Re: Another weird question: sense of smell

[Guest guest]

Thanks ,

Helpful to know I'm not nutty. This is interesting. I do live in a

new house. However, we have all wood floors (no carpet) and soaps and

stuff I use are all organic.

I saw my ND yesterday and asked about this. He has me not only on

isocort and other adrenal homeopaths (ashwanguanda,

phosphatildylserine, iodine and typical adranl vitamins)... but he

has me on a few other things for my head injury a few years ago that

was never really treated homeopathically.

He asked if i ever smoked... NO! whole heartedly NO! (ok a few

experiments with pot in my college years... but even then, the smoke

just bugged me and could never really do it).

then he asked if anyone around me smoked, and I said " no " because i

work from home, and all i do is go to yoga class, go to grocery

store, or shop... i don't go to bars and any parties i go to 99% of

them are non smoking parties (because they're all athletes).

Then he asked if anyone ever smoked a lot around me as a kid... the

answer " Yes, my father was a chain smoker. " for my entire childhood

i was exposed to this. (you'd think i'd pick up smoking huh? makes an

interesting argument for genetics/psychological constitution vs.

environment argument used in so many " disorders " huh?) He thought

maybe the homeopathics i'm on were probably possibly detoxing any

residual effects of smoke that my body was exposed to for that long.

Or he thought possibly the homeopathics could be heightening my sense

of it.

Mostly, it annoys me. When I smell it, nobody else smells it. (Unless

it's heavy like that kid who walked in to the coffee shop.) Last

night, we were baking 3 pizza's in the oven. I had a small dinner

party. I SWEAR it smelled like they were burning an I kept checking

the oven to see if they were burning (they weren't). the two girls

sitting right next to the oven did not smell any smoke. I think my

sense is heightened somehow right to any type of light smoke or

burning. A while go we were in a pizza restaurant (no...its NOT all

I eat...) but again, i noticed the pizza oven smoke bothered me a

lot.

You are right to make me take notice. so far, i haven't figured out

why though...

thanks!

>

> ,

> Not to scare you but I would encourage you to take steps to protect

yourself from

> becoming more sensitive to environmental chemicals.

>

> I was chemically injured a few years ago and now am now

hypersensitive to all chemical

> smells including cig smoke. I have full blown environmental

illness. My thyroid, adrenals

> and sex hormones were very much affected by this episode, also,

which is common when

> a massive exposure overwhelms the body's defenses. Before this

large exposure I had

> been becoming more and more sensitive over a period of many years

and one of the first

> problematic substances for me was cigarette smoke which contains a

whole cocktail of

> various chemicals. It took me a while to realize even a little bit

of cig smoke would cling to

> my hair (extremely long and thick) and it was hard to get out even

after washing it. My

> doctor once suggested the smoke or fragrance was stuck in my nose

or sinuses and

> recommended using a netti pot after getting exposed to things that

were making me ill.

>

> I have heard of people becoming temporarily sensitive to smells

(incl. pregnant women for

> example) but there is also a part of the population coping with

this issue and they are

> severely and often permanently sensitive to smells, mainly

synthetic fragrance and other

> chemicals which cause distressing and for some life-threatening

symptoms. We are

> learning more and more that common chemicals can disrupt hormones

(bisphenol A) and

> that most of us have a much larger exposure to chemicals and

thereby body burden of

> chemicals than is safe.

>

> Are you annoyed by the smell or having symptoms: breathing

difficulties, dizziness, brain

> fog etc? In any event, I would encourage you to listen to your body

and discover the root

> cause of this experience you are having. Are you unwittingly being

overexposed to

> chemicals at home or at work: new construction, art material, photo

chemicals, synthetic

> fragrances, petroleum distillates or solvents, poor indoor air

quality or toxic mold? There

> are also some illnesses that share the symptom of chemical

sensitivity: endometriosis,

> CFS, ME, fibromyalgia, etc.

>

> If I could go back and do this over again, I would protect my

health by avoiding petroleum

> based synthetic products as much as possible, eat organic as much

as possible and seek

> out the best quality air I could find. For the sake of your health,

listen to what your body is

> saying to you. This experience you are having now may be a profound

gift in the long run.

>

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks for sharing your doctor's perspective on the smoke smell. I have heard of

people

detoxing with the use of sauna that began smelling perfumes or chemicals they

had not

been around for years coming out of their skin. I hope you are able to

successfully detox

from your childhood exposure to smoke and that any hypersensitivity abates soon.

Do you

mind my asking which homepathic you are taking that might be having this effect?

I

wonder if it would help me. I also grew up in a smoking home and later smoked

myself as

a teenager and young adult. Best,

[Guest guest]

I, amoung my other challenges, also have a severe case of chemical

sensitivity and heavy metals. I'm worth something.....one of them is

gold, ha! I don't know how that happened.

In any case, I wanted to mention that a certain type of sauna, far

infared saunas, can indeed help detox those out of us. I'm trying to

see if there are any public saunas anywhere near me that are the far

infared ones. If any of you find them in a certain type of office,

please let us know so we may be able to use them instead of buying

them. They are expensive. Worth it but, expensive.

