I smell odd things, 'phantom smells' on and off. Some are not so bad, I hate the chemical-like or burning smells.
I ended up seeing a Dr. for it because it got so bad. After an MRI to make sure I was okay I just had to learn to live with it. It only happens happens sometimes now, it was 24/7 when it started.
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Smell disorders aren't that rare. According to a 1994 survey, 2.7 million Americans have some type of olfactory problem, including anosmia (the inability to smell); hyposmia (a decreased ability to smell); parosmia (a distorted perception, instead of flowers, you smell rotten meat), and phantosmia. Another 1.1 million people have issues with taste (smell and taste are inextricably linked) including ageusia (the inability to taste); hypogeusia (a decreased ability to taste) and dysgeusia (a distorted ability to taste).
Common olfactory hallucinations include lots of icky odors. Sufferers report smelling hydrogen sulfide (rotten eggs), bad perfume, garbage, a gas leak, wet dog, pungent body odor or spoiled fish or feces. The brain may trigger such sickening odors instead of agreeable ones because humans learned very early to avoid noxious smells for survival.
Phantom fragrances can be produced by one or both nostrils and can waft in and out of a person's life over the course of a few hours or a few days or a few weeks. In some cases, such as that of a 35-year-old New Zealand woman who said her nose caused everything to "smell blimmin' awful" for 17 years, the condition can come and go for no apparent reason for decades.
In a recent story in the New York Times, a woman suffered a succession of unpleasant phantom odors, from dank earth to burnt chili. When antibiotics failed to treat the condition, she simply learned to live with it — and avoid disagreeable odors.
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