Re: Blood brain barrier-Barb 1283

[Guest guest]

Hi Barb: Our home is basically " clean " but I can smell things my husband

cannot and whenever he brings something new into our home I smell it and

whatever it is needs to be washed well first before it can remain in the

home or " detoxed " outside depending on what it is. I don't physically react

to all odors such as the aroma of a wonderful cup of coffee or fresh cut

flowers from my garden. Dry cleaned clothes, new appliances and

electronics, new clothes, etc do affect me.

Smiles my husband had a hard time believing my chemical sensitivities but

now he does.

The question for YOU is are you reacting to chemicals/fragrances or do you

just have a more fine tuned " smeller " . Major stress in your life will

affect your adrenals and often increases your heightened awareness of odors.

Rosie

[] Re: Blood brain barrier (reply)

Now I'm concerned about what you and said. Did it seem to you

that you smelled things more strongly than you did before? That is

something I have noticed. I thought it was because I've cleaned up

my house so well, that I am 'used' to very clean air and so now

things are smelling stinky to me because I've become accustomed to

very, very clean air, but I have had this where smells seem very

strong for me and I will stop going down an aile and go detour

around it to avoid it. Is this what you are went/are going

through?? I must admit I have found the symptoms of chemical

sensitivity that you all describe difficult to believe myself, even

though you are sound so intelligent and 'sane'.

[Guest guest]

So far, I just had that one incident when I threw up after being hit

by what seemed to me to be a horrible smell in that aile at Biggs.

The odd thing was that noone else seemed to notice it, or at least

wasn't bothered by it. I will just have to see. I've had some other

incidences where I thought things smelled unusually strong. I'll have

to wait and see if other people notice smell the same and of course,

whether I have any other reactions. I sure hope not. I always

thought it sounded terrible what MCS people go through.

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> Hi Barb: Our home is basically " clean " but I can smell things my

husband

> cannot and whenever he brings something new into our home I smell it

and

> whatever it is needs to be washed well first before it can remain in

the

[Guest guest]

That reminds me of a time I visited my sister. I was ok the first

day but had to sleep in the lower level. It wasn't a basement but

something bothered me. I am not sure if it was antique furniture but

I kept my nose under the covers all night. The next morning I was ok

and ate breakfast and we were going out to visit someone. We got in

the car and we weren't down the road a few minutes and I was vomiting

in the car. Didn't even have a chance to do anything. Luckily I had

a plastic bag in the car. Needless to say we turned around and I was

sick for some time. I slept upstairs the next night.

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> > Hi Barb: Our home is basically " clean " but I can smell things my

> husband

> > cannot and whenever he brings something new into our home I smell

it

> and

> > whatever it is needs to be washed well first before it can remain

in

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