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sufi
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29 Oct 2011, 7:02 pm

During the past week I suddenly started to smell something like canned sardines, oily and fishy. This is happening 10 or 12 times a day for a few minutes.
I have looked on line and I know I am not schizophrenic or have epilepsy.
It is possibly related to allergies.

Does anyone here have any knowledge about phantosmia?


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29 Oct 2011, 7:07 pm

I think temporal lobe epilepsy can cause that. There may other things that can cause it, too, though.



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29 Oct 2011, 9:09 pm

Smelling things that aren't there is something that people suffering from MS have also reported. The most frequent phantom smell in MS is something burning.