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smell senses after husbands head injury

my husband had a bad fall at home which lead to, a few days later a seizure and another fall, he had a ct scan in a and e and he had a fracture to the base of his skull and a bleed to the front of his brain...he is back home now after 10 day of treatment in hospital and keeps saying he can smell cigarette smoke in the house and accused me of people being here smoking whilst he was away (which i can assure you did not happen)...i can see by these comments that people with similiar injuries have experienced the same sweet smoke smell post injury...what is the cause of this...can anyone tell me?. ....regards jeanette rosser
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Thanks for your response...his bleeding was in the same place so it is definitely a sypmtom of this injury...I have read many many people stating the same...this is so interesting and I will pursue more information where I can...we are still waiting for an appointment to come throught to see the neurologist (nhs at its best) and hopefully he can give me some answers...thanks again ...netty
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I had a similar injury 2  years ago and had bleeding in temporal and frontal lobe (brain contusions).  Besides lots of other symptoms my smell also got affected.  This could be olfactory damage and/or brain damage.  If it is olfactory issues it may repair it spontaneously.  You can see other thread how many suffer with different smell disorder after a head injury.

Smoking smell, metallic taste etc., can happen after the damage.  In the beginning my smell and taste was awful and now it some what improved.  I smell bad food when it is supposed to be good everyone says.  Your husband's smell may return if it happened only recently and recovery is unpredictable.  There are few doctors in U.S. try to treat this.  He can get a checkup from ENT doctor and confirm the diagnosis.
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