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I can smell EVERYTHING! My nose is detecting every good and bad acent around. Anyone else experiencing this?

Sleeved a week ago...

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OMG yes I got sleeved on 12/8 and even my home sir fresheners that I have ALWAYS used are too much for me. I wonder if this will go away or get worse?

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Well, this is just another present in the old swag bag of of sleevedom. Interesting. Let's see what happens.

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I find them somewhat keener or perhaps pickier? Anything strong bothers me. I was sleeved on 12/7 and the smell of coffee brewing or bacon cooking nauseates me now.

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Yes, this happened to me. I've always been sensitive to smells but for a month after being sleeved it was overwhelmingly strong. I made my husband take the trash out almost every day because I could smell it from across the house.

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I made my husband take the trash out almost every day because I could smell it from across the house.

Making mine shower.... I smelled a funnel cake from two blocks away.

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I find them somewhat keener or perhaps pickier? Anything strong bothers me.

Keener for sure, but coffee on DH breath, yick.

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I found this too and three months out it is still the case! In fact, I had a favorite essential oil spray I used to LOVE and use everyday and now I hate it!

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I made my husband take the trash out almost every day because I could smell it from across the house.

Making mine shower.... I smelled a funnel cake from two blocks away.

I'm over a year out and was standing in the dining room at my parent's last night and said, "I smell marshmallows." My mom looked at me in disbelief and said she opened a cabinet in the kitchen to put something away and there is a giant bag of marshmallows in there. LOL! I've still got it. Mom said I'm a "super smeller".

Unfortunately perfumes, body odor and cigarettes makes me physically ill now. Having a keen sense of smell and working with the public is not a good combination.

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Omg I was sleeved on 12/8 and started experiencing this same thing and was wondering what was going on! It's so weird! I can smell everything and I keep telling my dog she stinks ???? and she just had a bath!

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I have a theory about starvation levels and the body trying to detect food any way it can, rejecting all but the best. Meh?

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Right! If we were back in the days of the caveman and we were starving those that had the best sense of smell to find food would out live the ones that didn't!

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Yes even 3 year post op

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