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Hyperosmia

I'm pretty sure my husband has hyperosmia.  His entire life (not a traumatic event), he has had an extreme sense of smell.  He can tell ingredients of perfumes foods pretty much anything.  One day at a work lunch at noon I had a rum and diet soda with lunch.  It is very rare (maybe once a year if at all) that this happens.  I didn't see him until I got home that night after 11 PM.  He could smell the rum on my breath when I gave him a kiss that night.  I had had lunch with the drink, later I had a snack ate dinner, drank water and soda in the time period since I had the drink at lunch.  He doesn't like to go into the city, since he smells the urine in the street.  If i need to give further examples I will happily do so.

His heightened sense of smell is affecting his life.  He would much rather be normal.  He works in sales, and if a client has halatosis or bad body odor he really suffers.  We live near the interstate, and depending on teh direction of the wind he gets sick sometimes from the smell of the asphalt/tires/cars on the freeway.  I have tried and I can't smell anything- I've asked friends if they could smell anything, and no one has said yes yet.  He always just thought it was something he had to live with.

His sense of smell is driving me crazy.  If we are talking he will ask me to go brush my teeth or use listerine.  I do not have exceptionally bad breath, I am normal- I checked with my dentist.  

He asked me if there was any way to lessen his sense of smell, and I thought cauterization of his nose might be an option.  I also saw online that Topamax could be used as well.  I haven't been able to find very much information about it- apparently Hyperosmia is not very common.

Are there any treatments?

If so, what type of doctor would be able to help?  ENT?  Neurology?  I have no idea.

Thank you for any help/suggestions you can give.

christyvt
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I have not found an answer and I’ve been looking into this for years. I my started as, first, I’ve had a good nose as a kid. Then, yes, some trauma growing up....I think we often can’t quite admit that any discomfort as a kid CAN be interpreted as trauma. Even while our siblings sail through with ease. We may experience fear and stress while other members dont. Then late 20s got my first migraine. That, to me, was my first notice of my smelling things others couldnt.  In my 30s I developed pain. It was wicked and I searched for years for answers. I got the dreaded “fibromyalgia” diagnosis. Then I was also getting nerve injuries in my neck and pelvis and THATS when I really dived in and learned about our nervous system. What I found was amazing. Have him read about our nervous systems and how we can calm them. It’s all intertwined with our brain and our chemicals Like epinephrine, cortisol etc. The only relief I’ve found was a very dedicated practice to yoga and meditation.  What that does is grab the brain, calms it, so the chemicals don’t flood the sensory nerves, and then the entire body, muscles, tendons, fascia, all cells, get on board to calm. So when the smells come, and they are everywhere...I can relax my response to them.
I am hoping with sip, he’s getting a break from the tar, construction, factories, all that, we can imagine how the animals feel. It’s poison. Much luck.
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Hello Christy
Thank you so much for posting this waaaaaaay back in 2009.
Ive had this problem all my life. Its so bad that I get migraines from womens perfume. I can smell when people are sick, and when I worked at the nature reserves, I told the game rangers which of his herd were pregnant.
As cute as this sounds, I suffer. Ive not been able to be intimate with anyone for years, i dont hug or touch anyone because i can smell their earwax and their natural oil on their head.
Ive tried huffing paint thinners, Ive tried swabbing my nose out with ethanol, Ive tried essential oils, Ive done everything. Ive even tried breaking my nose, only been able to fracture it. Now that I understand that it is the nerve that is hypersensitive, I wont try to break my nose anymore.
But my point is that I am desperate, I cant work with people, and in every bloody industry, you are expected to be a team player.
If anyone has any help, please, I need it.
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Hello :) I hope you are seeing this, I am intrested to make a book about Hyperosmia and I would like to have more intell about it, if you are intrested pleas contact me. I am very young writer and Hyperosmia has a lot of potential to make good stories even though you have a rough live ahead of you. I hope you dont judge me, but I see this as an insperation to my fantasy sided mind. As well I see it as an insperation to encounter my own illness. Thank you very much for your answer!
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Question before my comment: Has anyone tried air purifiers?? If so, which worked for you??
Comment: I wish we weren't alone in this, and I wish this was a documented issue with the medical community. It's debilitating and it can most certainly effect relationships. Having hyperosmia, my coworkers (whom I still adore) don't respect my needs about perfumes and especially heating fish in the microwave. (I'm gagging!) My spouse gets annoyed as I smell the neighbors cooking and smoking and often complain- he doesn't understand that just because the smells don't bother him doesn't mean they're not debilitating to me. I can no longer wear perfumes or body lotions. Smoking and the scent of food cooking sends me to headaches and nausea. And I can often smell the food and smoke in my clothing and hair even hours later, it's like it just continues to accost me. And most especially I can smell people's hair scents, like their scalp, it's as if my face is buried in a hotel room pillow. And I have worked with children for 20 years, but in the past 10 years or so, some of their scents make me nauseous. So while I'm happy to see I'm not alone, I'm so sorry for all of us, and I hope we get help soon! (I will be buying those coffee bags and carrying them around with me for relief!!)
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I'm identifying with so much of what you're saying and so appreciate your pointing out the raw nerve point feeling at the top of the nasal cavity upon initial contact and the path it follows to your neck.  Eating takes away the pain until right after last bite--yes!  That's me exactly. Iwas just 'cooped' up in a friend's car for less than 10-minutes for the drive across town--visor air 'freshener'--always on passenger side--has physically ruined my day.
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I have suffered with this for years.  Now it is the Chemical fragrances that particularily drive me crazy.  The dryer exhaust from our building's laundromat is vented out under my living room window.  I am getting ready to move to another apartment on the other side to get away from it and be able to open my windows.

