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djhouseblend
USA
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 Posted - 02/14/2012 : 15:36:46
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I smell smoke at least once a week, sometimes lasting for 24hrs. It usually stops after a good nights rest- sometimes the coffee pot will trigger it. I live in a smoke free household, sometimes I smell it at work. If I put breathe into my shirt it goes away immediately. I looked it up online and I find other people with the same issue, some say it is a brain tumor. God I hope not. Anyone else get this?
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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BecB
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Posted - 02/14/2012 : 19:33:35
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Hello,
I have smelled strange smells, not smoke, but sharpie pen like smell and other chemical type smells. Personally, I believe the stange odors are linked to panic attacks. When you are in an anxiety high, panicky episode everything can be hightened and distorted. My whole sensory sysetem seems to go off at times. I have always been an anxious type person but never had these sensory type disturbances before last year. I would highly doubt you have a tumor. If you need assurancy, however, maybe have a CAT or MRI and if nothing shows up then realize it is TMS and cannot hurt you.
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shari
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2012 : 00:16:31
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| I've had these smell-of-smoke episodes for the last few years. It usually lasts a few days, and then nothing for weeks. I haven't figured out what it is. Definitely not cancer. I've never worried about it, so I'm reluctant to associate it with TMS. |
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2012 : 10:00:57
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It may be your mind playing tricks on you. My cat got skunked once. I was awakened at midnight by my cat drooling and looking and smelling awful. It was a terrible traumatic sleepless night. I spent several days getting the smell out of the house, garage and backyard. Fortunately the smell goes away after a few days but for a year afterward, I would occasionally get a very real seeming whiff of skunk in my nose. It's some form of brain smell memory.
I'll trade you the smoke smell for the skunk smell anyday. I had an acquaintance who had conditioned himself to being so intolerant of cigarette smoke he could smell it a football field away. Anytime he smelled it, he would have to leave the premise. It was a good excuse to leave meetings.
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golden_girl
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/15/2012 : 17:02:19
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I've had what's apparently called 'phantosmia' many times - mine is usually this really foul smell, like musty clothes mixed with wet dogs... Nice! I saw a Diagnosis Murder once (god help me...) and Dick Van Dyke said it was a symptom of schizophrenia! I certainly don't have that, so I'd ignore it and away it went.
With the usual caveat of see a doctor if you suspect something gravely serious; I doubt you have a brain tumour with only one, rather strange symptom! So treat as TMS as you see fit!
"F.E.A.R.
Forgive Everyone And Remember
For Everything A Reason"
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Smelling phantom smoke?
