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Chaos Hill - 12 May 2004 17:53 GMT
Have any of you had problems with your sense of taste or smell? Things taste
so horrible off, smells drive me even nuttier - it comes and goes, but when
it is bad it is very very bad.

Flares are such strange things and come in various manners....

thanks
Leslie

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KCat - 12 May 2004 18:50 GMT
> Flares are such strange things and come in various manners....

indeed!

> thanks
> Leslie

I'm a super sniffer - I think Bayta has taught me.  Since I quite smoking in
'90 I have had a very sensitive sense of smell that goes to extremes at
times.  Days where many smells nauseate me that other days would just be
"eh, so what" - like the smell of the nukable meals hubby sometimes makes.
I can smell the heated plastic, the excessive garlic, etc.  and this means
that sometimes something I would normally enjoy eating - tastes horrible to
me.
Mair - 12 May 2004 19:25 GMT
I also have a super sense of smell.  I can smell the chlorine in regular tap
water!  I can smell one gas particle if a pilot is out.  I can smell cat
pees from centuries ago.  And these smells can lead to migraine headaches.
Sometimes I would have to say I have a sort of "smell aura" before a
migraine... Crazy.

One thing I have found that really helps is to do the salt water nasal
rinses.  Strangely enough, my sense of smell seems to "normalize" after I
wash my schnoz out!

Good luck to you

Mair

> > Flares are such strange things and come in various manners....
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> that sometimes something I would normally enjoy eating - tastes horrible to
> me.
BJ - 12 May 2004 20:56 GMT
Hi Leslie,
This may sound really gross, but a description is needed if I am to give you
an idea what I think I smell sometimes. I could swear that I can detect
sweaty feet, or something burning. We bath, and my house has not burned down
yet. <g> Still, there are times when I walk around sniffing, trying to find
the source of the imagined smell. That kind of thing has a tendency to put
me off food as well.
BJ-Sk. Canada
> Have any of you had problems with your sense of taste or smell? Things taste
> so horrible off, smells drive me even nuttier - it comes and goes, but when
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> thanks
> Leslie
Chaos Hill - 12 May 2004 21:57 GMT
Yes I smell thing nobody else does and the smell of silly things make me
want to puke! Yes on the food most of the time I cannot eat tnything I
smell!
the neighbors exhaust from lawnmowers (ours is electric) and the animals
really reek... last summer I smelled watermelon everywhere and we did not
buy any or grow any, but even in the country I could smell them

The taster is really weird - everything tastes contaminated (I eat mostly
organic and mostly simple things) oddly I have to have garlic in most
everything - or peppers or cinnamon - coffe tastes like sewage some
mornings -  by late day I can sometimes stomache something, but it can be a
real challenge and then when I try to ponder what to eat when I know I
should eat something it makes me so nauseous and therefore weepy

Leslie

> Hi Leslie,
> This may sound really gross, but a description is needed if I am to give you
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> > thanks
> > Leslie
Beverley - 13 May 2004 03:37 GMT
I hate when my coffee tastes like sewage and sometimes it does - as if I've
lost my desire for it. I want something "cleaner" tasting. Maybe I should
make tea but some mornings are just that way and it will remain like that
maybe for a week. Then I'm ready for my coffee again.

Some mornings just the smell of lunchmeat makes me want to barf. The smell
of my hubby's eggs is gross. It's as though these common odors are
intensified to the point of being unbearable. I don't know why that is; it
just happens.

But I also have a problem with any strong odor. I have to be careful of
things like shampoo. Certain smells are just too much! And like Mair with
chemicals I have a problem with some cleaning products. Oh, and latex paint
can make me sick!!! And anything with polyurethane in it makes me  higher
than a kite and then gives me the worst headache even if I'm working with it
outdoors!!!

Pull up behind a diesel truck or a car spewing clouds of oil mixed exhaust
and I can get so nauseated so fast. That's another reason why I hate driving
in heavy traffic. Not so much because I can't get where I want to go when I
want to be there but what I have put up with along the way.

To complicate matters we are smokers in this house. I have a terrible fear
of fire. So I will get on a kick of smelling something and then I am ready
to tear the house apart looking for it. And I can't stand a cigarette smoke
filled room - I feel as if I can't breathe in it. So I've got to crack a
window and turn on the ceiling fan - it doesn't matter if it is below zero
or super hot! I need FRESH AIR!!!

And if there is any mold or mildew in the air I'm sick as a dog!
Bev
Grace Casselman - 13 May 2004 00:00 GMT
Drugs, if you're on any, can do it too....

> Have any of you had problems with your sense of taste or smell? Things taste
> so horrible off, smells drive me even nuttier - it comes and goes, but when
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Beverley - 13 May 2004 03:14 GMT
Advil screws up my sense of taste. Eventually everything tasted like a piece
of rebar so I quit taking it and it still took months for my  taste to
return to normal. I will never take Advil again! Not a single dose.
Bev

> Drugs, if you're on any, can do it too....
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Lee Thompson-Herbert - 13 May 2004 06:56 GMT
>Drugs, if you're on any, can do it too....

Oh definitely.  Methotrexate made everything taste foul.  Worse, I
had that nasty taste in my mouth within minutes of doing the injection
and it just would not go away for at least a day or two.  Lasix (diuretic)
can make things taste funny too, if I've let it wash too much potassium out
of my system.  That's how I finally figured out when I desperately _needed_
to go take my K-Dur right away, rather than at my regular dose time.  Opiates
can also affect your sense of taste and smell, as well any number of drugs
used for chronic pain.  Now that I'm back on a higher dose of Baclofen, I
can tell it's messing with my sense of taste again.  Topamax made my tongue
feel numb when I first started taking it, but that's gone away now.  

I react strongly to mercaptins (the stinky component in skunk spray and
some cheap perfumes) and to d-lemonene (the solvent in citrus-based cleaners
and--you guessed it--cheap perfumes).  Anything that contains even a small
amount of those compounds will burn through my sinuses like fire.  Worse,
too much d-lemonene exposure will cause me to start getting nose ulcers and
nose bleeds.  So when I start smelling *blood*, it's usually not a phantom
smell.  In fact, the fumes from some of those orange-based cleaners is enough
to make my face break out in that pretty butterfly rash we've all seen.  I
try and avoid the stuff if possible.  Unfortunately, some people have almost
no sense of smell at all and seem to think that bathing themselves in cheap
and nasty perfume is a fine thing to do.  And the cheapest perfumes usually
use d-lemonene as the solvent.  So I keep my migraine medications on hand
and try and flee such people as quickly as possible.

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Chaos Hill - 13 May 2004 14:35 GMT
As usual you have all made me feel less weird - so for that I say THANKS
Leslie

> >Drugs, if you're on any, can do it too....
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> use d-lemonene as the solvent.  So I keep my migraine medications on hand
> and try and flee such people as quickly as possible.
 
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