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Everything smells and tastes like chemicals!

I am a woman in my early 40s, and I have been suffering from a rare disease/infection, which is hard to describe. One year ago I lost my sense of smell and taste after a bad cold or flu.I can smell and taste things, but everything smells and taste like chemicals. I have ... [More] tried several doctors and dentits, but none of them can help me find a cure or any medicine which helps. If any one has the same symptoms or any information, please be kind and contact me ! Thanks!


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Everyone is affected by chemicals in different ways. It could be that your body is trying to release toxins from chemicals and that is why you smell chemicals so strongly. Get rid of the chemicals/chemically based products around you and do a sinus rinse twice a day.  Chemicals are found in everday cleaning and grooming products(Toothpaste, shampoo, bodywash, shaving cream,lotion...especially laundry detergent and air fresheners.) Use baking soda and truly chemical free products to see if it makes a difference. My thought is that it will. A lot of people who suffer from mcs will say that they smell chemicals, in there nose, mouth, vaginal area, sweat and mucus.
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Boo hoo for me...

No shampoo, no B soda, no toothpaste, no soaps of anykind, no salt water, no way. You dont get it do you. you just dont get it...Enjoy your life...  Another robot that doesnt even read the posts and cant probably smell anything at all or even know what smell is. Spambots or whatever. Try it! Try to love and lose... It is better to not love at all from my standpoint. Be a robot. Be an android. The zombie fun has started on this end. EVerything smells the same. Evil beyond belief EVERYTHING. And it isnt a phantom smell. This is a level of consciousness aware of filth and disgust. IS there hope? Is it possible to heal? What would I do after I am healed with this memory of everything being so filthy and rancid. Is that telling me that I failed to bring forth good fruit? Am I being cut down? Is this dying? Am I smelling my own decay? Why do I still try and eat a tortilla if it smells like filth? Am I an idiot.? Dont answer that..;) I fear to shower or swim because I fear the filth that will pollute the waters from my body... My body is pungent with filthy stench and I used to smell good I am told. Naturally good. Girls used to lick my body. No more. I wouldnt want to swim in a pond now for fear of making someone else smell this. ...Why do I look on this stupid site for some kind of something? Who the hell knows? I must be a lunatic. Good bye whoever is watching out there this *****... The whole thing *****...
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Thank god I found all of this. I lost my taste and smell over night. I woke up to coffee smelling ( rancid) July 8th. 6 months later I’m the same. After 2 months I went to my doctor when I documented everything. Explaining what all stunk. Even going to the bathroom. Worse when I’m on my period. I can only smell sweet and taste sweet. Everything else rancid. All meats, cereal, etc. they sent me to a CT scan ( normal) then blood work and a MRI. NOTHING! Now what? Now seeing how many people have this same problem we need help and an answer. I run a kitchen and need my smell and taste. HELP!
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I’m 37 years old woman I had a flu last year n I remembered I was using one of those nasal spray,so after I gt better I lost my sense a smell n taste,so I was like maybe next week I’ll get better after a month it came back but most of the stuff smell like poison n taste like poison it’s been 8 months now I can’t drink tap water,I can’t eat chicken or pork,I can eat steak but not all steak,I have no insurance so I have no idea what’s wrong with me.
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I had a similar issue last year. I got a sinus infection that kept coming back. It moved to my lungs and diminished my breathing severely. I was having a hard time recovering. Serious lung disorder and a whiff of smell, a cross between sweet maple syrup and burnt electrical or decaying auto interior.    What I discovered was GERD and esophagitis and peptic digestive issues feeding into this problem. I had to stop drinking all alcohol, stop dairy, no caffeine after 10:00 am and eat mild for 3 months. Smell returned to normal. It was very subtle bile reflux causing the issue. My treatment was, Nexium, in the morning, Symbicort inhaler for the bronchitis through a diffuser, clean food, lots of clean water and nothing to eat after 6:30 pm, occasionally a gatorade. Plus a gradual work up to regular exercise. Symptoms all cleared. Smell is back to normal. Watch you late night diet. When you get horizontal digestive gas can do a number on your lungs and sinuses if you have a hiatal hernia you don't know about.
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maybe its because of your name? bluedevil4x...?

