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Colloidal Silver
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Re loss of smell for past three years.
If you google "Google Scholar" and type in "loss of smell" you'll find a number of articles that reference that such loss of smell can OFTEN (not always) be tracked to sinus infection. I just recovered (four weeks ago) from a sinus infection (and some in bronchial passages) that I fought off for a full month before clearing. I used my old stand by ... Colloidal Silver and I make it myself so I know the strength will work. This recent infection was a very bad one and I suspect it was a lipid coated variety.
Well, during the illness, I lost my sense of smell.
That loss went on for a period of about a week and only as I gained control over the infection did I find the sense of smell return. That was the first time that had ever happened to me that I recall. But now, full recovery with elimination of virus.
I use an ear syringe to squirt the Colloidal Silver into sinus passages (called an irrigation) and let drain down back of throat or exhaling mucus first and then a second irrigation into back of throat. I never miss irrigating the ears also as I've found over the years that the eustachian tubes which connect ears to sinus cavity can also hold viruses and is a source for secondary infections. So; irrigate both sinus cavities and ear canals also.
And if the infection (if there is one) is the cause of the loss of hearing, the hearing will begin to return in time unless permanent damage was done to the nerves.
You might ask if the loss of hearing was precipitated by an infection or by medication? You said it started three years ago. Some more information for us might help give the cause. The idea of infection as cause is just a guess, after all.
B-12
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
I think my loss of smell had to do with an zithromax aka azithromycin/antibiotic, and then I did not know to protect myself and may have injured myself further by not protecting my nose; I was trying so hard to smell stuff such as tea tree oil or lavender oil; those may have been too strong. Would garlic be too strong? I tried that too. Maybe it was always going to be gone, but now I may never know.
Nobody tells you the mechanism by which an antibiotic causes loss of smell; I doubt they know or care unless they can make a lot of money off of knowing; if they would lose money by knowing, they're certainly not going to be honorable. Evolution means survival of the fittest! I might just kill myself to save the predators the trouble, LOL.
Anyway, you know there are little glands in the olfactory organs that produce moisture or mucus to facilitate smelling. I don't know why doctors do not know about this. For myself, I think that is the source of my trouble. Drying out one's sinuses in this situation is only going to make matters worse.
I always try to buy the r-alpha lipoic acid form which is supposed to be better in the body. If you look online for r-alpha lipoic acid, you will have a choice between several brands. If I am allowed to mention this, I find Life Extension to be a good source. Best wishes.
Raw Food Diet
★★★★★
You should all try one month of raw food, that is everything must be raw giving more importance to raw vegetables this will liverate all the incrusted toxins and strange substances that could be from the air or chemicals that we usually eat with all the junk food and all the saturated greases and artificial colors etc.etc. Once I did it and wow! Your body really thanks you for these, the only thing is that you will really start smelling the terrible cadaveric smell of meat even in the best of beef restaurants and you will know what you have being eating erroneously all of your life.
I am not a vegetarian but please concider this because I have 35 or more years with holistic naturistic and orthomolecular medicine as my hobby.
Eat big raw smoothies in the morning plus a big veggie or frut salad in the afternoon and night ..give preference to adding cilantro to your smoothies because it desintoxicates the liver, do not forget garlic onion and radishes in your raw salads, repeat a big veggie smoothie any time you want avoid all comercial industrialized or cooked food for at least one or two months drink plain water, add sea salt to your salads lemons or lime, do not eat any absolutly any kind of oil, no even olive oil. You will desincrustate all the impurities of your smell cells and feel younger and with lots of smell.
Wish you all the best please do it do it with will and you won't regret it, see you tube for raw recepies they have many do not drink smoke or anything, give your body a break and be creative with your food there are many vegetables with wonderful flavors for you...
Best of luck to all of you.
Borax
Magnesium
★★★★★
B-12
★★★★★
With B12 deficiency, there can be disturbances of all of the senses, including smell.
Even though neuro-damage may be permanent, there's still a chance for improvement.
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
Many other really good suggestions here, but it is worth considering also supplementing Glutamine and Omega 3 Fatty Acids like Fish, Krill, or Flax Oil. More good natural remedies for the brain is Hemp/CBD, Taurine, Acetyl L-Carnitine.
I always use Magnet Therapy immediately following an injury and daily until healed.
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
Hope this helps and good luck.
