tepol, can you tell us what caused your anosmia?
If it was an event that damages your nerves then Lion's Mane would be a good recommendation. Lion's Mane does however take some time to work, you won't take it today and get your sense of smell back tomorrow. On an iherb user review of a LM product, a user cited that he had regained his sense of smell after 6 months of dosing or so. So there may be hope! Keep us posted. Also, I would take a look into some of those companies under the LM thread chrono posted. They seem to be the most reputable from our research.
About 3 years ago I decided to take some psilocybe tampanensis Id been growing from kit to help with chronic tinnitus ( i mean non-stop ) that was driving me nuts.
Id read some evidence for mushrooms helping cluster headaches , and as there seemed to be some evidence for their being relationship between that and tinnitus I decided to try it .
On the onset of the trip then I ended up being horribly surprised by the delayed effects of the pscilocybe ,after waiting ( believe it or not almost 2 hours ) only for the whole jar I took to kick in . ( perhaps 100 g or 90 - Im not sure ) but the trip was, as you can imagine , not very good one .
NB* It did not help i took the whole jar in spite having assumed id just wasted the last 5 months growing this only to be duped - which was not exactly the best mindset for going into a intense trip unexpectedly
Towards the end after throwing up and coming down - I finally I felt the familair ( this will makes sense if you wish to know more ) " areas " in my skull suddenly shift forward towards the direction / areas I had the " injection done " .
It wasn gradually but abrupt and sudden i.e. just like being hit or making impact at force with something from falling except it was inside my skull .
At the same time this happened there was flash, that i never encountered in any trip before - much like a bolt of lightening between my eye that appeared at the same time i felt this shift in my skull .
I wasnt sure what to make of it at the time but I remember being pretty worried i.e. It defintely didnt seem like part of the trip but rather a physical response.
It wasnt until after the trip when i woke up later that day / morning ( this went on all the previous evening / night ) that i noticed i couldnt smell anything but that everything else had changed, or rather my self awareness / perception - and best of all no tinnitus .
In fact where it not for the loss of smell and the battle i had holding onto myself through the trip , the whole thing would of been a big success given the long term effects of what it did for me and , dare I say it , has seemingly continued to do since then - the loss of smell however was big loss , esp being born with it.
I cant really say more than that because Im more than little leary of what might turn up on google should any one read it , but there are other things surrounding this , that might help provide more insight if your interested in hearing them , but I cant / wont go into them here.
thanks for both your responses
matt
Edited by tepol, 26 June 2010 - 03:16 AM.