Increased sense of smell on chemo?
So I'm on Vectibix and I've noticed that my sense of smell is ridiculous. I can smell things other people barely can smell or can't smell at all. With the neausea it's pretty unpleasant. Has anyone else experienced this? It seems to me that I had it on one of the previous chemos, too, but I'm not positive.
Jan
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I've always had heightened
I've always had heightened senses: smell, sight, hearing and taste. And sometimes it's a benefit and sometimes it's really annoying. My son has the same thing and so he will detect things that bother him that other people won't detect and wonder what's wrong with him. I don't know what you can do about it short of maybe running a HEPA filter. I haven't run into heigtened or weakened sense so far on Xeloda.
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Always had it
Like NHMike said, I've always been bad for smelling things other people don;t notice and I think I'm a supertaster, I think they call it. I'm sensittive to smells and tastes, noises, too. But this is pretty gross. It's making the nausea so much worse. Just things like I'm having trouble having our dogs get too close to me because now they seem to smell. Luckily the dog that is closest to me, my velcro dog, has no smell but the other two do now.
Okay, so I'm not nuts. Well, I guess that really doesn't establish that I'm not but at least in this I'm not.
Thanks!
Jan
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