My surgical menopause and strange smells!
Tracy Kelebeck went into surgical menopause at aged 41, (only one ovary removed but the other one failed totally within about 7-9 months) 8 years ago following medically managed menopause, but the real thing has been a shocker and a real struggle! Anyway! My sense of smell has always been good but honestly, I’d say for around the last 3 ish years, since I have been on a better dose of HRT my sense of smell is off the charts! I can smell all manner of things from cigarette smoke to feet and generally anything that’s not pleasant, I have some kind of antenna! I think that it’s been more acute as I’ve got older, and it actually irritates me and my family definitely. I feel bad for them to be honest! My poor hubby walks in from work, I wrinkle up my nose and look at his feet and he now trots off or the bathroom for a wash, or my young almost teenage daughters get the third degree about their not-so-fresh armpits bless them … NOT! It’s made me paranoid though about my own body odours which have also changed, and I can smell it all the more. Also, the more aware I am of it the more it annoys me!
Tracy Kelebeck