Recently I have discovered that if I take Claritin everyday, it seems to dampen down my sense of smell.  I don't like taking it but for now I need the break.
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Just recently I found out there's a name for my problem. Hyperosmia. All my life I have been sensitive to smells and wondered what's wrong with people around me who don't smell what I smell. Many things make me gag and I get a migraine headache from some of them, but my GP told me 15 years ago to try a certain combination of meds and see if it helps, because until then nothing worked. He said I should take 1 tablet of Cafergot and 2 tabs of Synflex 275mg as soon as I notice the first symptom of migraine. It worked and I've been taking it ever since. I have cut it down to 1/4 and it still works but it takes a bit longer to take effect. The reason being: Cafergot contains Ergotamine and, being a vasoconstrictor I didn't want to run the risk of tightening the coronary arteries. Considering that I have allergies and that my migraines are almost always combined with a blocked sinus, I take Fedac (1/2) which contains pseudoephedrine and an antihistamine. It always works and I hope it works for you too. I am very sensitive to caffeine and even when I take 1/4 of Cafergot at lunch time I can't sleep that night until 3 or 4 am and the quarter only contains 25mg of caffeine. Then I have to take another half of Fedac to help me fall asleep. Also make sure you take the meds after food because Synflex irritates the stomach lining. My heart goes out to all of you who suffer from migraines. Mine were hormone related as well as food and inhalants. In other words anything that is in the air would affect me. I had control over food but not the air. I feel great now because I don't have migraines any more that lasted for a week non stop. Hope it works for you. I have to learn to live with Hyperosmia and hope there will be a solution to it soon. As I am getting older it's getting worse.
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I have this too, get a box of coffee bags. They look like tea bags but they are coffee. I buy mine at walmart its folgers in a box.  Put the coffee bag to your nose and breath it for about 3 mins...coffee cleans the palate. Works for me everytime. Good luck
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I have this too, get a box of coffee bags. They look like tea bags but they are coffee. I buy mine at walmart its folgers in a box.  Put the coffee bag to your nose and breath it for about 3 mins...coffee cleans the palate. Works for me everytime. Good luck
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As with everyone else here, I have hyperosmia. If you can tolerate the rubber, then I recommend respirators that protect against paint fumes (available at Lowe's) can block volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from perfume or "fragrance" as the term stinkers prefer you use. Of course, once you are 'fumed, the migraine and pain is instantaneous, so it is best to use the respirator as a prophylactic when you know you are going to be 'fumed by known stinkers.
I saw someone was recommending a dopamine antagonist, which is a treatment for schizophrenia and can cause side effect similar to Parkinson's disease. This is again the ignorant medical community's idea of putting a lid on what largely is affecting women...instead of seeing this as a clue to investigate. For instance, what other disease are prominent in women and are there links to these diseases and hyperosmia?
If you think about women in early pregnancy, many of these women purport hyperosmia leading to nausea and vomiting - why doesn't the medical community say these women are "making this up?" We know in early pregnancy TSH levels, as well as many other hormones are rapidly rising, which could help explain symptoms.
When you try to explain your odor threshold to a stinker, then it is like trying to describe a 3-D world to a 2-D creature who cannot perceive depth - stinkers refuse to believe what they cannot smell just like doubting Thomas in the bible.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO1y-Tm8dSI
It is difficult to have patience with stinkers, but just remember that we now have a treatment for restless leg syndrome, which the medical community also thought was "made up" until suffering patients started making connections. The medical community cannot admit ignorance, so it will be labeled a "mad and hysterical" disorder until (1) more men come forward with the disorder or (2) a treatment is accidentally found because no one is particularly interested in treating a "female" disease unless it involves making more babies.
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Wow, I feel like I hit the jackpot of fellow sufferers...have only met one other person before that had extreme sensitivity to smells! She had a diagnosis of MCS (Multiple Chemical Syndrome), extreme chemical sensitivity to all sorts of plastics, carpets, fragrances, petro products, etc. Made me feel lucky to have the simpler symptoms that I have.

