“But, everyone who really has profound loss of smell always says, ‘Oh, even if I could only smell the bad smell, I would be happy’.”.
“I found out about something called smell training nine months after I lost my sense of smell,” says Kelly.
“One lady said to me ‘I didn’t realise I’d lost my sense of smell until I went shopping for candles with my daughter, and then I realised I couldn’t smell anything’.”.
However, after talking to many people who also have the condition, she recognised that this is not the case for everyone – the loss of smell is a more gradual process for some people.
Kelly, now 65, has recently made headlines as the first UK patient to receive a promising treatment involving injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) derived from her own blood, which may help restore her sense of smell.
