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Qu: Burning Smell – is it a symptom?
I joined here because Myasthenia Gravis and this website has come up a few times before when I searched some off/on symptoms. I discounted it as a diagnosis when the symptoms went and I didn’t have the symptoms very bad. However, recently I have been smelling wood burning – in our bedroom at night, in a pub, and in a cinema. Its quite a pleasant smell, but it is definitely not real – no-one else can smell it and there are no wood fires about. Only change I can think of is starting to take statins. Its not the burning toast smell that people experience in relation to a stoke.
When I searched ‘What conditions cause imaginary smells…?’ this forum came up with 2 or 3 other people experiencing exactly the same smell. I’d actually been directed to the sight when Googling other symptoms over several months, but I discounted MG because my symptoms were not that bad and they went away.
The two MG symptoms I have noticed are one side of the face:
– droopy eyelid and mouth
– visual, ‘differences’ they are hard to describe, because when I get my eyes checked they are the same & haven’t got much worse than would be expected for normal agingI find when I pull my hair back into a pony tail (maybe correcting the weakness) it helps with the vision.
I also have dry-eyes, and ulcerative colitis (ie some autoimmune history) + occasional flares of knee arthritis and fatigue that can not be diagnosed.
Does this sound like MG do you think?
And does anyone else have the burning wood smell? To anyone else’s knowledge, have imaginary smells (Olfactory Hallucinations) ever been linked to MG before, other than on this website? If you have smelt the burning wood smell, have you by chance started to take statins also?
Thank you – I am undiagnosed but didn’t know which other Forum to post under.
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