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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

I have a friend that got COVID back in 2021 and still hasn't gotten it back, so this is pretty cool.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wild!

I lost my smell after I got Covid in 2020. I didn’t get it back until 2 years later, when I got Covid for the second time…

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Get it once turn it off, get it a second time to turn it on again. Sounds like molecular biology IT. "Have you tried infecting yourself a second time?"

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Does it also fix the post exertional malaise and constant exhaustion? POTS? Neuropathy? Chronic myocarditis? The other 200 symptoms?

Tbh, the sense of smell and taste is a minor problem for people with long covid.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 42 points 2 weeks ago

Well fuck these doctors for trying to help, I guess

[–] guy@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How dare they do something if they can't do everything‽
Especially with something so minor in our lives as eating

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a specific procedure for a specific symptom where the disease harmed the olfactory area in particular. COVID can harm a lot of areas in different people and so far nobody has come up with a way to reboot all of them at once. In the meantime, research that focuses on individual areas can mitigate the misery. This surgery will help a significant number of people, giving them the normal safety against poisoning and a source of joy they had been robbed. Might even give them the hope they need not to choose death before other treatments get developed.

[–] Case 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off...

Turning back on, well... I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren't very reliable.