Phantom smell - Burning & Smoke

[Stez77]

Hello, For a while i have been smelling a burning smell in my nose, kind of like smoke. It's not constant, somedays it's there and some it's not, i don't know what it is, i searched around and couldn't really find much, any info would be great.

[wookiette]

I have it for ten months , but it can disappaer as long as a few weeks. i think i have a chronic sinusitis too. It only appears at home and disappear if i open a window ...

[Michellelynn219]

I know this is old and maybe it will help someone else that is searching for an answer.  I also have the burning scent and Hashimotos. I take Synthroid.

[didi444]

hey i have a few things in common with you, not only the name lynn, but this burning smell at night and i take synthroid !!! (ps sorry if ur getting this message twice, im new to the site)

[Hef99]

I  have had the same burning smell for about 3 months. Smells like a dirty oven is on and the door is open.  It also is affecting my sense of taste. I will drink a A&W root beer and all I get is a chemical taste in the soda. I smell cigarettes and just smell the chemicals not the tobacco aroma. I sure like the sounds of a sinus infection over a tumor! I am 40lbs overweight and have just got a cpap for apnea. Doctor gave me a puffer (steroids) it hasn't helped. I'm going to try saline now maybe some allergy medicine. I also have to find out what a neti pot is !! next doctor visit I'm going to steer him towards a sinus infection. Good luck everyone if it goes away I'll let you know.Cheers

[Karrieboo]

When I googled this I never expected to find so many people afflicted with this.  I have been getting this for a couple of years on and off.  Mine is not a burning smell but a rancid putrid smell/taste which lasts a day or two and is so strong I swear people can smell it on me though they cannot.  I usually wake with it in the middle of the night like tonight.  It has come on during a dream of vomiting a thick putrid paste or trying to clear that paste from my mouth.  I smell it in my dream and wake to the smell.  It is what wakes me.  This time no dream,  I just woke with it.  I do take diuretics so I could be dehydrated somewhat so from reading here I have been pushing fluids for the past hour.  I was under tremendous stress today and took a Xanax which is something I rarely rarely do.  I keep wondering if that did it.  It is really quite disgusting as I not only smell it but taste it and it kills the taste of anything I eat  and makes me not want to eat.  I also took an allergy pill as some others have done here on the odd chance it might help.  The only thing I have found in the past that remotely helped was to keep mentholated cough drops in my mouth at all times while it was happening.  It "kind of" masked the smell and taste.  I have had several MRI's and EEG's in the past and nothing.  I had extensive blood work done recently and the only thing found was very low potassium.  I am at a loss.  Anyone have any ideas?

[flexdoc]

Ive had the same thing for about 2 years. Constantly smelling dust or smoke. Ive used a Neti pot and that seems to help a bit. But you're correct, I thought I was the only one who had this.

[jbobo]

the human body is riddled with tumors. everyone in the U.S. for sure. whether or not they become a problem is yet to b determined in most cases