So. I've been having a tough week (finals) and my already constant anxiety has been at roof levels. I had 3 panic attacks this past Friday and 2 felt too close to heart attack symptoms for my liking. Well, right now, I feel both anxious and "high", but the thing that's scaring me is this phantom smell, because it seems like everything mostly says brain tumor or seizures are the cause of it. Now I'm panicking even more. I can't even type straight because my hands are shaking so bad (I'm on my phone).

Thing is, I've had these occasional phantom smells for years. They only started when I had a really bad cold one year. My nose was so messed up, it was like the smell became trapped and stayed until the cold was gone. It's not a bad smell. Sometimes it smells like Fruity Pebbles cereal ( which was what I was eating when I was sick) sometimes it doesn't. What it always has in common is that it's like a "warm" scent. I was a bit congested earlier, but I've never paid attention enough to know if im congested everytime it happens. More often than not, it comes with a sense of elation. But I often have "highs" without the smell (I've never been diagnosed with anything, but I've been suspicious of bipolar for awhile).

One more thing I think I should mention. When I was little, I had these weird, nonsensical dreams. Everytime I had them, I woke up feeling nauseated. I don't have them anymore, but the only explanation I've ever seen for those is, again, seizures. But, I had every heart/brain scan you can think of from several doctors and they never said anything about seizures. This was after the dreams, but before the scent inducing cold. If I had epilepsy, wouldn't they have found it? Could this just be stress getting to me again? That's the one thing all my weird episodes have in common throughout my life. Can you get an mri on medicaid? Which I don't have, but can probably get, if I need it...

Please help, I'm so scared.