Hi CC, thanks for the reply. I've never had this kind of thing before the injury so it was new yet strangely NOT worrisome until I realized later in the day that it wasn't real. I need to make that part very clear to the doctor because otherwise it will just be discarded as a manifestation of anxiety. I wasn't anxious, I was totally calm and thought the strong smell was a reality of that moment. I thought nothing of it, except wow that's strong.

Some reading today suggests it was an aura of migraine as previous posters spoke of. Could very well be.

The metallic taste that coincides with my worst speech, plus this smell of burning, plus the incredible head pain, could add up to seizure territory. They may try an EEG on me (as I understand it) but unless I'm having an episode right that very second it will show normal.

If they can pass it off as mental health related instead of physicality in the brain tissue they will.

So really at this point it's just speculation that any doctor would give a darn at all, enough to do some testing, (potentially as useless as CT and MRI)

As for meditation.... I could try it I suppose. I just don't know where to start or frankly what on earth that means. Lol just being honest. I have always had such an active brain (thoughts going a mile a minute, the right personality for marketing and sales) that I cannot imagine what they even MEAN by clearing one's mind. How foreign! It just doesn't compute. Lol!