I may be completely off the wall but I was in total remission for almost a month when last Sunday, my wife broke out a new Yankee Candle.

I'm normally a fan of Yankee Candles but this one, Sun and Sand, seems to have touched off a really bad cycle.

Have I lost it? Or do certain smells trigger attacks?

A few smells set me off.

I know one person that the smell of microwave popcorn sends into agony.

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Yea scents can do it. Hell I am not a CH sufferer myself but perfumes and colognes give me a headache!

YES!!!!!! We have proof! Queen has to stop buying Yankee Candles...Woo Hoo!!

Joe

primetime wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 1:11pm:

Have I lost it? Or do certain smells trigger attacks?

I used to smoke part of a cigar, butt it and put the butt in my shirt pocket to finish later. Smoking didn't bother me, but the odor of that butt would trigger a particularly bad HA.
So for me, yes, an odor can trigger an attack.

Scented candles, air fresheners, perfumes/colognes/deodorants often will nail me instantly.  I know exactly where every candle/fragrance display is in WalMart, but once they had a special deal going on candles and put them on an end-cap.  I walked down the aisle and literally hit my knees with an instant k9.  Taht was fun getting out of that store with all the Christmas shoppers blocking the aisles!

Jerry

Smells can trigger me too.  Pine Sol, any petrolium based like shoe waterproof spray, newly laid asphalt, and there is a lotion that was coconut Lime that really got me from Bath and body works. 

Redd wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 4:21pm:

Smells can trigger me too.  Pine Sol, any petrolium based like shoe waterproof spray, newly laid asphalt, and there is a lotion that was coconut Lime that really got me from Bath and body works.

I shudder at the thought of Bath and Body Works!!!  When I get dragged kicking and screaming to the mall I have to walk on the other side of the hallway with my breath held for a store or two before until a store or two after.  I have had it trigger even then on occasion.  I called their home office and complained.  Got a rather snotty letter back suggesting I might not want to shop in their stores. 

I also hate the vendors who give out the "free samples" of perfumes to people who walk by whether they want them or not.  My daughter walked past Victoria's Secret once and got sprayed even though she said "no".  She complained to the store manager, telling her I am "allergic", about the only way to communicate the idea to the intellectual cretin, tried to wash off the spray, and then rode with her arm out the window of the car while I had my head out the other window while driving her home.  That was the second K10 I have suffered.  I have no idea how I ever got the car home, but if I had been seen by a cop I'd have been locked up for sure.

Jerry

Walmart.

       Potter

every once in a while at con-way they fill up a 28' pup trailer with yankee candle or bath and body works and send me to a mall. 300 to 500 boxes of candles and fragrances. i have to break down every skid and carry every box in on a cart then stack them up in a stockroom full of boxes full of candles and oils and nice pretty smelling stuff. if i was in cycle this would have killed me :-?

I like the smell of Sun and Sand, but not during cycle.
Just walking into a Yankee Candle outlet is pure hell.
Bystander cigarette smoke along with strong perfume
is an instant trigger while in cycle.  Out of cycle I can smell all of these things without harm.

Guiseppi wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 2:02pm:

YES!!!!!! We have proof! Queen has to stop buying Yankee Candles...Woo Hoo!! Joe

Oh yea, that'll happen....

I love Yankee candles...out of cycle, lol.  When I'm in cycle, my oldest daughter has to put her perfume on in her room downstairs (instead of the upstairs bathroom) before school and absolutely NO candles get burned.  Not only that, I specially bought shampoo & conditioner online that are unscented and organic.

Sucks!

Needless to say, the Sun and Sand candle found it's way to the trash can. ;D

Thanks for the replies....glad to know that CH's haven't driven me completey insane....yet.  :)

Sniff...I love candles and at the risk of making anyone angry..it's not the brand of candles at all (Yankee Candle)  just the aroma that sets a trigger off. 

I have no triggers so for me, a scented candle is one of lifes pleasures.  I wish it were so for all of you. I really do.   :'(

Out of cycle, not much bothers me, but during a cycle any scent can set it off, a candle, perfume, cologne, a freshly opened beer, and the list goes on....

Here's to a cure!! :)