I no longer believe anyone on here. all robots or aliens or something..
enjoy the smell of filth I do..

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I caught a really bad cold this past January and couldn't breathe at all through my nose. Someone suggested I try OTC nasal spray decongestants. So, I tried Afrin. It worked wonderfully! I ignored the 3-5 day warning and became dependent on it. After about 3 months, it suddenly just stopped working, so I switched to Neo-Synephrine, which is a different drug but it essentially does the same thing, just for a shorter duration. It was around that point, that I started noticing that some days I couldn't smell or taste anything for most of the day. It would come back periodically, but for shorter and shorter periods of time. The panic over not  being able to breathe through my nose switched over to panic over losing my taste and smell. The latter was worse, so I eventually stopped the nasal sprays. I went to an ENT who prescribed the usual antibiotic, prednisone, and steroid nasal spray. None of that changed anything. Eventually, my senses of smell and taste have returned to some degree but I also experience an odd odor and taste that is pervasive. I describe it as a mixture of coffee, chicken grease, garlic, and exhaust fumes. I can pick up what I know to be the "real" odor and taste of things but they are distorted by this other scent and taste that affects everything. I know someone else who had a similar issue due to chronic sinus infections and she said it was nearly 2 years before she returned to normal. It really does suck! I have very keen senses normally and losing my normal sense of smell leeches the color out of everything.
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Wow, I really thought I was loosing my mind until I came across this thread.  I suffer from the same odd smell, taste.  I thought it was a smell coming from my body, but my family member insist I smell fine.  So it's great that I don't stink, but its very frustrating!  I cant explain exactly what the it smells/taste like, but it's not a good smell.  I've tried detox's, sweating out whatever chemical I thought was in by body by sitting in the sauna everyday for weeks. nothing but liquid diets, Net pots, nose sprays,  ... Nothing has helped!  I cant think of anything that triggered it.  No colds or infection of any kind and it's been a solid 3 months now since I have been experiencing this.  It's really quite depressing!  I can still taste some foods, but that smell/taste always shows up and then I'm done eating.  I have noticed that all essential oils smell the same to me.  Awful!  Quite sad since I used to use a diffuser and enjoyed lavender and rose..  Not anymore!  They all stink now!  I haven't gone to the doctor cause I'm not sure how to explain it.  I'm really at a loss.    
Hi, I too am recently having the same issues.... everything smells and taste like chemicals. I couldn't first describe it, but it is so bad I would lose my appetite. It has been about 3 months. I believe this is a gradual process and I do not know when it is going to end. In the mean time, from what I am reading on these comments, I strongly believe it is the otc nose sprays. Namely Afrin. I only am saying this because I never had this issue before when I had colds or somewhat flu symptoms. I just knew I couldn't stand being congested. So, someone at work suggested to use this. It really did work. I was de-congested. This was the beginning to all  smells and taste being distorted.   What seems to calm the smells and taste are food that are base- aphilic  opposed to acidic. The acidic is way too sharp and I am nauseous. I am trying to see my primary physician and see what her take is on this. I will follow up on this thread and let you know. Say a prayer.
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I'm so glad I found this thread!! I was freaking out for a few days. A couple months ago I got what I assume was a bad sinus infection. I thought it was just a cold but it lingered for 2 weeks. Afterwards I realized I couldn't smell anything. I still liked to eat so I'm not sure if it affected my taste much. About 5 days ago I started noticing a very foul, chemical like smell in my bathroom. I assumed it was maybe my trash or toilet bowl. I then noticed that it was coming from me...down there. The smell was so chemical like I thought it had to be hormones spilling out from my Nuvaring. I smelled it so much when I wiped I thought it had to be that. At my annual exam I brought it up and my doctor told me it was just BV (bacterial vaginosis) but I didn't have any discharge, no itching, just this strong chemical like smell. I didn't quiet believe it and she didn't do a physical exam (which I'm now upset that she didn't). She just told me it would go away on its own. Then I started to smell it in my armpits and breath! I couldn't get away from it and I felt like everyone was smelling it too. It was so embarrassing. I smelled it on my toothpaste so I changed brands. I smelled it on my body wash so I switched. When I walked passed my shower after bathing it smelled so strong and I thought "why do I smell so bad??!!"