I started having problems the summer of 1995 after I suffered a strange red swollen infection in both my feet after crawling around in a plowed field for a day, getting dirt inside my shoes that I didn't bother to remove as it just kept getting in.  I believe that I suffered a reaction to chemicals in that soil (pesticides, etc.) that day.

About a week later, after being on meds, my feet healed, I was sitting in a small meeting of about 20 people where one lady had seemed to have poured the entire perfume bottle on herself, along with an entire spray can of insect repellant. She said she had been weeding all day (thus the repellant) and didn't have time to shower (thus the overdose of perfume). I found the combined odors extremely overpowering and felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to my nose, smashing it up into my sinuses! I spent 3 days very sick at home after that 1 hour of exposure.

I had just recuperated from this attack on my senses when I attended another larger meeting in a sizeable room, where I could smell so many fragrances and could identify from which direction each of them came from. I got very dizzy and light headed and felt like I was going to collapse. I wobbled up from my chair and could barely stumble out of the meeting room to the bathroom in the back of the building. I stayed in that room until the meeting was over and I could ride home with my spouse. Again, I was super ill for days afterwards.

Every time I was around a crowd of scented people, the same thing happened. I finally asked my allergist about the possibility of being allergic to perfumes and whether or not there were any injections I could take to lessen the severity of the symptoms, as I couldn't afford to be ill all the time. He informed me that perfumes have HUNDREDS of ingredients and that it would be impossible to formulate an allergy injection for perfume.  The only and best solution?  AVOIDANCE.

Avoidance? That meant reading EVERY LABEL on any product I was looking at to buy to make sure that "fragrance" was not in the ingredients. I could not stand the slightest smell ON me, so every product in the house was "fragrance-free." It also meant everyone else in the household had to be fragrance-free as well, so all the items they used had to be free of the offending fragrances and colognes. I became an avid hunter of fragrance-free products for all of us, whether in K-Mart or in health food stores. And,   I discovered that, even if the front of the product says "unscented," don't always believe it!  Some unscented items will still have a fragrance in the ingredients' label !!!

Some of the products that I found that I could handle are:  ALL Free & Clear Laundry detergent, Dove sensitive-skin fragrance-free hand soap, Seventh Generation liquid dish soap, Aveeno skin lotion & Aveeno shaving cream, Puffs unscented tissues, Sure fragrance-free deodorant.  So far, the only shampoos and conditioners and hair sprays free of fragrances I have located have been found in Health Food Stores.

I use vinegar in the bleach cup holder of the washer as a sanitizer, as I can't handle bleach. Vinegar is great for a lot of cleaning jobs, as well as baking soda.

Thankfully, my family took to wearing fragrance-free products all the time quite nicely. If any of them were in a crowd of scented people, they would take off their coats and jackets and hang them up in the garage to air out before coming inside.

I also have a few food allergies, and I can tell if someone is eating peanut butter in the other room (gag-some smell!), or cooking eggs (nauseating!)    I can smell the nasty peanut butter in cookies or brownies, so won't touch them. If I am ill, cooking eggs has just got to be the nastiest smell in the world (eurp!!!).

