I just found this board and after reading through it for hours, I decided to share my experience as well. I first noticed the fecal Body Odor when I was a sophomore in high school. I don't think I need to tell you guys how much I suffered because we all seemed to have suffered from similar symptoms (people sniffling their nose, people asking me if I farted etc). I am a 2nd year graduate (dental) student now, so I have had this thing for around 7-8 years now.
At my school (where I cannot sit next to people), I have been getting a lot of lectures about oral infections (candidiasis) and disorders (such as TMAU - fish odor syndrome) and even though I have been a silent sufferer for many years this has renewed my interest in this syndrome and I have started to looking up this subject more and more myself. From my personal experience, it is very difficult to know when your odor is strongest because we do get desensitized to our own odor. I do not believe that this odor comes from the anus, or that is is caused by oral infection such as candidiasis or mucus build-up (from what I learned in lectures and from the fact that tons of patients at our school have candidiasis but there is no correlation to this smell), or that this is TMAU. My smell is there regardless of whether I eat foods that contain choline or not. The odor is in the respiration, which probably means it's a systemic disorder of some internal organs such as gastrointestinal tract, liver, or kidney.
I am just extremely frustrated that whatever textbooks I look up I can't seem to find anything that's related to this. Let alone finding the cure, we are not even sure what it is...

Anyway, let's all be optimistic and hope that sooner or later our suffering will end. It has driven me to the point of madness (And past that). Meanwhile all I will be able to do is try to learn/research more about this thing.

BY the way is there a new group or something where people who used to post here now go to? If so please let me know and feel free to e-mail me to talk about anything.

i once had this problem and tried many of the suggested cures. are you amember of any club or religous organization? i didnt have this problem after i left my job and cut all other social contact. i realise that this condition was related to stress accociated in my contact with workmates or religous groups

ANAL Stink
I have the same odor problem as most of u in the forum pages. This started happening in my 8th grade. The stink I have been having is only from my anus and not general Body Odor as some people have been having. I have been havening this problem for 7 years or more .Im stating this because I think this will help some people and also will help me express myself so that I can live with myself.
I think I know how the smell began. I used to live in India then. We were kids-me and my brother. We used water instead of tissue paper to wipe our *%#&¤?§*. We had a sort of small hose near our sink for that and just to have fun we used to put in water through our anus and fill up our anus and intestine and then blow the water out. This must seem crazy but guess what we were kids .I did that for 8 months and I guess that that ruined something in my anus or intestine or something. Right after that it all began. The stink was real bad at first. It was like rotten eggs, burned cigar, gasoline, *%#&¤?§* all at once and appearing one by one. The smell was very bad for 2 years and then it began reducing and now 6 years later it still exits.

I don’t want to say anything but how it ruined my life but u can probably imagine. I lost faith in god and in life .I began thinking like this: how could god ever let this happen to me? This was worse than starving to death, both your feet and arms cut off. I was slowly being bleed to death. Happiness was around me all the time and I couldn’t take part in it because of my stink. This is how hell must be or is this hell? .I tried a lot of things to stop the smell and nothing worked Nothing! .I dint tell my parents or anybody until a major part of my life was over. Now I wish I had told them earlier and this could have been corrected earlier. If anyone h

MY PROBLEMS

1. Anal odor
2. Anal itching and feeling that my anus is filled all the time.
3. Constipation
(Anal itching and constipation came on later in my life. I know that the stink originally came into being because of the water hose stuff.)

THE PROPABLE CAUSES OF MY ODOR
1. The stuff I did with my anus and intestine with the hose.
2. The sphincter muscles I believe are the muscles which hold the gases and feces until you need to defecate. So in theory, if odors are coming out quite frequently, it might mean that the muscles have become weaker and are not responding in the way they should and therefore not holding the gases etc. in. In some cases the body loses the sense of when to go defecate and the body just stores the feces in the bowels, maybe its this loss of sense, and the build up of feces in the bowels that is causing the smell.
Maybe the solution is to strengthen and train the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.


THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE

1. If you have such a odor problem talk to your parents or somebody who cares for u .U should tell them and explain your problem and how it is affecting your life.
U should not mess around and beat around the problem and say u have constipation and anal itching as some of the people in the forum have been doing.
U should say to your parents and doctors that your primary and major problem is the odor.
A lot of people have had these problems for 3 years, 5 years,10 years,20 years etc.
Even if you haven’t told anyone for a few years it’s not late. Do it now before its too late and your life

2. Some people have trouble making others believe that this problem exits. Tell them you problems truthfully and show them this forum page and all the other forum pages that exist about this problem. That should make a believer out of them if they don’t believe you.

3. Maybe the problem is with your nose. Check that out.

4.The problem want repair on its own. You need a doctors help. A lot of people believed that the problem would repair on its own but it won’t. You need a doctor help


ONLINE SUPPORT AND HELP
We need a support and help group that can comfort and help people and make them believe that they can be helped and their problems solved. We have had to face so much pain and have been cut apart, some in huge ways and some in small ways. We need to help each other .That’s what life is all about.
So im proposing a Yahoo group that can do just that:

1. I’m forming a Yahoo group “lifeisgood” that can help people .Just follow this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lifeisgood
2. If you want to join the group you will have to submit your AIM id, Yahoo id, Msn id, ICQ id and your email address SO that you can talk with other people and share your thoughts and insight.

Please cooperate.
Thanks.

ANAL Stink
I have the same odor problem as most of u in the forum pages. This started happening in my 8th grade. The stink I have been having is only from my anus and not general Body Odor as some people have been having. I have been havening this problem for 7 years or more .Im stating this because I think this will help some people and also will help me express myself so that I can live with myself.
I think I know how the smell began. I used to live in India then. We were kids-me and my brother. We used water instead of tissue paper to wipe our *%#&¤?§*. We had a sort of small hose near our sink for that and just to have fun we used to put in water through our anus and fill up our anus and intestine and then blow the water out. This must seem crazy but guess what we were kids .I did that for 8 months and I guess that that ruined something in my anus or intestine or something. Right after that it all began. The stink was real bad at first. It was like rotten eggs, burned cigar, gasoline, *%#&¤?§* all at once and appearing one by one. The smell was very bad for 2 years and then it began reducing and now 6 years later it still exits.

I don’t want to say anything but how it ruined my life but u can probably imagine. I lost faith in god and in life .I began thinking like this: how could god ever let this happen to me? This was worse than starving to death, both your feet and arms cut off. I was slowly being bleed to death. Happiness was around me all the time and I couldn’t take part in it because of my stink. This is how hell must be or is this hell? .I tried a lot of things to stop the smell and nothing worked Nothing! .I dint tell my parents or anybody until a major part of my life was over. Now I wish I had told them earlier and this could have been corrected earlier. If anyone h

MY PROBLEMS

1. Anal odor
2. Anal itching and feeling that my anus is filled all the time.
3. Constipation
(Anal itching and constipation came on later in my life. I know that the stink originally came into being because of the water hose stuff.)

THE PROPABLE CAUSES OF MY ODOR
1. The stuff I did with my anus and intestine with the hose.
2. The sphincter muscles I believe are the muscles which hold the gases and feces until you need to defecate. So in theory, if odors are coming out quite frequently, it might mean that the muscles have become weaker and are not responding in the way they should and therefore not holding the gases etc. in. In some cases the body loses the sense of when to go defecate and the body just stores the feces in the bowels, maybe its this loss of sense, and the build up of feces in the bowels that is causing the smell.
Maybe the solution is to strengthen and train the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.


THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE

1. If you have such a odor problem talk to your parents or somebody who cares for u .U should tell them and explain your problem and how it is affecting your life.
U should not mess around and beat around the problem and say u have constipation and anal itching as some of the people in the forum have been doing.
U should say to your parents and doctors that your primary and major problem is the odor.
A lot of people have had these problems for 3 years, 5 years,10 years,20 years etc.
Even if you haven’t told anyone for a few years it’s not late. Do it now before its too late and your life

2. Some people have trouble making others believe that this problem exits. Tell them you problems truthfully and show them this forum page and all the other forum pages that exist about this problem. That should make a believer out of them if they don’t believe you.

3. Maybe the problem is with your nose. Check that out.

4.The problem want repair on its own. You need a doctors help. A lot of people believed that the problem would repair on its own but it won’t. You need a doctor help


ONLINE SUPPORT AND HELP
We need a support and help group that can comfort and help people and make them believe that they can be helped and their problems solved. We have had to face so much pain and have been cut apart, some in huge ways and some in small ways. We need to help each other .That’s what life is all about.
So im proposing a Yahoo group that can do just that:

1. I’m forming a Yahoo group “lifeisgood” that can help people .Just follow this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lifeisgood
2. If you want to join the group you will have to submit your AIM id, Yahoo id, Msn id, ICQ id and your email address SO that you can talk with other people and share your thoughts and insight.

Please cooperate.
Thanks.







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ANAL Stink
I have the same odor problem as most of u in the forum pages. This started happening in my 8th grade. The stink I have been having is only from my anus and not general Body Odor as some people have been having. I have been havening this problem for 7 years or more .Im stating this because I think this will help some people and also will help me express myself so that I can live with myself.
I think I know how the smell began. I used to live in India then. We were kids-me and my brother. We used water instead of tissue paper to wipe our *%#&¤?§*. We had a sort of small hose near our sink for that and just to have fun we used to put in water through our anus and fill up our anus and intestine and then blow the water out. This must seem crazy but guess what we were kids .I did that for 8 months and I guess that that ruined something in my anus or intestine or something. Right after that it all began. The stink was real bad at first. It was like rotten eggs, burned cigar, gasoline, *%#&¤?§* all at once and appearing one by one. The smell was very bad for 2 years and then it began reducing and now 6 years later it still exits.

I don’t want to say anything but how it ruined my life but u can probably imagine. I lost faith in god and in life .I began thinking like this: how could god ever let this happen to me? This was worse than starving to death, both your feet and arms cut off. I was slowly being bleed to death. Happiness was around me all the time and I couldn’t take part in it because of my stink. This is how hell must be or is this hell? .I tried a lot of things to stop the smell and nothing worked Nothing! .I dint tell my parents or anybody until a major part of my life was over. Now I wish I had told them earlier and this could have been corrected earlier. If anyone h

MY PROBLEMS

1. Anal odor
2. Anal itching and feeling that my anus is filled all the time.
3. Constipation
(Anal itching and constipation came on later in my life. I know that the stink originally came into being because of the water hose stuff.)

THE PROPABLE CAUSES OF MY ODOR
1. The stuff I did with my anus and intestine with the hose.
2. The sphincter muscles I believe are the muscles which hold the gases and feces until you need to defecate. So in theory, if odors are coming out quite frequently, it might mean that the muscles have become weaker and are not responding in the way they should and therefore not holding the gases etc. in. In some cases the body loses the sense of when to go defecate and the body just stores the feces in the bowels, maybe its this loss of sense, and the build up of feces in the bowels that is causing the smell.
Maybe the solution is to strengthen and train the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.


THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE

1. If you have such a odor problem talk to your parents or somebody who cares for u .U should tell them and explain your problem and how it is affecting your life.
U should not mess around and beat around the problem and say u have constipation and anal itching as some of the people in the forum have been doing.
U should say to your parents and doctors that your primary and major problem is the odor.
A lot of people have had these problems for 3 years, 5 years,10 years,20 years etc.
Even if you haven’t told anyone for a few years it’s not late. Do it now before its too late and your life

2. Some people have trouble making others believe that this problem exits. Tell them you problems truthfully and show them this forum page and all the other forum pages that exist about this problem. That should make a believer out of them if they don’t believe you.

