Sense of Smell heightened... can any one relate?

[dippy1]

Hi, had a handful of new experiences past twenty four hours. Looking for answers. Has anyone else ever found that their sense of smell is suddenly really good. I could smell the cat litter from the other side of the house last night (yuk!) and when hubbie came home last night he smelt really strongly of fish (even after changing all his clothes for me!) the only explanation was that he'd eatend a red snapper for his lunch 6 or 7 hours earlier.
Is it just me or can anyone relate to this?
thanks.

[stormbear]

The bird's a chirping outside this very second, and to me it's as loud as an air plane flying over ,  very annoying , not the birds them self just how loud they are . I do understand what you mean , i have the same issue's ,maybe we're super human's.

For a while now i have thought that i was born in the wrong century , maybe 100 year's from now i might be better suited :?

[persephonedemeter]

How interesting. it is very peculiar that you talked about feeling hersensitive like your skin burning from the sun. I never felt that before in my life, but I would avoid going out in the sun because 5 minutes under it felt too hot for me like I was directly under a heating element and I thought my skin would cook and blister. I couldn't stand walking on City streets because I could smell everything and my vision  was very vivid as well as my sense of touch. I  found the hospital tables incredibly fascinating to feel. The hospital therapist said it was euphoria, but in my head, I thought it was global warming or something really immense. Some of it I really enjoyed like the sense of touch and visual intensity but I didn't like things "touching" me like heat, cold or even clothes. I also thought I was about to get a vision or maybe a seizure. Thanks for bringing it up. It's nice to know that it doesn't just happened to me or that it was a contact high or something. It's always the first thing with my hypomania, but I never thought of it separate from it but a part of it. I didn't really noticed hearing. The visual, smelling, touching and feeling got to me more. I also felt and thought I was getting messages and they were really important. At the time, I felt everyone  including myself knew exactly who was sending them, but I can't say now who I thought they were  from. I wonder if anyone went through that?

[Crystal413]

I have what I call bionic hearing and smell. It is so heightened it's unbelievable. I sure would like to know why.

[stormbear]

I can relate to your experience's 100% unfortunately, It's pretty freaky and i'm a very paranoid person .

[gulfgirl1111]

Yes I experience heightened sense of smell and hearing, very intense just before manic episodes. It can be good or bad but it hits me negatively, like cologne or favorite foods are appalling to me. My sense of taste is intense too and often cannot eat for days. As for other senses, I feel like I am in a fog, my ears pick up on sounds that I normally don't hear, but everything seems far away like in another world, but too close for comfort, if you can understand my contradiction.. I also feel nature more intensely, the wind can give me chills or the sun feels like it burns my skin... only for a day or two before mania is severe. For myself, I believe that maybe the heightened senses also leads to debilitation in doing normal activities, like focusing on writing or carrying a conversation. I can't even look people in the eye when I am too sensitive with heightened senses. These signs remind me to be extra careful to avoid triggers.

[leanne0770]

my sense of smell is good.  my friend had a lemon car freshner in her car, and 15 minutes later i met her, about 5 roads away from her car and all i said to her first was 'lmeon?'
and she said hmm, yes, car freshner?
it was only a small car air freshner. i am good for picking up what people have eaten too, say for instance my boyfriend, i could smell if he had strawberry, biscuits or yogurt.

I can say my eye sight has got blurry over the past years, which may have made my nose senses stronger, as one weakens another strongens.
I believe this strategy.
Also, I'm vegan so I smell a lots of different foods and not just the average flavours, which expands the nose. I wonder what the environment is like where you work?

[bernie40]

Aaaah!  Well that's got me stumped :-s

[dippy1]

Yeah..but this is a new thing ..never been able to snell this much before....bizarre....but I'm not keen on the word "hallucination" , maybe it's a compensation thing 'cos my eyesight gone worse than ever!  :-S   LOL!

[bernie40]

Hi,  someone else has posted about smells - "newbie trying to understand - hallucinations".  

I'm not sure whether these heightened sense of smells are a hallucination or not.  Like the other poster I always smell horrid things and search and high and low for the source to no avail and nobody else can smell them.

Perhaps a question to ask my psych next time I see her ;-)

[ILADVOCATE]

Of course not. Then it would have nothing to do with medications but it could be a neurological disability. I would suggest speaking to a neurologist regardless and perhaps detail everything that's going on and post the question in the expert forum under neurology and see if it could explain part of it.

[dippy1]

Thanks, but when I said "drugs" I meant the prescription ones..I'm not one for going off script.

[ILADVOCATE]

I can't figure that one out either but you posted about having dissociation so with both of those combined and the fact that you had some concern about the long term effects of recreational drugs, I would reccommend seeing a neurologist for a consult to see if there have been long term effects or if there is another neurological disability independent of all of this. It might be psychiatric as well but it seems beyond me but both of those combined could be completely psychiatric in origin although I may be wrong but it still would be worth inquiring about.

[monkeyc]

Hmm

I dont get sense of smell chnges but I do get vision changes, ive been feeling disconnected and seeing halo's all day today for example but I am not sure if thats the same thing.