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 0380

I have noticed over the last few years my lack of smell. Strong lotions and perfumes that are overpowering to others barely register for me. Someone will say "that smells great" if I'm cooking or have something on my skin and I can't smell it at all. I just read online about a smell area of the brain and how a good "conk on the head" could affect that. I think this is what happened to me. One of the weirdest things I've experience is that I often smell a chemical smell...like plastics. I can't smell anything, but I smell a plastic chemical smell as if it's right under my nose. It happens a couple times a week and it's not dependent upon lotion or make up or anything.

case 0381

In the last month I have noticed a certain smell that I find very unpleasant. At first I thought it was new coffee my husband had bought. Then I noticed the new cashews smelled the same. Then the peanut butter. Then pizza crust. Today it was cantaloupe. Interestingly, the food tastes like what the smell is. It's quite nauseating actually.

case 0382

While cooking using a charcoal oven I inhaled heat in an attempt to blow the fire that was dimming. Since then, whenever I smell something I get the pungent smell of the dish that was being cooked. This has been going on for a month now.

case 0383

I suffer from phantom smells. Every so often I'll start smelling something like overheated chemicals. I can't identify the smell, or tie it to anything I remember — it's a chemical smell, with oily undertones, and it smells like something's overheated (but not burning). I'll smell it everywhere, and I don't acclimate to it — it's not like perfume, where you smell it for a while and then it fades. And for me, it'll stick around for days or weeks, and then go away for months at a time. I might smell it just a little every so often for a short time — like fighting off a cold — but every couple of years I'll have a full-on case of it, like right now. A few years ago I started taking lots of supplements, and it seemed to go away — slowly — and I'll probably do that again. It doesn't affect my sense of taste, oddly enough. I was able to eat a bowl of chocolate ice cream last night, and I tasted the chocolate just fine, even though I smelled the smell at the same time. It's really aggravating just because it never goes away. Well it goes away, but while you have it, almost every breath in means smelling that smell. It's not a rotten smell, or completely repulsive, but it's unpleasant, and it's darn near every inhale. There are worse things in life, but it's really aggravating.

case 0384

Some eleven months back I fell down and I think I got some unseen injury on my head. Four months ago I lost sense of smell. My ear nose throat doctor told me that there is no problem.

case 0385

I have never been able to smell. I thought that the sense of smell became more pronounced at puberty and when mine was delayed I became worried. At 20 I was diagnosed with Kallmann's Syndrome and was put on hormones. I married and my wife and I had children. I eventually went back to my endocrinologist and was tested again. He said that I did not have Kallmann's. So my lack of smell is still a mystery to me.

case 0386

I had a bad case of the flu and afterwards my sense of smell was all up the shoot. I could smell but could not distinguish the scents. Walking past the soap display in the supermarket nearly made me ill. Anyway it took ten years to come back about 80%. Now I have good days and some not so good days. It has never gotten me down but it would be great if it improved.

case 0387

I cannot smell anything except strong odors of colognes and a lot of candles. When I smell those, I have difficulty breathing. I can taste some food but not all foods.

case 0388

All of a sudden I cannot handle any perfumes/scents with an unidentified chemical... perfume, men's cologne, dish soap, fabric sheet, all smell exactly the same to me: very acidic. I also cannot drink any type of soda as it tastes just like the scents smell... I also sometimes experience burning eyes and severe headaches.

case 0389

I've most likely been born without the ability to smell. I don't really care since I don't know what smell is.

case 0390

When people complained about strong odors, I noticed that I couldn't smell anything. One night I was in a room where construction workers had been working earlier that day and had applied a finish coat on the floor that evidently had a very strong odor. I did not even know there was a smell. That was when I realized I had no sense of smell at all.

case 0391

Recently I started smelling smoke. At first I thought that there was smoke in the air, or someone who was smoking nearby as the smell was not constant. For the past week I have been smelling smoke constantly. No one else smells anything out of the ordinary. My throat and eyes burn as if there is actually heavy smoke in the air. I suffer from migraines and am wondering if there is a link between the two.

case 0392

I have a strong smell of smoke bothering me. Nobody else smells it. I even had the oven checked out, as I thought that might be the cause. The smell is not around me all the time and I can smell the normal smells, like perfume, cooking, flowers, and the smell of earth after rain. But in addition to these smells the smell of smoke seems to envelope me 75% of the time, even in the car. Now that I know that it is just me, it is not so threatening anymore, just very irritating.

case 0393

Little by little I noticed that I could not smell a rose. By the age of 75 I could not smell anything. I had no head trauma, I just lost my sense of smell. It also affected my sense of taste. I can taste sweet, sour, and salt, but not vegetables.