Lingering Covid Affecting Cigar Enjoyment

I posted in another thread that Covid hat hit our home. I was "sick" for about three days between Christmas and New Years, I never tested (just assumed after my wife tested positive) for Covid but I had lost all smell and taste. It sucked! I now have most of my taste back and I thought most of my smell...but I was wrong! Food has been back to normal(ish) for the past week, so Friday I decided I was way overdue for a cigar (I generally smoke a cigar or pipe every other day or so, here in my office). I selected one of my favorites, a ERDM...prepped it, lit it and for the first few minutes, I didn't get much from it. After about 10 minutes, I realized that I felt as though I was smoking one of the worst dog rockets...EVER! I've smoked for about 23 years and I've had a few dog rockets through the years. I know the cigar is good, as I pulled it out of it's box from my humidor. But, it was N-A-S-T-Y-! So, in short...Covid does a number on smoking, for awhile...exactly how long, only time will tell. I'll give it a week and try again...but it was so bad that I'm not even looking forward to another, for now. Sad, really...

What makes this strange is that yesterday I used my wood stove (oak firewood) out here in my office to keep warm for a long day of work, it smelled OK...not as strong as normal, but it did not stink.

I also dip tobacco (Cope, Grizzly & Stoker's - all long cut or natural) and though I couldn't taste it for awhile...I've not had any issues with them.

Do you know of anyone (friend or family) that has had Covid, that is also a smoker...what their experience was like?

(I realize there is a recent thread called: "Covid Impact on Cigars" - it looks to be for how Covid affected the industry...not enjoyment, so I did not want to interfere with that convo.)

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Steam steam steam the election infection doesn’t like steam. Boiling water or hot shower (long steamy) sauna or hot tub
Be well!

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Steam steam steam the election infection doesn’t like steam. Boiling water or hot shower (long steamy) sauna or hot tub
Be well!

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Something interesting, steam (a hot bath and a hot shower) caused my wife to have two separate seizures over the past two weeks while she battled Covid. She has never had a seizure in her life, until now...yet she has always taken super hot baths and showers (way too hot for my sensitive liking). It's done me some good but it is strange how it varies so much between individuals.

So sorry to hear about all this!
Hoping all is temporary and things get back to normal soon!

Time is probably the only remedy you can count on. My brother got a really bad flu a couple years ago and was on some strong antibiotics. He lost all taste and smell and it didn’t go back to normal for a few months.


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[QUOTE=SoCal gunner;214357]Paging @Regiampiero [/QUOTE @quo155 well I've not had it myself, but many among my extended family members and friends have. The taste loss has verried wildly, but also is the reliability of the people's who have had it. Some report tastes got back to normal in meere days, some say they've not recovered 100% of their taste buds after a month. Some have said that randomly smelling different things (spices, coffee, wood, candles ect) helps them retrain their taste buds, so maybe smell your cigars for the time being and re-introduce you're flavor grabbers to something more light for a while. Maybe a Gurkha :)

Also sorry to hear about your wife, seizures is a new symptom for me. I've not heard anyone else getting them after COVID. Hope she gets back to normal as quick as possible and we can hall look back at these shitty times and be able to laugh about it sooner rather than later.

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well I've not had it myself, but many among my extended family members and friends have. The taste loss has verried wildly, but also is the reliability of the people's who have had it. Some report tastes got back to normal in meere days, some say they've not recovered 100% of their taste buds after a month. Some have said that randomly smelling different things (spices, coffee, wood, candles ect) helps them retrain their taste buds, so maybe smell your cigars for the time being and re-introduce you're flavor grabbers to something more light for a while. Maybe a Gurkha :)

Also sorry to hear about your wife, seizures is a new symptom for me. I've not heard anyone else getting them after COVID. Hope she gets back to normal as quick as possible and we can hall look back at these shitty times and be able to laugh about it sooner rather than later...

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Giampiero, thank you for your reply! It's interesting how this is ever-changing, quite new to me. Now that you mention it, I'm a coffee nut...and I've been drinking coffee throughout this with little negative effects, until this morning when I made coffee, just like I always do (same blend). This morning, it smelt bad while brewing it but it tasted the same. So weird!

Oh, and my EDRM...was worse than a Gurkha! LOL!

I had couple aunts and cousins get it a while back in Oct. By Christmas not all felt they were 100% then. I also read an article that said post covid lung x-rays look worse than ex smokers lungs. I think there is still a lot that needs to be learned about this still.

Co-workers have been positive and lost taste and smell and it varies as to when it returns. Nothing seems to be uniform in the way this affects people.