Why am I sensitive to smells?

Symptoms:

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seem sharper than before, you’ve missed a period and your breasts are sore.

It could be:

Pregnancy, an early

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symptom of which is a heightened sense of smell. It can trigger headaches, nausea and vomiting during the first trimester. Symptoms often fade as pregnancy progresses.

You have a Migraine, which can

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heightened sensitivity cause and be caused by to smells and you suffer heightened sensitivity to migraine headaches smells (hyperosmia). Certain though your sensitivity to smells can trigger migraine or smells isn’t confined make you susceptible to to periods of your having a migraine attack. migraine attacks.

You’ve noticed you Lyme disease, which is

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have a heightened often associated with sense of smell just after hyperosmia with as many as having had a bad attack of half of sufferers having it. flu where your whole body Lyme disease is an infection seem to ache. You live carried by ticks which are near woodland and take common in woodland. your dog for a walk there every day.

Stop it:

Avoid trigger 6

smells like coffee, frying fat and other cooking. Eat mainly fresh food.

As smells can

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make your migraine worse avoid scents, perfumes and fresheners around the house. Try to avoid your trigger smells.

If you think you

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might have been exposed to Lyme disease talk to your doctor about being tested. Find another place to walk your dog.