Another with fecal body odour and I don't know why??

[10z3r]

I've been smelling like poop for years now, I don't know, perhaps almost 10 years.
I quit almost everything wrong. I quit smoking, I quit drinking, drugs, and stimulants like caffeine, theine (almost no sugar). I do exercise everyday, I almost only drink water. I eat almost no red meat... I'm a really healthy person. Also my personal hygiene is very strict.
Still, I smell like ****, not everytime, apparently, not for everyone, but this has made my life not really ease. I've seen a couple of doctors and told them my problem.
Both of them in those moments, told me, that they didn't smell anything. The first one told me "Each one smells different and must be accepted" the second one sent me to a psychiatrist claiming I had agoraphobia and a paranoia because of my fecal body odour. (Of course is difficult go outside when it's going to be a tough day because of the reaction of people to my body odor, besides I've lived and worked in two other countries and now I'm going abroad for some months because work).
Anyway, I have done some analysis, candidiasis, hyper or hypothyroidism, internal hemorrhoids and Gilbert syndrome are discarded. IBS and TMAU are not discarded yet. I don't have any symptons of rectal prolapse, anal fissures, halitosis... and I'm constipated or I suffer diarrhea like everybody else, neither always nor never.
I can't forget that everytime I hear comments of how bad I smell, my anus is wet, like sweating, and also my underwear. Everything is clean, promise you, but is wet, I don't smell anything, but people surrounding me, yes, wherever I am.
Lately I've been thinking it could be IBS, because I read is like the colon is connected to the brain, and because of stress or anxiety or how I feel, could not work as it's supposed to, and also I read that one of its functions is removing the water from the feces. And I've been thinking that, for this reason, is why some days, and everyday when I have something important to do, I feel the anxiety, and my anus is wet, when no other part of my body is wet, even my armpits are dry, or never as wet as my anus.
And also because, when I took xanax (alprazolam) for the insufferable anxiety caused by this problem, my anus was almost always dry, even in some difficult moments, and I never hear any kind of comments regarding to my body odour (But the doctors cut me the medication).
For all of this I've started to think that can be IBS, and for this reason, a couple of days ago, I've started to take yobalex (probiotics + prebiotics). Perhaps my intestinal flora has been damaged some years ago, and like I've done nothing really specific to repair it, that's why I've been suffering the problem all these years. But I still don't know.
This is my problem, and my question is. After everything I've described, and for sure knowing that my fecal body odour is real, and it seems always I smell when my anus is wet, Could be this smell and/or sweat in my anus has been caused by a malfunction of my colon or by an insufficient intestinal floral of my colon???

[10z3r]

Thank you for your advice. Promise you, I've been reading a little more, as like you say, there are people with my symptoms who tested positive for TMAU. From years I don't have any kind of relationship with my father, but I remember that he smelled really strong, not in the morning, but always in the afternoon, neither fish nor fecal, but was a really really strong smell. Like TMAU is a genetical disorder, I'm thinking about getting tested. In a few days I will go to the sea for 4-5 months, I'm a motorman in a vessel, but when I come back, I'm going to do the test for TMAU for sure. I can be tested positive, and I could find what's going on with my body, or I can be tested negative, and I could discard another option. A win-win situation, we can say.

[10z3r]

Everything was OK until this week. Again I heard comments. I'm gonna find a new MD, because last Sunday was a tough day in the bathroom, and I've been feeling my anus itching and stinging, all week. And has been this week when I heard comments again. So I've been reading a little more, I've watched pictures, and I have an "anal fissure", and I think is chronic. I don't have it everyday of my life, but sometimes I feel that unpleasant feeling in my anus from years now (besides a diet and probiotics works ok. I haven't had any constipation these days). I've been reading a little more and perhaps everything is caused by a "narrowing of the anal canal" or whatever is called in English. That's why I'm going to visit a new doctor, an especialist and I hope the gest... again.

[10z3r]

OK, this is being like my personal diary of this problem. And I think I found the root of the problem... again, I hope this time is the right one. Well I tried a lot, and nothing helps. I think I don't have TMAU. I've never had halitosis and I never had another disgusting body odour than my FBO (that's the worst kind of odour you can have) and there's no a TMAU test in my crap Country, Spain, where MD are almost illliterate (at least with this problem, in my case). Always happens to me, when my *** sweats. Nor my close friends neither my family smells anything, but is like everybody else does. It happened to me in different countries, places, situations. Is not an hygienic problem, and is like nothing works. Last week I found out I had an anal fissure (a little one, like a skin fold). I know, or I think I know, that if my anus sweats, I'm sold!!! and I think that if a have to take a long walk is gonna be worse, and with a hot weather, a nightmare. Now I think I know why this is happening, and at least, this could be a valid explanation. In my case, I think is not a TMAU problem, not an hygienic problem, not incontinence, not mucus, not a yellow liquid from my anus, not nothing, except sweat from my anus, and no other odour from my body. Everything is caused by my anal muscles, that's why nothing works and not everytime my BO is disgusting, and not for everybody. Of course the root of the problem is an anal fissure (like pregnant women can have after giving birth), chronic or not, caused by a bowel inflammation, chronic, or that has happened for a long time. Of course diet helps, or must help. Constipation can provoke an anal fissure, but also a "difficult" diarrhea. Laxatives are not the answer, nullo is not the answer, nor chlorophyll, nor deodorant... There are two options, botox in your anal muscles, or surgery. I have an appoinment with a proctologist in June, and during this time I'm gonna try exercises to relax my anal channel and/or muscles (I don't have any other option).  If you have my same symptoms, check it out, if after a long walk in a sunny day, basides having your anus wet, you feel like a heavy sensation in that part of your body, or like is at hundred degrees celsius. If this happens to you, the problem is your anal muscles (the opposite of incontinence).

[10z3r]

I forgot something. This problem caused me some psychological problems, like social anxiety disorder or social phobia, and perhaps, sometimes agoraphobia. I know that alprazolam or Xanax, helps a lot, is a fact. When I take those tablets, there is no sweat in that part of the body. Contrary to that I thought are not my social problems what causes my FBO, is my FBO what causes my social problems. And Xanax worked for me, because I feel relaxed and I relax my sphincter muscles (without knowing this). I don't know I've just read about diciclomine (to relax my anal muscles) and electro-stimulation of that zone, biofeedback.... but I still need time. But I'm pretty sure that the friction of my buttlocks while I'm walking plus my tight anal muscles, is what cause that sweat, or when I'm in a bad mood.... And that's why when you're relaxed at home, and/or with your friends and/or couple, that part of your body is dry. Is because you feel relaxed, and unconsciously you are relaxing that zone, and nobody smells you anything. And when you feel there's gonna be a BO problem, it happens.

[10z3r]

I writing this, perhaps someday could help someone like me. After being sent to a psychiatrist by the MD who I told my problem. I kept searching. I found a rectal ointment for chronic anal fissures, and I tried it. It worked, finally something worked. I read something more, and you know what. I did what I have to do. In front of the mirror I tried to find if I had an anal fissure (don't ask). I found it into the rectum, and I took a picture. I went again to a MD, and after all, now I have an appointment with the surgeon to remove it. It's a shame, after almost 10 years, after visiting 2 MD, after being send to a psychiatrist because "everything was on my mind", it was me, and only me, who had to find out what the problem really was. My situation all this time is a shame for the medical profession. So, my advice to you, is "Keep On", you know there's something wrong, and you're not crazy. No matter what other people say, or your family or a MD. You know you have a problem, and try to solve. I hope this message help someone to solve his/her problem without waiting 10 years, like it has happened to me.

[kakashisama]

what was the name of the ointment?