• starlinguk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    19
    ·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • guy@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day 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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      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@lemmynsfw.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 days 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.