Hi having been afflicted with anosmia for the past 9 weeks I am keen to get in touch with people with the same problem. Looking on the internet I came across...
Mick will probably see your post here...............his address is listed on the previous posts on our site. Welcome Cathy-I am a former anosmiac(3 years long,...
Hi Pat and thankyou for your most encouraging email. Its great to make contact with people in the same boat as Ive felt so isolated for the past 2 months....
oh we're a motley crew here from all over.............is yours viral? or was it injury? I keep forgetting how many hours ahead you are.Is it 5? I'm on the east...
Hi again Pat. My anosmia only started 9 weeks ago so I dont know if its early days to start seeking advice or not as people seem to have different recovery...
Hi Cathy! Like Mick, I also visited the DC clinic. I'll forward you my information and Mick's email address as well. Franni ... to get in touch with people...
For me, the smell of cigarette smoke lasted approximately one week. Sometimes it was stronger than others. The good news is that many of us experience...
Hi Cathy, My loss of smell and taste started out like yours but I want you to know that I am now smelling distorted smells which all seem to smell alike at...
Hi, Cathy, I've had an almost identical experience that began at the end of May. I do believe it is resolving in almost minute increments, but none the less,...
Hi aline and thankyou for your email. It sounds reassuring and hopefully we will both one day regain our senses. Cathy aline_bergemann <abergemann@...>...
I am forwarding your e-mail to Mick, OK? Meanwhile why doncha read some of the old postings? It'll help you see how many of us have had similiar stories. I...
Thanks Pat for your kind words and support. I think I will give it till Jan 08 and then consider the Washington clinic. Hopefully in the meantime a miracle...
Hello: I found this group in looking for information on smell distortion. For the last month or so, I've been experiencing an ammonia smell when I smell...
Don, many of the people on this forum have had parosmia, phantosmia or asmonia (or all). I has asnomia first (where I could not smell/taste anything for a...
I think that afrin contributed to mine for sure..i used it before bed during
a cold and woke soon after to a severe burning in my sinus that passed
quickly it...
Don For what it's worth (and this is entirely unrelated to the problems I visit this website for) after hard exercise I often notice an ammonia-like smell....
All that business with Zicam causing smell distortions has got me wondering about these nose sprays.... The ENT , after I told him that Sinex may have caused...
Thanks to both of you for responding to my request - I did have a very bad sinus infection awhile back and after that is when this smell problem started. I...
i find that strange because every ENT i've ever seen said all those sprays
make a mess out of sinus' and as one put it causes "cobblestones" in the
sinus'....
I, too, have been told by many an ENT & internist that afrin is one of the worst otc meds on the market & should be taken off. I used it one night during the...
Dr Leopold, who probably knows more about smell disorders than your average ENT, suggested I use Afrin to provoke a "rebound" effect in order to block my sense...
Hi Everyone, I am back after a long while with more news and unfortunately it is not all that good. I hope you guys are doing OK and life is treating you well....
At this point I wouldn't use afrin again no matter who told me too...lol hugz Cyndi ... From: Anne Date: 9/5/2007 6:10:43 PM To: dysosmia@yahoogroups.com ...
I'm with you Cyndi- I've read enuf bad stuff about nasal sprays. I wouldn't take the chance.Maybe a rinse of some type might do,eh?I am guarding my smeller...
He assured you it didn't? Man, I just don't get that................ don't these ENTs read the paper? Pat ... Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer...
yes the saline rinse is wonderful! i've been using that and saline sprays as
well.. ... From: Pat Date: 9/5/2007 7:56:03 PM To: dysosmia@yahoogroups.com ...
ya know i hate to say this but I've watched alot of people in this group see
umpteen docs and no one has been cured by anything! they either got over it...
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