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Another smell question...
« on: May 20, 2009, 09:10:12 pm »
OK, so lately, I have been smelling a foul odor for just brief moments at a time a couple days of the week.  After assuring that nobody else smelled it, and checking to make sure it wasn't me who smelled that way :), I cannot figure out where it is coming from.  I am not currently sick, nor do I exhibit any symptoms that anything in the nose/sinuses is infected, abscessed, etc.   I did have a small feeding tube in my left nostril for about a week or more post-op, and thought maybe that irritated some things on that side???  But it's weird that it just started 6 months post-op.

Any thoughts or similarities???

-AMY
Left side 1.7 cm AN diagnosed 7/30/08
Misdiagnosed for 8 + years
Surgery, Sub-occipital, 11/17/2008 at Indiana University Hospital
Left SSD
Tumor much larger than expected. Facial nerves intact, but had RARE swelling resulting in brachial plexus injury and tracheostomy after surgery.

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Re: Another smell question...
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 10:51:52 am »
Amy-

I still get odd smells sometimes, usually always unpleasant (why can't I smell, for example, chocolate chip cookies?)  Not sure what this is about, but have just assumed it is some nerve confusion.  It doesn't happen all that often now (I'm a year post), so I suppose eventually I won't have odd smells at all.  Be curious if anyone else has experienced this?

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2.4 cm Right Side AN
Translab April 30, 2008 at NYU with Drs. Golfinos and Roland
SSD Right ear, Mild synkinesis and facial nerve damage
BAHA "installed" Feb 2011 by Dr. Cosetti @ NYU

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Re: Another smell question...
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 08:38:55 pm »
Thanks, Debbi.  I kinda thought the olfactory nerves were just as confused as the rest of my brain :)  Glad to know someone else has experienced this unpleasantry.  No Choc. Chip smell??  Wow, I must say that is just awful.  At least I can still smell the good things.  Best wishes to chocolately goodness smells to you in the very near future....   For right now, I guess we just settle for the poopy smells.  Lucky us  ;)
Left side 1.7 cm AN diagnosed 7/30/08
Misdiagnosed for 8 + years
Surgery, Sub-occipital, 11/17/2008 at Indiana University Hospital
Left SSD
Tumor much larger than expected. Facial nerves intact, but had RARE swelling resulting in brachial plexus injury and tracheostomy after surgery.