I searched online for hours trying to figure out what would make my vagina, breathe, and pits smell. I feared it was a deeper infection, tumor, or autoimmune disease. Upon finding this thread it sounds like this, altered sense of smell, is what is going on with me. I'm glad it's not my body that smells foul but rather my nose that is off. Now to see how long until I'm fixed...
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Sounds like I'm not alone in my misery. In Dec 2014 I got hit with the flu that was going around, and it was a bad one. This particular strain apparently caused many people to lose their sense of smell, me being one. Both my wife and son got hit with the same flu but neither of them ended up losing their sense of smell. I started feeling better after a week but that quickly changed when I got pneumonia. I was sick for almost a month. Since then, my sense of smell was all but gone and I was left with a "sick smell" that can only be described as an infected gym sock. In the spring of 2015 I went to the doctor who prescribed  a 14 day round of Augmentin, the preferred sinus infection antibiotic. At day 10 I had to stop, as all it did was give me stomach cramps and diarrhea. I've read that this issue could clear on it's own and hoped that this would be the case. My wife recently started working as a nurse practitioner and had been seeing lots of patients with sinus problems and upper respiratory issues and she has been treating them with Keflex 500mg with great success. I decided to try this as well and started taking a ten day prescription, twice a day on Dec 1st. After about three days the "sick smell" disappeared leaving me with not much of a sense of smell, but just vague hints of normal smells, but the sick smell was gone!. I finished the antibiotics three days ago and the sick smell has not returned but I still cannot smell normally yet. Just getting rid of that nasty smell is a huge relief for me. I'm hoping if this sinus infection clears up further then the tissue will be able to heal and hopefully my sense of smell will slowly return. I've also used a Navage sinus cleaner on a daily basis which helped a bit to lessen the sick smell but it never got rid of it. I'm going to continue using it and hopefully it will flush out any remaining nastiness that might remain in the sinuses. Lastly, I was not expecting the Keflex to do anything as it is not among the list of usual antibiotics that are prescribed for sinus infections, but I am a believer now. I cannot explain how great it is to not have that awful smell all the time. I'd rather not smell anything than to have to smell that sick smell. If me sense of smell returns to normal I'll post a followup.
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I hit my head from a fall in a warehouse 14 months ago. I have no insurance or money and the smell began to go away very quickly. Not it is so horrible that I wonder how I make it through the day. Even water tastes horrible and the smell gets worse every day. How much longer will I be tortured?
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I hit my head from a fall in a warehouse 14 months ago. I have no insurance or money and the smell began to go away very quickly. Not it is so horrible that I wonder how I make it through the day. Even water tastes horrible and the smell gets worse every day. How much longer will I be tortured?
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Does anyone else use one of those toilet sprays? Like Poo-pourri? or Unicorn Gold? You spray it in the bowl before you 'go' - it's designed to block certain smells by bonding to the smell molecules. I feel like this, combined with sinus issues, is part of the problem.
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Why does everything smell and taste like chemicals to me?
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Hello, I have had the terrible, miserable, disgusting chemical smell for over 10 years now.  At first I was just sick from this.  I went to ENT, nose and smell clinic in Cinc.  and had the Cat Scan.  I just want to share what I have done to get through this, because it truly helps you eat again.  One thing is to stand on my head literally.  It sometimes clears my nasal passages.  And the one I do the Most is EAT WITH A NOSE PLUG.  This takes the chemical smell away.  You still won't enjoy foods like you used to.  But this is how I eat.  I buy them at the local sporting good stores.  I keep them in my purse, in my car, and all over the house.  Now I don't eat in public with them, but it sure has helped me.  I know how bad this is.  It is still so depressing, I have it now, and most like will until I go to bed.  Good Luck to all.  I hope this helps someone out there.
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Hello, I have had the terrible, miserable, disgusting chemical smell for over 10 years now.  At first I was just sick from this.  I went to ENT, nose and smell clinic in Cinc.  and had the Cat Scan.  I just want to share what I have done to get through this, because it truly helps you eat again.  One thing is to stand on my head literally.  It sometimes clears my nasal passages.  And the one I do the Most is EAT WITH A NOSE PLUG.  This takes the chemical smell away.  You still won't enjoy foods like you used to.  But this is how I eat.  I buy them at the local sporting good stores.  I keep them in my purse, in my car, and all over the house.  Now I don't eat in public with them, but it sure has helped me.  I know how bad this is.  It is still so depressing, I have it now, and most like will until I go to bed.  Good Luck to all.  I hope this helps someone out there.
