[Noah930]

I agree with seeing the neurologist. I had a buddy in med school with a similar problem. Fell and hit his head in college while skateboarding. Lost his sense of smell. I don't know if he ever had it checked out with a neurologist. Clearly, if it was deadly he would never have been around to tell us about it. But we all think he probably sheared off his 1st cranial nerve (the one responsible for your sense of smell) as it passed through the cribiform plate from the brain to the nose. Certainly not life threatening, but he did admit that it sucked not really having much of as sense of smell or taste anymore.

I don't want to tell you to tell the neurologist what to do--that's up to his/her judgement and your comfort with their advice. But just hearing your story without the opportunity to examine your wife, I admit that were she to come into the ER while I was the trauma surgeon on call, I'd probably lean towards getting a head CT to make sure there's no head bleed.