3. Maybe the problem is with your nose. Check that out.

4.The problem want repair on its own. You need a doctors help. A lot of people believed that the problem would repair on its own but it won’t. You need a doctor help


ONLINE SUPPORT AND HELP
We need a support and help group that can comfort and help people and make them believe that they can be helped and their problems solved. We have had to face so much pain and have been cut apart, some in huge ways and some in small ways. We need to help each other .That’s what life is all about.
So im proposing a Yahoo group that can do just that:

1. I’m forming a Yahoo group “lifeisgood” that can help people .Just follow this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lifeisgood
2. If you want to join the group you will have to submit your AIM id, Yahoo id, Msn id, ICQ id and your email address SO that you can talk with other people and share your thoughts and insight.

Please cooperate.
Thanks.

ANAL Stink
I have the same odor problem as most of u in the forum pages. This started happening in my 8th grade. The stink I have been having is only from my anus and not general Body Odor as some people have been having. I have been havening this problem for 7 years or more .Im stating this because I think this will help some people and also will help me express myself so that I can live with myself.
I think I know how the smell began. I used to live in India then. We were kids-me and my brother. We used water instead of tissue paper to wipe our *%#&¤?§*. We had a sort of small hose near our sink for that and just to have fun we used to put in water through our anus and fill up our anus and intestine and then blow the water out. This must seem crazy but guess what we were kids .I did that for 8 months and I guess that that ruined something in my anus or intestine or something. Right after that it all began. The stink was real bad at first. It was like rotten eggs, burned cigar, gasoline, *%#&¤?§* all at once and appearing one by one. The smell was very bad for 2 years and then it began reducing and now 6 years later it still exits.

I don’t want to say anything but how it ruined my life but u can probably imagine. I lost faith in god and in life .I began thinking like this: how could god ever let this happen to me? This was worse than starving to death, both your feet and arms cut off. I was slowly being bleed to death. Happiness was around me all the time and I couldn’t take part in it because of my stink. This is how hell must be or is this hell? .I tried a lot of things to stop the smell and nothing worked Nothing! .I dint tell my parents or anybody until a major part of my life was over. Now I wish I had told them earlier and this could have been corrected earlier. If anyone h

MY PROBLEMS

1. Anal odor
2. Anal itching and feeling that my anus is filled all the time.
3. Constipation
(Anal itching and constipation came on later in my life. I know that the stink originally came into being because of the water hose stuff.)

THE PROPABLE CAUSES OF MY ODOR
1. The stuff I did with my anus and intestine with the hose.
2. The sphincter muscles I believe are the muscles which hold the gases and feces until you need to defecate. So in theory, if odors are coming out quite frequently, it might mean that the muscles have become weaker and are not responding in the way they should and therefore not holding the gases etc. in. In some cases the body loses the sense of when to go defecate and the body just stores the feces in the bowels, maybe its this loss of sense, and the build up of feces in the bowels that is causing the smell.
Maybe the solution is to strengthen and train the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.


THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE

1. If you have such a odor problem talk to your parents or somebody who cares for u .U should tell them and explain your problem and how it is affecting your life.
U should not mess around and beat around the problem and say u have constipation and anal itching as some of the people in the forum have been doing.
U should say to your parents and doctors that your primary and major problem is the odor.
A lot of people have had these problems for 3 years, 5 years,10 years,20 years etc.
Even if you haven’t told anyone for a few years it’s not late. Do it now before its too late and your life

2. Some people have trouble making others believe that this problem exits. Tell them you problems truthfully and show them this forum page and all the other forum pages that exist about this problem. That should make a believer out of them if they don’t believe you.

