My first post
Warning: LONG post. My first post.
Hi! I've been struggling with leaky gas or something like it since last year, around September. I noticed it first appear last year, in 8th grade, when I was sitting in class. I was worried, and I spent hours after school looking up causes. The first two-three months of uncontrollable gas were the worst, because it smelled like nothing I've ever smelled since.
For those 2-3 months, it smelled strong, awful and VERY weird. It wasn't just one smell, either, but a plethora of strange, strong smells. It was like my body was trying to flush out a weird toxin. I never posted anything about it, though, just desperatly checked the internet for something like it. After New Year's, my report card grades had dropped significantly in comparison to my progress report.
Springtime:
I still couldn't tell my parents about this, but I thought it was impossible to not tell something was wrong; everyone at school could. At the beginning of it, I was desperate for a cure. But later on in the year, I was tired, hopeless, and just wanted to get the year over with. Between bringing my grades up and dealing with my life, it was hard to do much else. Plus, I had new smell-related problems. As it got hotter, the rooms weren't as cold as usual, sometimes overbearingly hot. My feet were sweating more than ever, and it was extremely strong. One day, while I was getting my stuff for my last period class, everyone around me smelled it and immediately ran into class/commented on it/looked disgusted. It's one of the strongest smells I've ever smelt.
On top of that, I'd washed my clothes the wrong way, and when they came out, if smelled horrible. I didn't figure out it was my clothes for a while, because of my strange
Body Odor (s). But when I did, I tried to wash it with vinegar. I think I did that wrong, too, because it didn't get better. I tried telling my family, but they just told me to wash it again, which didn't work.
At this time, my deodorant started to fail me, too. I tried to look for alternatives, but all of them smelt weird/bad/worse than the smell I was trying to prevent. Once, I tried ACV, hopeful that it would end the problem. The article never mentioned washing off, and I went to school that say immediately knowing something was wrong: by homeroom, a bunch of people had complained about some strong, awful smell.
I occasionally heard my family complain about my bad breath, even after I brushed. It never went away.
Meanwhile, I was becoming immune to the smell on my clothes. So did my family, apparently. I left school thinking I smelt okay, but when I got to school, smelt it on me and heard people complain about an awful smell. I never knew when something was okay or not, and between my breath, gas, and other
Body Odor s, I couldn't find out. I tried to solve them all, and ended up solving none.
One day, I woke up late, as usual, and had to get ready in four minutes. After getting dressed, eating something that could reduce my gas, looking for socks to reduce my feet smell, and making lunch, I debated bringing a jacket. I knew I wouldn't need it, but just in case...
But when I got in the school, I could tell it smelled stronger than anything I had ever smelled, and still is to this day. It could probably be smelled a mile away!
After first period, my teachers announced that we couldn't go back to our lockers after second period anymore. Apparently, it had been causing problems.
After being embarrassed when people noticed the smell in second period, I considered putting the jacket away in my locker.(Maybe it was the culprit) It could've all ended right there, but then I remembered the new rule. I had take it with me to art class, where it stunk up the entirety of the big room. After that, I had to go to technology. My best friend said something about a strong smell, and I became 100% that my jacket was causing it.
At one point in the day, I had to walk into a class I wasn't in to finish a test. As soon as I walked in, they could tell I was causing it, and the guy next to me started whispering loudly to his friend. Even after I put the jacket away, it was still a strong smell. The damage had been done, and for the REST OF THE YEAR(about three more months) everyone could smell it in most of the big building. Only in the last month did it begin to let up.
Last year, I went to a pavilion to buy clothes. When I got there, I noticed I smelled gross. I wanted to forgo the school clothes shopping, but I had to stay. A few shops smelt from it.
A bit more than exactly a year later, it still smells. I smelled it in the stores when I went this year.
That year, I had two types of gas: the kind I didn't feel and couldn't control, and the kind I couldn't control but could (sort of)manage with an anti-gas things.
I never noticed it until my mom pointed it out this summer, but over that year I had gotten a white coloring on my tongue. That same year, I was at some hair expo with a someone who wanted to look at out tongues to see if they were healthy. At the time, I was afraid of showing mine because of the fear of having a bad disease. Now I regret not doing it.
This may be unrelated, but I may have dandruff. My scalp never feels itchy, but when I do scratch it, stuff falls out.
This Year
I went into this summer stressed about how I'd deal with these problems. I never solved them, and summer ended in stress, with fear for the coming year. Now I'm in high school.
I'm still looking for a reliable
natural deodorant that doesn't smell weird, and still haven't told anyone my current one doesn't work.
I still have problems with both types of gas. The normal kind has been greatly reduced by drinking chamomile tea the night before, but the supply is running out and soon, I'll have nothing. No one knows about this problem, either.
I still have clothes that smell bad, but they're mixed in with clothes that smell normal. It's harder than ever to tell which ones are and which aren't. I've just tried to buy new clothes.
Earlier, I had a problem with my feet smelling, but now I just wear closed-toed shoes with socks.
My breath still smells, no matter what I do. People consider my quiet/shy, buts art of it is because I just don't want them to smell my breath.
The people from last year still don't like me, and now they're mixed in with new people who don't know me yet.
My grades are still low. It can't be blamed entirely on this, but I think it's a contributor. I'm failing one class and barely passing the others. Because my wifi got taken away, I'm typing this instead of studying. I have to do it now so I can sent it when I get to school tomorrow, so I'll have more time to look at the replies.
Cures would be great, but it's not why I'm posting this. I'm posting this to have someone to talk to. I've no friends, and I'm too scared to spend any extra time with people. I can't see myself telling anyone about this anytime soon. I don't have a therapist. So, I decided to dedicate my limited wifi time to this.
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