Nose hypersensitivity
26 Feb 2024 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI gather becoming oversensitive to just some smells is a fairly common feature of perimenopause, even for people who aren't already oversensitive to some perfumes. But it's really annoying!
Okay, the smells are usually not nearly as bad as the perfumes - the exception being some mildews, like the one in our boatshed that apparently nobody else smells, which makes me feel like I can't breathe. But various human and animal body odors, but apparently not ALL of them - that's a comparatively new sensitivity that I don't appreciate at all, even though they don't make me instinctively hold my breath. They don't feel DANGEROUS, just disgusting.
It's really too bad there's not some temporary way to turn off the ability to smell. If I could take a pill that would just numb it for three hours or so that would be SO useful! Even though it wouldn't help with any potential allergens, it would still contribute greatly to my quality of life. I have regularly recurring encounters with stink that would be much nicer.
Okay, the smells are usually not nearly as bad as the perfumes - the exception being some mildews, like the one in our boatshed that apparently nobody else smells, which makes me feel like I can't breathe. But various human and animal body odors, but apparently not ALL of them - that's a comparatively new sensitivity that I don't appreciate at all, even though they don't make me instinctively hold my breath. They don't feel DANGEROUS, just disgusting.
It's really too bad there's not some temporary way to turn off the ability to smell. If I could take a pill that would just numb it for three hours or so that would be SO useful! Even though it wouldn't help with any potential allergens, it would still contribute greatly to my quality of life. I have regularly recurring encounters with stink that would be much nicer.
