | 9 |
| Miscellaeous-oral | 6 |
| Toxic exposure-oral | 1 |
* Main causes of olfactory loss, which accounted for >50% of the reported cases. (Original data obtained from Seiden, 1997). (ANOSMIA by Helen Gatcum and Tim Jacob)
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August 14, 2007 at 9:38 am
Anonymous
I’ve just discovered this site. My anosmia began is April following a bad cold. I was worked up for other causes for this conditon but everything was negative. Every now and then I get a fast whiff of something familiar like coffee or coconut and then in the same instant it disappears and doesn’t resurface for days or weeks. I’ve tried acupuncture and am now trying alpha lipoic acid. I feel like I’m fixating on this more than I should be. It’s not like losing sight or hearing and I’m annoyed with myself for not just moving on and dealing. Strangely, however, I’m still eating up a storm. Can’t explain why.
September 20, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Pam
Have you ever determined what caused the sickening smells? About ten weeks ago I had a minor cold thing going on. Since then, things that should smell wonderful – orange juice, Downy, hand soap, perfume, shampoos, vinegar based foods – smell absolutely revolting!! I don’t know how to describe how repulsive the smells are – like sickly sweet garbage smells. Cooking is close to impossible, since my sense of smell is so off.
What did the docs ever say about your sense of smell returning to normal? Has it improved?
September 21, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Ipek
My hyposmia was caused by a head injury. You can read the details in my previous posts. I suffered the most in the first two months after my injury. I had to learn to live with all sorts of horrifying smells and tastes. I didn’t even want to get in the kitchen the first month. It was a nightmare.
Now after almost 6 months, I can speak of some improvement as I posted recently. The only things I can smell right are roses and raspberries at the moment. Most of the rest is still highly distorted, but there seems to be some hope.
I couldn’t stand orange juice right after my head injury either like most everything else, but now I can drink it again. I can enjoy tea once again too, but coffee still smells/tastes too weird. Don’t lose your hope, you can see some improvement in time. It happens slowly.
All the doctors could say was there was no cure or treatment and it could take months or years to see some recovery.
November 7, 2007 at 3:01 am
Renee
I had a head injury about 2 years ago and have not been able to smell a thing NOTHING at all not even bathroom cleaners. I would really like to know if there is any hope at all? I’am a chef and my life has come to a stop over this. Please can anyone help me.
Thanks
March 5, 2008 at 1:02 am
Prajyot Sinha
My father had a fall when he was in bathroom. He got a injury in his head.
After that he lost his sence of taste and smell. I want to ask if Liopoic acid works or not.
it is now around a year and more after the incident.
please help me.
July 23, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Vicki
Oh, my goodness I hope someone will just email me back and tell me how they deal with not being able to taste anything or smell anything.
January 20, 2006 I had a heart attack and I guess I fell back “like and old Oak tree” on a cement floor. I hit my head so hard that they thought it was cracked open, but it wasn’t. When I came to in the hospital they were worried about my heart cause it had stopped for 6 minutes but I was worried I’d busted my neck or something. Anyway, it was the next day when the lady brought my lunch which was a tuna sandwich. Now we all know tuna SMELLS! I was eating it thinking “what the hec??” I couldn’t taste it and I went to smell it and I couldn’t smell it either. I called the nurse in and asked if she smelled the sandwich. She said, yes, what’s the problem. I asked her to bring me some rubbing alcohol pads and she did (even tho at that moment she thought I was crazy;-) and I love the smell of rubbing alcohol, I put them up to my nose and there was nothing. I started to cry and realized something was terribly wrong. I tried talking to Dr’s about it and they acted like it was nothing. I have only told a few of my family members and a couple of friends and even they say “I’m lucky to be alive”.
I don’t want to be alive if I can’t smell or taste anything. Is there anyone out there that can understand what I’m feeling. Please email me!
