I lost my sense of smell four years ago. The doctors told me that it is natural and that it is not a sickness

case 0141

I fell down and hit my head in a parking lot. On the next day I realized that I can't smell or taste anything.

case 0142

I constantly experience a burnt smell, like wet smoke or wet camp fire.

case 0143

I cannot smell anything! I also cannot taste anything. My doctor says that I have had three minor strokes that have caused this. I have not tasted anything in three months.

case 0144

I suffered a head trauma from a car accident thirty years ago. I needed craniotomy to repair a cerebrospinal fluid leak and as a consequence of the surgery I lost my sense of smell.

case 0145

I don't have a sense of smell. I have congenital anosmia. It took me a while (several years) to even notice I was lacking the sense, since I have no frame of reference. I started asking my parents about it when I was pretty young (9 or 10) but they thought I was just trying to get attention. It wasn't until I was 15 that I got an MRI and found out that I completely lack the faculties to smell.

case 0146

My sense of smell has changed. I still smell smells, but they are different. Everything smells the same, like the smell of smoke from fire. I have been to my doctor but no underlying cause was found.

case 0147

I started to use prescription nose sprays to help with my sneezing caused by hay fever. During this time my sense of smell came and went. Then, ten years ago, I had sinus surgery. This gave me some relief with my smell improving a bit. The polyps returned and I now need another surgery. My sense of smell is now completely gone. It's made me quite sad at times as I can't get excited about a new restaurant, the smell of summer, or any other smell that brings out an emotive response.

case 0148

Last year I fell on the back of my head and had a concussion. As a result I lost my sense of taste and smell. I still have no sense of smell and taste and experience strong phantom odors most of the time. I have discovered that smoking relieves the problem. Have tried taking nicotine pills but don't get the same result as smoking.

case 0149

I smell a smoky/car exhaust smell almost all the time. I know it is in my sensory experience only, not actually present. It is as if the smell is right inside my own nose. I just now looked online in case anyone else had experienced the same phenomenon, and sure enough, there are lots of us! I found many questions as to the cause of this, but no definitive answers. The smell sometimes goes away, but usually it is present.

case 0150

For the past two weeks I have had a phantom smell of cigarettes. It started on a day that I was around a lot of people smoking. I have had this smell ever since. I have washed everything and tried purging my sinuses with saline but nothing has changed the smell. I notice it more sometimes and on other occasions the smell is almost gone. Most of the time it is like I smell a stale ashtray. 

case 0151

I have never been able to smell anything. I appear to have a normal sense of taste to the surprise of many.

case 0152

I lost my sense of smell about seven years ago. It started with phantom smells, a sweet odor that no one else smelled. Then I completely lost my sense of smell. Nothing got through anymore. Periodically it comes back for a few weeks, very strong, but then slowly drifts away. And often I can get an initial whiff of an odor. But as soon as I try to smell it again, it's gone.

case 0153

At the age of 50 I started to gradually lose my sense of smell. It is now gone completely. My sense of taste is also gone, although I can identify sweet and salty tastes. I have nasal polyps but was told that they are too small to warrant surgery but large enough to disrupt sense of taste/smell. My condition is beginning to affect me psychologically. I can't taste food or drink.

case 0154

A while ago I started noticing that I keep experiencing a burning smell even when there is nothing burning. I feel like the air has that burning smell. I recently stayed at a hotel and had that burning smell in the hotel room. When I opened the windows just a bit and felt the breeze come in, I did not feel it. When I am at home, I don't always have that burning smell. I sometimes go out to the yard at night and take a deep breath and don't smell it, just a fresh sense of air. So, I don't know if the burning smell is a hallucination or if it has something to do with the places I visit.

case 0155

Apparently, I can't smell skunk. When there's a skunk, I don't smell the awful smell that others describe. Instead I usually experience some other, more pleasant smells when encountering a skunk. It's usually smells associated with a cook-out (charcoal, hamburgers, hotdogs), but it also has been things like pretzels, broccoli, or even string cheese!

case 0156

I discovered at age 18 that I have no sense of smell. I was in fact born with no smell and have no recollection of smell. I have limited taste and rely on texture and visual presentation to entice me to eat. I do love to cook and create in the kitchen and there are no complaints when I entertain, thankfully...!

case 0157

When I was ten I noticed that I can't smell anything whether it's good or bad. Instead of smelling I would be nauseated and wanted to vomit if the smell was bad. If the smell was good I would crave the smelling thing although I did not "see" it. Other children would run away from a dead dog and I would go straight to it and even see it but smell nothing. I'm still like that but now I can smell sometimes but it will be once in six months and then nothing.