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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 are NOT crazy!!!! I have the SAME problem!!! People close to me think I'm crazy, until other family members are around and then they all do the nose rubbing, etc....pisses me the F off!!! It's making me angry. I used to be happy and outgoing and FUN....now I sit home ALL the time besides going to work being humiliated there :( I just go in the bathroom and cry :(:(:( It seems to be worse when I eat sugar and or grains or processed foods. Dr's insist that you can't have yeast overgrowth but I beg to differ. Maybe look into that!? I have gallbladder issues and am waiting to have mine out....we shall see if that is it?
Omg I'm going Tru the exact thing ur going right now I can't be in a class room because I think everyone smells me I don't even like going out because I think I smell all the time I wanna see what u recommend or what has worked for u? I hope ur doing better because I'm going thru all this right now
I agree that food matters and eating bad food can make some people's body odor stronger. I often thought that if I don't eat anything for few days it could stop, but I just can't starve myself for so long and I know food isn't the reason why I smell. I don't have the healthiest diet, but I eat mostly local grown vegetables and home cooked meals, I also avoid drinking sodas and don't eat any meat except fish.
Well, I rarely smell now, but it depends on the people i'm with and i dunno, some weird reaction of my brain. At least it's not as bad as two-three years ago when i was in highschool. And the smell isn't exactly a human smell, it's more complex and reminds me of the smell of the public transport in my country (which is old, has bad ventilation and is often used by old people or poorest people). I can't even locate from which body part it comes. It's so weird....
Well, I rarely smell now, but it depends on the people i'm with and i dunno, some weird reaction of my brain. At least it's not as bad as two-three years ago when i was in highschool. And the smell isn't exactly a human smell, it's more complex and reminds me of the smell of the public transport in my country (which is old, has bad ventilation and is often used by old people or poorest people). I can't even locate from which body part it comes. It's so weird....
YOU ARE ALL PROBABLY DETOXING. American food has so much chemicals in produce and other foods it's hard to eat anything organic antibiotics will make this worse by killing the good bacteria so don't take them take plenty of probiotics everyday you should see a difference it really helps IBS as well
I'm OP,,,,
just wanted to ramble here...
Wish i can live alone.. i live with my parents now, and at my age it's a shame.
though i work and do house chores, i'm supposed to have my own life by now...
only this smell is blocking me from everything..
I'm not much social or popular, but kinda OK person. People like me when they get to know me and i have several certificates and can handle many computer softwares.
Only if i didn't smell like this, I COULD live a life...
Right before i stank this terrible, my roommate liked me saying 'plz don't go back to your home, live with me', but after she sniffed the whiff, she didn't even say good bye when i left.
And since this smell developed, many...no, most friends left me.
Whyyyy................... why me?
sorry for endless venting.
just wanted to ramble here...
Wish i can live alone.. i live with my parents now, and at my age it's a shame.
though i work and do house chores, i'm supposed to have my own life by now...
only this smell is blocking me from everything..
I'm not much social or popular, but kinda OK person. People like me when they get to know me and i have several certificates and can handle many computer softwares.
Only if i didn't smell like this, I COULD live a life...
Right before i stank this terrible, my roommate liked me saying 'plz don't go back to your home, live with me', but after she sniffed the whiff, she didn't even say good bye when i left.
And since this smell developed, many...no, most friends left me.
Whyyyy................... why me?
sorry for endless venting.
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I thought you said friends, family and doc can't smell u or were some able to and some weren't able to?
Hello people
Been having problems since teenage years I started smelling like rotten eggs and sewage and its totally messed up my life.
It started when i was around 19-20 im now 24 in 4 and half months. I started noticing this by people reactions. When i traveled to college on the bus people holding there noses and sneezing. I think it gets realeased from my body at random times. When on the bus it was very noticable by everyones body language. Also I joined a cadets club people was like whats that smell when we was in a group. after a while one of the members told said to me theres not point you coming here nobody likes you obv i know thats because of the smell not my personaitly. ive had alot of friends in past. and another time got in a car as soon as i got in she said it smells like rotten eggs in near and opened the window. also another time in a car they put fan on and open windoews i think its alot more noticabled in enclosed areas.
now im nearly 24 so left school at 24. didnt get any passes in my exams because i stopped going to school near end of the year and only sat a few exams i've been doing nothing just in the house all the time i don't go out.
Also my parents never said i smell i dont think they can smell but my just once say before my room stinks open the windows. and i cant smell the smell on me.
i am also confirmed about my bad order..flies cover me all the time.
thanks alot for reading.!
Been having problems since teenage years I started smelling like rotten eggs and sewage and its totally messed up my life.
It started when i was around 19-20 im now 24 in 4 and half months. I started noticing this by people reactions. When i traveled to college on the bus people holding there noses and sneezing. I think it gets realeased from my body at random times. When on the bus it was very noticable by everyones body language. Also I joined a cadets club people was like whats that smell when we was in a group. after a while one of the members told said to me theres not point you coming here nobody likes you obv i know thats because of the smell not my personaitly. ive had alot of friends in past. and another time got in a car as soon as i got in she said it smells like rotten eggs in near and opened the window. also another time in a car they put fan on and open windoews i think its alot more noticabled in enclosed areas.
now im nearly 24 so left school at 24. didnt get any passes in my exams because i stopped going to school near end of the year and only sat a few exams i've been doing nothing just in the house all the time i don't go out.
Also my parents never said i smell i dont think they can smell but my just once say before my room stinks open the windows. and i cant smell the smell on me.
i am also confirmed about my bad order..flies cover me all the time.
thanks alot for reading.!
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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!