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Clairolfaction "clairolfactory, clair smelling, psychic smelling
A person with the ability of clairolfaction doesn't smell the normal smells that are present in general, but smells energies. These energies are transformed into smell in the nose. The person does smell something that most other people do not smell at the same place. The origin of the energy that is smelt isn't always known. The body or a part of the body (also each organ or tumour) is emitting energy in the aura/energyfield."
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When one is smelling hot filthy stench it will be coming in waves usually through places like ley lines and earth chakra fields. This filthy stench is brought about by a speeding up of the beings own energy field so that the gaian spirit can no longer keep up with the beings own energies and therefore can not filter the filth into benificial earth energies.. In other words the being dies while still breathing.  This can be quickly done to oneself by combining certain substances together which act as a vortex or a kind of energetic hole where energies slip in but can not biorhythm and transmute out in time to be benificial. This may be different for different beings and different levels of being but it can be said with clarity that commercial antidepressants and anti anxiety medications while possibly benificial when taken alone may become very disastrous when taken with thibgs like meth or lsd or alcohol etc.. Even taking these illigal medications alone may not create the filth but mixing all these things speeds up the energies and soom one finds themself in a shity situation.
It is hard to say how an individual can be healed from this. Maybe the individual has to become a gaian spirit and give up being a human? How?  ?
Needless to say of someone finds themself in this situation they will quickly discover it is impossible to live in much way other than hiding in between these ley lines and trying to figure out what to do next.
Question is why is everything effected? All food and drink becoming uneatable disgusting bitter and nasty. Again this may be because of the molecular structure of the individual has been damaged or sped up or something of that nature so that they are only aware of their own filth emitting from everything.
Bottom line would be kiss your *** goodbye.
You were probably given plenty of warning not to make these errors yet you did your own bidding anyway. The fruit pf this action is fag, homo, or solo.  The consciousness goes beyond your divine nature of masculine and feminine in balance and beauty into a place of sickness amd dis ease.  
Can you return to the beauty and truth lab?  
Can you?
You have 2 choices: you can try as well as your idiotic self can do or you can throw yourself into more chaos.
I wonder if anyone can be saved from this or if you have to be obliterated?
Hope and prayer may only work so far. But do you truly know how to hope and pray?  Do you have the power?
They say we need to be beyond hope and fear but this doesn't mean making yourself a hopeless wretch, but maybe you misunderstood that?
Remember the divine and be grateful you got to see and smell god.
Pray,if your not in so much misery that you can only think of more self.

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Granted a smashed in skull from a severe beating may have contributed to your issues.  Or maybe just possibly the smashed in skull was an effect of the cause. The root cause here is stupidity, lustful greedy desire and careless recklessness. And a hope that changes and morphs with desire and lust.. Result: filth. Lacklovelessness and sadness.
Can you burn bright enough to cleanse?  
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no humans left..  all gone... only gas and fire.. no spirit only shadow.. no hope only fear.. smoke and weeds... grinding flesh..choking stench.. silicon death..entire creation destroyed.. followed my lead.. drive... transport..heads..oil..blood..gods gone..women lost..motorsports..prison..burnburnburn...filth... rescue? how? its not a phantom its a state of death. momma? green? beauty? gone...gone..
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Smelling kinda more like dead bodies now. Certain areas are worse.  I smell dead.  All food smells dead.  Rotten.  Really gross.  I manage to survive. It's really bad.  Really really bad.  Unbelievable.  Meat cooking is absolutely unbearable.  I smell unbearable.  Doubt I'll survive much longer like this. Why would anyone want to? Terrible nightmare. Afraid to die, can't live, can barely breathe sometimes.  Can't eat, no coffee or tea only really ashy tasting water.  Is this the sulphur pit?  Fire and brimstone?  Zombie apocalypse? This only begets more terrible visions for me and all gets really scary in my life, or what ever this is?  Out sure ain't life.  Had a terrible vision.
