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Strong odors causing lightheadedness and tachycardia?
Yesterday I was chopping a very pungent onion and I started having tachycardia and feeling lightheaded. I have these episodes occasionally but usually after exertion like walking too far or too fast. Hard to believe the strong smell would do this. But after I got away from the odor after about an hour I was fine. Anyone else have this issue?
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floridalinda, Bless You. I have never heard of this, but, I would like to ask if you had a headache with it? Strong smells can definitely trigger migraines.....even mild one.
Praying for you. Blessings & Hugs.....
Thanks you. I did not have a headache. Seldom get headaches. Not sure if the onion smell related to my dizziness or not but have not wanted to replicate and see what happens!
Sometimes strong smells make you hold your breath. Lack of sufficient oxygen???
I have long had a problem with neck/ vertigo from chopping veg…first noticed with carrots, not from the smell but angle of neck! Could the smell be coincidental; strangely enough my LC has effected my sense of smell and hardly get any sense from chopping onions re.smell or crying? The smallest of household tasks have given me 100-135 HR the last 4.5 years alone of my LC dysautonomia symptoms, and cooking as a whole probably gives me my most extreme symptoms, with breathlessness too…I assume it’s the reaching up/ down to get pans/ ingredients, the activity of arms, standing up, heat on stove etc, and me attempting to do a job I used to be able to do without thinking and at a third to quarter the time!
Hi @floridalinda. I too react to smells. Especially perfumes or smoke. I have experienced this for years now and there are various causes so may I suggest you keep log of what you’re doing, what the smell is, and when started/stopped to help determine why. I also noticed you were chopping and small repetitive motion with my post covid also brings on those symptoms🙃 Hope this helps and quickest healing journey to you🌈
The dizziness lasted five hours and I took several breaks while I was chopping. I was using a food processor so only had to chop into big chunks. I can only tolerate a few minutes f standing so maybe I just pushed it. Takes me forever to do anything,
Floridalinda,
I think it may be from standing still for a period of time and then moving again. I experience this also on occasion, but just from standing still for a while, like while putting on my makeup in the bathroom, then walking out, that’s when I sometimes feel off balance. I lost my taste and smell with Covid in December of 2022, so it will be 2 years on the 14th. I think they are connected somehow, the off balanced feeling and no taste/smell. Blessings to you as you navigate through.