Smelling Car Exhaust Fumes That Aren't There!

Hi am smelling fumes for the last wk and it's given me sore heads I smell it all the time work even during the night .before that it used to be cig smoke .

I have been wrestling with the same issue of smelling the like of car exhaust Dunedin and off for about a year or so now. I kept thinking that it was everywhere in the air and stayed kin my nose at night. I finally figured out recently, that it is probably due to being allergic to sugar. It has taken me a couple of months of going to the allergist and finding out that I have become allergic to many things including foods and clothing and certain chemicals that they make all of our wearable and washable products out of, that he decided to test for auto immune and it turns out I likely have a form of lupus. He didn't test for sugar but as I was being careful and watching and limiting what I consume, I my self became aware that the effect went away when I cut out sugar. I tried the vitamin b's and everything people were saying on this site that didn't work until I discovered the sugar connection. Not necessarily the natural sugars but mainly the high sugar stuff like sweets and drinks. I am convinced after talking with others and finding out the different forms of auto immune that are cropping up mainly in women are due to the high and increasingly higher chemical and pesticide content in our lives such as in our clothing; Rayon, viscose, and modal are made with formaldehyde and most people don't know. Also can be in our towels and the bamboo pillows, which are not bamboo, and carpets. It's also in our bedding now in which we sleep. Also tested positive for a common chemical they use in our soap products and fragrances. I am highly allergic to soy now and they make that with a bunch of chemicals they won't even give animals, but if they did we would get it that way too. My son in law works in a soy plant and verified this. Europe has banned most of these toxic chemicals. Could it be because they are on a National health care system and it would bankrupt their system? Yet by our getting sick with these products, we are supporting our health care in America?. I used to not be such a voice until I have experienced this for myself. I hope to create more awareness and help people to become well from this.

Please see my reply to another below. Should have replied to most recent but didn't. After doing research, most likely we have an auto immune disease like lupus, cilleac or something and it it a trigger from an allergic reaction like mine is sugar. Took a long time to figure out and went cold turkey on sugar (pure) not natural and it stopped after 24 hours. Comes and goes depending on exposure. I believe that the author immune diseases cropping up are due to all the chemicals we are exposed to such as the formaldehyde in our rayon product clothing and bedding along with other chemicals and pesticide in our foods and personal care products have exacerbated or even created our illnesses. Europe bans many of these product,. Probably because they don't want to bankrupt their national health care system.. Yet we are supporting our health system here in the states by our sicknesses. Didn't used to care until it happened to me.

I started smelling and tasting what seems like car exhaust fumes. I had it got very sick and it went away when I got better...a month or so later smell and taste came back followed by a getting very sick. Now it is back and I am thinking I will get sick again shortly. Has anyone ever had this. It is terrible and I have to chew gum ALL day in order to deal with it. (Sick I mean cough, sinus, congestion sick)

Are you consuming sugar products or products that can increase blood sugar?. Or do you consume milk or dairy products. I would like to know because I think this is what I narrowed the issue to in myself. But I think all this is related be a use we have one type of auto immune system malfunction.. Please let me know. Maybe we can figure this out. Thanks Nancy

I stopped smoking twice in the last 7 years. and since i rea your comment, i realize that this exhaust smell started up both times i stopped smoking.
The worst part, 1st time I stopped was 2010 and didn't smoke again til 2016. 5 years i couldn't get away from the exhaust smell.
2nd time i stopped August 2017, its jan. 2018 and the exhaust smell is still here.
Problem is, I don't think it ever stopped while i was smoking. But I do know it started in 2011. I chalked it up to havin stopped smoking your taste and smell get more sensitive. So I thought it was something I just couldn't smell b4.
But it only happens at night / evening when I am laying in bed watching tv.

High blood sugar runs in my family. I had gestational while i carried my daughter in 2011. I still have my meter and keep eye on my sugar. It has always been fine since her birth. So this smell of exhaust can't have anything to do with high blood sugar.

The exhaust smell came upon me back in 2011.
Never have I taken notice that it was only around when I had a sinus infection. But I do have one now. which prompted me to come here, finding this thread while searching the internet.
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Chantix is NOT the cause.
I went 5 years with out taking it and still had the exhaust smell.

