Re: Anybody Know The Answer???

[Guest guest]

Hi Barb E,

I have similar experiences and am trying to

figure them out.

These are my guesses for myself:

One you may not have been paying attention. My

great aunt was previous owner of my house. I

used to notice an odor that reminded me of cigar

box when I came up her basement steps into her

house (we always came through basement since

garage was down there and so out of garage,

through basement, was way into house). I loved

the smell. I like the smell of cigars too. I

loved my aunt, loved her house and so to me it

was the smell of my greataunt's house. HOWEVER

then I got sick cleaning up the place and I began

to realize cigar smell in stairway probably

wasn't a smell to love and may be mildew or

something. I vigorously cleaned up house, put in

fresh air intake, etc, etc. One time coming in

house and going up steps I smelled SOMETHING. It

didn't smell fresh and I stopped and realized

that is same smell house always used to have, so

now smell had alarmed me. I stopped and wonder

what that was because I've been harmed by the

smelly stuff in the house.

Okay, maybe that isn't it. I notice now that I

have super cleaned up my house, I notice odor

when I go out that I didn't use to notice or take

note of. It could be my 'smeller' is used to

fresher air, so other air smells nasty to me.

Final possibility and one I hope isn't true. You

could have a 'bit' of MCS, become sensitized to

odors due to mold exposure. I noticed I went

into Biggs supermarket to get ONE thing! As soon

as I enter I was hit by this TERRIBLE smell of

what smelled to me of 'spoiling meat'. I was

repulsed and considered leaving right away but

needed one thing I didn't know where else to get

so I persevered. I went passed an ailse that was

full of plastic tubs and had this awful STRONG

chemical smell. I've smelled plastic before but

this was VERY STRONG - may be because they had so

much of it. I considered leaving again. I

thought 'what is going on?' I turned around to

look at others, to see how they were reacting,

looking for that 'group experience' of being

offended by the odor, but noone seemed phased in

the least, and just strolling slowly along the

aile. I rushed to pick up my one item and to

leave but after leaving building I vomited, so

really affected by it!!! I later vomited again

at next stop on errands and so went home. I was

newly on CSM at time and blamed vomiting on that.

I still don't know was it odor or CSM. I hardly

ever do that. I was very sick. I haven't been

back to Biggs. I had only been there once before

that but didn't notice anything on previous trip

there but that was a couple years ago. So, I

could have become more sensitive to smells due to

mold exposure and health problems. Maybe there

WAS alot of bacteria in air at Biggs due to all

the meat they have there and I couldn't take it,

being sick already.

So my answer to your friends would be 'I don't

know'. They shouldn't question your experience

anyway.

--- Barbara <floridabound03200@...> wrote:

> Every time I walk into the apartment building

> where I

> live, I can smell a moldy/musty odor. And every

> time I

> walk out of my apartment and into the hallway,

> I can

> smell the same moldy/musty odor.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I know that I cannot aways trust my nose, sometimes its

oversensative and other times I cant smell anything, but still have

the reactions. I have noticed that even with some less reactive

enviroments my nose becomes quickly stuffed up and my voice changes

to that stuffed up sound like holding your nose. I also know that if

I dont wash my sinuses this can bring on a sinus headacke or

infection.I've been through what your talking about too. I thought it

may depended on the same condictions that cause a mold air test

shows different amounts at different times. the weather, if mold is

wet, or growing, or dry, if theres a draft stirring things up, etc. I

haven't been out to my 2nd. home for a while but theres times I know,

that you can smell it from outside the home, and times you cant. so

I'm guessing it might have something to do with what the mold is

doing. I also relate hotter and more humid weather to a more stronger

smell.

>

> > Every time I walk into the apartment building

> > where I

> > live, I can smell a moldy/musty odor. And every

> > time I

> > walk out of my apartment and into the hallway,

> > I can

> > smell the same moldy/musty odor.

> >

> >

>