Delusion?
If you can't smell it yourself and your
thinking 'people are just being nice,
purposely not making comments', then there
is a chance that it could be in your head,
but think how many haluccinations it would
take for you to imagine the smell, and
then imagine people's voices (people
opening their mouths in time with the
words) commenting about it, it would have
to be some delusion - worse than
schizophrenia, you'd have to be living in
dreamland. I've taken shrooms,pills etc
pot everyday but my heads not that medical
answer.
How many people on here have actually
consulted a specialist (gastoenterologist
etc)? we only get to hear the incompetent
doctor stories, the successful stories
dont get told, people just get on with
their lifes. It gives the impression that
there's no cure.
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VuLe110
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1
Do I Smell? Posted: 11-23-07 19:11pm
I too have been suffering from this
problem. It started when I was about 16
and I am 23 now. It really has affected my
social life though I have adapting to
dealing with it a little. Usually symptoms
occur when I am sitting in a social
situation for a long period of time, like
at school, in a movie theater, church. It
use to experience the “thinking I
smell” when I was walking around as
well, like other people posted, I felt as
if my butt hole was sweating or had some
kind of moisture. I would always find a
bathroom to wipe my butt making sure I’m
not leaking poop or something. This still
happens to me here and there but not
everyday as it did before. Sometimes I
feel like I just want to give up on life
because I have no idea what is wrong with
me. I’ve gone to gastroenterologists
before and I wasn’t really able to
explain my symptoms to him very well other
than “I think I smell and I think I pass
gas uncontrollably”. Usually they just
prescribe me some “delayed release”
tablets such as “the purple pill” or
say it could be lactose intolerance which
I was recently told by the doctor to go
two weeks dairy free to see if symptoms
clear up, but nope, still there. I am
going back in December 2007 to do a
sigmoidoscopy where there going to stick a
camera up my butt and look around for
problems, mainly IBS though. I’m glad I
found this site and read peoples symptoms
because now I can probably explain my
symptoms better to the doctor. If not
I’ll just send him the link to read and
have him tell me what he thinks. I still
am unsure where the odor that I think
people are smelling is coming from,
whether it’s from my anus, or where it
maybe me coming from the air I am exhaling
out. Maybe my throat is not closing fully,
allowing the odors to seep out. As some
people have posted, the smell is not a
constant smell, but usually comes and
goes. Usually I will notice people around
me noticing the smell first, and then I
would get a woof of it which triggers my
paranoia. Even when I don’t smell it
anymore, I am worrying that other people
smell me and this would last until I am
out of that social situation. When I was
in juvenile hall around the age of 17, I
tried explaining my symptoms to the doctor
there, like that I think I smelt, and all
he told me was, “I’m sitting here
right in front of you and I don’t smell
anything”. So he put me on an
anti-depressant called Paxil and I was
taking that for about 2 years. I think the
paxil helped with my social life because
the thoughts of me smelling weren’t
there as much although I don’t fully
remember. I just remember going out more
often. Maybe all it did was just made me
ignore the smell and me more positive
about it, although I still did smell.
Over the years, I have hypothesized many
different causes for my symptoms. Maybe if
people here see similarities in our habits
that may have caused these symptoms, we
can start some kind of medical movement
and cure all these people suffering from
this problem!
Alcohol – Growing up, I’ve done ALOT
of binge drinking and I thought maybe the
alcohol somehow affected my digestive
system. Maybe it caused holes in my
stomach or intestines that allow the gas
to pass through. I’ve heard about
situations where excessive alcohol causes
major cirrhosis to the stomach which is
not repairable and leads to death, and
maybe that’s why doctors don’t want to
tell you this because you are better off
not knowing. Maybe it’s some kind of
liver problem caused by drinking too much
alcohol. When I drink though, the symptoms
seem to go away or at least gets me not to
think about it, allowing me to socialize
better in social situations better. Last
night at poker though, after drinking a
couple of beers, I came back to the table
after using the restroom to urinate and it
seemed like I smelt the whole room up of
gas by the look on everyone’s faces and
how uncomfortable they seemed, some
started having running noses. The game
kept going but I noticed a few that seem
to “escape” the table. I couldn’t
even tell if I was farting or causing a
smell, but I just felt like I did. Maybe
my sense of smell has been affected where
I can’t really smell that well.
