Hi, I have had 4 rounds of EC chemotherapy, and these last few weeks I have noticed a smell around me, everything smells, my skin, my bowels, even my urine, all seem to have the same smell, am I going mad or is it normal. It is really getting me down even though my family say they can't smell anything.
Hello Pooh bear
I think when I was on EC I thought the same. However, I think it might be that actually it is your sense of smell which is distorted. Mine took a long long time to return to normal-ish. Still I don't smell things exactly as I did before even although it is more than two years since I finished EC.
Try not to worry about it. Your family obviously don't smell a problem.
Good luck getting past this.
All the best
Wallydug
Hi
I had a warped sense of smell mainly throughout EC but through taxol too . I thought I smelled really strange and actually I think I did because our bodies are being pumped with these meds / toxins and that’s gonna change things ! I used to ask my husband if I smelled weird all the time haha
now my keen sense of smell is back and seems mainly normal
xx
That's what I am thinking, it's all the toxins, I keep asking my husband, but he always tells me I don't smell, but he would say that. Ha ha
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