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Thank you! Yes, I have a doctors appointment Monday and, my symptoms also included phantom smells too! The smells have subsided (thankfully! It was awful!) but the vertigo comes out of the blue. Perhaps it is just allergies clogging up the old ear canals 🙂
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Hey I'm not the only one who had a smell hallucination. Solidarity. I have life threatening allergies so that gave me a panic attack to suddenly smell perfume very strongly where I thought I was mostly safe. Smelled like an entire bottle got broken nearby. I thought I was losing it once I realized that it was a hallucination.
Looked it up and apparently sometimes a tiny seizure, associated with anti-depressants as a very rare side effect, can cause that. I lost the link but try googling "olfactory hallucination antidepressant seizure" in some combination. It was either a neurologist or an ENT doc writing about it.