Could SjS Be Making Me Hypersensitve to Fragrances ?

[sandberg4]

It's funny but I've become sensitive to all smells.  I can smell things (good and bad) when no one else in my family can.
They always make fun of me and talk about Mom's nose.  I read somewhere where this is a symptom of diseases like ours. 

[Cheryl]

I,too, am hypersensitive to smells.  Cigarette smoke (even on another person's clothes) gives me a headache, and so do some perfumes.   Comes with the territory, I guess, that we either smell too much or too little!
Cheryl

[wen.uk]

Blimey what a coincidence - just a couple of days ago my hubby commented on how sensitive my sense of smell had become, smelling things around that no-one else seems aware of.  Like the rest of you certain perfumes cause me to feel physically sick and give me headaches, and thank goodness smoking has been banned in public places over here as that could do the same too.   Ooooh were sensitive souls us sjoggies!!!!

[gsmraxe]

We had a chemical leak in the warehouse at my work.  One of the silicone chemical strippers ate the can away and it leaked in the hazmat locker.  When we opened it, paint thinner was pouring down the shelves.  Myself and a coworker tried to mop it up with rags but the smell was so overpowering, I got dizzy, a headache and nauseous, I had to go home, I felt horrible.  For about 2-3 days my eyes were filmy and would stick together in the mornings when I got up.  The smell is mostly gone now, except towards the back of the warehouse.  My desk is at the front of the warehouse so I was smelling it before we found out what happened.  I thought it was just paint as someone was painting some aluminum the day prior.
My headaches lasted most of the week...What an odor, I'm surprised no one got really sick. 

[genko_b]

Wow! I hope your company is offering you some kind of treatment for the exposure. Have you gotten your eyes checked out, to be sure there is no damage to them? Yikes.

Genko

[Bucky]

I've found that I'm not only sensitive to perfume on people - but also to anything that comes in the newspaper or magazines.  I start having a sneezing fit (cigarette smell on peoples clothes does it to me too).  I could never work in a Hallmark store or place like that . . too many fragrances . . gives me an instant headache.

Bucky

[SeaBreeze]

Magazines are killers for me, if I get the perfume on my hands, I can't get it off... I stopped buying and browsing most...

[nisha]

I hate those perfumed things they stick in magazines!  Glad I am not alone.

Even the newspaper makes me sneeze - I don't dislike the way it smells, but it sets me off.  I had forgotten about that until you mentioned magazines.

nisha

[SeaBreeze]

Nisha you would have been as troubled as I was a few days ago at my doctors office.  I was sitting there, sniffing.. I knew there was something in the treatment room I didn't like... I was getting a headache and cranky 'my usual reactions' and sure enough there was a diffuser plugged in behind the table... OMG it was like a honeysuckle or something... I had to ask the nurse to remove it or remove me... I wouldn't mind a few mins, but doc was running very late.  Nurse removed it immed and apologized..    But when I got home I had the smell on me somehow... on my pocketbook, jacket etc... had to 'air' everything out... I'm getting worse.. sux

[DanzGrl]

I cannot wear regular deodorant any more.  I have to buy the kind at the health store.  It's something in the product.  Although I just tied this in with SS ane decided I needed to try something different, the allergy goes back quite a few years.  One huge flareup every year or so wasn't enough to make me suspicious.  After SS, I know now that's what it is/was.
Lucy

Lucy - Do you mind me asking... What kind of deodorant do you use?  My doc wants me to try a more natural deo.  Toxins and all of that...

[Bucky]

Today at work I thought of everyone here on this particular subject.  I work in the school kitchen and they were cooking broccoli and it smelled AWFUL (it smelled like it was suppose to, I just mean it was overwhelming to me) - I really thought I would get sick from the smell.  Mix that with the cinnamon smell they put in the applesauce . . . ewwww.  I was not only going to "serve" lunch, I was going to lose mine!!  hee hee . . .

It seems as the school year progresses everything in that kitchen is affecting me . . . too hot/humid for my eyes & mouth/throat, sensitive to all the smells, not to mention all the physical stuff it requires to work in a kitchen.  I'm not so sure I can do this any more (this is my 8th yr.).

Ok, take a deep cleansing breath . . . b-r-e-a-t-h-e . . . .

Bucky

[SeaBreeze]

Bucky...
So sorry you had such a lousy day at work... I keep hearing that SjS makes either really sensitive or some 'lose' their sense of smell... I'm not convinced that I would be unhappy with loss of smell... Hope tomorrow is better, maybe the menu calls for carrots 

[Bucky]

Bucky...
Hope tomorrow is better, maybe the menu calls for carrots 

Nah, carrots are on Thursday (they'll be raw, not cooked) . . . lol   

[pudmott]

Thank goodness for raw carrots. Stick some vicks or something under your nose or lavender oil maybe that will help


Pud