Sense of Smell

I've been like that for years. My family calls me "Super Snoot". There are somethings I wish I couldn't smell so well...ewwww!
I can't stand to be around someone with a cold because I can smell it on them. Nasty!

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Joy

what about the opposite. I cannot smell anything and the few things I think I smell are usually cat pee, dirty ash trays or vomit. Not too pleasant. And, the doctors have no explanation. Most people that lose their sense of smell have suffered blunt trauma to the head/face and that has never happened to me.

The only thing I can find on line that has anything to do with a "loss" of smell is Parkinsons. Quite a few people on that particular forum said that they started out with that as their first symptom.

Not looking to good for me.

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Denita
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Rheumatoid arthritis with secondary Sjogrens, Fibromyalgia, meniscus tears in left knee, Cancer survivor

Yeah, I've had those weird eyes and ears days, too.
Today is "very loud ringing in my ears" day. Yesterday was blurry vision day. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? :P

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Joy

I tell you my sense of smell went all haywire after gastric bypass 9 years ago. It was oober sensitive, it almost made me cranky actually especially towards unpleasant things like people who thought bathing was unnecessary LOL. Right now with the Lupus problem that I have I have very little taste buds and my mouth feels so weird I can't really describe it and my sense of smell is actually not there for the most part so those senses for me are quite dull right now. I don't know if there is a connection or not but as weird as autoimmune is I wouldn't doubt it.

Let's take a page out of couchtater's book and call ourselves the Super Snoot Club. That's kinda catchy, right?

Bloodhounds unite! LOL.

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dx: SLE 07/2011, OCD 2006, osteoarthritis 2002
rx: plaquenil 200mg/day, methotrexate 10 mg/week, NSAID for pain, zoloft 200 mg, folic acid

 I have a conditon called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. I have a sense of smell like a Green Canary. I can't handle any chemicals. They bring on everything from nausea, to migraines, fatigue, pain, to completely unresponsive because I get an ashma like reaction. We use all organic products and still have to watch the scented organic products.

I have been like this since 2004. Haven't been in a mall, grocery store since 2006. I get so ill and just want to go to bed. I have a wealthh of info on this.

In the US 46 states have claimed one week in May as MCS awareness month.

Many people say they think it is in my head. However, it has saved my and my mother's life on more than one occasion. I could smell gas in the house even my mother hasn't been able to smell. The consumers company took 3 hours but finally found three minute leaks. And another time I smelled gas that was caused when a carbon monoxide leak combusted with the furnace coming on. It took four furnace people to finally believe me and found the leak.

While my sense of smell can be annoying at times ( and very isolating) it is  blessing to me because it allowsa me to know what is making me ill and get away from it. and it has also saved my life.

 I also am experiencing enhanced smells at first it started out once in awhile but now I notice more and I can't take it. everything from food cooking to smell of bedding and room, yet no one else can smell it....making for very time.