Phantom smells from diabetes?

[The Cunning Linguist]

Does anyone here experience "phantom" smells? What I mean is odours that only you can detect.

I've always had a very acute sense of smell, but since being diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic 2 years ago, I've been finding that I smell things that might not even be there. Or, I'm in an environment with a strong smell, but hours after I leave that environment, I can still smell it. Would thick nostril hair be a cause?

I'm wondering if the insulin might be changing my body chemistry so much that I can smell/taste it in my mouth.

I don't think epilepsy, or a brain tumour might be the cause.

This is somewhat serious for me. It's driving me around the bend.

 

[a 1 player]

Just throwing this out there...

I was dating a girl who was an insulin dependant diabetic. Depending on her blood sugar, her breath would smell differently, sometimes sweet, sometimes almost musty.

 

[evilsgood]

I'm Type 2 but I take pills, not insulin. The downside is sometimes I get awful gas. That phantom smell everyone is aware of. Thankfully it's been 3 weeks since the last bout.

 

[Aardvark154]

I'm diet controlled. The smell thing is rare, but when I've been working around some weird smell, not infrequently I'll have "flashbacks" I don't know if I'm actually smelling it on my clothing or if it is a "phantom" effect.