Methamphetamine – From the age 16-19,
I’ve used the drug methamphetamine a
lot. I’m pretty sure that my symptoms
started around the time I starting using
meth. I think it’s a possibility that it
was caused by me forcing myself to poop
when I was constipated because of the
methamphetamine. Around this time I was
almost always constipated, and I think
forcing myself to go all those times maybe
did something. Descending perineum
syndrome seems like it may be the problem.
I guess it’s when your color muscle,
anal sphincter, and nerves don’t work in
synchronization to fully evacuate your
feces, leaving some behind near the end of
the colon which can possibly be causing
the smell. I think the website I found
said something about for people this
problem, when they are going to the
bathroom, they’re colon muscles are
pushing the feces out, but the anal
sphincter is not relaxed. This could be
from people thinking that gas is seeping
out of their butt, so they focus on
tightening this muscle while in public,
sometimes for a long period of time, and
maybe this causes the problem. There are
some exercises to help with the
synchronization but I am not sure where to
get the help. The website is http://www.turkgastro
.org/text.php?id=577. I am not sure if
this is the problem for me but I will
definitely bring it up to my doctor.
I’ve been free of methamphetamine for 4
years now and I do not have constipation
but I still experience the symptoms.
Marijuana – I have also been smoking
marijuana growing up. Usually symptoms get
worse when I after I smoke it and I am in
social situations like I smell 5 times
worse or stronger. I notice people talking
about me more and usually the symptom such
as a wet anus occurs. When I am around
usual friends that I hang around with, I
can deal with it because I feel as though
they are already use to it. But if I am
around a lot of strangers, then that’s
when the paranoia kicks in.
Tobacco – I growing up, I was pretty
much a chain smoker. When the symptoms
were really bad in social situations,
smoking would help relieve the paranoia. I
thought maybe it was caused by the
smoking, that maybe I have emphysema and
this causes me to pass gas uncontrollably.
The second definition for emphysema on
dictionary.com states that emphysema is
“any abnormal distention of an organ, or
part of the body, with air or other
gas”. I’ve been cigarette free for a
year now but I still experience the
symptoms of thinking I am uncontrollably
passing gas. The main reason why I quit
was because of the shortness of breath
that I was experiencing. Usually when am
experiencing the symptoms while walking
around, it is accompanied by shortness of
breath, blurred vision, sweaty palms,
weakness, a little bit of confusion. Does
anyone else experience this when they are
in public, walking around, and thinking
they smell? For instance like when I am
walking around the casinos in Las Vegas,
where there is a lot of people, that is
when I experience the symptoms very bad,
thinking I smell, a moist anus, shortness
of breath, blurred vision, sweaty palms,
weakness, and the little bit of confusion.
Could it be a side effect of
cardiovascular disease or something? I try
to exercise when I can, and sometimes
after I run around the block, it seems
like the smell is really bad, where people
across the street can smell the smell like
my insides are rotting or an intense fecal
matter smell.
Acid/ Ecstasy – Growing up I have also
experimented with taking acid and ecstasy.
Maybe these symptoms are the results of
the acid. Wasn’t acid made as a means of
controlling the military in some kind of
way? Maybe it was the ecstasy that caused
ulcers in my digestive system.
Government/Aliens/Demons – I’ve even
gone as far as thinking maybe it is the
government or aliens that did this to me
as a method to control me. Maybe I did
something wrong or read a website that I
should have read and this is their method
to keep me under control. LOL..?? Maybe
the doctors aren’t allowed to cure us
for some reason and they just pretend like
were crazy or something when they know
exactly what is going on with us. Maybe
there is a cure, just like maybe there is
one for aids and other “non-curable”
diseases but the cure is kept from those
who are infected. Some sort of population
control? I don’t know. I even though
maybe some kind of stink demon is messing
with me.
Maybe it is all in my head. Maybe I
created this problem because of a fear of
something. I did poop in my pants once
when I was extremely drunk and high and
maybe this triggered a fear or smelling
like poop when I am in public. So I go
into social situations looking for people
to say something about me. They could be
talking about something else, like someone
smelling like body odor but my brain tells
me that they are talking about me and that
I smell like fart. Maybe the looks are
just because of how I look as all these
thoughts are going through my head?
