Help!
Over the last few years (it's got to be hormones), my sense of smell has gone into overdrive. It's become so sensitive that I seem to smell things (usually unpleasant) that no one else can. It's driving me nuts!
Mostly I can walk away and forget or grin and bear it if needed but right now my house stinks. My husband can't smell it. Neither can anyone else (or so they say).
We don't have pets or kids. It just smells really strongly of 'body' to me, not BO as such but musty and lived in, especially upstairs. It's worse on warm days. I'm washing everything frequently and opening windows all day. I've cleared cupboards and washed anything in there that I can. Bicarb of soda/Febreeze on the carpets. Sealed things in bags/boxes and even changed our showergel to a soap that's supposed to remove "old people" odours. But it persists and is getting worse.
I've also used incense and oil burners and even a plug in (which I don't much like) but they are only temporary relief.
Does anyone have any ideas for how I can get a handle on this? Anyone else experience this? Maybe I need supplements to calm whatever hormone is doing this (I'm already on HRT)? Or maybe I just have to stuff tissues up my nose...