Whats wrong with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!
Question:
Whats wrong with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
ok, a month ago i had a head injury. i fractured the tamporal bone on both sides f my head. i was rished to the hospital where they took care of me. they said i would be fine, they did xrays MRI and other scans they looked at my barin and EVERYTHING looked fine. they sent me home but then later on i noticed that my sense of smell what not good at all.........i can small rubbing achohal and stuff like that but really nothing else. i am totally normal but i need ot know how to get my sense of smell back and dont tell me i need ot go to the doctors cuz i refuse, just help me please tell me how i can get my sense of smell back:)
Answers:
The bad news is that it will take as long as it takes to heal. The good news is that it won't take longer than that.
You had broken temporal bones, and that tells one that your brain got shaken around in there pretty good. The nerve that controls smell is the olfactory nerve, or Cranial Nerve I. it passes through a sieve-like bone structure called the cribriform plate into the nose.
What probably happened is that the nerve got stretched as the soft parts (the brain and the nerves that are attached to it) were pulled against the hard parts (where the nerve goes through the bone from brain to nose.)
Like any part of the body that gets injured, the nerve reacted. It may have swollen, and that would stop the impulses being sent from your nose to your brain. This will probably heal, and your sense of smell will come back in time.
As far as I know, there is nothing that will hurry the process along. Horrid as it sounds, you may have to bear with it until everything gets back to normal.
The problem is that a head injury can lead to anosmia, or loss of the sense of smell. Since you can smell strong odors, I would think, based on reading and being a nurse, that as the irritation of the nerves heals, your smelling ability and sense will get better.
I know you don't want to hear it, but the very best place to get information is a doctor, probably a specialist like an ear, eye, nose and throat specialist, or a neurologist. Those MDs can examine, test and for that reason tell you much more clearly than an answer board can what is and what is not happening.