u/CelestiallyCertain

I have read so many posts on senses of smell being heightened, but have any of you had sense of smells worsen? I think I’m scaring myself to death as it being a sign of Alzheimer’s. I’m now worried because I sometimes will mess up sentence (saying a word in the wrong order, but catching it instantly), forgetting words, or slower to come up with a word.

I’m a 42F and was diagnosed with Crohn’s last year after a sudden onset. I know we have a higher rate of dementia just having the disease.

I’ve gone through cognitive testing and said it was all normal. MRIs as well. They found one small T1 spot but said they are absolutely normal to develop as one ages and to have 1-2 small ones in the 40’s is nothing to worry about.

I am just new to my disease and peri (obviously 😆) and looking to see if anyone else’s smell hasn’t weighed but maybe decreased? Specifically, the smell of vinegar for me. I can only really smell it if I have my nose to the bottle. Even then, it doesn’t have that strong stinging smell like it used to.

Anyone else or am I alone on this one?

I have to travel to a city that’s a one hour flight away for work this week. It’s a large team gathering and two days of meetings. They also booked tickets for a MLB game in that city.

I am dreading this trip. I’m not officially in remission. I get scoped the week after I come back. I’ve been having some extra intestinal symptoms which have been lowering my QoL.

I have zero desire to go on this trip and likely cannot eat anything at the stadium. Dinner will be at the stadium. I’m so worried about food poisoning, picking up something like c diff or h pylori, and I see everything made at a stadium as high risk. The vendors and food production areas cannot be that clean. I cannot think of anything that I’d be comfortable eating. Thinking I may need to leave the game early. My body just cannot take long days of conferences from 8-5 and then events at night anymore. And then have to be at a conference starting at 8am the next morning.

Praying that this trip isn’t what fully sets my intestines off and I have to fly home early.