anyone hypersensitive to smells?

[HappyScrappy]

I have been hypersensitive to scent all of my life, but it seems to be getting worse lately.

part of it is that up until the summer of 1999 I ran high mileage and my sinuses were sort off in a perpetual state of inflammation.
now that I don't run anymore, I can get more airflow through there.

but in the last few months, my sense of smell is getting better and better. or worse, depending on how you look at it.

I smell garbage everywhere I walk - it makes me feel like Agent Smith in the Matrix. If I am writing with most pens, I can smell the ink as it comes out and dries and it is revolting. I can't stand near candles or perfume or I will want to puke - and I really can't stand those stores in the mall that sell that crap.

I buy only unscented detergents, soaps, and shaving creams. some liquid soaps don't bother me, nor does most shampoo.

In a room full of people, I can smell feet, breath, and ass. The gym I go to is thankfully sparsely populated while I am there.

the sense of taste is linked to your sense of smell, yet my sense of taste is not abnormal as far as I can tell.

do any of you experience this at all, or do you know of what triggers it?
it is getting bad enough now that I am considering going to the doctor - but judging from past experiences with doctors, I'm gonna assume they aren't gonna give much of a shit since it isn't like it is hurting me or others, it is just unpleasant.

 

[Code]

I'm horribly sensitive to smells.

I have to clean everything with unscented detergents. Use flonase to get smells out of my nasal cavity.

Whats odd is I almost never get BO. My wife loved that about me. I could work out all day and not smell.

 

[HappyScrappy]

my girlfriend is at least understanding about it. she no longer puts her perfume on in a room that I am in.
even then, until it has about an hour to thin out, I want to puke.

flonase has some sort of wax in it, so perhaps that would help block some of it.

I'm sure I get BO, but fortunately my gf loves the way I smell. she is always telling me I smell great and I haven't done anything other than deoderant in the morning. not even rolling in dog shit.
my gf doesn't seem to smell things at all. so we are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
which is probably good if she is gonna live with me and my feet.

 

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my girlfriend is at least understanding about it. she no longer puts her perfume on in a room that I am in.
even then, until it has about an hour to thin out, I want to puke.

flonase has some sort of wax in it, so perhaps that would help block some of it.

I'm sure I get BO, but fortunately my gf loves the way I smell. she is always telling me I smell great and I haven't done anything other than deoderant in the morning. not even rolling in dog shit.
my gf doesn't seem to smell things at all. so we are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
which is probably good if she is gonna live with me and my feet.

Yeah, most strong smells make me want to gag.

The wife loved my non-smell, said it was like baby's skin. I can't smell it, but I know it's not really like baby's skin, because my little girl has the best smell ever.

 

[HappyScrappy]

off the top of my head, the smells that I can tolerate are:
cooked food, toothpaste, mouthwash, orange juice, shampoo, *some* deoderants... that is about it.

this evening I was leaning back and reading a magazine and this new smell was near me. I felt like a dog and was looking all around to see what it was.
a bug had landed next to me and was walking around. it was the weirdest thing to know what the hell a bug smelled like. I crushed it and it then reeked and I washed my hands, the smell of the drain is gross.

it is becoming very weird to me - it is like ... I don't know. just really weird.

and no, the bug wasn't a stink bug, we had those in the south and I recall what they look like - this looked more like a black ladybug.

 

[Code]

off the top of my head, the smells that I can tolerate are:
cooked food, toothpaste, mouthwash, orange juice, shampoo, *some* deoderants... that is about it.

this evening I was leaning back and reading a magazine and this new smell was near me. I felt like a dog and was looking all around to see what it was.
a bug had landed next to me and was walking around. it was the weirdest thing to know what the hell a bug smelled like. I crushed it and it then reeked and I washed my hands, the smell of the drain is gross.

it is becoming very weird to me - it is like ... I don't know. just really weird.

and no, the bug wasn't a stink bug, we had those in the south and I recall what they look like - this looked more like a black ladybug.

Strong liqour
dog crap
vomit
perfume/cologne
cooked onions
ephedrine pills
gasoline

 

[Code]

My favorite smell
Plastic.

Getting a new shower curtain rocks. I love that smell.

 

[HappyScrappy]

Strong liqour
dog crap
vomit
perfume/cologne
cooked onions
ephedrine pills
gasoline

let me guess, this is a list of things in the back seat of your car?

I don't mind gasoline, which is good since I smell it near cars - don't like the smell of automotive oil though

dog crap can do either way, but I smell that all over the city, with garbage, which I hate.
I hate car exhaust.
perfume/cologne make me want to kill the person wearing it.
vomit has its time and place, I just don't know where that is yet.
I won't eat cooked onions, and I won't eat at a place where I can smell them in the air (if I can avoid it).
ripped fuel reeks.

I like the smell of guiness.

