Just imagine one day you sit down to enjoy a hot cup of coffee only to discover it smells and tastes like something died in it.
Suddenly, you can’t walk past a bakery without gagging, the smell of onions makes you physically sick and even brushing your teeth is unbearable.
It sounds unthinkable, yet that’s the reality for tens of thousands of people after getting Covid — myself included.
Most people know that losing your sense of smell and taste — or anosmia, as it is known — is a common side-effect of Covid.
This is where the olfactory nerve cells found high in the nasal cavity that detect smells are damaged and unable to send messages from the nose to the brain.