Comments on: I Had No Idea There Was Such a Thing

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:09:34 +0000

I’m interested in how the people doing the test research responded to the lack of smell. I mean, smell is a much more… shall we say “subjective,” sense, it doesn’t always jump out at you. Think about how many times someone says, “do you smell that?” and you don’t, but you kinda pretend you do to make the other person feel better? It would probably take a long string of extreme incidents for me to figure out that I wasn’t smelling. And even then I wouldn’t be sure about it. I’d go back to the drug people and say, “well, your meds work, but I… I’m really not sure how to say this, but… I don’t seem to be smelling as well as I used to… maybe?”

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:29:02 +0000

That’s ok – it was on the tip of my brain because this condition was in the news recently: Zycam nasal spray causes anosmia as a side-effect. http://medheadlines.com/2009/06/20/some-zicam-cold-remedies-increase-risk-of-permanent-loss-of-smell/

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:46:39 +0000

True, thanks Charles — my brain is still in “early morning” phase, which means it barely functions at all.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Well, you might want to check your spelling: anosmia (and thus anosmic) is correct