Colonics
★★★★★
Capsaicin Nose Spray
★★★★★
Restoring sense of smell after losing it from too much magnesium is easy, but it burns a bit. Lots of cold cures include magnesium. I've lost my sense of smell twice using magnesium in nasal gels and cold lozenges. Just go to any drug store and get one of the capsaicin nose sprays, like Sinus Buster, at Walgreens or Walmart or CVS or wherever. They are used for sinus issues and migraines and cluster headache attacks. Just use as directed. Smell came back pretty quickly; I think it was the same day I started the capsaicin spray. The ones I still have in the fridge are Allergy Buster, Sinus Buster, and Headache Buster. I use them for cluster headache attacks. But I no longer use magnesium for colds, as it aggravates my cluster headache attacks.
Castor Oil
Anosmia Triggered by Antibiotics
Borax
Castor Oil
Anosmia Triggered by Virus
Anosmia Triggered by Virus
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Go buy a low-dose nicotine gum. Chew it for a few seconds to break it down and let it rest in between your cheek and gums for about 10 minutes. Do this 2-3 times a day.
This happened to me in 2021ish and it took 6 months to begin to smell again! Fast forward to end of 2024 (same VIRUS) using Nicotine Gum and my sense of smell returned in days. Same thing happened in early 2025. I was slammed and got pretty sick; middle ear infection and minor loss of hearing! In one ear; will retest that in 1 month AND lost my sense of smell. Back to the Nicotine Gum and I was good within days. I love herbs and good food. Losing my sense of smell (or taste, but that didn't happen to me) would be devistating.
Hope this helps someone out there...it works.
Anosmia Triggered by Virus
Anosmia Triggered by Injury
I imagined foods, like steak etc. In Màrch of 2023, I inhaled a small dropperfulof Cold pressed Castor Oil. Up each nostril. I did this 2 to 3X per day. After several months and every so often I could smell things besides wood smoké and cigarettes smoké. I started tó smell foods cooking faintly. Í could smell the càt uriñe ín the litter bóx. Í didn't get á hûge rush of smells returning
I fiñàlly in Jan. 2025, cóúld smell farts, càt feces, ßtíñly laundry detergent. Marijuana. My taste hasn't completely returned. I spice foods móre. Then before..
I recently have developed a minor ability to smell human feces and mold and mildew. Another issue that I wasn't ever told about after the accident. If you suffer Olfactory gland damages, and will develop a type of dry mouth that will cause your healthy teeth develop rot, in your gums damages to healthy gums. I ended up losing all my teeth from complete mouth damages caused by Olfactory gland damages. I was never told about any of the permanent effects.
I still pucker really harshly at the mildest sourness. My cats I believe are laughing at me. Do try the Castor Oil inhalation, I also make my own Stinging Nettle and Horseradish Tincture for allergies, and it helps to aide in some smell and mild taste sense.
I hope this helps.
B-12
I use a full spectrum mineral and it is solving some problems I've had for a while. You didn't mention if this was sinus surgery or how it would impact your smeller.
Heavy Metal Detoxing
★★★★★
Ted's Remedies
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Your conditions of not being able to smell anything is called Anosmia. Anosmia is a condition where you cannot detect smells. I believe this is caused by a zinc deficiency. For the body to best respond to zinc, I suggest you take zinc acetate (without the calcium carbonate and tricalcium phosphate fillers), vitamin b6 and magnesium. These three seems to work in synergy.
Nicotine Patches
★★★★★
I don't remember it as a treatment for it though but just for the mentioned symptoms, I could be wrong though.
This I heard watching a documentary on the subject. Watch the dosage though if you're a non-smoker. I tried a 4 mg lozenge a few days ago and thought I was going to die from a heart attack, so my advice is to start as low dose as possible then increase gradually to tolerance.
Zinc
★★★★☆
Zinc
I am a chef. My life was over.
I hired cooks and continued in my restaurant as if nothing happened, but in fact, my world as I knew it ended.
With no insurance, I started looking and found the Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington DC. I visited and was put on theophylline...and encouraged to go back every few months. With no job, and no insurance, this was impossible. And it has continued in this fashion for all of these years.
Upon discovery that I have Hashimoto's Disease for the past 10 years or so -- it took many endocrinologists to figure this out -- I wondered now that I am on meds that are supposed to help me with my horrible thyroid situation that maybe it has helped me to get some of my smell/taste back. Not much, but I have noticed a bit of a difference.
Have you heard of Hashimoto patients and anosmia? I am going to try the castor oil -- and let you know how it goes.
Thank you,
Lydia
