You are NOT nuts. When I was PG, I smelled a difference in one side of my bed to the other... among other olfactory offences that turned my stomach. Many of those smells still get to me and they can cause me to have very bad migraine type headaches.
One of the first things that made me ill was the smell of fresh peaches - I was so hungry by them that I couldn't stop eating till I had eaten almost a whole bushel... then I began puking and HG took hold for the rest of my pregnancy.
I also found
fresh rain on cement, especially if it was hot cement, to make me nauseated.
Certain carpet fresheners,
"Country Garden" by Glade is one of the more common ones. This is also the fragrance that we used in the store I was working at when I first started to get sick w/ HG. I was "allowed to quit" just a couple weeks later due to lack of ability to fulfil my duties at that job.
I am still hypersensitive to
Garlic in any form. Mom is a firm believer in garlic for everything & had it hanging in her place while I was HG and living with her. I've started to wonder if I am allergic to it now b/c I will get an overwhelming hot flash and become very weak for a while if exposed to much of it.
I am also nauseated by certain cases of BO. There is one indescribable
"I've been out in the sun and sweat like a pig and now I'm in an air conditioned room" smell that leaves me unable to breath and I will develop a migraine after smelling. Not everyone gets it but it is not uncommon on my neighbor's kids from her second marriage & one of the maintenance guys. If DH or DD hang around the kids too much I have to make them take a shower b/c they can pick the aroma up.
I have had to send people out of my home b/c of this smell.
I also can't take
fresh carpet... even months after it is first laid. There is something "chemical" about it that makes my sinuses feel like I whiffed dry ice & then I get sick.
Tires are the absolute worst b/c places like Sam's & Costco have them at the door and they make you stand in the air flow. I swear, sometimes I actually begin to wheeze and my eyes water after being exposed.
Also there is a unique chemical aroma that comes from
certain diapers. Huggies overnights are the worst.
There is another aroma that I still haven't figured out. It was in the rooms of the place I was at during my pregnancy. It was just as strong when I went back 2-3 years later... and I did throw up again b/c of it. There is no way to describe it
and I don't run into it anywhere else.
My Grandmother worked in a mental facility and my grandpa worked in a correctional facility. Both swore they could smell certain types of "mental illness". When my Sister and I worked in a nursing home we could smell Cancer... which is a miracle when you think of the pervasive ammonia odor in most nursing homes.
>Me: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, spontaneous pneumothorax, Stephen Johnson's syndrome, hyperemesis gravidarium, thrombophlebitis (5x), ...etc
>DD: Duane Syndrome Strabismus, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, & Type 1 Diabetes. Gifted IQ
>DC: due may 2012
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