Certain stores are toxic to me; I won't even enter the frilly, scented candled places, they are too strong, and I can smell them long before I get to their doors. I avoid walking through or next to perfume displays, often walking in a long round-about way throughout a store. I can't handle going down the detergent aisles, I have to hold my breath, cover my nose and dash down to grab the fragrance-free detergent. (Why can't they have them at the beginning of the aisle!!??)

I don't even go into stores during X-Mas time, there are so many offending odors, plus an increased number of scented people, I can't stand it. I try to shop in grocery stores during slow times so I am not likely to meet a lot of stinky people. And churches and bars? Forget it! People going out on the town seem to pour bottles of every scented product on themselves that they can. And Smoke? Allergic to that too...Nothing worse than fragrances trying to cover up cigarette smell... choke, gag!!!

If I ride with others, I nag them to death about not "tail-gating" the vehicle in front of us, as I don't like the fumes from their exhaust. I especially demand that, at a stop light, we stop and stay a ways away from the car in front of us. And I can't handle riding in a vehicle without air conditioning, as the heat from the car, heat from the road and the engines just gag me. I insist on using my pickup when my cousin and I go anywhere, even though he states his gas mileage is better, since his air conditioning doesn't work. ("Just open your window" he says. HA! No way...)

I have learned to speak up for myself in public....if I don't, who will? One time I was having lunch with my brother, and a very heavily scented waitress came to our table. I told her I couldn't have her wait on me, she was too stinky (big slip of tongue, meant to say perfumey)). Wow, did she fly off the handle, took offense thinking I didn't want a Latino serving me, which was far from the case. lol

Actually, by avoiding fragrances (and smokers), I have less sinus infections and less bronchitis and less pneumonias now, which makes my doctors happy. One doctor tried testing me for asthma because I told him I had troubles breathing around fragrances, but that turned out to be a negative diagnosis. My blood pressure goes up when I am "attacked" by fragrances. My doctor couldn't believe that I could sense high blood pressure, until one day, when I appeared at his office I was accosted by scented candles and scented plug-ins in the check-in office. Once I signed in, I had to step out into the hall way for "air". No one could persuade me to go back inside, so my doctor came out and checked my blood pressure....it was super high, along with my being dizzy, light-headed and sick to my stomach. Doc became a believer that day. O, and he also made sure there were no more smelly products in the future in the office! Loved that man...wish he were still my physician!

One good thing about being extra sensitive....I prevented a fire in our home. I was sleeping, and all of a sudden sat straight up. "I smell something scorchy!" I yelled. My husband and I walked all the way through the house until we got to the other side and he finally could smell it too. Turned out to be a charger was going bad and could have ignited at any minute. That charger was 60 feet away when I smelled it, and it was super nasty strong to me.

I liked reading all the posts here. I am going to ask my doctor about some of the suggestions about nasal cauterizations, etc. Thanks, guys for sharing!

Pat

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I too, have yperosmia and it was all triggered by a smell in a taxi cab.....caused a 10/10 headache, a 2 day hospital stay and every test and medication under the sun....with no definitive answers. In reading this blog, I saw a comment about a clinic in LaCrosse Wisconsin that can help.  Does anyone know the name of the clinic? M
Thanks.....its good to know I'm not crazy!   Good luck to all of you!
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I am sorry to hear the various levels of suffering and hope someday there will be a medical solution for us.  I too have hyperosmia.  I realized at the age of six that I was different in this sense.  It was Thanksgiving,  my family ( eight members) and I were watching TV in our living room after the dinner celebration.  I notified my family that I smelled something burning.  No one else smelled something burning.  We continued watching TV.  After a little while, I persisted that I was smelling something burning.  One of my brothers was sent to check the kitchen and found nothing.  I persisted.  Another brother was sent to check the furnace in the basement.  Again, nothing.  No one paid attention to me after that.  About 20 minutes later one of my brothers happened to look out the bay windows and yelled the house across the street and one house over was on fire.  A person parished in the fire.

I also suffered from migraines.  They started when I was thirteen.  The migraines were without aura and were accompanied with constant vomiting.  I had four key triggers with one being exposed to strong odors for a period of time.

My acute sense of smell has forced me to make many modifacations over the course of years.  I am in my early 50's now and try to protect myself the best I can.  I use fragrance free face and body soaps (aveeno), fragrance free face and body lotions and fragrance free laundry detergent and fabric softer.  I use a steam to clean my floors, swifter dry dust clothes, vinegar and water to clean surfaces.  I only use two scented cleaning products because I have not found an alternative but ensure the area is well ventilated.

