Burned toast

[davide.h]

Is it true that smelling burned toast is the sign of a seizure or stroke? I've heard that since childhood but have also heard that that is just a myth. So I'm not sure what the truth is.

 

[bin_tenn]

It *can* be, but it can be (and more likely is) a sign of so many other things, non scary things. I smell so many things randomly, pretty much every day.

 

[mollyfin]

It can be but it can also be a sign of sinus issues, migraines or excessive nose-picking. (No, really, idk why but having your fingers in there can cause phantom smells.) I was smelling weird stuff off and on for months. Still don't know why but now a couple years later I have nonstop migraines so I'm guessing they're related.

 

[MARCC]

There is no solid medical evidence supporting this.

 

[davide.h]

I have an air filter in my bedroom and the light on it went red, to indicate bad air. I opened the window to air it out. I haven't smelled anything odd today. I checked the whole house too.

 

[Beautiful Disaster]

I have an air filter in my bedroom and the light on it went red, to indicate bad air. I opened the window to air it out. I haven't smelled anything odd today. I checked the whole house too.

We have an air filter in our bedrooms. When the light comes on, it doesn’t mean that the air is bad but that the filter needs cleaned. Maybe that is all the light on your air filter means too?

 

[restlessduck]

For about 4 months straight, every month, for 1-2 days I would smell very distinct cigarette smoke when there wasn't none. It drove me absolutely CRAZY!!! I spent HOURS going step by step throughout my house and smelling every inch and corner of my rooms. Nothing. I found nothing. The smell kept following me wherever I went but from what I remember I only smelled it when I was inside my house. It stopped happening when the summer came so I just narrowed it down to sinus issues and anxiety. Anxiety could cause you to smell the smell in a particular place and sinus issues can contribute. Hell, it can even be a hallucination from anxiety. It could also be mold, an air filter that has to be replaced, allergies or just normal smells coming from the bacteria that coats your tongue, so try a tongue scraper. Maybe you're mouth breathing and don't know it, and then breathing in that same air through your nose and smelling the toast you ate previously.

If you had a seizure or a stroke you would have various other symptoms like one side of your face and body going limp, sudden dizziness, loss of balance, maybe forgetting how to talk and do simple things you regularly do. You probably wouldn't even be capable of turning on your computer and writing a grammatically correct sentence to publish on this forum. That said, I'm not a doctor and am just repeating what I have read when I was frantically searching for answers online back when I thought I was going to die of a stroke.