exhaust ,chemical, dust smell in nose

I recently noticed when I feel my sinuses are bothering me or even when they aren't I swear I can smell sawdust in my nose

I am experiencing the same. My research is leading me down the frightening road of MOLD! Yes, inside of the sinuses. It must be addressed.

I've had the same thing - went to the doctor got an antibiotic and problem soved for 1 year. Now the exhaust smell is back. The doctor originally thought I might have a sinus or other infection even though I had no symptoms. It was a great call on the doctor's part and something I try again this week. 

I am exactly the same. It's now becoming a bad OCD issue

I also have this exhaust smell, that has gone on for maybe 5 years or more. It can last 5 minutes , 5 hours, 5 days. It could be a very weak smell that comes and goes or a smell that is so strong that you think you have your nose shoved all the way up your cars exhaust pipe as your driving down the highway, and then your eyes start burning and itching which then leads to a headache. I never know when to expect this or how long it may last or to what level of intensity it might be. Sometimes it does have a side order of something burning and or something dusty. I have tried asking 2 different doctors, but in each case they went off subject and never went back, so.....I still have no answers. Anybody have anything NEW to add?

I smoke and I just started smelling exhaust fumes yesterday. I thought it was my car but no one else can smell it. I thought maybe it could've been from a bad pack of cigarettes but I'm still smelling it today. My head can't take much more

Solved. I owe it to the people on the web to share what worked for me. After taking 300mg of St John's Wort and 1000mg of oderless garlic for 5 days, it is gone. I searched high and low for months and found a post from someone else who said this worked for them, so I tried it. It worked. I was smelling gas, metallic smell, sewage or burnt odors. Triggers were popcorn, dish soap, cucumber, Listerine or anything with alcohol like hand sanitizer, sour dough bread etc. Good Luck!

I've had this too about a year and a half, also I am getting more sensitive to lights it seems too, and if my finger nails or hair gets too long, it just feels off. I've always been smell sensitive, can't be around strong candles, perfumes or body sprays, onions, cilantro even, I thought it was because we moved closer to the refinery, as it comes and goes, seemed to be somewhat of a pattern. Like dusty metallic smoke, can almost taste it. It's really bothersome and overwhelming. Drs have no idea. I'm going to try some essential oils with anti-bacterial properties. Someone mentioned St. Johns Wort. I'd really like to hear people's solutions, no one seems to ever post back.

I don't smoke and I smell exhaust too

I get this sometimes it's so annoying and it stinks

Hi! I was just about to ask if anyone here had mold in their home. I have this chemically smell in my nose and I've had it before. Our house is contaminated with mold (has been for 4 years) and I'm seeking treatment/advice. Were you right? Was it due to mold?

Don't teals nothing from the NHS or doctors website ,the problem of smelling chemicals is called methanol and formaldehyde exhumes.This toxic compounds are everywhere from all petrol station to cigarettes and th food you eat (as conservantes ) ,they say they don't use it but they lie .When you consume or breath any chemicals it stays inside your body and it is glued in your tissues and metabolised very slowly and this accumulation causes serious health problems including cancer ,Alzheimer's and chronic inflammation! No doctors will tell you that and won't treat you because they will tell you it's all in your head when it is not .This smell things are actually caused by fungus and infections ! What happens is that by breathing toxic chemicals it will damage your tissues and cause a necrose in it making your cells to switch off and being invaded by these onco bactérias and onco-parasitic fungai ! It overtime will give you cancer .Dont trust these doctors and laboratories because they won't diagnose you and their tests are scammed so they will make sure fungus infection won't be diagnosed .The problem is that over the years the pharmaceutical industry has created super fungus( Candida albicans for exemple) that mutates like crazy once is inside human tissue and to kill it will be a very hard challenge ,if you let it too long and becoming chronic you will get an auto-immune disease such as cancer in maybe 10 years time or less .To be healed from this there is a challenge but I have overcome this problem after 3 years of misery smelling amonia bleach fumes formaldehyde smell like ! It is depressing and can drive you insane so don't buy it from your doctors or from these random brain washing lies doctors website saying it is something you smell that is not there because it is a BS !

You are absolutely right ! Mood and fungus Ian the cause of smelling chemicals and amônia ,bleach ,methanol ,fumes ,pretos like formaldehyde smell and so on .It is aused also by bacteria.Your body is composed by good bacteria but when bad bacteria turns in and when you have an accumulation of solvents and chemicals in your body these onco-bactérias and fungus attached itself to the damaged tissue and make a room inside your switched off cells growing and reproducing like crazy ,it necessary doesn't cause cancer in short therm but in long terms causes cancer ,Alzheimer's and all chronic disease existent .Chemicals itself doesn't cause cancer it actually damages your immune system making it weak and unable to find infections and inflammation ,it also causes your tissues to die so patógens can infect the area and reproduce ,all diseases has an infection behind it ,cancer is an infection caused by various patógens which accumulates in dead cells and necrosed tissues .I cured my terrible nose smell after 3 years of hell and I can guarantee you it is caus d by fungus ,mold and bacteria .

So whats the cure then?

i have same smell like burnt dust it lasts for days it has occurred before i initially thought it was because i burned buddlea twigs the previous day when it occurred again with no buddlea burnings i retraced my day and come to the conclusion that it was coming from cooling fan in computers when i placed a birthday card at front to deflect the air it has not happened again