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[conuly]

Bigger and better!

One ear popped and no longer feels clogged, so that's good. My nose isn't stuffed up, but my sense of smell is reluctant to return. I can smell peanut butter, but not my mouthwash. Vanilla and coffee and cinnamon I can faintly smell (and not the whole thing) but nutmeg, ginger, and garlic are right out. I can smell the antiperspirant part of my deodorant, but not the powder scent. Clearly some chemical compounds are triggering a response (even a small one) but others just... aren't. And which ones are in which group is unpredictable, and not what I would've expected.

From a dispassionate point of view, this is utterly fascinating. From a personal point of view this is extremely annoying.

Oh, and I finished my antibiotics! Tooth feels fine now.

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Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Is your tongue coated? (I usually make use of reduced sense of smell to get some mackerel in my diet.) Do you like horseradish and or hot mustard?

Yay, completed antibiotic course!

[conuly]

Horseradish... well, I smell *something*, but not the components that make it horseradishy.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I don't really think of it having a smell as much as a mucus tissue reaction. Might get that other ear to drain.

[wendelah1]

I'm glad to hear you're on the mend.

[conuly]

Likewise, but if my sense of smell/taste doesn't come fully back by Monday I'm going to mutiny.

[adafrog]

Yay for hearing! Sort of.

[archangelbeth]

Yay for tooth better! I hope the rest of your sense of smell comes back soon.

[thewayne]

That's interesting how only some scents are returning and not others. Maybe your ear would improve if you rode up and down an express elevator a few times? This is one of the advantages of living on top of a mountain: driving down, we change altitude 4500' in 16 miles. Pops ears pretty good, we frequently chew gum.

[conuly]

And not even all of some scents. I can get enough whiff of onion to know it's onion, but it doesn't smell completely, well, onion-y.

Can't taste though. I only can smell things via my nose, not while eating. Bah.

[gale_storm]

Glad to hear that your tooth is doing better, as it gives me hopes for mine. Yes, I call mine 'Tooth,' too, although it might be as general a term as calling a dog 'Dog' or a cat 'Butthole'. Yes, as in 'Dumb and Dumber Too'.