It took years for my husband to understand the severity of my issue.  I found aveeno carried a line for men that was fragrance free.  It is called aveeno active naturals.  I found fragrance free shave gel, after shave lotion and face wash.  This has helped me tremendously on this front and my husband actually likes the product.

We have dogs.  We use fragrance free dog shampoo and conditioner.  

When we invite guests to our home, we kindly ask that they not wear fragrances such as cologne, perfume or scented lotions as I am allergic to fragrances.

I am the cook in my family.  So far, I can tolerate most food odors but I do frequently open the kitchen window when I cook no matter what the weather is outside.  I just adjust the opening accordingly.  Also, I generally wear t- shirts to cook dinner because I get food odor transfer so I can change out t-shirts easily and at a lower cost than dry cleaning.  I just have more laundry.

I have learned to remove myself from an environment with "strong" odors as quickly as possible before I get too exposed and I reach " the point of no return" where I get ill.  If people do not understand and look at me funny, so be it.  It is a matter of survival.

I have had to quickly remove myself from elevators, taxi's, dr's offices, restaurants, etc.

I also suffer from a variety of allergies which at times are scary for me as my breathing becomes constricted, I feel dizzy and faint amongst other symptoms.  I have two different inhalers.

Bottom line,  I have found a routine that works with my specific triggers.  I understand that I may have to adjust my routine as I come across new triggers.  I have learned to take a stand for myself as most people do not understand my situation and how "strong" odors can make me ill to the point of being non functional.

Until the medical community can truly help us, know that you are not alone and continue to fight for a healthy living situation.
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  I am so sick of living with this problem. I feel like I am going to have to spend my life alone if I am going to ever be happy. Everyone else loves the smell of food, and I can't stand it. Detergents also make me sick, along with many other things. I'm driving my family crazy along with myself. I smell cooking on my clothes for hours. I don't want my kids to only remember me like this, I'm afraid that will be the case, since I have never heard of anyone else with this problem . . . until now!
  I'm so glad I stumbled upon this site. I actually work in ENT and have only asked about it one time to one of our doctors who stated she had never heard of a problem like this, so I chalked it up to just me being crazy and gave up.
  I hope we can all find some relief someday. It changes your life so much more than you can ever even try to explain to anyone. Thank you to everyone who shared your stories.
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I've always had a heightened sense of smell but it got worse (better - depending on how you look at it) after the spinal I received for my second c-section. Not only are scents stronger but some of the smells I used to like, smell bad to me now. My symptoms are not nearly as dramatic as some of those listed above but they are still annoying. Body odors are the worst. I can smell halitosis from across the room and sweat before someone even enters a room.

That said, I think my youngest, the one I had after getting the spinal has the same condition. We are the only two to smell things that others can't. Thankfully they don't all make us sick or nauseous but again, bad smells are bad, even if they don't make you hurl.
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Hi, I come from North Wales, I was reading your comments and was wondering if this condition can start at a young age and if there are any conditions connected. My daughter is 3 and her sense of smell is unbelievable, she smells things that others don't even notice, it makes her gag and choke like she is going to be sick. Don't like to see her suffer so any advice would be great.
Thanks
Carl
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Avoidance is the only treatment.  Doctors know this; but for reasons of their own, most will not advise avoidance and choose to waste sufferers' time and finances with wrong advice.

There is no cure for hyperosmia; and it does require loved ones, including family and friends, to alter their lives to help you live yours.  This fact is a real problem for most.  So those ill must come to terms with this sooner than later.

Let's just keep striving to go on doing what we have learned over time works:  avoidance.  Our Heavenly Father Bless us all and help us live the best we can.
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I have always had a very strong sense of smell, much stronger than the average person. Except for migraines, I suffer from what others in this forum are talking about. Certain odors I can not tolerate, especially boy odors, bad breath - including onion and garlic breath. All chemical smells such as cleaning products, perfumes, laundry products, room fresheners - they get "stuck" in my nose. The isles in the grocery stores that sell these products have always bothered me. In my adult years, I developed seasonal allergies, as well as allergy to dust, mold, must, mildew, and when the heat comes on in the fall.