3. Maybe the problem is with your nose. Check that out.

4.The problem want repair on its own. You need a doctors help. A lot of people believed that the problem would repair on its own but it won’t. You need a doctor help


ONLINE SUPPORT AND HELP
We need a support and help group that can comfort and help people and make them believe that they can be helped and their problems solved. We have had to face so much pain and have been cut apart, some in huge ways and some in small ways. We need to help each other .That’s what life is all about.
So im proposing a Yahoo group that can do just that:

1. I’m forming a Yahoo group “lifeisgood” that can help people .Just follow this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lifeisgood
2. If you want to join the group you will have to submit your AIM id, Yahoo id, Msn id, ICQ id and your email address SO that you can talk with other people and share your thoughts and insight.

Please cooperate.
Thanks.

ANAL Stink
I have the same odor problem as most of u in the forum pages. This started happening in my 8th grade. The stink I have been having is only from my anus and not general Body Odor as some people have been having. I have been havening this problem for 7 years or more .Im stating this because I think this will help some people and also will help me express myself so that I can live with myself.
I think I know how the smell began. I used to live in India then. We were kids-me and my brother. We used water instead of tissue paper to wipe our *%#&¤?§*. We had a sort of small hose near our sink for that and just to have fun we used to put in water through our anus and fill up our anus and intestine and then blow the water out. This must seem crazy but guess what we were kids .I did that for 8 months and I guess that that ruined something in my anus or intestine or something. Right after that it all began. The stink was real bad at first. It was like rotten eggs, burned cigar, gasoline, *%#&¤?§* all at once and appearing one by one. The smell was very bad for 2 years and then it began reducing and now 6 years later it still exits.

I don’t want to say anything but how it ruined my life but u can probably imagine. I lost faith in god and in life .I began thinking like this: how could god ever let this happen to me? This was worse than starving to death, both your feet and arms cut off. I was slowly being bleed to death. Happiness was around me all the time and I couldn’t take part in it because of my stink. This is how hell must be or is this hell? .I tried a lot of things to stop the smell and nothing worked Nothing! .I dint tell my parents or anybody until a major part of my life was over. Now I wish I had told them earlier and this could have been corrected earlier. If anyone h

MY PROBLEMS

1. Anal odor
2. Anal itching and feeling that my anus is filled all the time.
3. Constipation
(Anal itching and constipation came on later in my life. I know that the stink originally came into being because of the water hose stuff.)

THE PROPABLE CAUSES OF MY ODOR
1. The stuff I did with my anus and intestine with the hose.
2. The sphincter muscles I believe are the muscles which hold the gases and feces until you need to defecate. So in theory, if odors are coming out quite frequently, it might mean that the muscles have become weaker and are not responding in the way they should and therefore not holding the gases etc. in. In some cases the body loses the sense of when to go defecate and the body just stores the feces in the bowels, maybe its this loss of sense, and the build up of feces in the bowels that is causing the smell.
Maybe the solution is to strengthen and train the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.


THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE

1. If you have such a odor problem talk to your parents or somebody who cares for u .U should tell them and explain your problem and how it is affecting your life.
U should not mess around and beat around the problem and say u have constipation and anal itching as some of the people in the forum have been doing.
U should say to your parents and doctors that your primary and major problem is the odor.
A lot of people have had these problems for 3 years, 5 years,10 years,20 years etc.
Even if you haven’t told anyone for a few years it’s not late. Do it now before its too late and your life

2. Some people have trouble making others believe that this problem exits. Tell them you problems truthfully and show them this forum page and all the other forum pages that exist about this problem. That should make a believer out of them if they don’t believe you.

3. Maybe the problem is with your nose. Check that out.

4.The problem want repair on its own. You need a doctors help. A lot of people believed that the problem would repair on its own but it won’t. You need a doctor help


ONLINE SUPPORT AND HELP
We need a support and help group that can comfort and help people and make them believe that they can be helped and their problems solved. We have had to face so much pain and have been cut apart, some in huge ways and some in small ways. We need to help each other .That’s what life is all about.
So im proposing a Yahoo group that can do just that:

1. I’m forming a Yahoo group “lifeisgood” that can help people .Just follow this link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lifeisgood
2. If you want to join the group you will have to submit your AIM id, Yahoo id, Msn id, ICQ id and your email address SO that you can talk with other people and share your thoughts and insight.

