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I suffer from this affliction - after a mugging some years ago - but I still retain "memories" of smells.
I know what freshly mown grass should smell like for example, I enjoy the memory of roast beef and enjoy eating it because of the memory I think.

As I age - I wonder will I lose the smell memory? Or the joy of the food?
Or even all my memory

And if I do lose it - will I remember that I have lost it?

Could I descend into a dementia of smell - or will it be plain dementia?

(this stems from a visit to my mother at the weekend - who suffers from dementia).


Answers on a postcard please

Trust you
Just because you can't smell roast beef,doesn't mean you can't taste it,you still have that sense,and you obviously enjoy the taste of it!!!
Nobody can predict what will happen in the future,and anyone who has experienced dementia in a loved one,must have a fear of it..it's a horrible illness.
More than a postcard size reply,so i'll stop there

Trouble is Smurlfes..................

You only have 5 senses of taste - but 14500 senses of smell

We may call them taste - but they are in fact smell

I seem to learn more every day in here!!
Billy has very little sense of smell,and one of the men at his work has no sense of smell whatsoever.
I know yours was caused by something that happened to you,but i wonder if it affects more men than women??Interesting!!

Must admit I have no idea lol
I know a brick through the head will do it for sure

Awwwww,.
It must have been a terrible experience

It wasn't good - specially as my job at the time involved buying wine

That didn't last long

That's how I ended up in IT

well,i cant say a good thing out of a bad this time eh
We never think of the aftermath of these things do we..... i never thought ,when i got knocked down all those years ago that it would have the effect on me that it has done

It's always the aftermath that is worst I think - I know the "at the time" bit is bad too - but afterwards the reality hits home