Vicki @ vickijeanne78@yahoo.com
August 11, 2008 at 1:58 am
Carol Cathey
I had a roller skating accident in 2004. I flew through the air, landed on the back of my head, sat up and wrenched off one of my skates, and vomited. I couldn’t sit up for a long period of time. I knew I had a concussion, the worst ever, but I did not go to the hospital because I knew they would tell me not to go to sleep. I discovered within 24 hours that I had lost my sense of smell. I can now sometimes smell some things, very faintly. At first I would TRY to smell things like gasoline or other strong smelling substances, and couldn’t. It still is not functional, but I doubt there is anything I can really do about it. I wonder if this problem constitutes a “disability”, since it is provably dangerous since I cannot cook without standing in front of the stove, can’t smell fire, can’t detect dangerous chemicals, etc. If a couple of my other senses were affected, I would be deemed Blind or Deaf. Thank God I can still taste, although that sense is compromised due to my lack of olfactory ability, but if it were all the way gone, I probably would never eat because everything would taste the same…like nothing. There is no way to fix this problem, as far as my research can discern. However, is there a way to classify this problem as a “disability”?
August 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm
tinman
I’m happy to report that even though it’s been 9 weeks since my fall and I still can’t smell (or taste) s**t, alcohol still gets me buzzed. And since I can no longer tell cheap from the good stuff, my wine bill has plummeted. Thank you, Ernest & Julio!
I’m 58 and not looking forward to the declining years with essentially no taste but hey, it’s better than a bum knee. They really suck.
August 18, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Anonymous
I am 37 years old and was hit with a softall in the back of the head 5 weeks ago while running bases and lost my sense of smell. My ct scan was normal, but I still can’t smell and everything tastes distorted. My head was bruised and lasted for a couple of weeks. I’m wondering if my brain is stil bruised and when it heals, my smell will come back. Would mild bruising show up normal on a Ct scan? Does anyone have an idea how long that may take to heal?
I will still play softball, but will definitely wear a batters helmet next time.
August 20, 2008 at 1:22 pm
AW
I had some kind of upper-respiratory infection in mid-June, and after recovery realized my sense of smell was gone. It has now been almost two months, with no change, except for a horrible smell/feeling I get when breathing through my nose- similar to the chemical/burning/root canal/trash smell described by this blog’s author.
I am very depressed over all of this and find I have to censor my complaints because most people see it as something quite novel and amusing. However I feel shut off from the world and most things sensual/sensory.
If anyone has any experience in recovery from anosmia following a URI, please be in touch..
August 25, 2008 at 11:49 pm
juan
I want to know if zink help anyone to get their sence of smell back.
September 3, 2008 at 12:33 pm
SC
My husband lost his taste and smell from a head injury 4yrs ago he says he still can not taste or smell anything. yet he picks up on what kind of lotion I put on, he can ditinguish herbs without looking, he says when things taste good or not good, he can tell when a reciepe is missing something…. Is this possible? could his loss of smell and taste have come back and it is now all in his head? I’m confused by this?
September 3, 2008 at 6:13 pm
fjb
SC, I think that your husband’s experience is probably different from that of mine. I know my problem was caused by an infection. That being said, let’s assume that nerve damage is nerve damage. I can taste and smell things, and some sensations are correct. I can smell rose. I can taste oranges. However, some stuff is really off, alcohol, vinegar, and wine smell the same, and in the case of things in this category that aren’t lethal, taste the same. So, I am presuming that he is tasting, just not normally. That being said, I’ve heard of blind people who can “see”. And, I’m a meditator, and from experiences with it I know that there are many things about perception that either are beyond our normal experience, or are not noticed in our normal experience. And, then, we just presume that we are all preceiving things the same way, e.g. red is the same to everyone, but there’s no way to actually tell. And, now I can say that who is to say we are all tasting things the same way. We’ve all experienced not eating salt for a while, and how salty things can then taste. I’ll never toss a vegetable to a dog again and wonder why it isn’t so interesting to him.
September 4, 2008 at 12:16 pm
SC
Thank you for the insight fjb….
SC
September 8, 2008 at 3:47 pm
ds
I lost my sense of smell (and therefore taste) three years ago after a serious sinus infection. For those of you who are ‘not wanting to live’ without a sense of smell….I can relate, I understand that feeling of ‘why bother’….I was the most sensory-related person I know. And that’s not just me saying it; friends, colleagues, work associates all confirmed that I was always vocalizing about what the air smelled like; or some plant (I’m a field ecologist), or some habitat. I could smell snow the night before it fell….
