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Strange body odor follwing me
This gonna be a bit long, but I'm really serious and everyday is like hell so I'd appreciate if you read this and help me.
I thought it was GI problem or skin problem first time, but all the test results were healthy so every dr. sent me to psychiatrists.
I still think it's physical or neurological problem but people treat me like I'm mental so I write here. (No offense)
I've always had IBS all my life, and sometimes had body odor, but both were normal range and had nothing to do with each other. I mean when my IBS had really flared up there was no BO. and I'm hygienic person, I shower everyday for 1 hrs.
It started when I stayed in humid hot country. I'm weak to spicy foods or hot weather or stress, so I guess the place was the trigger--I developed severe underarm odor and become really gassy.
I'm usually a bit gassy and it's been odorless. But after staying that country(hot weather, severe stress, terrible diet) my body odor and gas(sorry, yuck) became really offensive.
So when I came back home I tried to eat healthy, lots of vegetables, limited proteins, no processed foods, etc...
Strange thing happens from here.
My skin odor disappeared and gas became nearly odorless, but strange smells started to follow me.
First I thought it was environment problem because it was not human BO. It was raw sewage smell or strange ammonia odor(not women's odor, pure ammonia smell), sometimes dirty clothe smell sometimes just undescribable something.
but time passes by I realized it was me. Because it followed me and when I bent down I could smell it coming from my body.
Then I thought I had rectal problem so intestinal gas leaking, but it was not.
One day I felt something more subtle than air coming out from my groin area and this air-like something was carrying the smell of my urine INSIDE my bladder. I didn't leak any urine, and my underwear, clothe were clean and my groin area skin didn't smell,
Something very subtle, air-kind something was seeping out from my body emitting odor of my inside.
Now you think I'm mental. don't you?
Sometimes I think I'm crazy too. and I WISH I were crazy.
And this smells change up to places, foods, condition, hormonal change, mood, or even weather.
I really can't pinpoint which thing trigger which smell. I just always have BO that follows me like radiation. Strange thing is my skin rarely have any BO now. (or my gas)
It's.... more like aura around me.
So people doesn't notice it was me first time, but slowly they start to notice it's me.
More bizzar thing is, this smell can travel to hundred meters in sec.
I MEAN IT.
I saw all the people walking hundred meters ahead me suddenly stare back at me, then start to look around as if they thought 'normal looking person like me' cannot emit this kind of odor spreading so vast area.
Plus, my family or friends or docs can't detect this smell. (though nurses can smell it I don't know why)
Many strangers can smell it (one day whole compartment of subway glared at me because of my smell. I remember the angry disgusted glares of people. I don't take subway after that.)
Some people mention it 'what the hell is that smell'... 'who **ted'... 'that's her'...
But my friends can't smell it. They are not lying. They usually point out my every defects, so when they say they don't smell, it's true.
Further strange thing is, the smell changes up to places.
Sometimes it start to emit in basement or bathroom, sometime in alleys, sometimes at my home, it just changes and I don't know why.
Just one more plus, some odors not emitted from me(like garbage smell or other persons smell) FOLLOWS ME.
One day there was an alcoholic in waiting room and I stayed there about one hour. After that day, for 2 days I emitted alcoholic stench from my body. I wasn't even sitting next to him but it was like my body aura absorbed the stench!
Think it was demanding reading, sorry.
But I had to vent all the strange symptoms that's killing me everyday.
How can this kind of symptom exist?
Severe BO? I can live with that. But smell of my inside gut or bladder escapes me?!! and it spreads to vast area in seconds?! and whatever I eat however I shower the smell doesn't go away?! and the BO is not normal human stench?
Sometimes the smell is so not human, more like sulphur substance in Lab, I can blame it to sewage problem.
Now I'm taking xanax to calm me down, and it helps me about sulfhuric odor, but when I take xanax too much it becomes rotten garbage odor.
Already too long to read, I'll add some more in replies.
Is anyone here have this problem?
What the hell is this? How can physically this kind of thing exist?
PLZ, somebody, help me.
My psychiatrist gave up on me and just throw me some xanax sometimes risperdal but they don't work much.
Oh, and every physical dr (GI, Hormonal, Traditional docs) gave up on me too.
I thought it was GI problem or skin problem first time, but all the test results were healthy so every dr. sent me to psychiatrists.
I still think it's physical or neurological problem but people treat me like I'm mental so I write here. (No offense)
I've always had IBS all my life, and sometimes had body odor, but both were normal range and had nothing to do with each other. I mean when my IBS had really flared up there was no BO. and I'm hygienic person, I shower everyday for 1 hrs.
It started when I stayed in humid hot country. I'm weak to spicy foods or hot weather or stress, so I guess the place was the trigger--I developed severe underarm odor and become really gassy.
I'm usually a bit gassy and it's been odorless. But after staying that country(hot weather, severe stress, terrible diet) my body odor and gas(sorry, yuck) became really offensive.
So when I came back home I tried to eat healthy, lots of vegetables, limited proteins, no processed foods, etc...
Strange thing happens from here.
