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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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Hi my name is patty and I have to say this is the worst thing I have ever gone gone thru it has destroyed my social life and I just don't know who to trust when I ask do I smell bad. ? Cuz. Everybody tells me no u don't but I see the opposite from other people I don't know what to think anymore doctors tell me I'm ok but I know I'm not what am I supposed to do
*old times
I got locked up in México And was tortured cause of this, worst place to be with this problem, Ppl were brutally honest, ive be come an expert in this disease And still learning, the problem is we Believe trully in our hearts that we smell, the trauma And resentment manifests itself in physical damage, idk but i suspect this happens to people who are more aware or smarter mentaly, so much that we actually are crazy, causing extreme anxiety, i Believe that this is a new disease cause in the los times Ppl had fear of "God" And were dumbasses, ironically the y are better because thats a what makes us human, but we separate from society, And live in our heads, manifesting our worst fear SMELL, we Dont want to smell but we do, causing our Brain to trick our body to overheat, "HELL" i Believe the bible tells the truth but it must b translated And not b taken literal y, we stay upset And always fear we smell, it is fear And hating that fuels the problem, anyone who wants to work our the problem, can mssg me.
ps - I read somewhere about eating charcoal to absorb internal smells.
Also, many animals are known to give off strong scents during times of extreme stress or anxiety, perhaps to ward off predators. Some of them have glands specifically for this, some do not. You've mentioned different situations with friends/strangers, perhaps finding an alternative to Xanax may help? Try smoking weed, you never know :)
Also, many animals are known to give off strong scents during times of extreme stress or anxiety, perhaps to ward off predators. Some of them have glands specifically for this, some do not. You've mentioned different situations with friends/strangers, perhaps finding an alternative to Xanax may help? Try smoking weed, you never know :)
I've read most of the above and I want you to try the following.
1) Stop eating these foods: http://thecandidadiet.com/foodstoavoid.htm
2) Start eating ONLY these foods (and organic, if possible): http://thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm
At the same time, cleanse your colon in the way listed with psyllium husk & bentonite clay. Bentonite clay absorbs all known toxins from your colon: http://www.thecandidadiet.com/cleansing.htm
Stop drinking entirely, don't deviate from the diet for even one snack, and do this for 2 months minimum. Purify your body, detoxify in every way you can find listed online. Don't put any unnecessary chemicals in or on your body. Change your washing powder for your clothes. I believe it's to do with what you're eating, so change your diet completely and see if that helps. Good luck x
1) Stop eating these foods: http://thecandidadiet.com/foodstoavoid.htm
2) Start eating ONLY these foods (and organic, if possible): http://thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm
At the same time, cleanse your colon in the way listed with psyllium husk & bentonite clay. Bentonite clay absorbs all known toxins from your colon: http://www.thecandidadiet.com/cleansing.htm
Stop drinking entirely, don't deviate from the diet for even one snack, and do this for 2 months minimum. Purify your body, detoxify in every way you can find listed online. Don't put any unnecessary chemicals in or on your body. Change your washing powder for your clothes. I believe it's to do with what you're eating, so change your diet completely and see if that helps. Good luck x
Hello, Binoo13
You have some point about spices because now a molecule of spices make me stink up a building.
But before recent couple of years, I used to eat spicy foods but they didn't give me BO. I wasn't friendly with spicy foods, but my symptoms were just indigestion or respiratory problem or fever, not odor.
BO only started after the travel.
Of course I had developed some BO naturally sometimes before this problem.
1.at puberty (like everybody else) 2. when i didn't shower (of course) 3. and peppermint...
Peppermint used to give me BO unlike other spices... I don't know why. curry, garlic, chilly didn't give me odor but peppermint was different.
Now I can't touch peppermint. Just sniffing tea bag would make me stink up.
I've lived my life in packed schools, in small offices, spent days with strangers when work required it. So i know when i stink or not.
about people's cruelty.... there are many polite people, but not my family nor my friends. when i skipped class, one of my friends said 'I thought you went out to kill yourself because of your acne' in front of my face.
and now my grown up friends bluntly say in front of my face 'you don't stink I told u damn many times, God, go to mental hospital and don't bother me anymore. You are crazy, don't wanna hang out with delusional friend anymore.'
they are NOT POLITE. When they say they can't smell anything, at least it's true.
but I know i stink because strangers say it under their breath or stare back at me with disgusted looks.
only rational explanation about this for now is, some can smell and some can't....Don't know why...
Now i don't eat spices, dairy, fermented foods, or exotic foods...i only eat salted noodles and eggs and vegetables, some fruits, i don't even eat bell-peppers.
As you mentioned about medication, my smell changes up to medications too. from anti-histamines to cold meds.
I suspect it's hormonal... cause i didn't change my diet over a year now, very simple foods..no spices, nearly no meat..
Mystery is, close people really can't smell me. They're brutally honest. believe me. when i had acne my mom said 'you look like got smallpox. or moon crator on your face.'
well my post became long again...
anyway thx for your replying and your insight... thx for not defining me mental or simply mysterious,
thx for your thoughtful analysis.
though i can't find answers, when people try to help me it always gives me strength.
You have some point about spices because now a molecule of spices make me stink up a building.
But before recent couple of years, I used to eat spicy foods but they didn't give me BO. I wasn't friendly with spicy foods, but my symptoms were just indigestion or respiratory problem or fever, not odor.
BO only started after the travel.
Of course I had developed some BO naturally sometimes before this problem.
1.at puberty (like everybody else) 2. when i didn't shower (of course) 3. and peppermint...
Peppermint used to give me BO unlike other spices... I don't know why. curry, garlic, chilly didn't give me odor but peppermint was different.
Now I can't touch peppermint. Just sniffing tea bag would make me stink up.
I've lived my life in packed schools, in small offices, spent days with strangers when work required it. So i know when i stink or not.
about people's cruelty.... there are many polite people, but not my family nor my friends. when i skipped class, one of my friends said 'I thought you went out to kill yourself because of your acne' in front of my face.
and now my grown up friends bluntly say in front of my face 'you don't stink I told u damn many times, God, go to mental hospital and don't bother me anymore. You are crazy, don't wanna hang out with delusional friend anymore.'
they are NOT POLITE. When they say they can't smell anything, at least it's true.
but I know i stink because strangers say it under their breath or stare back at me with disgusted looks.
only rational explanation about this for now is, some can smell and some can't....Don't know why...
Now i don't eat spices, dairy, fermented foods, or exotic foods...i only eat salted noodles and eggs and vegetables, some fruits, i don't even eat bell-peppers.
As you mentioned about medication, my smell changes up to medications too. from anti-histamines to cold meds.
I suspect it's hormonal... cause i didn't change my diet over a year now, very simple foods..no spices, nearly no meat..
Mystery is, close people really can't smell me. They're brutally honest. believe me. when i had acne my mom said 'you look like got smallpox. or moon crator on your face.'
well my post became long again...
anyway thx for your replying and your insight... thx for not defining me mental or simply mysterious,
thx for your thoughtful analysis.
though i can't find answers, when people try to help me it always gives me strength.
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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!