All of that is gone; and with it, a very very important part of my soul. But after three years I’ve learned some things that no one could tell me.
First off; it may or may not come back. You have to let yourself greive (yes, grieve) this loss of one of the five key senses we have. It is true that you won’t get much empathy for this loss: I used to have to remind folks that they would probably be much more verbally empathetic if I was struck blind…but somehow we discredit the significance of the of our sense of smell. (you will have people bringing you dishes that they over-spiced; or a particularly strong perfume because they’re trying to be helpful. I gently chide them and ask if they’d tell Stevie Wonder to “look harder” at the mountains in the distance….does he see them now?)
Secondly; what I discovered after two years, was that I had developed a different taste palette. It is our mouth that tastes salt, sweet, bitter, sour, acid…and also the “heat” of hot peppers, and a fifth taste that the Japanese call “umame”…meaning earth-like. I know you may not be interested right now, but over time, I’ve found Asian cuisine to be the most mouth-satisfying: sweet and sour, smooth and crunchy…they have alot of texture which becomes REALLY important. You will learn to differentiate between foods based on those simplest flavors and textures. It will NOT be the same tastes you used to have….but you will develop a different approach to food. I even starting cooking again (after I could go grocery shopping again without just standing in the produce aisle crying that I’d never taste a peach or cherry, or an apple again).
Lastly, remember that memory and emotion are strongly tied to smell…so, not only are you going to have to work through the grief of loss (and this IS a real loss); you may also find that your emotions are more modest in some regards. Remember how walking into the kitchen when someone was just pulling an apple pie, or cookies, or bread out of the oven would make you stop, smile and say, “ahhh……”…. Well, that little tiny ‘jump-start’ of sweet happiness or contentment is now gone….that too is a deep loss. It took me more than two years to realize that I was over the depression (mostly) but that I was still missing those little jump-starts of delight now and then (think hyacynths in the spring, fall leaves, warm babies, puppies…..). So, that has taken a greater awareness of self to not stay subdued and shut-out from the world. People ask if my hearing has improved…I don’t think so, but I’m certainly alot more aware of sounds an pay more close attention to them.
Lastly, if you live in a home heated by natural gas (or have a cooking stove/oven), propane, diesel, etc. then get a gas-detector for in your home. I walked into an Airstream trailer where there was a propane leak (which I couldn’t smell) and was just about ready to light a match to start a pilot light when my partner came in screaming to stop…..
Best of luck. Let yourself get angry and be sad. Be kind to your friends who can’t comprehend what it’s like. And yes, cheap wine will work just as well as the ‘good stuff’….but be careful not to abuse it in your search for solace!
I don’t cry about it as much as I used to. Yes, I still eat too much…sadly, in search for ‘mouth satisfaction’. If you had an eating/weight problem before this probably won’t ‘cure’ it.
And yes, I get occaisonal ‘molecules’ of an odor…no pattern to it what-so-ever…..sweetpeas one day, not the next. Bacon for a moment; then gone. Raspberries in the sun….a fleeting sense. I find that I’m now so aware of these occaisonal molecules that I’ll surprise folks around me by saying….”salt-water, can you smelll it?”….and they won’t be aware that they can till I ask.
October 29, 2009 at 12:28 pm
jenny
ds: thank you for your frank advices. I am glad to have found this site and to know that there are people who are experiencing the same thing as I do. For a while, I thought I was going nuts with this distorted smell n taste. I just had a head injury a month ago and I have lost part of my sense of taste and smell. Some strong smell would smell metallic to me. I am sad but try not to think about it. I pray that all of us will recover from this all.
September 10, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Barbara
ds: Thank you for your post. It is so true that is almost made me cry. I am learning day by day to deal with this condition. Sometimes I almost forget then it will hit me after school. I teach jr. high so lunch is no big deal..15 minutes of scarfing down a meal that never was that good to start with. It’s the weekends and the fun of new restaurants, good times over a meal that make me sad. But your post has helped me. I am still learning and enjoy some foods like vanilla ice cream and fruit. One thing I have learned it to quit bitching about it because, like the dr.’s, no one really cares except us.