Currently I am attending college and it
pretty much has been hell in every class.
I swear that sometimes I fill up the room
with my gas or whatever the smell is that
people talk about me and make fun of how I
fart in class. I am currently in a
wellness class that I need to finish up my
degree, which I will be getting in Dec
2007, finally! No more sitting in hell,
but in this class, people open all the
windows, have the door wide open, turn the
ac fully on even though it is winter and I
believe it is because of the smell coming
from me. Like they want to keep down the
infection rate so they won’t get it
themselves or something. Sometimes I swear
that my teachers even talk about it in
their lectures but in like a non-direct
way which will cause me to panic. And of
course I am thinking that people around me
are making comments about it. The person I
feel the worse for is my wife, who has to
deal with me always asking her if I smell.
She always is telling me no just like
everyone else that I ask but maybe they
are there in the situations that cause the
symptoms to occur. Usually when I am in a
class with my wife, I am less paranoid and
nervous because she is there with me. I
still don’t know if the people are just
telling me I don’t stink because they
know that it’s a problem I’ve had for
awhile and telling me would just make it
worse, or maybe they are telling the
truth! I really don’t know. Maybe
Delusional Disorder is the cause of it as
posted by JohnPaul. Maybe our brains make
the stink actually happen because we worry
about it so much?
This post is pretty much a bunch of random
thoughts since I still have NO IDEA what
is wrong with me. It is probably not as
“intellectual” as some posts but I am
suffering just like the rest from this
problem. I will be seeing the
gastroenterologist again in December and I
will try to explain exactly what is wrong
with me and see what happens. I pretty
sure it’s not lactose intolerance like
he thinks it maybe be, but I will bring up
everything brought up in this forum such
as the possibility of anal fissures,
descending perineum syndrome,
complications of irritable bowel syndrome
(has anyone here been diagnosed with this,
received treatment yet still experience
the symptoms?), Maybe this is a new
disease no one really knows about other
than those who are suffering from it.
-Vu
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bollie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 11-26-07 13:17pm
Hi VU
For people who describe 'moisture', this
could be a possibility: a fistula that
connects the anal canal and skin around
the anus, diagnosed by a history of
intermittent or continuous fecal smelling
discharge on the skin around the anal
margin' - the cure for it is surgery.
I have what you described in the 4th
paragraph and the link about 'FDD'.
There's lots of other names for it
(non-relaxing puborectalis
syndrome/anismus/pelvic floor dysfunction/
'paradoxical contraction of the sphincter'
etc) I think most of them are the same or
perhaps different variations of the way
the muscles aren't coordinating properly,
with the treatment being biofeedback or
botox injections.
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jimmyjames
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 11-29-07 03:49am
Has anyone overcome,
I had a office job and had to quit last
week, because people talking. I don't know
ehre it's coming from . I hope someone
comes forward who is better now
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jimmyjames
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 11-29-07 04:00am
hello again,
I just found a blog through google. It
sounds like the same as everyone on the
board.
I think he is an Australian guy,
interesting read. beatleakygas.com
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bollie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 12-01-07 08:39am
the link got deleted:
htt p: //w
ww.doctorslounge.com/infections/forums/bac
kup/topic-4184.html - if your interested
copy/paste and delete the spaces between
'htt p: //w ww' and 'bac kup'
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devromp695
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 1
Possible Remedy Posted: 02-24-08 01:49am
To all sufferers,
you can try a product I came across to
called
"devrom" or another product called
"take a whiff"
hope that solves your problems
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waykie007
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3
same problem Posted: 04-04-08 05:09am
hey,i also suffer from this problem,iv
tried worm tablets,ibs tablets and pile
creams and nothing works ive also tried
healthy nfood but nothing works,its
ruining my life.has anyone tried any colon
cleaning kits,if so do they work or a
waste of money?please help its so bad im
depressed,wont stand next to people and
know people at work talk about me,i need
to sort this soon cus its drivin me crazy
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hotpockets
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 1
Sounds like me too Posted: 04-09-08 21:52pm
I just stumbled upon this post and it
seems to be full of people who go through
the same things I do. Talk about
depressing....
Yeah. I have random anal-rectal odors as
well. The smell is most common when I'm
in public or surrounded by other people.
And it is usually but not always
accompanied with excessive anal sweating.