I have In the past week maybe a bit longer started smelling exhaust fumes .... And it is so strong it does make me feel I am just continually breathing it in... My ayes are so sore just now, Supposidly from this smell... which nobody else can smell.... so they all think I have lost the plot again . I also take Efexor 300mg daily now, as been trying to come off them. I also take propranolol. I don't think I have ever had this before, but may of in the past, and not remember. People have mentioned hallucinations. . And I really thought I had never had any... but about 2 years ago, I was sure my bed had bugs in it... I bought every spray possible and smoke things to get rid of them. But this bed was only a few months old, And I had to get rid of it... my daughter actually had the bed, as she refused to take it to the tip... And she has never had any bites or seen any bugs at all. But to me they want real.... so I don't know what to think... I have borderline personality disorder, so I am a bit worried about mentioning this to my doctor. As I don't wanna end up on some ward ...But I just don't know how to get rid of this smell... and my family are sick of freezing; coz I have the windows open to get rid of the smell

I have been battling with this and it comes and goes almost daily now. I have been working extremely hard on my diet because I have been diagnosed with some kind of autoimmune although they are not sure yet, Lupus, Hashimoto Thyroid, who knows. As it sit here and write and am sitting on my couch, I can smell it and it has gotten a lot better since I've been reducing my sugar intake and dairy and anything with carbohydrates. I also have low Vitamin D, underactive thyroid, high cholesteral and borderline type II diabetes. No one understands this smell unless it's related to a tumor or oncoming seizure which they said would have manifested itself by now if it was going to happen. I have been doing sooo much research and have discovered the leaky gut syndrome, which can precipitate all of this and a lot of other autoimmune diseases if not taken care. So I have been diligently changing my diet to try to cure this which I think is possible, since it has lessened so much and for the most part (except what it seems for a while after I eat, I think I'm beating it. I am following a leaky gut diet (small intestinal permeation). ...staying away from the major triggers, (sugar, Dairy, carbohydrates, now even coffee until after I eat. Anything that's hard on the gut or inflammatory to the system. I hope it repairs itself soon. It is very difficult for me to deprive myself of simple breads, cheese, sweets, etc. but thank God for places like Whole Foods with alternatives for things I love. It has been a lot of work, but it's working. I'm also going to the health food store and getting that L glutamine here on Monday that's supposed to help. You should google Leaky Gut and there is so much information on the web even though the medical industry doesn't recognize it has a thing. I believe that it is and hopefully will be healed within a month. Then, supposedly you can return to eating some stuff within limits. I hope without the reactions that I have. Good luck, but check it out and see if you have some of the symptoms described.

Try checking out the Leaky Gut syndrome on the web. It seems to be a cause of a lot of auto immune. There is actually a test for it although I have not had it, but have changed my diet considerably and it's helping.

You are correct as it seems, because I have not smelled it when my blood sugar has been as high as 166. I think that it is a combination of a few diet related things that tend to inflame the body. I usually do not smell it when my blood sugar is below 110 or it begins to subside. I have gone on a very strict diet cutting out dairy and carbs as well, as I have been reading about the leaky gut syndrome and hopefully will heal my gut, which now I think it may come from. The gases inside myself. yuk, but maybe. Anyway, it can cause a lot of auto immune diseases and I'm now being tested for Hashimoto Thyroid, due to my reactions to food and low thyroid function and low vit. D and high cholesteral and high blood sugar. As I sit down after I eat is when I notice it moderately now. But it has lessened considerably and does not keep me from sleeping at night like before. I believe leaky gut can be tested for and after the other allergy and auto immune tests, I will ask for that one. Good luck, I hope we find the answer. Our society has exposed us to so many toxins and antibiotics in our environment and foods that it seems and I have observed that about 1 in 5 of us now have some kind of auto immune disease. I think we're keeping our health system going unlike Europe who bans a lot of this stuff from the countries.

Oh I thought it was just me! It started spontaneously 3 days ago. I just want it to stop, it really quite debilitating at times and I just want to rip my nose off my face!

I also smell fumes like exhaust , it started after I had lyme disease and I quit smoking, I am vit. D deficient and take about 1,000 ut a day. It is strange and I am just glad to see I am not crazy and the only one who does this!!