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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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You're probably right. I'll post it again without any mention of religion, just in case. I think that if an angel appeared to most doctors they'd prescribe themselves schizophrenia medication. Ironically most people with psychiatric disorders... well, lets just say that medications only treat the symptoms, not the cause.)
But I don't think what any of us has is psychiatric, excepting the severe stress and anxiety, even fear, which the disease causes.
UPDATE: The zinc and coppers seems to be working, somewhat. It has reduced my symptoms to manageable levels and I'm hoping that its also killing the fungus. Its important to take these minerals, rather than antibiotics, for several reasons. 1) Fungi and other microbes can develop resistances to antibiotics. They cannot develop a resistance to copper, for instance. It kills them dead every time. 2.) A proper zinc-copper balance allows your body to deal with the infection in an intelligent and highly organized way. The copper and zinc itself moving through the gut does a lot to damage to mother colony, but the copper and zinc which are absorbed are utilized by the body to build advanced cellular weaponry to attack the fungus in ways beyond our current understanding. Essentially, give the tools your body needs, and it will do the work for you. Most people are deficient in zinc. This also causes copper imbalance. Too much or too little of either mineral throw the balance out of wack and cause the same problems; so, for instance, if you take only zinc you are liable to cause copper deficiency, which has the same symptoms as zinc deficiency, and likewise if you are deficient in zinc you will have the symptoms of copper deficiency also, even if you have plenty of copper in your body (which most people do.) So its important to take both minerals--they act synergistically. Men need more zinc than women, also. I am taking A huge dose of 150-300mg of elemental zinc each day, and have been for about five days. I'm also taking 2-6 mg of copper citrate. I've had no bad symptoms so far, but some people report nausea when taking zinc on an empty stomach. I intend to start reducing the intake of both minerals to lower levels eventually, as it isn't advisable to take huge does of any mineral for too long; but, it does seem to treat the symptoms well. The zinc and copper which is absorbed is put to use by your body, and the zinc and copper which is not absorbed actually kills the fungi in your gut on contact. I'm going out tonight to buy magnesium to add to my mineral stockpile, as I hear that is very effective at curing internal body odor. Will keep everyone update. I AM DETERMINED TO FIND A CURE FOR US. DON'T LOSE HOPE YET.
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I have a theory that it is caused by fungal infections. A lot of people have mentioned yeast. I do believe candida could be the cause for a lot of us These fungal infections aren't like a viral or even like a bacteria infection. If you think of a mushroom, that is a fungal colony. They form structures. A severe fungal infection actually involves the fungus forming highly intelligent highly complex supercolonies all throughout your digestive system, and then, I believe in our cases, actually creating holes in your intestinal lining in the same way that water and ice can crack roads, and the fungus spreading into the bloodstream and forming satellite colonies throughout the body--even in the brain. The mother colony is always in the intestines though. That is why this is so hard to get rid of--because the fungus actually forms structures, you can actually imagine it like an ant or termite colony burrowing into your body. Even if you take extremely drastic measures and kill 30%, 50%, 70% of the satellite colonies in your body and gut, if even a fraction of the mother colony survives it can very rapidly repopulate by using the structures it already built for itself.
The reason I say fungus is because OP and other people have mentioned that they realized there was mold or a fungus around them when they got the symptoms. I just realized that, when my symptoms set in last spring, I was using a shower shared with four people and there was actually a huge black fungus growing in the shower which none of us bothered to clean (it was a college dorm.) I take very high showers symptoms and its likely that I either stepped in small particles or even more likely breathed in in through the steam. And from there is took off.
Different varieties of fungus would explain why different people have different odors. I think that the fungus can attach to organs and even the skin, and just like ice cracking a road, crack up tiny micro pores into your organs and skin pores allowing odors from inside your body to leak out. I bet you, for example, that the fungus attaches to hair follicles. I personally have found that shaving my hair very short all over my body reduces the symptoms, and for example a lot of it comes from my scalp. My skin doesn't smell normally but if I rub it really hard and fast for a few seconds and smell my hand or a towel, that there is a sharp pungent acrid smell which I can't smell normally. That is the smell which causes everyone around me to cough and sneeze and sniffle.
