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Varied symptoms- Phantom smells ++

Postby PeevedPet on Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:35 pm

I have been troubled by phantom smells for over 5 years. I used to have warts in my nose and I have a feeling they have moved up into my brain or at least further up my nose. I have had an MRI and an EEG and both tests were unremarkable--they ruled out seizures and tumors.

List of symptoms:

Phantom Smells -- I smell smoke, dead bodies, rotten garbage, lilac -- not really there.

Can't stand in one place for longer than 10 minutes -- I get extremely ill, about to pass out, sweaty and clammy.

Dull and sharp pain behind my eyes -- Feels like needles, sometimes pressure -- Pushing on my eyeballs helps alleviate the pain.

Slurred speech, extremely forgetful speech -- not all the time, but a lot.. I say "remote" a lot in place of the word I am trying to say -- Sometimes I do not realize that I have said nonsense sentences -- Sometimes my speech is so bad it sounds like a foreign language or babbling and I cannot talk correctly for several minutes.

Fatigue and Insomnia -- If I'm not sleeping for 16-18 hours a day, then I can't sleep more than 4 hours per night. It's never balanced.

If ANYone can help me figure this out, please please give me some hints. I have been going to the doctors off and on for this. It is very depressing and troubling to me and I am unable to live a normal life because of these symptoms.

Thank you very much!
-Andrea
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Re: Varied symptoms- Phantom smells ++

Postby PeevedPet on Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:12 pm

Does anyone have any hints to what is causing this? I am scheduled for a neurology appointment soon. I have already taken an MRI and an EEG.
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