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DaveLloyd1,

Get help now.  See an ENT.  Also see a counselor.  I lost my sense of smell and felt low several years ago.  After taking antibiotics for probably too long, the ENT finally did surgery.  I ate some chex cereal the next morning and couldn't believe how good old tasteless chex tasted.  The smell/taste went back to normal after a while and I was fine.  Then 2 months ago, I got a sinus infection and lost my sense of smell again.  When my smell/taste started to come back, some of my favorite foods tasted like gasoline.  That's now getting better but not all-the-way better yet as I just made some toast which smelled just like burnt gas.  However, I also just had a yogurt that was very tasty.  I imagine the reason people don't post that they are better, is that they get better and never think to come back to the community they complained to when they were concerned.  Human Nature.
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3 weeks on a z-pack. Everything smells like onions. Everything. Thanks for the info I will see an ENT. If this helps I will let you know. This state is unacceptable.
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I have been dealing with  a taste and smell issue for about a year now and don't know what to do. everything smells and tastes like and onion that has rotted and especially when I am near a egg that has been cooked. I can't hardly eat without feeling sick to my stomach. I have not had a bad cold or flu or any head trauma. i have had some traumatic emotional stress relating to my marriage and my husband and was wondering if any of these things could be produced by a person to another person because there are some really weird things going on in my marriage that I can't explain and when I try to talk to my husband he just yells at me and says I am a mental patient and need to go to a head doctor. I don't feel like I have any mental issues and never have except for what my husband has created with all his verbal and physical abusive behavior towards me. My brain seems to work just as good as it always has but emotionally I am stressed because the man who is suppose to love me is being so abusive and I don't understand why I have never been bad to him or done anything wrong and he won't talk to me about anything actually he won't spend any time or effort   in this marriage and it didn't use to be like that we use to be great together. any info would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't see how anyone can help this problem. I have never read anyone getting any better from people with similar situations. I seriously and I mean seriously doubt anyone has had this severe of a similar problem before this. It is definitely not a phantom smell, but an actual smell. Its like I entered a dimension where all is filth and that includes me. My sweat is absolutely disgusting. Everything is sweet and sickly tasting. If you offered me a million dollars to eat a box of crackers I'd tell you to keep your money. I force myself to eat cheese because the sickly smell and taste is slightly masked with cheese and I was a vegan when this happened. I can't even eat a lemon slice because it tastes like something I never ever could have imagined. This is serious beyond anything believable. Yes I am breaking down and falling apart. Yes I have very little hope at all and I am preparing to run away if I can just get to the Grand Canyon or somewhere remote. I can't hitchhike because it is too smelly with all the fumes driving by. They don't even smell like exhaust but like my own sick sweat. I know this is not phantom and I smell something legitimate because animals have actually behaved differently around me especially when they smell me they freak out sometimes, its terrifying and I hesitate to mention that because it is very hard to explain or believe. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it. It always happens when I am alone with them so no one else can corroborate this. Anyway, this is beyond alarming it is death. Its like I died and am still here. Prayer is the only recourse I can think of. I keep looking at pretty pictures of things on Facebook like nature and waterfalls but that distraction only lasts while I am on a computer. Just pray to whatever god you have that you never get close to going through this nightmare...  

Peace...  
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I remember when pot used to smell like pot from a distance when people would smoke it on the beach as a kid.. That smell was beautiful..
Smelled like it was good for you.
I remember when campfires used to smell amazing from a distance and they were really different smelling on the beach than they were at campgrounds. Especially the next morning when the dew got to the ashes. It was a beautiful smell...
The smell of rose oil was immaculate and the smell of my sweat was musky and good and strong.
I remember the smell of the salt water breeze across the land in the evening while watching the sunset and trying to see the green flash.
I remember the smell of trees and orchards and grapes and apples and peaches and plums.  I remember the taste of a beautiful girls cheek and I remember the sparkle of a red tide at night with glowing fish dancing beneath the waves...
I remember hearing the laugh of dolphins under water and surfing with them too.
I remember the smell of lipstick and shampoo and the aroma of a well cooked meal and a fresh pie. I remember the taste of beer and the sweet flavor of a fresh picked orange off of a close tree. I remember the smell of a pool in the summertime and the feeling of it in my nostrils after playing.
The smell of fresh seaweed in your hair and the aroma of lifelove.
