I have had this before. It is like someone is sitting right next to me and smoking. It keeps me up at night. I am trying to stay away from google because it scares me. I am not sick. I have chronic congestion which I assume is from pregnancy. Any ideas?
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Ha - I was gonna ask if you were pregnant but I see that you are. I would just cough it up to being pregnant - your sense of smell can get way of out control!!
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Do you live in an apartment or very close to neighbors? Weird that it smells like it's right next to you, though, lol. I smell all sorts of weird stuff, though lol
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I am really sensitive to cigarette smoke. At my old office, I would smell it all the time, even though it's a non smoking office and no one I work with smokes (and no one else could smell it when I mentioned it). I think the lady who used to sit at my desk (years ago) was a smoker. I chalked it up to my mind playing tricks on me!
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When I was pregnant I could smell stuff from down the street, I swear! Your sense of smell is much more sensitive!
ETA: I remember being MUCH more sensitive to chemical smells like smoke. I remember getting into a friend's new car and having to roll down the windows because the 'new car smell' was making me ill!
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@Lindsay05: ever since pregnancy I've had a super sensitive nose - I can smell things from miles away.
There must be a neighbor that smokes because I smell it at night, too. -
I used to smell the craziest things. Pregnancy made me really congested and did the weirdest thing to my sense of smell!
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This is going to sound so weird... (Disclaimer: OB/GYN story)
A patient came in a few weeks ago, complaining she was smelling cigarette smoke everywhere she went. Even to the point that she asked her administrator to close off the vents in her classroom and shut all the windows because she thought someone was smoking nearby. Finally she realized it was following her everywhere.. and then that it was actually coming from her.
Turns out she had some sort of bacterial infection that NO JOKE made her va-jay-jay smell like cigarette smoke!!! Even the NP was shocked, she'd never seen anything like it. It was no big deal though; an easy fix with some antibiotics. Just the weirdest thing!
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Ok the even crazier thing is we live in the country and the closest neighbours are a couple miles away. I haven't been around any smokers and work in a smokefree facility. WTF?
@thismustbetheplace: That is soo weird! I feel like if I told my doctor she would think i'm insane lol.
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When I was pregnant, I could smell anything from miles away. It would drive my husband nuts. I also had a constant stuffy nose. Good news is that it went away as soon as I delivered! I got back to our room and I looked at my dh and was like, "oh, I can breathe through my nose again!!".
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@Lindsay05: did you figure this out? I've been having this today.
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@thismustbetheplace: Whaaaaat!? Haha. This is the first thing I read in the morning. Thanks for the laugh!
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This happens to me, and I'm not currently pregnant! Have you tried changing your soap or shampoo? There are certain fragrances that for some reason translate to cig smoke for me. Specifically blue dial hand soap.
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I thought of this this morning, because I could smell the car in front of me while dropping off DS at school. Their car smelled like cigarette smoke...I thought it was mine at first, but then once they weren't in front of me I couldn't smell it anymore.
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I've had something very similar happen and I've never been pregnant. Usually it will last about 10 seconds and then is gone. I've never brought it up to a doctor because I don't know how to explain it without seeming crazy and it doesn't happen very often. Is yours happening for long periods of time?
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This happened to me last night, except it wasn't cigarette smoke...I was installing a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, and I swear I smelled marijuana when I was working on the right side, which we (obviously) don't use or keep in our house...it was the darndest thing!
ETA - I'm definitely not pregnant!
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@wheres_c: i have not and I am still smelling it. I will have to bring it up with my doc tomorrow.
@StrawberryBee: hmmm I have been using the same products for ages but maybe there is something different that I dont know about!
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