super sensative sence of smell

[AmeliaFufu]

Week 6 of treatment, and everything is super smelly.  Does any one else have this as a problem.  My husband is first off not very nice because of the Riba, but now can't stand how anything smells.  He says everything stinks!  What can we do?  Does this go away?

[Rockerforlife]

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[Trinity4]

"While you're at it, tell him that treatment does not entitle him to be a moron. Yeah, he's got a disease, the meds are rough but there are a bunch of 105-pound woman who have made it through tougher treatment than him."

Bravo FlGuy and we are way past week 6!   Bandman made a good point too.  It's just easier to blame everything on tx.    

[FlGuy]

If your hubby complains that he smells foul odors wherever he goes you might suggest to him that he is the source.  Because of his 'not niceness' you might consider doing it by a cell phone call or a text message from a locked room in the house.  As people say, treatment cause weird smells but it can also make the patient odoriferous.  Besides, it can put his offensiveness on the defense for once.  While you're at it, tell him that treatment does not entitle him to be a moron. Yeah, he's got a disease, the meds are rough but there are a bunch of 105-pound woman who have made it through tougher treatment than him.

[Rockedbyrequiem]

Ya know, within the first few weeks I also had really enhanced sense of smell, and my doctor said that it wasnt something he really encountered. And he has MANY interferon-using patients. To go along with that, my taste for everything changes, even 18 weeks in. For example, I drink a lot of vitamin water, and I keep getting sick of flavors. Almost to the point where it nauseates me if I take a gulp. I feel differently about certain kinds of food as well. It's really bizarre. Im not sure if the smell thing has gone away, or if I just dont notice it anymore. This stuff does some weird things to you, that's for sure.

[Marcia2202]

The funky smell.... everywhere... It came a few weeks into tx and since I already have a doggy nose anyway, it was really bad. It would make me gag... Actually all my senses were heightened, even the hearing. I don't know if I have gotten used to it, or if it has gotten better. But the dirty socks/garbage smell was there for only a few weeks.

[meakea]

I was sensitive to perfumes prior to starting TX but it has become much worse on TX.  I don't like scents in any of my personal products and, if I have to be close to someone who wears perfume, it will instantly give me a headache and nausea.  I also will now get nauseous when my husband fries his bacon.  Cleaning products bother me too.

[charm27]

For me absolutely! Everything smelled funky! exhausts from cars, cigarette smoke I would literally have to run from (and I couldnt move that fast LOL) I constantly felt like there was a burning sensation in my nose! Evertyhting truly smelled awful.
It did go away after I finished tx.....

Best of luck!
Also I flet like the odor was coming from the pores of my body..asnd It was!
Not a pleasant thing.

Charm
All goes away..

[lchou]

Everything smelled like dirty socks my first few weeks.  Then back to normal.

[bandman54]

I believe it is easy to blame eveything on tx/hcv..
this may not be the case at all.  
I developed this super sensitive smell years ago.  My father had it as well.

I have also been in hospitals with signs urging people not to use scented products as it can really bother some people.

Certain smell cans literally give me migranes and a general feeling of "ickiness".
My father was this was as well.. and I remember thinking as a kid "Oh c'mon, don't be such a baby".   And know, I have this curse as well.  Iroinic , huh?

My smell increased even more after tx,  was it the meds?? who knows.  It could just be me becoming older!  Our bodies are going to change with our without tx/hcv.

Now , there are benefits,... I have noticed on walks that everything in nature smells absolutely wonderful,  it is almost euphoric.

Downside, if someone is smoking 2 miles away, I can't stand it!  lol.
I swear I can smell someone smoking in the car beside me with their windows rolled up!

But here is something else weird... before I started tx, every thing I tasted had a background taste (smell? hard to explain) of cardboard pizza boxes!!

that finally stopped!  thank goodness!

My dad was also a type II diabetic as I am now fighting to not progress to..... wonder if there is a connection??

My dad did not have hcv though.

hmmm.
bandman

[portann]

Smells don't bother me now, finishing week 43 of 48. In the early weeks, I couldn't stand to be around hot food or even in the kitchen. I ate club sandwiches and occasionally soup but very plain soup, like tomato.

And I smelled bad things that my husband didn't and insisted on throwing out food that he insisted was fine. It was a bit of a struggle but I 'rationally' explained that we mustn't take a chance on food poisoning!

And once he brought me flowers and we had to give them away. Now the house is filled with tulips and it's fine.

So all this with your husband could be temporary.

[JennyPenny]

My experience was similar. I didn't have too much of a smell sensitivity but everything tasted like it was marinating in salt. I used to wonder how my husband couldn't taste how salty everything was. It went away after treatment. And I think it was the reason I lost so much weight during that year. When Hagen Daz tastes salty, you know you're in trouble. :-)

[Rockerforlife]

Ivory and Dove soaps are still not safe....you have to go organic unsented...once you try these soaps.you will wonder how you used the others for all those years...

[Rockerforlife]

The artificial sents used in cosmetics and soaps ,perfumes cause cancers....PERIOD

[GreatBird]

My husband bought Dove soap and the perfume smell just about killed me at about the same point in tx as your husband is. (Why Dove when he's always used Ivory??) At any rate, I had to put it in a ziploc before I could be in the bathroom with it.

I just did shot 14 and the smell isn't bothering me nearly so much, but I'm still not feeling the love for perfumey scents.

[Magnum]

I remember while being under treatment that smelling the Costco cooked chicken in the car on the way home nauseated me. It never did before treatment. It is strange, but gradually goes away...

Magnum

[annieCinMD]

I have not personally experienced this, but have a friend who couldn't eat meat while she was Txing. She said it was just nasty, and no, she's not a vegetarian. 8 years later, and in remission, she eats meat. Smell and taste are closely related.  Not sure what to suggest, candles, those little wall thingies.  These medicines can make everything seem "off" or hyper-sensitive.