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01-22-2010, 01:18 PM | #1 | ||
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I'm experiencing something that isn't discussed much if at all in this forum, and I'd appreciate any feedback you might have.
I almost constantly smell an unpleasant smell that, according to the people around me, isn't real. It's hard to describe - a combination of rotting fish and burning plastic is about as close as I can come. It sometimes fades away, but then returns. According to what I have read, it's called "phantosmia", and is not really characteristic of PD. I've been having classical PD symptoms for about 3 years (isn't hindsight wonderful :-), but I was actually "officially" diagnosed about 7 months ago. I'm also having problems with anosmia (sense of smell is disappearing). I took the smell test (the one that I think was prototyped by the University of Pennsylvania), and scored poorly. Loss of sense of smell is common in PD, but I don't find any significant information in the literature about phantosmia. Does anyone else experience this? Does it eventually go away? |
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01-22-2010, 09:01 PM | #2 | |||
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Hi,
I have read several people in a young onset PD forum who have experienced olfactory hallucinations. Turns out this is yet another aspect of PD...there are some case studies reported but not a lot out there; I'm sure this research will grow and most likely we'll see a range of olfactory dysfunction as a biomarker. Hope this helps! - Laura http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/con...ract/65/9/1237 |
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