Please cooperate.
Thanks.

i allso hav this problem ,I am 30 male I dont smoke.I went to docters ,they think i am nuts.I know i have this problem ,every one ses I smell,like fecel,must.I need help to .it sucks to be alone.I had this all my life.

hi i am from belgium and i can relate to all of your stories i have been watching this site for months but i can't help notice that this site have died a bit

but for starters

i am 18 battling this problem for a year now smelling everywhere i go i have seen doctors by the dozen and one advised me a shrink

people sniffing and rubbing nose every day it drives me nuts at work

if some one has a cure i geuss so cuz y'all are gone plz help a stinkin' brother out

Hello hopefull me,
I do suffer from the symptoms as yours. Please let me know if there is any product works for you or any one else.

Thanks!

You should ask your doctor about testing for TMAU. If positive, you might want to look into Nullo. It has help a lot of TMAU patients. Check with your doctor first.

Hi,

I also experienced the same thing, but mine was for a long 7years. So you can image what I went through. I tried everything you can image. Mine is a better right now. I started taking vitamin C. It help build your immume system I bought it from Costco (500mg). 1000mg is also good. I started with 8 tablets in a water bottle (500g) drinked it 3 times a day and more water. It helped my constipation. I also eat Chick Peas. It takes a while to cook, but it helps alot. It has 56% of fiber and that is very good.

Don't loose hope, I know it will work for you. It did for me. I am now out there looking forward to a new life.

Take care
Chris

I'm a 22 year old female and I have been experiencing this problem since I was 19.
I've tried everything I can to stop it; anything you name it, antipersperant/deo-odorant, botox, surgery, diet, chlorophyll tablet/liquid, intestine cleansing... nothing worked!! It seems like nobody cares, even the doctors didn't understand my pain and frustration. My parents think I'm crazy (they smelt nothing) and refuse to help me. I am extremely depressed,isolated and lonely.

After visiting 6 family physicians and 5 dermatologists, I gave up. I'm tired of seeking help from others and I decided to solve the problem by myself. I majored in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry in my University years and graduated with honor degree(I don't know how i did it. I felt like I wanted to kill myself everytime i sat in a classroom with a bunch of mean and insensitive strangers). In my spare time, I read hundreds of scientific articles relating to odor causing diseases such as bromhidrosis,TMAU, etc, but I don't think that's what we have. We are a special group of people who need a special solution.

Last summer, I worked in a metabolome laboratory. My job was to prepare organic compound samples and run them through analytical instruments such as mass spectrometry and gas spectrometry, to determine their chemical compositions. These are extremely sensitive instruments, they break down compounds into ions and are able to detect every single elements composing the compounds. However, no matter how careful i operated, my results were still off now and then. My prof asked me if i have a condition called TMAU (the Trimethylamine given off by the TMAU patient can be detected by the instruments, and thus affects the final results). I didn't know if i had it or not, so I went to see a clinical genetist who sent my urine sample to the biomedical centre in Montreal to be test for TMAU. The result came back a few weeks later, and i don't have TMAU. Then what is it that affecting the result of my experiment??

I haven't quite figured out that yet, but I'm sure that our bodies omit a special compound that is different from other people (especially when we are nervous or anxious). I will start my graduate study this fall in Analytical Chemistry, and hopefully i will be able to figure out what the compound is and why/how it is produced in the next two years.

Hi Hopefull Me,
Surfer27 here. heya:) Happy New Year! Hard to believe it's already 2012 now! lol. Anyways, I read your post about your experiencing this fecal body odour, have you found out the cause of this internal problem yet? Let me know and keep me informed!! Take care.

Ryan.