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Who else has an over sensitive sniffer and taster and weird reactions?

Started by Sedgehammer, October 04, 2020, 08:59:22 AM

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Sedgehammer

When the restaurant industry switched to new oil several years back, it tastes rancid to me. Use to love french fries and onion rings, but not so much anymore. Have to make them at home. I use extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil combo

If I drink too much diet pepsi i can smell the aspartame, so no more than 2 a day and I can still kinda smell it. The sugar from regular soda has a really bad after taste, plus don't want the calories. I drink zevia instead, just kinda expensive. Stevia itself kinda tastes like black licorice, so have to watch it also

Also happens with certain medicines.

Pain medicine, especially opioids act as a stimulant. If I take one, I'll be up for 24+ hours, so I try and avoid

Store bought pork I can smell the nice smell of hogs when it cooks, so we don't ever buy it. We raise our own on pasture, so no smell when cooked

When weather cools down I have to have my ears covered or i catch a cold or at least I get a runny nose. I don't need a hat per se, but I must have my ears covered
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sprucebunny

Almost any oil besides good EVOO olive, coconut, macademia and avocado have always tasted and smelled rancid to me.
I can smell when certain animals have been nearby. Wish I could be better at that.

I am happy to wear my organic vapor N95 mask cause I don't have to smell the horrid and overpowering laundry detergent many people use.

I'm sensitive to drugs and have backward reactions to some so avoid them as much as possible.

I avoid fake sweeteners like the virus
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barbender

My wife, and even more so her mom, have very acute sense of smell. Her mom gets headaches very easily from laundry detergent fragrance and perfumes. I remember once, she was complaining of a sewer gas smell 3 days before any of the rest of us smelled it, at which point I got on the roof and found a frozen sewer vent. I should have her track deer for me😁
Too many irons in the fire

Tom King

Raises hand.  I only drink water, and don't take pain medications.  Don't get sick easily though.

I can tell what color a horse is, in the dark, by the way it smells.

Sedgehammer

Speaking of smells. I could smell the fires out west, no one else could.

There is a sewer plant a several miles from us. There are a few times a year I can smell it, rest of family can't. 
Necessity is the engine of drive

Nebraska

Perfumes bother me...  My profession has taught me to deal with certain smells probably better than most in the general public.

thecfarm

Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

trapper

My wife is alergic to many smells.  We buy scent free detergent for clothes washing and hunting shampoo for her showers.
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Ljohnsaw

While it is not sent-free, I use one type of bar soap because others make me feel my throat is closing off when I wash my face with them.
John Sawicky

Just North-East of Sacramento...

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Don P

My wife won't give me enough time to wander in places like Tractor Supply, she is in and out.

When I worked in a furniture plant and since then I've noticed that small lean women seemed to be the canary in the coal mine. They often would have strong reactions to finishing fumes.

Often enough I can smell what you are talking about with pork, or chicken, venison, sometimes beef but I consider my senses quite dulled compared to many. The people that make and use fragrances must be numb  :D

DWyatt

My Dad is this way, I remember Mom trying a new laundry detergent as a kid. I also remember Dad literally throwing that and any candles, perfume, etc that were in the house out the back door :D

Tom King

Quote from: DWyatt on October 06, 2020, 12:43:27 PM
My Dad is this way, I remember Mom trying a new laundry detergent as a kid. I also remember Dad literally throwing that and any candles, perfume, etc that were in the house out the back door :D
I've done that enough times, that my Wife now knows better.

edited to add:  , or at least, after 40 years, knows better most of the time.

Dave Shepard

I have issues with odors. Some things really are terrible. Sadly, people with poor, or at least average, sniffer capacity have no sympathy for us.
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Sixacresand

I quit smoking about 35 years ago.  After that, the most shocking discovery that I made is what smokers smelled like. 
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barbender

Yeah, I don don't know what it us about cigarette smoke. Someone can be around a campfire and I think that smells nice, but if someone smells like cigarettes 🤢  When I was a kid, basically everyone I knew smoked. Every home had cigarettes in it. You don't realize how acclimated you are to it. Now that fewer smoke, and it's not allowed in public buildings (bars, restaurants etc.) I am just not used to that smell anymore. It makes me feel nauseous! The worst is if you have to run a machine that someone has been smoking in. Especially like our Ponsse equipment, when they say sealed cab, the windows don't even open. I literally cannot run one of those machines if the daily operator is a smoker.
Too many irons in the fire

Sedgehammer

Quote from: barbender on October 07, 2020, 09:29:44 AM
Yeah, I don don't know what it us about cigarette smoke. Someone can be around a campfire and I think that smells nice, but if someone smells like cigarettes 🤢  When I was a kid, basically everyone I knew smoked. Every home had cigarettes in it. You don't realize how acclimated you are to it. Now that fewer smoke, and it's not allowed in public buildings (bars, restaurants etc.) I am just not used to that smell anymore. It makes me feel nauseous! The worst is if you have to run a machine that someone has been smoking in. Especially like our Ponsse equipment, when they say sealed cab, the windows don't even open. I literally cannot run one of those machines if the daily operator is a smoker.
I know exactly what you're saying. My mom used to smoke when I was a kid, well she smoked till about 6 years ago. Well anyways, when we'd go somewhere without my dad (as he didn't allow my mom to smoke when he was around) she'd roll her window down slightly and I'd be i the back seat. To this day it's very difficult for me to ride in the back or I get 'car sick' immediately still, but i can sit in the middle in the back. That smell also makes me gag. When we had the trucking business my wife woodn't allow smoking in any of the trucks and if they did, they were let go.  
Necessity is the engine of drive

barbender

If I owned a company, one of my first hard and fast rules would be "Smoke in equipment or a truck, you're fired!" Other people have to get in that now nauseating cab, I think it's pretty inconsiderate.
Too many irons in the fire

RPF2509

My state does not allow smoking in restaurant / bars so when we go out of state its a shock to see someone light up inside.  I can't walk into a Nevada casino without gagging.  I'm just there to use their facilities and leave.  Can't walk down the detergent aisle at the store either.  Of course my wife's nose is bionic; she'll smell what I had for lunch 3 days ago.

Sedgehammer

if i eat yogurt, I must have a plastic spoon. I guess i taste the reaction between the lactic acid the metal spoon.

Homemade chicken noodle soup is bad. Leaves a very metallic taste in my mouth. still haven't placed it to as why yet. 
Necessity is the engine of drive

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