Is anyone else sensitive to smells?

Thank you 🤗

I have Gord aswell as fibromyalgia so the horrible smell in my nostrils might be me being more sensitive to the acid reflux. I am not currently on meds for that as I seem to be intolerant to them.

That is very usual for Fm. I just had a nurses aid come to my home and her body odor gagged me. Perfumes and any smoke give me an immediate migraine. They finally made my workplace scent free. By then my doctor made me go on disability and now it is 12 years later , just new symptoms and different areas of pain.

Hello @guineapiglover, oh my goodness, someone has the same as me!! I smell everything. I smell our tap water. I cannot drink it cuz I taste it too. I smell things before anyone else and I warn them of what I am smelling. This is going on 2-yrs now and no one is like me. I thought I was a freak. You smell everything too??? I just read all you smell. Yes, I smell people and perfume gags me too. Bad odor as well. I just smell everything. Cleaner fluids I can name each one used. What chemicals that are out in the water. Each one I smell. I have to keep using nice scents in my home because I can smell the furniture and the floors and carpeting. I hate this ability. My score says, Really! Hmmm! He didn’t know what to tell me. I moved to a different state and told my new provider. She will see what she can do to help me. Nothing they do can help me. The pain, the meds fail. It’s a hard life.

Dear Lizzietish56,
It's a weird symptom,smelling things, perfume smells are very strong and unfortunately the nasties as well. My fibromyalgia senses are really heightened, it must be the GORD aswell. Don't forget everything is turned up and is amplified in fibromyalgia. The worse smell for me are the nasties. It smelt as if something had died in the back of my throat, even though I have good mouth hygiene. Hopefully one day there will be an answer to all this....

@covidstinks2023
Hi
I am very sensitive to smells and noise, any noise.
My daughter is the same,
We've always been told we're too sensitive, just forget about it. It's not bothering anyone else.
A dog barking far away is so annoying; I have to put my earplugs in, but it doesn't stop my head from pounding. Smells are worse for me. I live in an apartment, so any time I leave my suite, I smell everything people are cooking, and going in the elevator is worse because I can't seem to get out of the building without someone getting on the elevator with their dogs. When I go into a store, I always have to have a pocket full of tissues because my nose just turns on like a tap and doesn't stop.
Does anyone have similar issues and have been told they have Fibromyalgia?
I have just gotten a Nurse Practitioner after many, many years without any medical professional in my life. I have a few other medical issues, so I've been focusing on those. I have allergies to fish, dogs and pollen. But I would be really interested to know if these noises and smells are something I should mention to her, because this is what I thought these other things were. ( of course, I don't think I could be allergic to a dog barking) but I always thought it was an odd thing to be bothered with when it didn't bother other people that I was around.
JFR

I’m highly sensitive to smells and noises. Mine are clicking noise! Pens clicking, people popping gum, tapping of a utensil, water dripping from facet and the like. Smells have changed over the years. Actually they aren’t as bothersome much anymore. I’m not so sure these things are related to fibro as much as maybe anxiety or issues of the past and bring up memories I don’t remember? Another words something underlying.
My issues are more touch and always been. Sheets on me, someone hugging me or brushing against me. It hurts! And is irritating.
I’d definitely mention the sounds and smells as it may be another issue you’re not aware of. Wish you my best.

All of the aforementioned "sensory overloads" go along with Fibromyalgia and I can so relate. Smells, noises,
touch when you are in a flare, etc.,

I got hearing aids 2 years ago and I am really on sensory overload if many sounds are coming at me at one time.

I don't know the answer except to try and avoid the things as much as possible that are the most worrisome.
I've never talked to my doctor about it, only other friends that have Fibro. We all seem to battle the same things
with sensory overload.

Praying all of us. Blessings.....