My skin odor disappeared and gas became nearly odorless, but strange smells started to follow me.
First I thought it was environment problem because it was not human BO. It was raw sewage smell or strange ammonia odor(not women's odor, pure ammonia smell), sometimes dirty clothe smell sometimes just undescribable something.
but time passes by I realized it was me. Because it followed me and when I bent down I could smell it coming from my body.
Then I thought I had rectal problem so intestinal gas leaking, but it was not.
One day I felt something more subtle than air coming out from my groin area and this air-like something was carrying the smell of my urine INSIDE my bladder. I didn't leak any urine, and my underwear, clothe were clean and my groin area skin didn't smell,
Something very subtle, air-kind something was seeping out from my body emitting odor of my inside.
Now you think I'm mental. don't you?
Sometimes I think I'm crazy too. and I WISH I were crazy.
And this smells change up to places, foods, condition, hormonal change, mood, or even weather.
I really can't pinpoint which thing trigger which smell. I just always have BO that follows me like radiation. Strange thing is my skin rarely have any BO now. (or my gas)
It's.... more like aura around me.
So people doesn't notice it was me first time, but slowly they start to notice it's me.
More bizzar thing is, this smell can travel to hundred meters in sec.
I MEAN IT.
I saw all the people walking hundred meters ahead me suddenly stare back at me, then start to look around as if they thought 'normal looking person like me' cannot emit this kind of odor spreading so vast area.
Plus, my family or friends or docs can't detect this smell. (though nurses can smell it I don't know why)
Many strangers can smell it (one day whole compartment of subway glared at me because of my smell. I remember the angry disgusted glares of people. I don't take subway after that.)
Some people mention it 'what the hell is that smell'... 'who **ted'... 'that's her'...
But my friends can't smell it. They are not lying. They usually point out my every defects, so when they say they don't smell, it's true.
Further strange thing is, the smell changes up to places.
Sometimes it start to emit in basement or bathroom, sometime in alleys, sometimes at my home, it just changes and I don't know why.
Just one more plus, some odors not emitted from me(like garbage smell or other persons smell) FOLLOWS ME.
One day there was an alcoholic in waiting room and I stayed there about one hour. After that day, for 2 days I emitted alcoholic stench from my body. I wasn't even sitting next to him but it was like my body aura absorbed the stench!
Think it was demanding reading, sorry.
But I had to vent all the strange symptoms that's killing me everyday.
How can this kind of symptom exist?
Severe BO? I can live with that. But smell of my inside gut or bladder escapes me?!! and it spreads to vast area in seconds?! and whatever I eat however I shower the smell doesn't go away?! and the BO is not normal human stench?
Sometimes the smell is so not human, more like sulphur substance in Lab, I can blame it to sewage problem.
Now I'm taking xanax to calm me down, and it helps me about sulfhuric odor, but when I take xanax too much it becomes rotten garbage odor.
Already too long to read, I'll add some more in replies.
Is anyone here have this problem?
What the hell is this? How can physically this kind of thing exist?
PLZ, somebody, help me.
My psychiatrist gave up on me and just throw me some xanax sometimes risperdal but they don't work much.
Oh, and every physical dr (GI, Hormonal, Traditional docs) gave up on me too.
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The psychiatrist can't smell it and you know she would say if she could or not. So what is her take on this whole issue?
Hey man, let me tell you I have almost the same problems as you, but believe me those sniffs, coughs and odor words mean something, when you ask people if you smell or not of course they answer will be ; NO they just lie because they cant tell you or they do not want to make problems, and for your friends they just do not want to upset you
I joined up today just so i could give everyone suffering with this problem some good advice especially you Sleepmonster because you had me worried after reading your post. I haven't got a cure but what i will tell you will hopeful help to boost you confidence in the first instance.
To deal with the immediate problem which is the smell, go on any search engine and type in BODY ODOR TABLETS. It will come back with different makes of Chlorophyllin tablets, Chlorophyllin is a natural deodorizer so your body, feet and breath will all become fresher. There is a particular one that I can"t obviously name but it has 5 letters in it's name that also claims to eliminate fecal/ urine smells amongst others.
If money is a problem, you can also try ACTIVATED CHARCOAL TABLETS and it must say ACTIVATED on the bottle which is for medicinal use only these are not to be taken long term but they also claim to stop body odors if they are cause internally.
This should all help in the short term but if you would like a long term possible solution start on an ALKALISING product like BARLEY GRASS which is a natural product, diet has alot to do with the problem we all have, with a few exceptions we probably all have a terrible diet. I will post a few ideas soon if you find this at all helpful but to start with - start each morning before breakfast and last thing at night with a glass of room temperature water with the juice of half a lemon in it, this will start to cleanse the body and make it more alkaline. If you like honey the following recipe does pretty much the same thing. 2 teaspoons of honey and 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in a half a glass of warm water.
I hope this helps, Take Care.
To deal with the immediate problem which is the smell, go on any search engine and type in BODY ODOR TABLETS. It will come back with different makes of Chlorophyllin tablets, Chlorophyllin is a natural deodorizer so your body, feet and breath will all become fresher. There is a particular one that I can"t obviously name but it has 5 letters in it's name that also claims to eliminate fecal/ urine smells amongst others.
