Date:   12/4/2012 6:13:43 PM ( 13 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=2012876

Hello, I'm new posting here but I've read and followed a lot of the recommendations on the site for a while now. I wanted to share my story with you all and ask for advice. I'm sure you guys have heard a lot of stories but I just need to get a lot of this off of my chest because this condition is so embarrassing and I don't get the chance to share my experience with anyone.

I suffer from Body Odor that I can't smell at all, I've had it since the 6th grade and I am now a junior in college. I could tell from the 6th grade that my presence and scent was offensive to others because of the reactions I would get from others, like people covering their noses, making remarks around me about my smell, coughing and sneezing, glares. The teacher even contacted the principal and my parents got a note about it. Fast-forward a decade (has it really been that long? time flies) and nothing has changed.

I used to think the problem was with my race, the stereotype for my race I've learned is that we smell. The thing is, yes, I recognize that our race can smell different, and that is largely to the diet of most Indians. I was born here though and am COMPLETELY American. I eat zero Indian food, use zero Indian spices - I eat salads and peanut butter sandwiches and processed meats and water and other pretty "normal" foods devoid of foreign spices. Indians do have more apocrine glands, however, due the environment that my ancestors lived in. It's much hotter in India so I believe as an evolutionary mechanism they developed more outlets for cooling their body, or something like that. Overall, though, I'm not sure my race has all that much to do with my Body Odor .

I use Arrid Spray antiperspirant, Irish Spring soap, and Mitchum Clinical Strength antiperspirant to get rid of the odor externally. The reactions I get from people is stronger when I don't use the antiperspirant so I'm certain the problem is internal, not external. There just seems to be less red faces and coughs and everything. I shower thoroughly every morning for a good 45 minutes. I wear everything only once, no garment of clothing is worn again after a wear before a wash.

I feel like I've tried so much, I just don't know what to do. I took chlorophyll, activated charcoal, digestive enzymes, Ultimate Flora probiotics for my gut flora. I went vegetarian for a couple weeks because I thought that forgoing meat would eliminate an odor, but it didn't work at all. I took Miralax because I thought I could maybe cleanse my colon that way and things would be better, but that didn't work either. I am now going to try the Raw Apple Cidar Vinegar shots that I've read about on the board.

I just don't know what the heck is going on. I went to the doctor in high school and the doctor said there wasn't anything wrong. My parents don't smell anything and ridiculed me when asked to go to the doctor, so I never talk to them about it because they just think I'm paranoid and will make a joke of it. That's one of the hardest parts of dealing with this. Knowing that I make people around me really really uncomfortable is terrible, but being cut off from having a social life is the worst. I can't hang out with anyone or go clubbing or anything because I'm just going to stink up the place and not even know it. I am lucky that I'm such a strong person or else I would've snapped so long ago and given up. I strongly believe that everything has a reason but I just can't figure out what this perpetual problem is supposed to do for me, the psychological ramifications are probably never going to go away and I am seriously worried that this is a lifelong thing for me.


Can anyone offer me any advice? Success stories? I realize that things could be so, so much worse, I could have a serious physical handicap or a terminal disease or be tragically ugly or a million other things, and I appreciate my life for all that has been excellent in it. But I just want to actually live in my life instead of hide away from everything. I am going to try to alkanize my body now with that ACV, maybe that will help me.
 

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