Homekeeper

>

> ,

> Not to scare you but I would encourage you to take steps to protect

yourself from

> becoming more sensitive to environmental chemicals.

>

> I was chemically injured a few years ago and now am now

hypersensitive to all chemical

> smells including cig smoke. I have full blown environmental illness.

My thyroid, adrenals

> and sex hormones were very much affected by this episode, also,

which is common when

> a massive exposure overwhelms the body's defenses. Before this large

exposure I had

> been becoming more and more sensitive over a period of many years

and one of the first

> problematic substances for me was cigarette smoke which contains a

whole cocktail of

> various chemicals. It took me a while to realize even a little bit

of cig smoke would cling to

> my hair (extremely long and thick) and it was hard to get out even

after washing it. My

> doctor once suggested the smoke or fragrance was stuck in my nose

or sinuses and

> recommended using a netti pot after getting exposed to things that

were making me ill.

>

> I have heard of people becoming temporarily sensitive to smells

(incl. pregnant women for

> example) but there is also a part of the population coping with this

issue and they are

> severely and often permanently sensitive to smells, mainly synthetic

fragrance and other

> chemicals which cause distressing and for some life-threatening

symptoms. We are

> learning more and more that common chemicals can disrupt hormones

(bisphenol A) and

> that most of us have a much larger exposure to chemicals and thereby

body burden of

> chemicals than is safe.

>

> Are you annoyed by the smell or having symptoms: breathing

difficulties, dizziness, brain

> fog etc? In any event, I would encourage you to listen to your body

and discover the root

> cause of this experience you are having. Are you unwittingly being

overexposed to

> chemicals at home or at work: new construction, art material, photo

chemicals, synthetic

> fragrances, petroleum distillates or solvents, poor indoor air

quality or toxic mold? There

> are also some illnesses that share the symptom of chemical

sensitivity: endometriosis,

> CFS, ME, fibromyalgia, etc.

>

> If I could go back and do this over again, I would protect my health

by avoiding petroleum

> based synthetic products as much as possible, eat organic as much as

possible and seek

> out the best quality air I could find. For the sake of your health,

listen to what your body is

> saying to you. This experience you are having now may be a profound

gift in the long run.

>

[Guest guest]

, No problem.

I'm on iodine, isocort, indole 3 carbinole, calcium d glucarate, a

cortisol manager that has ashwanguanda and phosphatidylersine and

magnolia, adrenal stress formula, D3, The vitamins suppment program

in 's book (exactly as he writes it and those levels), and

finally i took arnica for a week (to adress head injury) and now

something called Nat Sulf (again for head injury), which is sort of

chalky, and disolves under my tongue. I only take it until i'm out of

it, and i'm not supposed to touch it with my hand (although i always

forget that part!)

i think he suspects the nat sulf, the ashwanguanda or the iodine.

the thing is, this smoke thing started a few months ago, before i

even saw him, so i don't know that it is that. I wonder if i'm just

getting more sensative to things. I wouldn't be surprised. I took a

random adrenal cortex formula a few months ago and it sent my heart

racing and just plain crazy with too much energy ... as if i needed

that with my insomnia problem.

I'm sensitive to caffeine, to just about anything. I had an allergy

test a few years ago because i had several bee stings (one after

another over 6 months) and the last one ended me in the hospital so I

went to an allergist to see if i needed an epi-pin... and found out

i'm allergic to dust mites... only i've never had a bad reaction, it

was a surprise to me. Until a doctor, before my ND, put me on

progesterone (even tho i didn't need it) to try to fix my insomnia.

well... i started breaking out in rashes all over my body...wouldn't

you know a dermatologist confirmed it was from dust mite bites. now,

i'm kind of a clean nutt so generally, there's no dust in my house.

and i change my sheets weekly. and my husband or dog did not have any

mite bite rashes....so why me? The average person always has a few

dust mites in the house. always will. but why i broke out? the

progesterone lowered my immunity and BAM, mite bite rashes

everywhere. i went off the progesterone and no mite bite rashes.

Later on, i found my current ND to address the real problem: adrenals

first. I'm so much happier being on isocort for my low cortisol. i

feel sooooo much better now.

I just think my system is changing. it's been in hell for 2 years

trying to come out of adrenal fatigue and being mis-treated for it 2

times using sex hormones. I think lots of little sensitivities are

going to come up. I just wondered if anyone else here experienced it.

My husband jokingly calls me " wee " (as in fragile)...and I've been a

tomboy, athlete my entire life and like to think i'm " tough " but in a

way, i'm begining to agree with him that i'm not as hearty as i think

or appear!

>

> ,

> Thanks for sharing your doctor's perspective on the smoke smell. I

have heard of people

> detoxing with the use of sauna that began smelling perfumes or

chemicals they had not

> been around for years coming out of their skin. I hope you are able

to successfully detox

> from your childhood exposure to smoke and that any hypersensitivity

abates soon. Do you

> mind my asking which homepathic you are taking that might be having

this effect? I

> wonder if it would help me. I also grew up in a smoking home and

later smoked myself as

> a teenager and young adult. Best,

>