I'm 21 and this problem has been
destroying my life ever since I was 15.
Worrying about the odor has become the
primary focus of my day.
Other side effects include:
No social life
No self esteem
No motivation
Avoidant personality disorder
Anger
Depression
Frequent thoughts of suicide
And another thing, like some of you, I
also have problems wiping myself. After
bowel movements I wipe myserlf normally.
And next, I have to plunge the toilet
paper deep into my anus to clean
everything out. The deep plunging is what
takes forever. If I dont do this, it will
smell as if I didn't wipe at all.
^^ Sorry for the disgusting wiping
details. It just seemed relevant from a
medical perspective.
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forsaken
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1
Finally Posted: 06-15-08 22:35pm
A place where people can relate,ok I just
spent an hour writting a message and I got
nuked by the forum said I wasn't signed in
so I not going to spend a nother hour
re-doing it. I will give a shorter
version,I have had symtoms for 6 years now
lost all my friends and everyone at work
either wants nothing to do with me or
thinks I am having gay sex.At first it was
real bad but now it's just the wet sweaty
feeling if I dont clean really good.It has
really taken a toll on my life I'm even
selfconscious going out with my wife. I
have pretty much the same symptoms
,inconsistant bowl movments and types or
textures I remember as a kid not wanting
to go take a dump cuz it hurt so much
sometimes not going for 3days it hurt
about 90% of the time now I get
constipated about10% of the time but even
then it dosen't hurt as much and I never
have to take a laxative,another thing I
also have psoriasis and I'm thinking I may
have a little around the anus area I
showed a doctor and he said to use whitch
hazel and if it comes back he would do a
biopsy well it came back about 3 months
later and was so discouaged never went
back now I just use the witch hazel as
needed and put foot powder in my
shorts.Also I think exercises are helping
like crunches squats and leg lifts.lets
all stay together on this,I will be abck
soon to read more post. Take care and god
bless.
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dunrobin
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 1
anal smells Posted: 06-22-08 17:11pm
i have this problem to it started about
2mnths ago i have not been to doctor yet i
am 56yrs old u put me of going now
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jao204
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 1
i got the exact same thing Posted: 06-23-08 09:15am
people around me smell it, but i dont. it
always happens when i get nervous,
sometimes even when im not nervous.
people around me will cough or sniffle a
lot. My family doesnt smell it, even
though i tell them it is real. Doctors
classified me as a "social phobia" case.
I do have social phobia, but only cause of
this stupid odor. All my friends in high
school called me gay cause i smelled bad
and they left me. So, last year i tried
to commit suicide. Cut every tendon,
nerve, and both arteries in my wrist,
massive bleeding, almost died until my dad
stopped the bleeding. Whatever this is,
is ruining my life. i have become almost
a recluse. it sucks majorly. the doctors
have to find out it is real. anyone find
a cure or info, please tell.
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coldplay99
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under tec Posted: 07-02-08 08:38am
Try anti-flatulence underwear. Under Ease
is a brand I know of.
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coldplay99
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Posted: 07-02-08 08:40am
when u will use it tell me if it did help
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waykie007
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3
under tec Posted: 07-02-08 18:49pm
people dont use the under tec boxers they
dont work for our problem,believe me i
have got sum,our problem isnt comin from
our behind its comin out our pours and
skin,go to beatleakygas.com it will
explain better there
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coldplay99
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waykie Posted: 07-03-08 05:07am
is there a diet for that problem?
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coldplay99
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candida diet Posted: 07-04-08 03:46am
what is a candida diet?how effective does
it work?how much safe it is ?and where can
a men get a candida diet program?hope u
will answer
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coldplay99
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Herbal Fiberblend Posted: 07-04-08 09:02am
it says that Herbal Fiberblend helps that
problem is it true?how to use it and how
safe it is anyone type if u did use
it?thank u
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waykie007
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3
coldplay99 Posted: 07-05-08 03:47am
hi mate iv never tried fiberblend but if
it contains carbs,sugar etc dont use it.i
think the candida diet is ok iv just
started it.it seems to work so ill try
anything to get out this mess.c ya
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coldplay99
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hi Posted: 07-05-08 09:32am
waykie is a candida diet ok and how much
will it resolve a problem?and can u tell
me where i can get a candida diet? if u
can write to me thank u
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