Therefore, since I believe this is caused by a fungus, I open the floor to anyone who knows about removing fungal infections. Personally I have been taking very high doses of zinc and copper and eating only organic white rice and and organic olive oil, and it seems like my symptoms are less severe... maybe 50% what it was a week ago (still bad.) It does get much worse when I am stressed or anxious, but I've also found that the zinc calms my nerves and makes me less sensitive to criticism. I'm also going to start taking magnesium internally, alongside the zinc and copper. Copper is strongly antifungal and zinc is another very powerful antimicrobial agent which is also deficient in most foods. Unfortunately the only food sources of zinc are red meats and eggs etc, which I cannot eat as it makes my symptoms worse.
I'm having a two week vacation in August and I'm going to go on a MEAT AND FAT ONLY diet, NO CARBS at all, alongside taking the zinc, copper, magnesium, iodine, very strong digestive aid with ox bile and pancreatin, and very powerful probiotic with 16 different strains. You can find all these very good supplements very cheaply at swanson vitamins, look for their deals and specials and buy strafegically. I'll tell y'all how everything goes. Wish me look. If I find success I will be certain to let all of you know. Thank you so much for having this forum.
But I don't think what any of us has is psychiatric, excepting the severe stress and anxiety, even fear, which the disease causes.
UPDATE: The zinc and coppers seems to be working, somewhat. It has reduced my symptoms to manageable levels and I'm hoping that its also killing the fungus. Its important to take these minerals, rather than antibiotics, for several reasons. 1) Fungi and other microbes can develop resistances to antibiotics. They cannot develop a resistance to copper, for instance. It kills them dead every time. 2.) A proper zinc-copper balance allows your body to deal with the infection in an intelligent and highly organized way. The copper and zinc itself moving through the gut does a lot to damage to mother colony, but the copper and zinc which are absorbed are utilized by the body to build advanced cellular weaponry to attack the fungus in ways beyond our current understanding. Essentially, give the tools your body needs, and it will do the work for you. Most people are deficient in zinc. This also causes copper imbalance. Too much or too little of either mineral throw the balance out of wack and cause the same problems; so, for instance, if you take only zinc you are liable to cause copper deficiency, which has the same symptoms as zinc deficiency, and likewise if you are deficient in zinc you will have the symptoms of copper deficiency also, even if you have plenty of copper in your body (which most people do.) So its important to take both minerals--they act synergistically. Men need more zinc than women, also. I am taking A huge dose of 150-300mg of elemental zinc each day, and have been for about five days. I'm also taking 2-6 mg of copper citrate. I've had no bad symptoms so far, but some people report nausea when taking zinc on an empty stomach. I intend to start reducing the intake of both minerals to lower levels eventually, as it isn't advisable to take huge does of any mineral for too long; but, it does seem to treat the symptoms well. The zinc and copper which is absorbed is put to use by your body, and the zinc and copper which is not absorbed actually kills the fungi in your gut on contact. I'm going out tonight to buy magnesium to add to my mineral stockpile, as I hear that is very effective at curing internal body odor. Will keep everyone update. I AM DETERMINED TO FIND A CURE FOR US. DON'T LOSE HOPE YET.
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I have a theory that it is caused by fungal infections. A lot of people have mentioned yeast. I do believe candida could be the cause for a lot of us These fungal infections aren't like a viral or even like a bacteria infection. If you think of a mushroom, that is a fungal colony. They form structures. A severe fungal infection actually involves the fungus forming highly intelligent highly complex supercolonies all throughout your digestive system, and then, I believe in our cases, actually creating holes in your intestinal lining in the same way that water and ice can crack roads, and the fungus spreading into the bloodstream and forming satellite colonies throughout the body--even in the brain. The mother colony is always in the intestines though. That is why this is so hard to get rid of--because the fungus actually forms structures, you can actually imagine it like an ant or termite colony burrowing into your body. Even if you take extremely drastic measures and kill 30%, 50%, 70% of the satellite colonies in your body and gut, if even a fraction of the mother colony survives it can very rapidly repopulate by using the structures it already built for itself.
