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What Is The Smell That Is Disturbing My Mind?

I smell something....for the last couple days. No one else does. Not my husband or our kids. It smells like the cat maybe missed the liter box? It's making me nuts. Then today I started thinking maybe there's something wrong. I don't have a sinus infection. I'm not sick. I'm cleaned and showered for Pete's sake. This is driving me crazy. The smell is constant.
Wed, 12 Feb 2014
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Hello,
Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
You have an olfactory hallucination and the first suspicion that one should get on having this hallucinations are
1. Local nasal pathology
2. Space occupying lesion in the brain.
You first have to get examined from a ENT surgeon to see if there is any local nasal pathology leading to this kind of symptoms. If it is normal then you should go ahead with CT scan brain to identify any SOL in the brain compressing in the olfactory pathway leading to the bad smell.
The last possibility is a psychiatric illness causing bad smell.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.

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What Is The Smell That Is Disturbing My Mind?

Hello, Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query. I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through. You have an olfactory hallucination and the first suspicion that one should get on having this hallucinations are 1. Local nasal pathology 2. Space occupying lesion in the brain. You first have to get examined from a ENT surgeon to see if there is any local nasal pathology leading to this kind of symptoms. If it is normal then you should go ahead with CT scan brain to identify any SOL in the brain compressing in the olfactory pathway leading to the bad smell. The last possibility is a psychiatric illness causing bad smell. Hope I am able to answer your concerns. If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you. If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback. In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link: bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy Wish you good health, Kind regards Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.