Hello all,
I found this board by chance, and wonder if anyone out there might be able to offer some advice? I'll try to give you the short version...
I'm a woman in her late thrities and have just become a mother, which is part of the reason I'm trying to tackle my 'odour issues', I don't want my daughter to grow up with a mummy who's in a constant state of nervous anxiety. Which, at the moment, I seem to be.
For the past twelve years or so I have been plagued by embarrassing flatulence (though I can never detect it happening) which mostly manifests in public situations. At home I seem to be fine, so I'm assuming stress in the trigger. My doctor diagnosed me with IBS, but the odour of the flatus is quite extraordinary and very strong. I mean it can literally roll along the street like a wave of some sort of poison gas. The smell is often of garlic, rotten eggs, manure, marijuana smoke (honestly), and sometimes even something like tarmac or rubber. Once or twice I've noticed a fish odour, which has also been strong, but this is uncommon, and I rarely eat fish. However, my own body odour is perfectly normal, and my breath is fine, so I just don't know what is going on. I have a new doctor now, who I've never spoken to about this, but am thinking about asking for some sort of referral. I live in London.
It is really the most ridiculous and life-destroying thing to live with. I do sympathise with other people having read their stories here. But because I don't have any unusual sweat or saliva smell, I wonder what on earth is going on.
Yours in mystification.
Rosie (my cheeks when disgraced at the bus stop)