Tylenol Smell...?

[Sumocat]

This may be the weirdest questions I've ever asked, but I'm hoping some of our health care professional o-philes will have an answer: what causes a person to smell Tylenol after they take it?

I know the pill itself has no smell, but I swear...as soon as I take Tylenol and it starts kicking in, I get this sort of 'dusty' taste/smell, and its quite potent.

This only happens with Tylenol, no other pain-killers, and at doses higher than about 300 mg. I've had my liver tested, and its ticking along just fine.

Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I just weird? :rolleyes:

[bronyraur]

This may be the weirdest questions I've ever asked, but I'm hoping some of our health care professional o-philes will have an answer: what causes a person to smell Tylenol after they take it?

I know the pill itself has no smell, but I swear...as soon as I take Tylenol and it starts kicking in, I get this sort of 'dusty' taste/smell, and its quite potent.

This only happens with Tylenol, no other pain-killers, and at doses higher than about 300 mg. I've had my liver tested, and its ticking along just fine.

Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I just weird? :rolleyes:


You're just plain weird.:D j/k

I can't say that I experience the same symptoms as you from taking Tylenol.

[euphoria2002]

It might be you're getting some minute traces of binder finding their way up the back of your throat. If you smell it, that could be perceived as either a funny smell or a funny taste... chalky, or dusty perhaps. Do you chew those tylenols?

[boy14dead]

umm, i know when i take vicodins or percacets i always get a certain sense in my throat and nose. i believe it is the tylenol since i taste it with both vicodin and percs. as funny as this is gonna sound, i have never taken tylenol by itself.

[jonny-5]

i know exactly what you are talking about. when i was taking a ton of vicodin, i would get that taste like 10-20 min after taking it. dont know what causes it, but its definitely the tylenol cause ive taken acetominophen by itself and had the same thing happen. i used to love that taste/smell cause i associated it with the vicodin high. now if i take it i hate that sensation.

[PantyShot9]

OMG I thought I was the only one I've been asking people that use Vics and other APA containing drugs for years and they all have no idea what I'm talking about. I wonder why it happens.

[Skript]

Ive never had any strange taste from acetaminophen.. But I do get a warm fuzzy feeling for about 10 mins when i take it... Maby im strange but I like the feeling..

[Sitar]

Ha... yep, I know this sensation as well. I call it the "puzzle piece" smell, since it reminds me of the way old children's puzzle pieces smell. Sort of musty; I think those puzzles were made of Masonite.

But yeah, I have definitely gotten that sensation from taking large doses of Hydro.

[flipside]

If you're taking a mixed compound of Narctic/APAP you might want to try a CWE and see if that helps.

It's certainly worth it to keep that "liver ticking along just fine"

[Chemical_Boy]

Do you have acid reflux disease?

Maybe that shit is irritating you stomach and it starts gurgling around in their and gets back into your throat or something.

Hell, I have chewed up 6 or 8 norcos at a clip and never had that happen once I got the stuff out of my teeth and washed down.

Fuck it though. . .ibuprofen works better anyway!

[evilfix]

ha i now exactly what your talking about
when i take a big dose that has a lot of APAP in it, its like i can taste the APAP, or like im breathing it.

sounds weird i dunno..

[aj11]

I know exactly what they are talking about that tyenol smell, almost a taste. CWE works to take care of that. It's especially bad when taking like the hydro 7.5/650. yuck. just cwe and be done with it
I have hep c so really touchy about the liver. not touchy enough to stop opiates though:)

[Sitar]

I know exactly what they are talking about that tyenol smell, almost a taste. CWE works to take care of that. It's especially bad when taking like the hydro 7.5/650. yuck. just cwe and be done with it
I have hep c so really touchy about the liver. not touchy enough to stop opiates though:)

Yeah, I've definitely gotten it worse from the 7.5/650 hydros as well.

It's like tasting and breathing old puzzle pieces.

How about this, though: Try drinking rubbing alcohol. For the next day or two, you will exhale acetone (nail polish remover). Don't ask.

[Sumocat]

Glad to see I'm not the only one! Thanks for all the fun replies.

Yeah, I've always CWE'd when I knew I was going to take more than a few vics, even on the Norco's. Usually, I feel so good on those, I don't have to take more than a couple through the course of a day, so there's never been an issue with the smell/taste.

Its always when I'm out and just doing regular Tylenol in recommended doses. I know, Tylenol sucks ..but my stomach has demanded I take a break from ibuprofen.

Its all good, though. I'm with Skript on the slight 'buzz' that comes up. Kinda like you know its working when you smell it!