Howdy,

I have been taking generic Ritalin less than a week for narcolepsy. I figured I'd have more luck with a larger base of Ritalin users here. ;-)

Has anyone ever heard of Ritalin making one hypersensitive to certain scents?

I keep smelling these faint traces of an acetone/solvent/alcohol like scent for the last few days and I cannot trace it to a source. I can't put my finger on what it is, so I describe it as an acetone/solvent/alcohol type scent. It is reminiscent of paint or nail polish "fumes".

Nobody else in the house can smell it besides me. Well I take that back, my mother did smell it once but I had to bring her attention to it and she hasn't smelled it since. Whereas I smell it intermittently throughout the day.

It is limited to an 8x8 area of the kitchen, which suggests it isn't in my mind, per se, or I should be smelling it everywhere.

I was thinking more like, I was detecting a scent that is in fact there, but I was just made hypersensitive to it, like some medications make people hypersensitive to light.

Its starting to irritate me, one of those things that just doesn't go away and drives you up the wall.

Thanks for any input.