14 months and maybe some progress

Lost smell with Covid in Nov 2022. Started to come back with nasty smell distortions after a few months. After 10 months I started to have some good days where it was maybe 80% for some of my favorite foods. Distortions had faded. Also had the smell fatigue problem where often smell fades after a few seconds or minutes. I was optimistic. But Alas good days became infrequent and then sank back into very poor sense of smell. Recently I had read somewhere that a little castor oil ( Pure, Organic, Cold-Pressed, Hexane-Free ) in the nose might help. I got out my netty pot and saline again, and added a couple drops of castor oil. Now at day two, suddenly experiencing better smell, and some additional new “phantom” smells. Already better and optimistic this can beget me back on the path to recovery.