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Type 2 2, I smell awful

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Fenedi

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Hi, I haven’t used this site before, but thought it couldn’t hurt. I am a type 2. I am taking slow release metformin since January this year. I had covid over Christmas and was hospitalised. I have lost a huge amount of hair due to the long covid I now have. I’ve recently started noticing a strong smell of what reminds me of pickled onions when I sweat, which is often. Does anyone know what this is? With the hair loss and now this I stay home all of the time. Thank you.
 
Did you loose your sense of smell with covid? I have seen reports where people who did, when it came back it was altered and what used to smell pleasant smelt horrid, and vise-versa
 
I think it would be helpful to see your GP, in person not a telephone call so they can check this. There are a few things that may cause this. Or it may be your brain is confused after a period of losing smell?

I lost my sense of smell a few years ago after a bad cold and it took ages to come back and is not as good as before - which makes cooking for others tough. Then a drug I was prescribed for migraines caused synaesthesia. I now suddenly smell, more strongly than actual things, a word I read or hear or even just see in a picture occasionally. EG I read the word rose (with no description about it) and then I smell roses very strongly. I am lucky that these are mostly pleasant scents but some days I have to avoid any mention of certain words that are triggering an unpleasant smell.
 
Fenedi said:
Hi, I haven’t used this site before, but thought it couldn’t hurt. I am a type 2. I am taking slow release metformin since January this year. I had covid over Christmas and was hospitalised. I have lost a huge amount of hair due to the long covid I now have. I’ve recently started noticing a strong smell of what reminds me of pickled onions when I sweat, which is often. Does anyone know what this is? With the hair loss and now this I stay home all of the time. Thank you.
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Isn't there someone who could sniff you to determine if the problem is with your body or your sense of smell?
 
Mr_Pot said:
Isn't there someone who could sniff you to determine if the problem is with your body or your sense of smell?
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I would second this first.. might sound odd but..

I go through period where I can swear I smell like diesel.. so bad I feel my head is spinning.. hands/arms/armpits even breath

I can even have a shower and immediately feel that I can smell it

I’ve had someone else smell me when my head was spinning from the smell and they swear they can smell nothing

I suffer from reduced sense of smell from a medical condition.. I assume my sense is confused or im imagining the smell..

Now on the other hand if the day you stink… then see your gp
 
searley said:
I would second this first.. might sound odd but..

I go through period where I can swear I smell like diesel.. so bad I feel my head is spinning.. hands/arms/armpits even breath

I can even have a shower and immediately feel that I can smell it

I’ve had someone else smell me when my head was spinning from the smell and they swear they can smell nothing

I suffer from reduced sense of smell from a medical condition.. I assume my sense is confused or im imagining the smell..

Now on the other hand if the day you stink… then see your gp
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Yeah I suffer from ‘phantom smells’ now and then if I have a bit of a sinus infection. Diesel is one of them, like a bus or taxi running in the room. The other I can’t describe, just no terms of reference.
 
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