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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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Please sleepmonster I know its 5 years since you post but I was wondering if you have find a solution to the problem like mine I thought it was the environment and mine is not even normal body odour, its urine, poo, gutter, sewage, garbage and few others I can't describe, please let me know how far you have gone thanks
URINE,GARBAGE,POO,(ANOTHER FOUL SMELL WHICH I DONT KNOW THE NAME BUT ITS LIKE DIRTY TOILET) GUTTER SMELL KEEPS FOLLOWING ME EVERY WHERE, THE PROBLEM IS, IT COMES AND GO, SO THERE AINT NO OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DOC TO ACTUALLY PERCIEVE THE SMELL BUT PEOPLE HAVE ACTUALLY DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY TOLD ME I SMELL LIKE THE ABOVE BUT THE DOC AND ALL SEEMS TO THINK ITS A MENTAL ILLNESS (SCHIZOPHRENIA), ANY ADVISE
I have same damn smell around me as radiation (say).it follows me with little break I guessed.everyone saw me as garbage.please help me if you have solutions.
I am a 31 year old male that has smoked since I was 19. I have battled with ocd for almost my whole life I was raised Christian but went into the world (of course) the ocd slowly turned into racing thoughts and then I was home bound for probably 6 years I became a volunteer fire fighter in 11-12 and was planning on going back to school my chief at the time (would tell me my uniform stunk) although I never noticed my Dad was tired of seeing me suffer so we started getting into the holistic health new age crap the whole nine one day about a month ago I had finished reading my Bible and I was on FB there was a post about listening to music at 332hz I didn't know that night my life would change forever (For years now I have smelt weird smells and seen things out of the corner of my eyes and always felt like something was following me) anyway the panic attacks I had in the past usually went away I could just wait them out usually 20-30 minutes (before this I had been having weird dreams and would wake up sweating) little did I know I was being weakened by the vegan diet for a full blown awakening. I was at my mom's and my dad called I could hear a whisper through the phone my name I thought I was losing it so I let my Father pray for me when he did I felt something leave me like my very life force perhaps the Holy Spirit I dunno after that I felt a bunch of things (please don't think I'm crazy) enter my body like air was being pushed in my lungs. Since then I smell sulfur all the time, others can smell it but say it's the cigarettes (IT'S MOST DEF NOT) I sweat it out at night I smell it around me (as well as other smells) I have cried out to God but doesn't seem to help I go from cold to hot at the drop of a dime I smell sulfur but my clothes smell the same. I feel hopeless and lost I have trouble reading my Bible now What do I do? I feel there are unclean spirits in me I dunno how I'm on medicine I also smell rotten eggs from my butt (never happened before) I dunno what to do I desperately need to hear from God I thought I was saved guess not to anyone going through this its terrible medicine just mask the problem
Funny thing is my Mother's whole family smell like rotten eggs sulfur (all are ex Mormons) ones a free Mason I feel cursed sometimes my father just says it's in my head if I died right now I'm not sure where I'd end up my life was bad enough it's worse now sorry for ranting
Funny thing is my Mother's whole family smell like rotten eggs sulfur (all are ex Mormons) ones a free Mason I feel cursed sometimes my father just says it's in my head if I died right now I'm not sure where I'd end up my life was bad enough it's worse now sorry for ranting
Hi fellow sufferers,
I've been dealing with this exact problem for 5-6 years now. The first time I realized something was wrong was when my friends would ask me if I farted when I haven't. I've also had incidents at the gym where I heard other people comment on how bad I smelled. I've tried for so many years to get rid of my problem, but nothing really seems to work. What really kills me about this is that my friends and family don't believe me and think I'm crazy. I've gotten the courage to ask my family, friends, and my girlfriend and they've all said I don't smell. This drives me even more crazy because I know for a fact that others have made comments about my smell, so not I'm not sure if I stink or if I'm going crazy. Now I don't even know what's worse, smelling bad or constantly being paranoid that I smell bad.
In my years of trying to find a solution, I have learned that alcohol really seems to make the problem worse. I've tried using probiotics and antacids and it seems to work because I'll go weeks without anyone making a comment or showing any indicator that I stink. Sometimes I really question my sanity and it's starting to affect my work. I'm a therapist and work with individuals in a closed setting and every now and then I'll ask my children clients if my office smells because kids tend to be more honest about that stuff and for the most part they've all said no and they seem be to honest to me. Sorry for all these run on sentences and stream of conscious rantings but I just need to get this all out there. If there's anyone there who knows of a way to manage this please help. I would greatly appreciate it.
I've been dealing with this exact problem for 5-6 years now. The first time I realized something was wrong was when my friends would ask me if I farted when I haven't. I've also had incidents at the gym where I heard other people comment on how bad I smelled. I've tried for so many years to get rid of my problem, but nothing really seems to work. What really kills me about this is that my friends and family don't believe me and think I'm crazy. I've gotten the courage to ask my family, friends, and my girlfriend and they've all said I don't smell. This drives me even more crazy because I know for a fact that others have made comments about my smell, so not I'm not sure if I stink or if I'm going crazy. Now I don't even know what's worse, smelling bad or constantly being paranoid that I smell bad.
In my years of trying to find a solution, I have learned that alcohol really seems to make the problem worse. I've tried using probiotics and antacids and it seems to work because I'll go weeks without anyone making a comment or showing any indicator that I stink. Sometimes I really question my sanity and it's starting to affect my work. I'm a therapist and work with individuals in a closed setting and every now and then I'll ask my children clients if my office smells because kids tend to be more honest about that stuff and for the most part they've all said no and they seem be to honest to me. Sorry for all these run on sentences and stream of conscious rantings but I just need to get this all out there. If there's anyone there who knows of a way to manage this please help. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks Bro il try this. Im also suffering this kind of problem for almost 2 years im also tired if they also judge me how i smell even if it doesnt comes from me. Im still a college student and it finds me hard going to scholl with this kind of problem I hope this will work. Thanks again
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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!