September 12, 2008 at 4:11 pm
ds
Good; I’m glad it helped a bit. I’m not kidding about crying in the grocery store…sometimes I’d go in and walk up and down the aisles, simply looking for something that I wanted to eat. Then I found Kettle Corn! Sweet, crunchy AND salty! it worked for a while….
It will get better (the grief part); and if you pay attention and can let go having the breadth of taste/smell/delight that you were used to, and be more aware of what you can discern for taste, food will regain a role in your life again, even socially.
I strongly suggest Asian food (OK, not sushi…used to be a favorite of mine, but not so much now….). Think Thai, Chinese, Japanese…and if you haven’t tried those authentic cuisines see if you can find some place to go and try: texture, sweet/salty mixed in the same dish; hot spicy with crunch and bitter…..I swear they are cuisines formulated for those of us with only mouth taste….
When you’re ready…
September 15, 2008 at 8:46 am
lc
ds – your words are very encouraging. I could never have known how isolating not being able to smell could be. It’s something that connects people in such a way that they never quite realize.
Nobody can really understand what it’s like except those who’ve experienced it. I suffer from parosmia after a head injury months ago – i had started off anosmic, but it progressed into phantosmia and parosmia.
I too have found myself welling tears at the market, at the movies, in the streets. Smell is something that connects you to everyone – watching people’s heads turn excitedly towards fresh baked muffins or fresh popcorn, hearing tummies grumble at smoky BBQ or knowing someone’s cooking nextdoor – it’s a part of the world that we have to rely on other less obvious cues for, if any at all, and it’s terribly sad. It can make one feel very lonely, even when surrounded by people.
I’ve tried to take time out to grieve about it and move on, but it still proves difficult with each passing day.
Sushi is one of my favorite foods – although not so much now for me too, but so it goes with all foods as my taste is severely impaired – not just from olfactory loss, but from severe distortion. It’s hard for me because i’m asian, so having grown up with these foods and knowing what my foods taste like show me everything that’s missing when i eat them. Its….boring…..thus terribly, heartbreakingly sad.
i miss…..fresh cut grass, lemons, fresh laundry right out of the drier, shampoo, chopped basil, sesame seeds, the subtle nuances of sushi ( i know you hear me on this one), the smell of water and earth by the river – i could go on…
September 16, 2008 at 12:07 am
Anonymous
One month ago I fell out of a moving vehicle and along with many other things, I fractured my temporal bone which has affected my sense of smell, taste and hearing. My hearing has gotten MUCH better however the smell and taste has not. I can smell and taste better than the first 2 weeks but its not even close to normal.
Im not sure if reading these posts are helping me or hurting me however theyre letting me cry. Im scared and all anyone can say to me is how lucky I am that this is the only permanent injury but like everyone else has said nobody understands.
I love food but its the never being able to smell thats really getting to me. Im such a smeller that I would actually purposely smell bad things just because I cant help myself, I NEEDED to smell EVERYTHING and the thought of being 24 years old and having to live the rest of my life this way is absolutely breaking my heart…
I keep trying to think positively that it will come back but as time goes by and nothing changes, I am slowly losing hope.
September 22, 2008 at 2:38 am
peanut69
DS…
Thank you DS, for giving us all permission to grieve for our losses. Some for taste, some for smell, some for both, and all for the “nice smells of life” that we are now missing. It’s been 18 months for me and some things have gotten better, others have stayed the same, but it is the “nice things of life” that I miss the most. So big thanks to you for reminding me that I have truly lost something important in my life and for letting me know it was ok to be angry, sad, depressed, and grieve over it. It has helped me very much. Thank you!!
September 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm
ds
hello all;
I’m glad my words have helped. My heart aches for all of you for which this is so new and it feels hopeless. I too couldn’t imagine living my rich, full life without a sense of smell. I stated emphatically numerous times that I’d give up my sense of taste for the rest of my life if only I could get back my sense of smell… no generous spirit took me up on my offer of barter.