During the past two years, this problem has excellerated. I absolutely can not tolerate the detergents isle in the grocery stores, stores with scented candles, and perfumes. Restrooms with deodorizers are the worst! All the before mentioned odors now at times cause an intense, acute asthma-like coughing fit that can become severe to the point where I am gasping for air. Though I do not have a history of it, I was diagnosed with asthma and prescribed an inhaler. I also am disabled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, an autoimmune disorder.

It seems that avoidance is the only treatment for this condition.

I do believe that there is link between high stress levels, hyperosmia, allergies, and asthma. I question if there is a build-up of toxins on our environment that maybe a factor in causing these ailments and that is only so much our bodies can take before they shut down.
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He may have a zinc deficiency. I suffered the same problem years ago and consulted a doctor in Chicago who said zinc and copper my be low. Started taking zinc daily and copper once a week. Smell returned to normal in about. Month.

Freddie
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Hello All, I thought I sent this msg a few minutes ago!  I knew on the first day of school--first grade, that my nose was different.  I smelled the stench of chalk all day, every day & can still smell it to this day!!  I smell gas leaks in the neighborhood, burned up coffee pots in the office, & advise my sister when her cat's litter box has gone absolutely too long...I don't care if it cleans itself & vacuums the floor...it still stinks!!  I have not been debilitated by my 'GoodSmeller,' although I do suffer from evil, nasty migraines.  I read somewhere on this site that some docs believe hyperosmia may be due to damaged areas in ones spinal cord. Kind of like a 'traffic jam' of sensory input.  I've had 3 low back surgeries & finally fusion with lots of shiny hardware...sounds plausible.  I wouldn't however, take back any of my spinal surgeries...I'm so thankful to still be walking upright, I'd undergo those surgeries w/o anesthesia if that's what the Neuro doc said!!  
God Bless You All
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Can you please share the oil you use on the q tip? Thank you
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I believe this is what I have too, however my situation is a little different. I've always had sinus issues and allergies (environmental). About 5 years ago my husband & I got a Pug Puppy. The second day we had had him, I put him on my chest and it was like something flew up my nose and I've never been the same! I can't sleep, it's like I'm so hypersensitive to his scent that my nose actually feels cleared out! I have not congestion what so ever. I've had allergy testing done and I'm not allergic to dogs. Has anyone experienced this. I don't want to get rid of my dog, I want to find the root cause. I've tried everything and nothing works. I take OTC sleeping pills to get some sleep.
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I am so glad I have found this forum, and so many people who seem to be suffering like me (though I wouldn't wish this on anyone). As I type this I am struggling with more cooking smells at home. My husband doesn't understand how truly vile I find these smells-particularly the smell of meat cooking for some reason-I think he thinks I am making it all up. I have suffered with migraines for many years, and wonder if this has permanently affected my sense of smell. At least I know that I am not alone, and not a freak! I also realise that there may well not be anything I can do about this. But thanks everyone, from a fellow sufferer in the UK.
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Unfortunately have exactly the same headaches and had temporary hypersomia due to being exposed to chemical warfare agent multiple times.I won't go into the details of the chemical right now because I'm not 100% sure what it was. Suffice it to say it was pretty nasty.

Hypersomia went away 34 hours later but have pain exactly as you describe.

Pain in nose and septum haven't. Feels a little crawly up through the sinus's is all I can say. Discomfort pain in morning. Exactly same headaches as you described. Started very bad in back of head then radiated forward. Now entirely nose , septum area.

MRI shows polyps through maxillary sinus.
Having nasal septum pain and painful eyes.

If you've had any new info let me now.
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I am a fellow bloodhound in Maryland and I am miserable.  I love that you whined and complained because I feel the same way and no one ever wants to hear it.  My ordeal began roughly 4 years ago after having a very rough cold and flu season.  I started noticing that my asthma, usually brought on by only cigarette smoke, cats and exercise, was worsening with laundry detergent.  Then air freshners.  Then lotion.  Then deodorants.  Then shampoo.  Now, I cannot tolerate any artificial fragrance - none.  If it is a natural smell, I am fine.  I, too, detect every smell in ever open window.  Honest to god I can detect febreeze with the door closed as I approach a home that uses it.  My hyper smell is destroying my ability to work and have any type of normal social life.  The doctors think I am in need of counseling and anti-anxietymedication.  I am at the end of my rope and Wilma to try anything, but I just wish they would realize that I now my own body and this is not what is going on!  I feel for you and am so happy that I am not alone!
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