constant smell of ammonia in my nose

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My entire family and all of my friends that I was just out to dinner with, thought I was completely crazy!!! Why was I talking about ammonia smell and taste! At lunch took back two hamburgers, because the smell/taste was so bad! Dinner I tried again, and the same thing! After reading all of the blogs I realized it was the ketchup, or sauces, even sour cream did it to me today.
The difference here is that I am NOT currently on any meds! I have had a chronic sinus infection and am on allergy shots weekly, and last week had a horrible reaction to the shots, suffered for days! I go back to the allergist tomorrow, and have my ENT read my Catscan on Friday.
I was on Levaquin and Avelox and had to stop those because I am an athlete and they can lead to tendon problems so then went on Augmentin XR and a steroid dose pack. I have been off of those for over a week now. So, I see the common denominator in most of the blogs is the meds, but I am on nothing! Have taken myself off of everything until I talk to my doc tomorrow. Is there anyone else who is free of meds who has the unpleasant smell/taste????
Please let me know! Confused

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I've had the problem with constant ammonia smells for the past week. Seems to have been triggered by a bad cold I was suffering last week. Kept thinking it was a kitty litter problem. Then I tried to eat some salsa and was repulsed by the smell - thought the salsa was bad. Same reaction, only worse, when I tried to eat malt vinegar on some fish a couple days later. Anything that contains vinegar tastes awful. The only medication I used while sick was Sudafed PE and Ibuprofen. Took both several times a day for 3-4 days. That's more than I usually ingest while sick, so it's possible that a drug reaction is playing a role. However, I tend to think it's a sinus infection. Honestly, I'm not having a lot of sinus issues though. I'm hoping this ammonia thing will go away in a few days.

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just wanted to say I too smell stuff once in awhile I've never known anyone else to suffer with this and I have not mentioned it to my doctor.. I have been a hairdresser for about 20 yrs and the last few years when I would apply a haircolor I would forever smell the ammonia or other chemicals put in the hair dye.. my nose would just reek of the stuff for a day or two.. but, now its been a couple of years since I've worked with hair or been around color chemicals.. and the smell that comes to me is a sweet sometimes burning smell its very odd.. I live in an apartment and wonder if its something comming from the heating register? Its smells of either an electric burning or I guess an ammonia smell ( but, different than the hair dye smell) I'm not sure what it is? I'm concerned that I may have a chemical poisoning due to this and working with hair dye? Any more thoughts on it would be appreciated...

thetallguy6000 · Newbie Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 1 Location: OREGON

That darn ammonia smell! I've been experiencing it for almost two years now..... Not one doc I have seen can give me a straight up answer. Kidneys/ liver are fine. Blood work came back all good. The smell seemed to begin around the time I was first put on anti-depressants for PTSD. I went through 5 different meds during an 18 month period, can't recall the names off hand (extremely shortened attention span is one of many problems I'm dealing with). Another potential point of cause is that I may have suffered internal brain trauma from explosive shock waves or 'shell shock'. The V.A. has yet to determine if I 'warrant' placing on a CAT or other brain imaging device to even check to see if it could be the primary cause of my mental problems. They prefer to keep popping pills into me. Physically, I'm sound as a race horse. More often than not, I notice the smell really kicks in when I've been in the shower and lean over to wash the legs n feet. I go to stand back up and not a second later.... BAM!!! Like someone opened a smelling-salt capsule under my nose. This is officially one of the biggest mysteries I have ever come across as far as my health goes. Anyone know of any medical research that may have been done/ is being done on this subject??? If so could you post a link in the blog? Very interested.

wysiwigs · Newbie Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 1

WEll,
like so many others I thought I was alone in this problem. I have a constant sensation of exhaust smell. It's very sickening and causes a lot of nausea for me. No matter what I do, I can't get away from it. Nothing like amonia, just exactly like car exhaust fumes or a diesel bus.
In reading through all of the posts on this subject, I personally am seeing a connection with those who are on anti-depressants of one kind or another. I started on Paxil about a year ago, and that's when the first bout of this exhaust smell hit me. Lasted for weeks and I went to the emergency room one night looking for help. They were clueless and of no help, and had never heard of such a thing.
I tried to quit the Paxil about a week and a half ago, but the side effects of cold turkey quitting were awful. I had to begin them again in order to graduate off of them. Now the second bout of this exhaust thing has hit me. Started yesterday, the day after I began the Paxil.
Anybody else see a connection here?
T. B>

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