pattyg

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1. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   My husband smoked for a short time 35 years ago, maybe a year or two, and then quit when his wife became pregnant with their first child. He hasn't smoked since then but lived with smokers for 20+ years after that...nothing to make smoking an issue ...

2. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   My husband went to the doctor for the cigarette smoke hallucinations, which is called parosmia, and he took him off Atenolol (high blood pressure medication) as this is one of the possible side effects. He's going to give it a month and if it has no...

3. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   luci I made an appt with the doctor for my husband today. Maybe you should too. Better to be safe than sorry, you know? It just seems too strange to ignore. I noticed from your profile that you work on a child/adolescent psych unit. Thought you'd...

4. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   It is happening everywhere -- alone in the car, outside, in different houses, everywhere. It has nothing to do with location or there being cigarette smoke around. It is an olfactory hallucination. We're just wondering what's causing it. Brain tu...

5. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   No one smokes in our house, besides he experiences this even when he is alone in the car (which no one has ever smoked in). I think it is an olfactory hallucination--but what is causing it?

6. odor of cigarette

   pattyg replied to nursy_ann's topic in General Nursing

   My husband has been experiencing the same cigarette smoke smell. It began as something that would occur once in a while but recently he has been experiencing this phenomenon many times each day, in fact today it was almost constant. He says it is l...