I’m about three months out, smell came back gradually and is now about 80-90 percent of what it was before, but I’ll take it! My daughter lost hers too but only for a few weeks. She has a couple of friends who still can’t smell, or have distorted smell, over a year later. She told me that there are protocols for retraining your neural pathways, I believe she said involving a progression of sniffing certain smells/essential oils in certain order over a period of time that I believe she said amounts to a few weeks, not sure exactly because I was keeping the possibility in mind “just in case”, but eventually mine returned. It’s was so gone at one point that even sticking my nose in a jar of vaporub I couldn’t smell anything at all, just felt the coolness.
Point is though, don’t lose hope, because whether on its own or by retraining,you will get it back!
Thanks! Haven’t lost hope, especially because I am getting brief whiffs every once in a while. We are at the beach and do indeed miss the smells of the salt air and food, etc. At any rate, we are grateful to be alive, so whatever will be, will be.
I’ve read that Zinc deficiency causes decreased sense of smell and taste.