 

[Uh Oh]

and no, the bug wasn't a stink bug, we had those in the south and I recall what they look like - this looked more like a black ladybug.

I absolutely hate those things. I'll see them around my grandparents' house a lot. It's amazing how such a small bug can cause such a huge stink. Luckily, they are easy to recognize so you can avoid squishing them if possible.

 

[sereneman]

I am sensitive to my own farts. And my shit never used to smell, but it could clear out a room now. I guess it's the protein. I'll have to correct the problem if I get dumb and get married again. I would be too embarrassed for a woman to smell my shits. She would think something crawled up my ass and died. Reminds me of another story. Whenever my roommate in college took a dump, you could smell it all the way out in the hallway. One day he took a particularly nasty shit and I proceeded to air out the room by fanning our heavy metal door. I got my thumb caught between the door and jamb and it hurt like a mother fucker. It throbbed so bad that I could not sleep. I had to go to the doctor and he drilled a hole in my thumbnail and blood spurted out very high from the pressure of being trapped under the nail. But it was instant relief.

 

[HappyScrappy]

gas is generated as a byproduct from various bacteria in your gut breaking down proteins that weren't absorbed. the smell is a mix of the various gases as well as other wastes.

the worst part about smell is that the mechanism works in that small particles of what you are smelling land on the sesory membrane and then dissolve. They then trigger nerves that go to scent part of the brain and based on the areas triggered, the sensation is then a particular smell.
that part of the brain is close to (I think technically it is entirely surrounded by) the area of the brain that has long term memories, which is why smells so easily trigger them. (neural activity is a series of chain reactions - much like dominos falling)

 

[sereneman]

gas is generated as a byproduct from various bacteria in your gut breaking down proteins that weren't absorbed. the smell is a mix of the various gases as well as other wastes.

the worst part about smell is that the mechanism works in that small particles of what you are smelling land on the sesory membrane and then dissolve. They then trigger nerves that go to scent part of the brain and based on the areas triggered, the sensation is then a particular smell.
that part of the brain is close to (I think technically it is entirely surrounded by) the area of the brain that has long term memories, which is why smells so easily trigger them. (neural activity is a series of chain reactions - much like dominos falling)

Someone's been studying. I've always wondered why I can smell a particular odor and it brings back memories very vividly from long ago. If I smell the cologne Chaps, it breaks my fragile heart. It reminds me of my first love and I can remember it like yesterday even though it was over 18 years ago.

 

[HappyScrappy]

it just grosses me out thinking that I'm smelling dog shit because a small fleck of dog shit just landed on the insides of my sinuses... or wherever the sensory system for scent resides.

 

[HappyScrappy]

I guess I should be lucky in that I seem to smell what is actually present.
it would suck if I started smelling dog shit every time I was eating french toast or something.

 

[Code]

Someone's been studying.

No Scrappy can recall odd things like the Hayflick Limit and the atomic mass of tantalum.

 

[Taps]

Oh...I thought the title was "anyone hypersensitive to SMALLS"?

I assumed someone had just suffered a freudian slip.

Just messin' with ya scrap.

 

[PURE EXTRACT]

Yeah I'm hypersensitive to all kinds of smells. That's why I've only gone down on...3 chicks now. Thank God my girl is a clean freak like me.

 

[sereneman]

Yeah I'm hypersensitive to all kinds of smells. That's why I've only gone down on...3 chicks now. Thank God my girl is a clean freak like me.

I'm the say way on that man. My ex-wife used to want me to go down on her all the time. I told her she would have to take a shower first. That smell and taste grosses me out. Some guys are nasty MF's.

 

[HappyScrappy]

No Scrappy can recall odd things like the Hayflick Limit and the atomic mass of tantalum.

The Hayflick Limit is cool. I don't recall his first name, or how he discovered it, but it adds one more reason cancer is fascinating, why the present way we do cloning will never really work for entire organisms, and of course is the holy grail of the anti-aging clan (err, was initially, but now they think there are other things intertwined with it that are really what it is all about).

as for tantalum, I can cheat since I have a cool poster at my desk that has the periodic table as of 1988 or so.

 

[Code]

The Hayflick Limit is cool. I don't recall his first name, or how he discovered it, but it adds one more reason cancer is fascinating, why the present way we do cloning will never really work for entire organisms, and of course is the holy grail of the anti-aging clan (err, was initially, but now they think there are other things intertwined with it that are really what it is all about).

as for tantalum, I can cheat since I have a cool poster at my desk that has the periodic table as of 1988 or so.

88?
Does it have all the actinoids like Neptunium and stuff?

 

[HappyScrappy]

it has up to 103. it is mainly for looks. it has the data there, but no names, just their symbols and the various numbers. has a einstein quote on it, and a digitized image of him on it.

my dad gave it to me, he got it at a convention when he worked for Merck.

 

[casavant]

Body odor, decaying flesh, and really rank pussy are definitely at the top of my list.