freskafreska
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I am writing to see how common it is to be able to smell drugs from inside your blood. For myself, I can identify the drug that has been administered after it reaches a certain concentration in the blood plasma. For example, if I take methadone, about two hours later I would be able to smell it when inhaling and exhaling. Methadone, Oxycodone, Morphine all have similar smells, but Tramadol is very different. Paracetamol has a distinct smell that comes on after about 15 minute post oral administration. B-D Posiflush Normal Saline syringes also have a chemical odour although its only supposed to be salt water and that can be smelled within seconds of the flush going thru the IV while the Normal Saline drip bags have no smell at all. Aspirin and ethyl-alchol smells somewhat like vinegar and ibuprofen has no detectable smell. For alcohol it makes sense as one of the metabolites is acetate. The smell can be very strong and overwhelming for some of these drugs at peak plasma, but at the same time can bring a bit of comfort by telling me the drug is working.
Has anyone experienced something like this and how common is it? Any medical term for this? Can't find anything relevant on Google, and doctors and pharmacists scratches their head when I ask them.
Thanks
Has anyone experienced something like this and how common is it? Any medical term for this? Can't find anything relevant on Google, and doctors and pharmacists scratches their head when I ask them.
Thanks