Parosmia

I’m desperate!!! Please help. Someone. Anyone

40 year old Female

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering?
After having covid 3/2020, I had anosmia. 12/2020, it turned into parosmia. I can literally eat cold peppered turkey lunch meat and red pears.



2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
I am healthy


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
I am absolutely disgusted by both the smell and taste of almost every food. I’m exhausted all the time.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
Pure depression, starvation, and emotional breakdown


5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?

Covid 3/2020 Parosmia 12/20

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
If I’m awake

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?
Smells and tastes


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
No


9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
No

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
I’m mild, agreeable, easy

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? I love thunderstorms despite sometimes getting migraines

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? No. I want to be listened to or left alone.

- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Smell, taste

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
No

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
I love my family, husband, and kids

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Biggest fear is dying before my kids are grown

12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
I just want to eat food-real food. Aversions are literally everything except cold, peppered, turkey lunch meat and red pears.

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Excessive

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
I’m lactose intolerant

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Normal

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? I suffer from IBS.

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I sleep horribly. I am a stomach sleeper

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
Yes

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?
I think we’re all relatively the same

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
I’ve taken zinc, vitamin A, vitamin C, alpha lipoic acid

22. What major diseases are running in your family?
Heart disease

23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance
Average. Thick but not fat or skinny

24. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)

Please answer the following questions:
(Please give details of your past menstruation if you have attained menopause.)
Had a supracervical hysterectomy in 2014