If you got hit by Covid and you came out pretty much the same as before, that is good. If, on the other hand, you came out of the ordeal with permanent damage, would you mind telling us what happened?
I lost some sense of taste and smell. I used to love a simple cup of coffee, but now I want the darker stuff with strong flavors. I used to hate hot sauce because it was too much for me, and now I sprinkle it liberally on my food because the stuff is too bland.
You?
I only had covid once, and completely lost my sense of smell and taste for a few weeks. I thought it had all come back until my partner started making coffee in his Bialetti pot on the stove. I couldn’t smell it. Not at all.
Even now, several years later, I can’t smell the coffee brewing. When I’m working upstairs at home, I can’t smell coffee until he has the mug in his hand and he’s reached the top of the stairs. It’s really weird.
Some other things have become bland, but I seem to have become more sensitive to spices so curries taste hotter than they did before.
I had covid twice, fortunately both post-vaccine so while I was definitely “sick” in each case, it would likely have been much worse had it been the pre-vaccine era variety (it killed a first cousin of mine). I’m 73 now and doesn’t seem like I’ve had any long lasting effects. My wife (two years younger) also got covid twice when I did but she has had some longer term issues with her lungs that continue to this day.
I have had Covid twice now, July 2022 and November 2025. Both times I was vaccinated with the current vaccination schedule.
While neither case of Covid was acutely severe, the 1st go left me with some tinnitus that has not fully resolved after almost 4 years. It’s annoying, but not debilitating.
I have a history of always going many years in between times of having the flu. Like 10+ years between incidents. After many years without it I caught the flu, likely at a doctors office just before Christmas of 2019. It was bad. It took many, many weeks to get over it. Haven’t had the flu again since then. Six years it’s been so far. Nothing unusual about that.
In March of 2020 Covid was recognized. I couldn’t help but think I had Covid 3 months earlier. No way to prove it then or now that I can tell. I got all the Covid shots and stuff.
The ‘official’ Covid era sucked ass by the way.
How was I affected physically? I got my sense of smell and taste back but it took a very long time. I don’t seem to have the nuanced sense of smell or taste that I think I once had. Cooking food has become “Meh, It’s just food” and “It’s good enough for who it’s for.” I can still smell stuff but not like I used to.
I still believe the Covid release happened in America much sooner than when it was marketed as happening. Maybe even deliberately. Woo… 
I don’t think I’ll ever get over that feeling either.
The doctor’s office where I caught it is still open, but that doctor who I saw 4 days before experiencing my first symptoms is now a high ranking executive type at the biggest local hospital. Coincidence I’m sure…
These are interesting accounts for sure - every one of them. I admire people who keep going with some long covid and other symptoms.
I lost my smell entirely and it has only come back about 10% since then. What things I do smell I can hardly recognize because it’s like the wires got crossed and say I’m smelling wet grass - I might perceive it as burnt wood or soap or some other unrelated smell, so I can’t actually tell what I’m smelling in the event that I can smell anything at all. I had what seemed like a very mild case too. I barely felt sick, mostly just some sinus pressure - the smell thing is pretty much the only thing of significance that happened.