For about 6 months now, I have had a distorted sense of smell. I had a severe cold (bronchitis) last October. Since then, common smells (bread, peanut butter, coffee, exhaust fumes, poop) all smell the same to me. The smell I get is somewhere between burnt popcorn and burnt sugar. My doctor put me on a course of antibiotics (which didn't seem to help). I've tried the flo brand nasal irrigation pump (which doesn't help).