New Study

[pingpongman]

This was posted today.

October 17, 2012 in Neuroscience
Changes in the ability to smell and taste can be caused by a simple cold or upper respiratory tract infection, but they may also be among the first signs of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Now, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has revealed an association between an impaired sense of smell and myasthenia gravis (MG), a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by fluctuating fatigue and muscle weakness. The findings are published in the latest edition of PLOS ONE

[4-eyes]

Not for me...my husband calls me "the bloodhound."

[southblues]

I have never had much of a sense of smell. I always figured that it was to my advantage in my line of work.

[hajile99]

I've never had a good sense of smell. Interesting. Although I always manage to smell the things I hate the most the strongest (coffee, bacon...lol).

Impaired?
Not for me anyway, I smell stuff miles away! I also am a "super taster".
So I don't think mine is impaired. But it can be because I've tried to be more like a dog all my life

[Anacrusis]

Heightened sense of smell for certain odours - but started in pregnancy and then never ever went away!

[Stellatum]

How about phantom smells? If I smell something in the morning, it sticks in my nose all day, even if the source of the smell is gone.

Abby

[korbi_doc]

I don't have a problem with either taste or smell, but an interesting fact, my mother lost her smell sense completely....don't know when, & don't know if she had other problems, but my own experience tells me I have congenital MG...many many hindsights....one sister had similar problems late in life to mine with the fatigue, muscle weakness, dypsnea....couldn't get her to follow up & her physician told her she "could NOT have MG....Grrrr...wish I knew more....

Dottie

[pingpongman]

Dottie same here. My mom and 2 of her sisters had MG. I can remember way before she got her DX I would go visit her and she would cook dinner for us and it was so salty we could hardly eat it. She was a very good cook before this time. I was in the hospital last year and I had a horrible smell but thought it was just the hospital but when I got home I could still smell it.
Mike

[Anacrusis]

Oooo – somebody mentioned salt in another post. For quite a long while I could not get enough salt. I thought there was something wrong with the shaker but it was coming out just fine....Sugar sometimes tastes like poison but that´s just my sensible tastebuds......

interesting about the family members......