same problem with the smoke odor

[eval45]

I'm so glad to hear someone else is experiencing the same problem.  No answers and no solutions.  Yet, I have the same problem.  Smelling cigarette smoke in my nose.  By the way, when you are driving on the road, if someone is smoking and it's blowing out their window, it will come in through your air conditoner.  That's why you smell it when you are on the road.


This discussion is related to constantly smelling cigarette smoke.

[JustBsure]

My Benicar Rx smells and tastes like popcorn butter--even the bottle too!  Maybe BENICAR pills that come from different batches or production facilities have varied flavors and smells?  Maybe your pills DO smell differently --like Vanilla or automotive exhaust --maybe because of WHERE they were made and WHAT is in them?  Check your bottle?  My small white Benicar bottle states the following identifying details, in small print:

"Manufactured for Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. Parsippany NJ 07054. Product of Japan P1701409"
Lot# is RFAD119
Bar Code# is 65597-105-90
small nbr on left of Barcode is N3
small nbr on right of Barcode is 4
___________________________________
What does all this mean? Were these pills produced in Japan, then shipped to US? Or were they produced here in US? Are we using up OLD stock from Japan that has been exposed to radiation after Nuclear Plant contamination in Japan? Shouldn't someone be asking questions?

Look at your med bottles? Then list the numbers from your bottle- and the odor.  Let's research and compare??

List your Rx details on this blog ASAP.....   [from 'JustBsure']

May 10, 2011 1:18 PM  

[neko68]

I live in Northern California. I have been experiencing the smell of something burning too. It hurts my throat and makes me cough. I smell it strongest when I am at home and I even have a hard time breathing. It drives me crazy.

Nobody else smells it except for me and my daughter. My husband mentions ' controlled burn (field burning) ' for agricultural use. Who should we complain to?  

[Jen22w]

So glad to see that I am not alone here! This has been going on for over a year. It is not constant, but seems to come in spurts. It started again last week. Sometimes the smoke smell is so bad I feel like I'm not getting air and have to breath through my mouth. What the hell is this????

[freeofsmoke]

I too thought I was loosing my mind.  This is crazy!!  I can't believe so many people have the same symptoms of smelling smoke.  I have been smelling smoke for two days now. (since easter sunday night.)  I thought that the neighbor was smoking near my house. But he wasn't outside and when I went out there, no smoke smell.  I maily smell it in my house and car. No one else in my family smells it.  

I am healthy and I don't have hight blood pressure, allergies, or migranes.  I have been sick free for years.  I do take vitamins. I take vitamin B complex, Vitamin d and fishoil in liquid form.  All of the vitamins I consume are free of gelatin. Those are the only meds that I have been taking.

My weakness is coffee and diet coke.  I exercise and eat semi healthy.

I wake in the middle of the night to the smell of smoke.  It's like someone is blowing it in my face.  My eyes water and the back of my throat burns. I have also been coughing in reaction to some of the stronger smoke.

Has anyone ever connected with the other side? Does anyone have an answer?

[j4311]

I have this woody-smoky smell right now. For me, it's always related to a pretty bad cold and probably a sinus infection. I just put up with it and soon it's gone. Soon meaning about 10 days or so. The cold or whatever it is isn't bad enough for me to actually see a doctor. The smell has even affected the taste of coffee! This is the third time in the last 2 years or so this has happened - I am in my mid 40s and pretty healthy & in good shape.
Again I think it's related to a cold and possibly a sinus infection. For me it goes away in a week more or less but at times it's overpowering.

[MeliHigg]

I'm in my 30s and live in Florida and have been SUFFERING with this intermittently...now starting my 3rd year.  I can't stand the smell of cigarettes...why couldn't it be brownies or browned butter?!  The first time it came on after a horrible upper respiratory infection.  A Z pack took care of it.  Next time I talked my OB/GYN into prescribing me a Z pack and it  worked again.  Last year, I talked to 4 different doctors (one of them even being my brother) but still no one had an answer.  Finally, 2 weeks ago I went to see a new ENT and he's ordered a CT, but I don't have much hope.  He scoped my sinuses in his office and said they look fine.  He feels like its damage to the olfactory nerve and is not repairable...so depressing.  I've got 2 small kids, so naturally I don't want anything to be wrong with me, but it'd be nice to have a real explanation!  Cupping my hand over my mouth helps...air blowing on my face makes it worse.  My throat starts itching and I get a headache like I'm sitting in a smokey bar.  I saw that some folks mentioned air conditioning, but I even smell it outside at the park and the beach.  Keep your fingers crossed for me!  I'll let you know what we find!