I wonder if there are any other mners who have this problem, which is becoming so all consuming that it is taking over my life, and really restricting my activites.
I have always been a bit sensitive to strong smells, and have had migraines all my life. But over the past few years the use of 'perfume' in all areas has rocketed and everywhere I go I am assailed by the stink of chemicals. I have a headache every day now, and am often nauseous from the effects of these VOCs etc that are put into everything nowadays.
I have a house full of teenagers most of the time, and the stuff they spray on themselves really makes me ill. I can smell this stuff from 100 metres away, and the effect it has on me is immediate. Headache, nausea, feeling faint. It's not as though the scent is pleasant either, all I get is the chemical thing and then the physical effects.
I have had to give up dancing and several other activities because more and more people are using these products. Confined spaces are a nightmare...planes, buses, offices etc. Even if I just walk past someone in the street I can sense these smells. Any place I go where there is an 'air freshener' means three days in bed for me with a horrendous migraine. Asking to have a window open is met with looks as though I am a loon, or the reply that they don't actually open at all.
I am sitting here typing this with a headache because some friends of my son have come round and are all trailing a cloud of toxic fumes. (The so-called Lynx-effect)!
It is extremely difficult to buy washing powders, cleaning stuff and any household product that does not contain these poisons now. And they ARE poisons.
Is it me? Or is it them? And what the Hell can I do to get back to a normal life? Short of walking round wearing a gas-mask a la Michael Jackson, I am stumped.