helenhoo
09-06-18, 13:20
Long time poster, 6 months pregnant.
Over the years we've seen my many many worries, usually causing uproar and arguments and i go and come back with latest concern but this current one is ongoing.
Phantom smells. Now, I know pregnancy causes hyper sense of smell. I've had pregnant people tell me they smell cigarettes from streets away, hate smell of their husband, can smell something by thinking about it but i STILL worry my smells are due to a brain tumour. I'm triggered by smokey smells; cigs, bonfire, heating, air conditions, bbqs. 95% of time anyone with me will smell it too and this occasionally eases me. Other times I'm convinced they're lying to stop me worrying. Ive read stories about a woman who had a phantom smells daily for 5 months. Mine vary but always focus around smokey smells. I have mild panic attacks when i smell it.
That being said I have moments of logic, I calm self down. I say it was this or that and so and so wouldn't say they smelt it they didnt. Sometimes I have to go back snd check I smelt something to assure self it was real.
It's ongoing, but its been my only concern in last 6 months. Pre preg I'd have worried about so many other things in this time.
I don't know how to beat it. I can't even reach my knees to check my reflexes lol.
Over the years we've seen my many many worries, usually causing uproar and arguments and i go and come back with latest concern but this current one is ongoing.
Phantom smells. Now, I know pregnancy causes hyper sense of smell. I've had pregnant people tell me they smell cigarettes from streets away, hate smell of their husband, can smell something by thinking about it but i STILL worry my smells are due to a brain tumour. I'm triggered by smokey smells; cigs, bonfire, heating, air conditions, bbqs. 95% of time anyone with me will smell it too and this occasionally eases me. Other times I'm convinced they're lying to stop me worrying. Ive read stories about a woman who had a phantom smells daily for 5 months. Mine vary but always focus around smokey smells. I have mild panic attacks when i smell it.
That being said I have moments of logic, I calm self down. I say it was this or that and so and so wouldn't say they smelt it they didnt. Sometimes I have to go back snd check I smelt something to assure self it was real.
It's ongoing, but its been my only concern in last 6 months. Pre preg I'd have worried about so many other things in this time.
I don't know how to beat it. I can't even reach my knees to check my reflexes lol.