Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center, 2501 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Case Report
To Sleep Perchance to Dream-not, Nyctophobia from COVID-19 Induced Hyposmia: A Case Report
Author(s): Shweta Kalita, Drushti Birwatkar, Nikita Mehdiratta*, Pallawi Jyotsana, Rosario Cosme and Alan Hirsch
Background: Increase awareness of the correlation between nyctophobia and hyposmia in individuals with COVID-19. Fear of sleep (nyctophobia) has been attributed to various conditions ranging from benign nocturnal panic attacks and Morvan's syndrome. Positional dependent hyposmia as an origin of nyctophobia has not heretofore been described.
Case presentation: This 52-year-old woman presented with sudden onset of loss of smell and taste with COVID-19, which returned to 85% of normal. However, her symptoms worsened when she would lie down to 30% of normal but would improve with standing, moving, and sitting. Requiring her to stand for hours before her sense of smell would return led to her nyctophobia that forced her to move around all the time.
Conclusion: Nyctophobia, a fear of positional dependent loss of smell, high.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2322-3308-12.3.006