The reason I say fungus is because OP and other people have mentioned that they realized there was mold or a fungus around them when they got the symptoms. I just realized that, when my symptoms set in last spring, I was using a shower shared with four people and there was actually a huge black fungus growing in the shower which none of us bothered to clean (it was a college dorm.) I take very high showers symptoms and its likely that I either stepped in small particles or even more likely breathed in in through the steam. And from there is took off.
Different varieties of fungus would explain why different people have different odors. I think that the fungus can attach to organs and even the skin, and just like ice cracking a road, crack up tiny micro pores into your organs and skin pores allowing odors from inside your body to leak out. I bet you, for example, that the fungus attaches to hair follicles. I personally have found that shaving my hair very short all over my body reduces the symptoms, and for example a lot of it comes from my scalp. My skin doesn't smell normally but if I rub it really hard and fast for a few seconds and smell my hand or a towel, that there is a sharp pungent acrid smell which I can't smell normally. That is the smell which causes everyone around me to cough and sneeze and sniffle.
Therefore, since I believe this is caused by a fungus, I open the floor to anyone who knows about removing fungal infections. Personally I have been taking very high doses of zinc and copper and eating only organic white rice and and organic olive oil, and it seems like my symptoms are less severe... maybe 50% what it was a week ago (still bad.) It does get much worse when I am stressed or anxious, but I've also found that the zinc calms my nerves and makes me less sensitive to criticism. I'm also going to start taking magnesium internally, alongside the zinc and copper. Copper is strongly antifungal and zinc is another very powerful antimicrobial agent which is also deficient in most foods. Unfortunately the only food sources of zinc are red meats and eggs etc, which I cannot eat as it makes my symptoms worse.
I'm having a two week vacation in August and I'm going to go on a MEAT AND FAT ONLY diet, NO CARBS at all, alongside taking the zinc, copper, magnesium, iodine, very strong digestive aid with ox bile and pancreatin, and very powerful probiotic with 16 different strains. You can find all these very good supplements very cheaply at swanson vitamins, look for their deals and specials and buy strafegically. I'll tell y'all how everything goes. Wish me look. If I find success I will be certain to let all of you know. Thank you so much for having this forum.
Hey I'm experiencing this situation right now. I smell like a urine/fishy/sulfur/hydrogen sulfide/ and sometimes people say it like it smells like feces. And guess what. People can smell it 50 feet away. even my neighbor can smell it. And now they're closing their doors when i'm crossing the street. I feel so alone. and the smell may be worse after i eat fish. it was only one time i notice it like feces. but after i bath. that is where the smell comes out. it is sometimes like urine or feces. about 10 seconds after i bath the smell just fills up a room. and it is really embarrasing. i don't know if it is coming from my armpits. but everytime i got home to school and change my clothes. i'm smelling the armpit area and it smells like it mixed with the tawas because i only apply alum in my armpit. people who use alum in their underarms don't have any kind of smell that emit from their armpits. And also, i sweat alot.
I have been experiencing the same things. However I think with sweat there is many different kinds! when you are nervous there is an odor, when you are not nervous and very sure of your self there is another odor, ( a not so smelly odor) I too have smells about me that no one else can smell, but I see others holding their nose when they are around me and it is normally when I am a little nervous.. try to analyze your situation and how you are feeling when these situations occur and please get back to me, because I am sure it will help both of us to understand a little more of whats going on with us!
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You are right confidence plays a huge role in this demon
ppunta ko ngayong friday sa psychiatrist.papatingin aq saka baka makatulong rin. ikaw kamusta
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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!