Woke up today (after a few days of sickness) and everything smells like smoke. On the off chance it's covid, what should I take? Where can I get it? Thanks in advance.
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If you've ruled out a small electrical fire in your house or a burnt Tupperware in the bottom of your dishwasher, your 'smells like smoke' comment makes me think either you have a sinus infection or an infected tooth.
Both can give off strange smells that seem foreign and that no matter where you go, there they are.
If you don't have a Neti pot, get one at the Walgreens or get a NeilMed sinus rinse kit. Buy plenty of salt packet refills + 2 gallons of distilled water.
Important: ONLY USE DISTILLED WATER
Use this to rinse your sinus 2-3 times per day. And do salt water gargles as far back in your throat as you can.
You might also order from Amazon that sinus spray called Xlear that has Xylitol + grapefruit seed extract. Studies show it can eradicate the CV-19 and other viruses.
Remember, that if your nose or throat stings when you are gargling or rinsing your sinus, that means you have an infection/inflammation brewing.
Keep doing the rinses until it no longer hurts. Then you know you are good to go.
It's definitely not an electrical fire. It smells anywhere I go. Things like hot sauce still smell normal. However I also noticed my toothpaste smelled odd.
To add, my eyes were "flashing" last night which is concerning.
Thanks for the advice, I will keep this in mind.
I had this, they say it's what pneumonia smells like. Usually you smell if if you walk from inside to outside, or the other way around. I think it's a temperature difference in the air that causes it. I still can't quite describe what the smell is beyond it smells like medical waste.
I previously had Covid. I have a strange smell, like apple or cherry wood, everywhere I go. On and off throughout the day. Not a bad smell, but started after having Covid.
Here's what they say it is.
https://www.healthline.com/health/phantosmia
Hey Matthew, your additional symptom of flashing in the eyes concerns me. I have done medical advocacy for 4 elderly patients and 2 children and do medical research every day.
The 'flashing lights' in the eyes can mean a few things that may need immediate attention. They are:
Retinal Detachment
Optic Neuritis
Posterior Vitreous Detachment
Rubbing your eyes too hard
Additionally, flashing lights in the eyes + changing sense of smell can be a sign of a brain tumor in the temporal lobe.
My mother had a huge brain tumor that gave symptoms that the doctors kept misinterpreting. They treated her for everything else, and finally we just took her to the ER and said please give her a CT scan of the brain. They did, and we found the reason for all of her problems.
Her doctors said, "But, but, but, she never complained of 'flashing lights' or of visual disturbances or of blah, blah, blah, so therefore we didn't know...."
Yes, but she had lots of other symptoms that pointed to a brain tumor and because she was missing 'some' of the major symptoms, they missed it entirely.
DON'T WAIT ON THIS. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS IN CHARGE OF YOU.