Karla, reading your post again, it's not clear if you have phantosmia
or parosmia. If you are truly experiencing a taste distortion rather
than a "flavor" distortion, clonazepam helped me with that.

Is it one specific smell that overpowers and distorts everything else,
including your taste?


--- In dysosmia@yahoogroups.com, "Karla" <princesskarla1973@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Group it's been awhile since I have last posted. I wanted to
> see if any one here has heard of clonazepam. it is supposed to be
> like a sedative type of drug, for people with seizures, epilepsy, and
> anxiety. my neurologist prescibed this for me several months ago. i
> have not taken it yet because i have read the side effects and its
> scary. I was just wondering if any of you have taken it and if it
> helped with the smell and taste distortions. My neurologist says that
> it would help with the distortions but I have my doubts. My smell and
> taste is so bad that its almost hard to get thru each day. soda like
> coke and pepsi smells and tastes like pinesol or some other kind of
> cleaner. mr pibb, rootbear, garage smell, cherry and many other
> things , have a smell of leather like I picked it up and started to
> chew on a shoe or something. I constantly have a bad smell that only
> I can smell and that never stops. its horrible and I have had this
> now for over a year. A cold is what started it and at first I had
> confidence that things would get better but i see now that my chances
> are slimmer than I thought. Anyways, if anyone here has taken this
> drug and has had improvements or has heard anything bad about it ,
> please let me know. If it will help me I will start taking it right
> away, as I am at my wits end here and dont know what else to do.
> Thanks and Hugs to all
> Karla
>