I understand your lack of hope, your disbelief and despair, and your deep sorrow. It may be no consolation; but I can only assure you that it does get easier. You will survive, you will find richness and joy again in other delights and yes, even in taste. Eventually.
I can’t tell you how to get through it; or offer any platitudes. Only some assurance that you will persevere, and you will live into the days ahead where the grief, anger and sorrow will diminish and become less pervasive. There will come a time when you won’t wake up first thing in the morning and think of it….you will regain a new equilibrium.
Be gentle with yourself in that journey.
October 4, 2008 at 4:26 pm
JP
DS
You should be a writer because your words touched the hearts of all of us who suffer from our loss which I always took for granted. You know the saying “stop and smell the roses”…I wish I literally could smell a rose (which is my favorite flower) and I have gone through my own grieving process but people think I’m on a pity-pot and say “Get over it” as they’re enjoying decadent chocolate cake.
I fractured my skull during a seizure on 9/4/07 and the doctors said it could be a year or never before my senses returned. So when the year came, (and I had so much hope) and nothing changed I fell into a bad depression and just gave up on eating. I too used to eat everything in sight hoping to find some pleasure, some gratification. It dawned on me that everything social revolves around food…going on a date, meeting friends, holidays (thats a biggie). But now I am learning the meaning of acceptance and I am grateful I didn’t go blind or worse..die. I still have hope and I also have a lot of gratitude for my life. I’m thankful I stumbled onto this site because now I don’t feel alone or different. So thank you for your posts and thank you to everyone for sharing your experience. Remember..”There’s strength in numbers”
October 4, 2008 at 9:31 pm
peanut69
It is too bad that most “smellers” don’t get that it IS a REAL LOSS to us. Move on over, on your pity-pot, I think I can probably speak for us all when I say “We all know how you feel and understand it completely.” It always helps to “talk” to someone who’s going through a like experience. Wishing us all a full and complete recovery. More like praying for it!
October 7, 2008 at 11:07 am
JP
Thanks peanut for understanding.
October 20, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Lisa
Sorry to report that nothing is changing, As a matter of fact it’s getting worse! These horrifying smells have changed to something even more horrifying…I dont know what to do. I try to stick my nose in nice smelling things thinking maybe it will get rid of the rancid smell stuck in my nose but it doesnt. Im living on cheese and veggies. I absolutely can not eat any meat and its sooo depressing. I could barely eat anything but yet, Im gaining weight…go figure.
Well I have an appt with the neurologist in 2 weeks. Hopefully he can help. I heard that there is this hospital in philly that is the best of the best when it comes to smell and taste so that will be my next step. My ENT has not done a damn thing for me. I explained everything to him and his answer is, you got me! YOU GOT ME??????? what kind of “DR.” is he?? So im going to switch to someone that can hopefully give me some options. Has anyone recovered 100% from this?
This has to be one of the most depressing things I have ever experienced in my life and the thought of going on like this makes me want to lock myself in my room forever….
October 28, 2008 at 3:46 pm
JP
SMELL UPDATE-
Hi friends- just wanted to share with you that I smelled bleach the other night . This is the first identifiable smell since 9/4/07. I was worried the smell may stay in my nose permenantly because of other stories I’ve heard but thankfully it didn’t and I have a renewed hope that this is only the beginning. Still no flavor in my food and I’m losing weight drastically because I have given up on eating. Well at least this way when the taste does come back, it won’t be a problem for me to gain 50 lbs back from binging at every buffet place in town.
Keep positive and stay hopeful!
October 30, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Lisa
So I went to the neurologist, he says all of this is normal and that 70% of his patients “like me” recover 100%!! yippie!! finally, some HOPE!
i am feeling a little better and I smelled shrimp the other day! I stopped everything I was doing and called my mom and was screaming…I smell shrimp!! lol it was a very exciting day. So now I go for an MRI and EEG test. The EEG will determine whether or not they can help me get rid of the bad smells. The DR. said the bad smells may be seizures? has anyone heard this? Well Im just trying my best to stay positive, I hope you all can do the same.
