Smells that make me sick.

[gum]

For about a year now, I get nauseous at various smells. Perfume, fabric softener and especially food-smells.
When I cook meat, I put it on the stove, run into in the yard until I figure the meat is nearly done, run in again, turn the meat - and repeat. Meanwhile I'm gagging and trying not to throw up.
When my clothes or hair smells of food I throw my clothes in the laundry and myself into the tub. heh.

I'm not pregnant.

Nor have I cancer [AFAIK] - so no chemo-therapy.

It's kinda awkward when I have to go to a restaurant.

I have googled for it for a long time, but the only things I found were, indeed, about morning-sickness and cancer patients.

Can anyone help me where to look? Or does anyone know what the heck is wrong with me?

Thanks.

[Lobsang]

did you google including the term "*phobia+" (without the quotes)

That eliminate the morning sickness and cancer matches.





I hate the smell of cooking when I am in bed, but not at all other times. I like women's perfume most of the time. Hate other people's farts. like my own.

[gum]

Lobsang, No I didn't put phobia in it. You think I have a phobia?

I can try it.... Thank you!

mmmm, I'm not too fond of farts myself. Not even my own.

[gum]

I found out that David Lynch has the same:

Then there is his phobia about cooking smells, a fixation that is supposed to have instigated his break-up with the actress Isabella Rossellini. "I don't think a kitchen should be in a home," he says. "It should be a separate thing. Sometimes an odour will travel to a place far from a kitchen and catch there and that is not a good thing."

It doesn't say what can be done about it, though. I could marry and divorce Isabella Rosellini, I guess. heh.

Thanks, Lobsang

[Burrido]

Don't think there's anything really wrong with you. I get horrible headaches and queaziness from perfume. An old girlfriend couldn't stand the smell of burning meat (my god how do you live?!).

[Lobsang]

Originally Posted by gum

Lobsang, No I didn't put phobia in it. You think I have a phobia?

Well now that I think about it I don't. You don't necessarily fear those smells in the traditional phobia idea of fear. They just make you nauseus. However I do hear of people with phobias feeling physically sick when confronted with their fear.

[donegalwombat]

IANAD, but this page on Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone/Vomiting Centre Nausea may give you some ideas to talk with your doctor about, or some phrases to use in googling

An extract from it...

Nausea from these areas within the brainstem is usually all pervasive ie it is present intermittently and may wax and wane ("come and go"). It is often worse with the thought of food, the smell of food or the sight of food. If vomiting occurs, it is usually of small volume.

This type of nausea can be blocked by using drugs which antagonise dopamine, such as metoclopramide, haloperidol, trifluoperazine and domperidone. The 5 HT-3 antagonists such as ondansetron and tropisetron also block the same pathway.

[gum]

That is a great help, donegalwombat. I'm on painkilllers and my kidneys are wonky. It explains a lot.

Thank you.

[flickster]

The smell that gets to me is popcorn popping. A movie theatre lobby is bad, but being at home when the family is doing popcorn in the microwave will result in a rapid exit for me.

[Mort Furd]

Originally Posted by flickster

The smell that gets to me is popcorn popping. A movie theatre lobby is bad, but being at home when the family is doing popcorn in the microwave will result in a rapid exit for me.

Well, there's half the problem. Microwaved popcorn is one of those grotesque things that should never have happened.

[Mister Rik]

Old clam chowder. When I worked the graveyard shift as a cook at a 24-hour restaurant, the last pot of clam chowder on Fridays would be made some hours before I came on duty. So by the time I got there, it had been sitting for quite a while in the warmer. The warmer was on the opposite side of the food window, because the waitresses dished up the soup. So every time they took the lid off the pot, the exhaust fans above the grill would draw the chowder smell through the window right into my face. Made me quite nauseous. I was constantly having to remind the waitresses to put the damn lid back on the pot, because they'd often forget.

Cooking broccoli. Gag.