Smell causing headache and nausea

[alphaq]

This has been happening for almost 6 days in a row now - There's a corner in my bathroom which one day I smelt a weird fragrance was emitting from it, but it definitely is not gas, smelled sort of like shampoo and nothing toxic. So I got closer and sniffed it to try to recognize the smell.

But right 10 minutes after I did that i had a slight headache and felt like high pressure in my head and it was about to explode, followed with some nausea. i went to sleep that night and the next morning it seemed normal.

Then I went to the bathroom again and smelled the same thing, right after which the same symptoms of headache and pressure inside head appeared.

So my question is, is that, could this be a migraine induced by smell?  and another concern is if the chemical that produced the smell was some kind of neurotoxin whether I would have brain damage right now? Would inhaling neurotoxins had immediate effects like in 10 minutes as did in my situation?

Thanks!

[FurballsMom]

I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and chronic migraines.  What you're describing is something that happens to me around the various chemical smells, regardless of whether they are pleasant smells or not.  To answer your question, YES, you can have an immediate reaction as you're describing.  No doubt they are neurotoxins.  

You need to find the source of those chemicals and remove them from your environment.  

Even if it isn't classic brain damage, as medical professionals would define, neurotoxins do all kinds of damage to our bodies.  Some of us just happen to be a lot more sensitive to these environmental toxins than others are, much like canaries in the mine.  These chemicals are actually bad for everyone, only everyone doesn't realize it.  

Since most people aren't so sensitive, they scoff at those of us who are greatly affected by these chemicals.  Ignore the nay-sayers and their comments.  They simply don't understand the misery that these neurotoxins cause those of us who are very sensitive to the chemicals.  These are the same ones who take offense when someone tells them that their perfumes and fragrances make one sick--no matter how gentle and careful one is to show regard for the other person's feelings.  As long as you're not being unkind, ignore the people who insist on taking offense.  They're not the ones suffering, so they lack the ability to understand.

Yes, you can have immediate reactions to the said inhaled chemicals.  You need to get those chemicals out of your environment as soon as possible, because you're affected whether you're close enough to smell them or not.  You will only continue to get sick.

Yes, this is migraine induced by smell.  Find the source of the chemicals and remove them from your environment as soon as possible.

[Shishlik]

Honey I have the same issues as you
Neighbors cheap dollarama fragrances coming into my condo unit and dowstairs neighbors constant weed smoking and their addictive air spraying of fabreze and scented toxic dryer sheets in their air system
Best to realize that you are sensitive to chemicals in these shampoos go natural
These zombie uneducated bums that smoke weed and spray their cheap toxic air fresheners and use unnatural products are samples of idiots they want to dumb down to as they are giving themselves cancer and people around them