Why do people smell burning toast before having a stroke?

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You know how you always here that you smell burning toast or smoke of something like that right before you have a stroke? Why is that? Is it just anecdotal or is there science behind it?

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Maybe it is a sign of nerve damage.

Onset of anosmia includes parosmia and phantosmia: specifically smell of burning.

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/parosmia-covid

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