gizmo Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I'm not usually plagued with the more "unusual" side effects of medications (just the usual ones like eating all the food in my fridge), but I have had something really weird happen to me since starting seroquel a month ago. I smell much better. I can smell everything. Things I never could smell before. Like my cat's breath from three feet away. Like the smell of a dirty dish left in the sink overnight. Like the smell of my son's sheets (they really need to be laundered tomorrow). I don't like it, because everything smells bad to me. Do I really live in a smelly house??? Along these same lines, because smell is directly related to taste, the things I taste are different. Dishes I used to love taste flat to me, like they need more salt or acid or brightness. Soda burned the top of my mouth (really, it was weird) but that has went away. I think I'm a lousy cook now because I don't know how to make food taste good to my palate. Has anyone heard of this/had this happen? Or is this not related to the seroquel. It's the only thing I've changed in months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Recluse Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 How weird. I'm sure 'change of taste' is probably listed in the side-effects somewhere, but I've personally never heard of it actually happening. Under normal circumstances, the first words out of my mouth would usually be, 'Are you pregnant?' but I don't think that applies here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stasis Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I think I know what you mean, although my Seroquel use is lengthy, I constantly smell different things, it's like traces of what produced it still around. I can sense changes in my body chemistry,acidic or a sharp odor maybe the meds change mine, Going out side ,I can smell all kinds of things, I attribute the hightened sense to my years in the forest or the ocean,lots to smell on the beach like maybe a melted sealion. picture that. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongeybob Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 a symptom of a lot of drugs is sinusitis the seroquel might not have this affect on you, meaning that your sinus has cleared for the first time in a long time allowing you to smell and taste like everybody else just trying to put logical reasoning to it, just my idea is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysergia Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 seroquel didn't give me that particular side effect - but i had it on SSRIs, and now again on lithium. it's the damned smell of things....ugh. the first thing to go is eggs, every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan77 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Never heard of that side effect, or experienced it. I actually have the opposite effect. Seroquel causes me to have a stuffy nose and my sense of smell is poor as a reult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Hmmm. Despite having a permanently stuffy head my sense of smell is really acute. Topamax screwed my sense of taste royally and when I started the lamotrigine my taste changed again (most notably, all wine now tastes horrifying to me). There's a really fascinating book about how smell works called The Emperor of Scent, by Chandler Burr, that actually touches upon curing a woman's anosmia with Depakote... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Under normal circumstances, the first words out of my mouth would usually be, 'Are you pregnant?' but I don't think that applies here... Lol, you scared me enough with this statement that I went out and spent $12 on a pregnancy test this morning! Even though I have an IUD. Even though my sex life is non existant. Even though I haven't had my period in over 15 months. (thank the IUD and risperdal for that). Thank goodness it was negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatty Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I get that way when I'm manic. Is your mood stable? Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallowedink Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I'm experiencing that on the Topamax. Not as badly as what you are describing, though. Don't know what to recommend, I'm afraid... I've had to stop drinking fizzy drinks, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Recluse Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Under normal circumstances, the first words out of my mouth would usually be, 'Are you pregnant?' but I don't think that applies here... Lol, you scared me enough with this statement that I went out and spent $12 on a pregnancy test this morning! Even though I have an IUD. Even though my sex life is non existant. Even though I haven't had my period in over 15 months. (thank the IUD and risperdal for that). Thank goodness it was negative Oh god! I didn't mean to scare you, I'm sorry! It was more a joke than anything, but at least you don't have to worry about that part now, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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