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This is the second day i smell smoke and when i ask my co workers if they smell something burning, they say no. i'm female 55 years old, and suffer from headaches for a few years now and it is usually around the time of the month during my period which it

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What : What you are describing is parosmia (perverted sense of smell) which can occur with certain types of drugs, post-influenza, and rarely in certain cases of temporal lobe injury of the brain. Smell disorders usually associated with post-menopausal women are hyposmia (impaired sense of smell). This very may well have a hormonal relationship since your history suggests a cyclical pattern to it correlating with your menstrual cycle. I would first querry your ob-gyn doctor about this and if unrelated you may want to see an ENT specialist for nasal endoscopic exam and consider MRI study of brain.

Answered 10/3/2016

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