Have you ever gotten this kind of pain that you thought might be caused by perfume exposure.?  I had a visitor whose perfume was really getting to me.  I had been fine until this time.  Suddenly while talking to them I felt this stabbing pain in my back & to a lesser degree in my chest.  I do have fibromyalgia & costochrondritis.  This happened a few times & I excused myself & took 1/2 of an Ativan which helped & by the time they left I was better, so far it has not returned.  This is really scarey.   Thanks.

Hi Kalle,

I also get stabbing pain.  It's usually from foods and not smells though.  I get nausea and vomiting from perfume, and other strong smells.

Once I added the Ketotifen to my mast cell meds, the stabbing pain stopped completely.

Hope this helps.  

It's difficult enough to tell people not to wear scented products, but to  then be ignored!  Of course it causes you anxiety.  I hope you will at some point have the courage to tell someone who arrives at your house with scents on that they have to wash off the perfume or go home and change clothes.  This might sound very harsh, but if someone came to your house brandishing a gun, you would probably ask them to leave the gun outside so that no one would be harmed.  This is similar in that the perfume can cause you great bodily harm.

Of course saying things ahead of time is ideal, but you never know when insensitive people will ignore you, so you might want to be prepared.  It's self-protection.