November 18, 2008 at 12:00 am
peanut69
Update…
I lost my sense of smell also (about 2 yrs ago) and right know I have been dealing with what I think is a very light chemical/blood taste and smell. It’s quite a combo and with me almost 24-7. I really didn’t have to deal with this until recently. I started taking Alpha Lipoic Acid (600mg a day, split into 3 doses) 6 weeks ago and about 2 weeks ago when I started smelling this combo, however with the bad came a great deal of good. I also have started to taste the flavors in some of my food and can sometimes even smell what I cooking if it’s a really strong smell. A huge leap from where I was 2 months ago with no smells and no flavors what so ever. Before that I had phantom smells like vanilla cake and chocolate chip cookies baking, these would go on for days. All in all not bad smells, but after telling my family for days “I smell cake and cookies” I would wind up baking, because I made everyone else hungry for them LOL. I swear, it’s the Alpha Lipioc Acid working that is giving me my sense of smell back slowly. I can even very lighlty smell my candles burning now. I thank God every morning when I wake up and can still smell stuff that day.
December 23, 2008 at 2:11 am
peanut69
Update…
I think that the ALA is working for me. I’ve been taking it since 10/07/08. I have been able to smell some things, in their “real” smell, if I am up close to them and some things I can now smell, not their “real” smell, but how I smell them now. This is all a bonus for me, since a few months ago I could smell nothing at all. My sense of taste seems to be getting a little bit better also. My Doctor and I found out that the “Blood/Chemical” smell was the nasal spray he had me taking. It dried out my sinuses so well that they were bleeding (just a little bit, not enough to be noticed on a tissue). Lovely huh?! I’m no longer doing that and the smell went away. I hope all of you get some results.
March 1, 2009 at 9:42 am
Polly
I lost my sense of taste and smell 40 years ago when I was 16. I have no idea why.
It is something you just get used to I take a bucketload of sugar with everything and tons of salt just to get some taste sensation.
I am not adventerous with food prefering to stick to textures I know as food now is just a fuel it is not something that is an enjoyable experience to be savoured.
I also (and I don’t know if this is connected) particularly fancy people anymore I wonder if the sexuality side had more to do with sense of smell than we realise.
I think over the years you just accept it there are times when I throw away perfectly good food because I don’t know if it OK because I can’t smell it
I also seem to find the only seat on the train next to the toilet or by smelly people who others have moved away from. Things like gas and smells of burning can be a danger point
There are worse things that could happen to you and no one has any sympathy for anyone who has lost those senses. Somethings you just have to accept things and move on
March 1, 2009 at 9:43 am
Polly
* DON’t particularly fancy people
March 29, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Olfactory
People………………… If your like me, you want to know what is going on inside your head. Get an MRI and ask for a difusion tensor MRI to see the pathway to connectivity of the nerve. I fell 4 months ago and I must have severed my olfactory and I have read everything about this only to find there is no cure and it is black magic. The nerve can regenerate and heal at 1mm per month and that’s why they say it may take 1 year or longer to regain this function. It is pot luck if they connect to the olfactory bulb because of scar tissue. I am miserable but I am humbled that I was lucky to leave ICU after 6 days and now I am fine except for taste and smell. Family and friends always remind me how luck I am and now i agree. I need to find ways to enjoy the taste of food or smells that I used to enjoy. There are many clinics in this country that specialize in this but how do they specialize if they can’t cure you. Sure , go there and pay many thousands and you are in the same boat as if you never went. But they have your money. I am not negative but that bothers me a bit. Tell me you will give back half my money if you can’t cure me as you know there is no know cure to man. This has been going on for years with the research end of this and all testing is done on animals. I would love to know if anyone had any luck with a remedy that may have worked a little. Any ideas, let me know. Thanks,
April 18, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Chloe
Read more about Alpha-Lipoic Acid Here:
http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/Alpha-Lipoic.html
and here:
http://www.gracemedicalequipment.com/articles/cosme/ala.htm
October 22, 2009 at 8:13 pm
LOLLY
T5 all and sundry, if you are still reading this from the 2008 group, yes the bad smells DO GO AWAY!!!!! and do pray because it does work, put your faith out there!’HE” can do what no other can,,,and…HE WANTS TO.IAM PROOF! Try it, you;ll like it.