If money is a problem, you can also try ACTIVATED CHARCOAL TABLETS and it must say ACTIVATED on the bottle which is for medicinal use only these are not to be taken long term but they also claim to stop body odors if they are cause internally.
This should all help in the short term but if you would like a long term possible solution start on an ALKALISING product like BARLEY GRASS which is a natural product, diet has alot to do with the problem we all have, with a few exceptions we probably all have a terrible diet. I will post a few ideas soon if you find this at all helpful but to start with - start each morning before breakfast and last thing at night with a glass of room temperature water with the juice of half a lemon in it, this will start to cleanse the body and make it more alkaline. If you like honey the following recipe does pretty much the same thing. 2 teaspoons of honey and 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in a half a glass of warm water.
I hope this helps, Take Care.
hi I have this problem with my B.O since I started this new school tings just got bad people started to say I smell bad but when I reach home and I ask my parents how they find I smell they said like normal but its very strange dat when I go to school the students avoid being around me like example this girl had to sit by me and there was a boy sitting next to her she told me that she wanted to switch places and when I switch with the girl when the boy see me coming to sit next to him he got up and begged one of his friends to sit next to them because he didn't want to sit next to me but the problem is that when I was in my next school no one did not had a problem about my scent
and sometimes I might not bathe for about 2 days straight and I still smell clean and the ting is that when come home from school I smell my shirt and it smells fine and when am going down the road or anywhere I smell good this is the first time I heard people complaining about my bad body odor it reach so far dat the children told the teacher dat I smell real bad and the teacher told the hold class they must put deodorant under there arms but he was referring to me and everyone knew dat and then my brother said I smell sweaty so I don't know wats going on
this might sound stupid but the new school I attends to has no fan in it so the classroom is very hot and I am accustom with ac because my house has air condition including my room and also the church has ac that I attends to so am normally cold so I don't know if that could be the reason and now since the students in the classroom say I smell I has dis fear to go into the class like every time I come into the classroom my arm starts to sweat so I am afraid of wat they will say and how worse it will get also the former school I attend to the classrooms had ac in it and why I said my church had ac in it is because I spend most of my days in the church
and sometimes I might not bathe for about 2 days straight and I still smell clean and the ting is that when come home from school I smell my shirt and it smells fine and when am going down the road or anywhere I smell good this is the first time I heard people complaining about my bad body odor it reach so far dat the children told the teacher dat I smell real bad and the teacher told the hold class they must put deodorant under there arms but he was referring to me and everyone knew dat and then my brother said I smell sweaty so I don't know wats going on
this might sound stupid but the new school I attends to has no fan in it so the classroom is very hot and I am accustom with ac because my house has air condition including my room and also the church has ac that I attends to so am normally cold so I don't know if that could be the reason and now since the students in the classroom say I smell I has dis fear to go into the class like every time I come into the classroom my arm starts to sweat so I am afraid of wat they will say and how worse it will get also the former school I attend to the classrooms had ac in it and why I said my church had ac in it is because I spend most of my days in the church
I do have the same problem..i just wana die..i can see and heard people complaining for my smell
.i have 3 romates..2 of them like me they allways say i don't smell and the one who hates me is allways complaining about how much stink ...only when I'm around...i don't know what to do...help
.i have 3 romates..2 of them like me they allways say i don't smell and the one who hates me is allways complaining about how much stink ...only when I'm around...i don't know what to do...help
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I think it is very telling that the people who are around you (and people who care about you and would be honest with you) do NOT smell anything. You THINK strangers around you are smelling you, but that just may be a psychological reaction, because YOU think you smell, so you think they smell it too, and you feel self conscious.
What do you mean nurses can smell it? How many other people, besides you, and not including strangers, have verified that they smell something? How do they describe it?
While there is no doubt that certain medical conditions and diseases cause different odors, you've seemingly had a lot of very thorough work ups from many different specialists, and again, it is just too significant to ignore that really, YOU are the only one who smells this.
I'm sure you are frustrated and I'm sure you genuinely believe this is going on (and it might be, obviously I can't say either way), but my own personal assessment is that perhaps this IS indeed psychological in nature. It could be olfactory hallucinations, it could be an exaggerated perception of a very subtle normal body odor. It sounds like perhaps when you stayed in the "hot" country, something happened there that changed you. Maybe due to the circumstances, when you WERE having BO and other issues, you became so overly sensitive to it and upset by it, that you were sort of left traumatized?
I'm not saying that you're crazy, and I feel for you, but with all the medical assessments you've had, and the fact that no one close to you smells it, really points more toward something pyschological in nature. Have you tried therapy? How about any other meds besides Xanax?
I wish I had something better to tell you, but that's my hunch. I think it wouldn't hurt for you to dive into mental health treatment, give it a try. In the very least, if the smell is real and undiagnosed, you need support to get you through this. I'm sure it is affecting every aspect of your life.
Very best of luck to you!