Fecal Body Odor

Hello...I had a question about an odor problem I've been experiencing on and off for 15 years. First off, when I was younger I was pumped with antibiotics for constant ear infections. Coming into my teens I experienced really bad gastritis for a while and found out I was allergic to milk. After getting off the milk the gas wasn't as chronic but it was still there. Now around the age of 15 was the start of the intense body odor. I really don't know how I graduated from highschool after this awful odor. There were 2 odors. 1 odor more frequent was a persistent lingering sulfur musty odor that would follow me wherever I went. The odor would change every now and then. Sometimes it smelt like rotten carrots, garbage, cat poo, etc. After eating better and taking shower after shower things got worse. Around 16 years old I started drinking off and on thinking I would forget about it and it would go away. I was SO wrong. This is the 2nd odor I'm talking about. I remember one day I walked into the cafeteria and people were screaming and running out every door. The whole building was just filled with a rotten egg odor- times 1 million. I shortly figured out it was me after doing this more than once. After years of this it would go away for 6 months and then come back to haunt me. Now a days I have more of the lingering odor and haven't had the bad one for a while. It seems like I get the bad odor when I just get a new job and I begin to sweat from physical labor. After trying so many different things I still can't hack this problem. I have tried cleanses, probiotics, liver cleanses, L Glutamine for Leaky Gut, Green drinks, gosh you name it. Recently, I've been focusing on intestinal candida and I've been taking oregano oil and colloidal silver followed by Primal Defense probiotics for a week now and I just feel a bit tired and the odor is more persistent followed by crazy dreams. Not sure if this is die-off or not. About 6 months ago I got a colonoscopy and edoscopy done for pain in my lower left side of colon. He found lots of internal hemroids and cut out some benign polyps. He just said he didn't see anything big and Its probably genetic why I smell this way. He wouldn't give me any blood or stool tests not sure why. The one thing that I do that makes the smell worse or better sometimes, usally better, is an enema. So I think the problem is in my colon somewhere. One more thing. A year ago I had a perenial abcess (abscess) that I had to get drained and has returned in the same spot after doing an enema a week ago. Maybe the abcess (abscess) problem is causing the odor? Shoot!! Sorry about the long question I just wanted to try to get as much as I could in. Does anybody have a similar experience or any advice that might help? I'm not sure what to do anymore. I would see a Naturopathic Doctor again but I can't afford it anymore. Last time it seemed like I never left my appointment for under $600.00. Thanks for reading if you haven't already fell asleep... Wesley

[jitujitu]

This problem looks like an overlooked medical condition. I have it too. I was ok since I was born. Then I met this girl one yr ago and became friends. She used to complain of having problems with gas, kidney, and I used to feel a funny foul smell from her, but I thought it was from heavy day's work. We have had sex a couple of times. Lately I am more aware of myself developing the same signs that she had. Foul/stool smell from the body, tiredness even after 12 hrs sleep, pain in the calf (backside of the leg), bloating in the abdomen, tooooo much gas(abnormally too much gas). I have been on two weeks of flagyl, to knock out the GIT bacteria. The smell maintains still. I have checked for mononucleosis, but the test was negative.

My couriosity is raised due to the fact that the flagyl could not knock the bacteria out, showing it is not bacterial. Another thing is that it seems to have been sexually or otherwise passed to me. I know many people will not have the guts to say how they got it, but we need solutions here and we have to be open. If you have been in a sexual relation please be free and humble to find out if the partner/s have the same symptoms. This could be a breakthrough to getting a solution. This could be a sexually viral disease that has been ignored. Especially when it comes with bloating and distension, that could be due to symptoms from a viral disease resembling hepatitis A, B and C or, herpes zoster/shingles. If you look at the signs then you will start thinking the same way I do. Lets face the reality, broaden our thoughts on this and who knows? we might be able to help ourselves; but of now I know it is not IBS, neither is it bacterial. Lets explore all the history of how we started feeling the slightest signs. I have a very strong feeling it could be sexually transmitted disease that has not been extensively researched due it mild and stigmatizing secretive embarassing symptoms. I beg us all. Thanks everybody. Feel free to drop me any discussion, suggestions or directions.

[Elgrizzle]

I have the exact same problem. I think it is metabolic. It might be something called TMAU.

[SweetMuse]

I just noticed that your post is from December 2008. How are you now? Do you still have the odor or are you better? I hope you are fine now.

[plzhelpme2009]

JESUS CHRIST!!! iam not alone omg i have the same problem well i think my odor comes from my skin i think it comes from my body i know that not anywhere specific but i went to countless doctors that everytime i go to a new doctor its the same thing "oh did you have sicknesses before you have anything i should know about okay well here is priolsec good luck now bye " and i get so pissed off i tell them it must be acid reflux thats all they do
this is my symptoms i get a sensation of heat mostly on my back and start to smell like poop eggs you name any foul odor in the family and i get it and a usual crap smell everyday

[miked711]

wow the same thing happened to me I was dating a girl and I noticed she was tired and sleeping all day "fatigue" then I started having symptoms I was sooo tired and I felt like I had to move my bowels all of the time .so I went to the doctors and tested for STD'S and it came back negative.but I felt soo sick all the doctor came up with was chronic fatigue syndrome and most people thought that it was a made up condition all in a persons head.but I smelled like feces so I went to a gastroenterologist and they ran every test also negative so I thought it was all in my head it must be nerves.I thought I was crazy but I felt soo tired and kind of in a fog.then I started dating someone else and she got sick and said she could barely get out of bed because she felt really achey (achy) and wow I felt relieved that I wasn't crazy I knew I was sick but I felt bad because she got sick.needless to say it ruined my life I lost friends and family ,jobs because of the fecal body odor it has to be some kind of STD that they have not discovered yet.I read that the CDC center for disease control in atlanta has knowledge of numerous infections but they don't tell the public because they don't want to cause panic...  

[cn707]

dear j i been having the same problem   well told my  doctor yesterday and he is testing me for clymidia hope i get the answer i prayed and i believe that jesus has given me the answer

[tts900]

Your condition sounds like either streptococcous disease or candida overgrowth. Either way there is not a known STD that causes body odor, however bacteria can cause your partner to get the infection. I've had the same problem for a little over six years and noticed that it gets worse after sex. I have not had sex for over 9 months now and the odor and fatigue have gotten better but I  still sweat profusely, do you have that same problem?. I have been to many doctors that tell me that nothing is wrong. I don't want to hear that because I have lost jobs and left jobs because I was teased alot and my neighbors don't want to walk by me. I think they are all ignorant because it is a medical condition that I cannot help. I have however been diagnoised with strep group B 3X'S since I've had this condition. The strep was found in my blood, urine, and vagina. Doctor's do not take this condition as seriously as I want them to and some would not treat me for it because they said it is not life threatening. Well it feels like it is life threatening with the fatigue, excessive sweating, aches and pain. I have had this infection in my body for so long that I was recently diagnoised with Fibromyalgia.
I have tried body odor pills that are on the market and after six months the symptoms went away. Unfortuately, once I started having sex again all problems returned. I am at a lost and have even contemplated suicide due to no social life, and my careers failing, losing places,etc....
How are you and the sexual partners you were with doing now?