Feeling I'm going mad... keep smelling things no one else can smell

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No one in the house smokes but iver last few weeks I keep smelling stale cigarette smoke. Also burning smells and a strong scent of poo. Not all the time but regular strong whiffs.

DP and DCs can't smell them at all

Has anyone else experienced this?

Make a GP appointment and in the mean time book a Covid test. Google Covid and smelling cigarette smoke, it's a thing.

oh god, now I'm a bit scared - I'll book a GP appointment (if I can get one that is but that's another story).

I do have epilepsy and while I've never had this symptom before I suppose it could be related. I may drop an email to the epilepsy nurse and see what she says.

If I'm honest I'd wondered hoped it was simply down to a weird symptom of stress (who's not stressed at the moment by lockdown) .. I'm just so tired

I've had covid, anosmia still going strong but I'm starting to smell burning. Not sure if you can just get the phantosmia. Definitely do a covid test.

Very likely connected to your epilepsy. Hope you nurse is helpful.

I've heard about thecigarette smell happening to people recently, it might even have been on threads on here. I don't know what the answer is but you aren't alone. I guess the most likley thing at the moment is that it's covid related

My partner had covid two months ago and the other day told me that he now smells a cigarette smoke smell regularly. Could you have had covid previously?

My son compl of smelling smoke when he had Covid

It was a symptom of covid for me. Chances are it’s more likely to covid than anything sinister.