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At 04:59 PM 11/2/98 -0800, you wrote: >All - > > In a strange way, a persistant strange odor led to my PD diagnosis. For >which I am thankful, since I thought that I was disintegrating bit by bit >--- voice, handwriting, smell, speaking. Now I know that the symptoms are >from PD --- and that has been treatable, for now. > My complaint that "I don't smell so good" was answered by my physicians >about as you would expect. Finally, one suggested that I might have a >brain tumor. No evidence of such from the MRI, but it got me thinking and >asking the right questions. Which led (after several false starts ) to a >specialist in PD and the correct dx. > Periodically, I smell smoke. And in my area, when you smell smoke you get >up and look, since fires can move quickly in Southern California. No >fires, just some strangeness in my brain. > Now if I smell smoke, I still get up and look. Once it was a fire. > >Bill Isbell 64/4 mo. > Hi Bill: Your post brings back memories. Before and for a while after my dx I was plagued with olfactory hallucinations and one of the strongest was the smell of heart lightwood pine burning (in the Southeast part of the U.S. this is well known - a strong acrid smell). Several nights I would wake from a deep sleep and have the smell and leap from bed shouting "the house is on fire" only to feel foolish when it was found not to be. Then one night in March 1996 we awoke to the smell of smoke and didn't get alarmed until the smoke detector went off. Our dishwasher had shorted out and had caught fire - flames leaping 2 feet high. So, you never can tell. Also, I had and occasionally still have to contend with the apparent smell of medicinal antiseptic. Hang in there!!! Bill Butch m66/7 Jacksonville, Fla.