Part of me clings to a small amount of hope and wishes that it will all come back and I will smell and love again...
Most of me feels dead and dying and lost and losing. I only smell filth now. There is not one single thing that smells exceptionable to this now. All is filthy and gross. All is sweet like chemicals and sewage and rancid onions and plastic. Nothing smells good anymore and all is terror.
I have my memories still but that is all...
the rest is darkness and putrid poison.
I am sorry I am so weak and confused. Very sorry indeed...
Best way to describe it is a film on everything.. LIke A coating of plastic dark oily blackness..
I've been having similar problems for the past two years. Have you found a cause yet? My doctor keeps saying anxiety but I know it's not anxiety. I have asthma attacks and my nose and eyes and tongue burn as well. I have dry eyes and dry nasal passages. No mucus for two years. Just curious if you found a diagnosis. Thanks.
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No one seems to reply to my messages wondering if they are or did get better.
I honestly feel like I am in absolute terror. The smell of everything is incredibly terrible. I don't know what to do. I haven't eaten in days and I cant even stand the way I smell. I see no hope and have no desire to live like this. No one here seems to be getting cured and I honestly dont believe some of these stories. I'm sorry but I feel like someone fed me a poisoned onion or something. Its getting very critical. I couldn't walk down the road because the smell and taste in my mouth was crippling. I spend all day and night laying down and dreaming of health. I don't know what to do, there seems to be no help and no love...
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davelloyd1, please go to your doctor or the ER and discuss this with someone TODAY!  Do not wait, you are not getting better and your desperation is alarming.  This is not normal and it is no way to live.  you need to get help and don't stop until you have answers or are feeling better.
[T]hey say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.’"
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I had a big paragraph written like everyone else explaining my experience but when I hit post I had to sign up then it lost everything!!! Ugh anyway, short version... I'm 37, female and just started having these problems a few days ago... I was wondering if everyone this is happening to is female? I wonder if that's and kind of factor??? Hormones maybe??? Also is anyone else having problems getting cooled off? I'm going to take my temp later and let you know how it goes and also keep up with this and share any information as well as obtain it... Thank you
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7 days ago, I started having symptoms of a fever - body aches, migraines, and chills. After taking motrin for about 3 days, my symptoms got better, but now it has turned into less severe headaches, stuffy nose and really bad cough that caused a sore throat and chest pains. I woke up this morning and immediately smelled something disgusting. I couldn't fathom exactly what I was smelling, but when I went downstairs, my uncle had made blueberry pancakes and bacon- yum! right? WRONG. It had a very pungent chemical smell and I barely ate it. The whole time I was downstairs I was miserable. The whole rest of the day has been horrible and I have not eaten/drank anything except water. This smell follows me around and even when I went to the grocery store this afternoon, I couldn't bare being in there with all the raw fish and hot chicken being made in the back of the store. I decided to buy a carbonated fruity drink with antioxidants to try to flush my system and I nearly vomited when I tried drinking it. The overwhelming scent and taste of chemicals makes me want to gag.
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Its gotten worse now. The air seems so hot and thick with chemicals and my mouth feels like rubber and my hands feel like they are releasing something. They feel kind of chalky and weird. I cant seem to leave the house now. All is saturated with chemicals and rubber and death. I pray no one experiences anything like this.. It is absolute hell...
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I'm 42, same thing. Last year I got the bad flu that was going around work, completely lost taste and smell. When they finally came back, my sense of smell was not as good as it used to be and now anything with artificial flavorings added tastes like chemicals. I also get random phantom smoke smells - nothing's burning, no one's smoking, but it smells like cigarette smoke and dirty socks. I've found that the more natural a food is the less likely it is to taste like chemicals. For example, I can't stand flavored chips anymore (Doritos, Sour Cream Cheddar Lays, BBQ chips, etc...) but I can eat the plain ones and they taste fine. I can't stand bottled BBQ sauce anymore but, if I make my own it tastes fine. I've recently tried Jo's all natural PB cups for a treat and they taste great! In essence, the fewer ingredients, the better it tastes. I have not been able to find any information about a treatment or cure that works for this other than a few references to people having it last 4 - 6 years and then it just goes away. Here's hoping....
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4-6 years.. I wont make it that long.
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