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My smell and taste loss lasted two and a half months.

I think my smell and taste training helped me to recover completely and I believe if I didn't do it then it would have taken longer to recover.

What I did was I would smell the only thing that I could smell at the time which was Listerine. I would smell it for 45 seconds three times a day. I would also rinse my mouth with it for 30 seconds since it was the only thing I could taste.

Next, I tried to figure out what else I could smell which turned out to be eucalyptus. I bought a eucalyptus candle from Bath and Body and would light it up in the living room and then play video games or watch a movie. It was like I was keeping my nose in check by smelling the candle aroma constantly.

More of my smells started coming back. The other thing I could smell was my tea tree mint shampoo. So I started adding it to my 45 seconds smell training along with Listerine.

Then chocolate was the next smell to come back. I could also taste it so I added it to the smell/taste training lineup.

Then my nose could start smelling spices again so I added that to my training. I kept adding more and more stuff and then one day everything just came back even smells I was struggling with like body odor or even bacon smell.

Edit: When I did my taste training with food, I basically just ate my food slowly and enjoyed the taste. There were weird times when I ate like a burger for example and could taste the ketchup only and nothing else like the bun or meat.