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I smell like poop all the time

For the past year, I have suffered from a mysterious condition that is really messing up my life.
people near me cover their noses and cough sometimes when I'm near, and it just hurts me so much because I don't know what to do other than bathe.. I was two times a day and always put on deodarant.
So why is it that I smell like so bad?
The time it started was when I was in a situation where I was trying to keep myself from going to the bathroom..
I had to delay at the moment, so I held myself in for, well, two to three days.
But ont the third day, trung to hold it in, I passed a small amount of gas- and from there, my whole life changed.
People looked around and stared at me, bribing their hands up to their noses as I was near.
This is SO embarrassing to talk about,.. But I really need help.
I can't even visit the doctor because I am devestatingly embarrssed.

My diet consists of medium amount of fruits and vegetables, and I usually eat a lot of grain.
I always eat a yogurt a day..
The smell gets worse when I get nervous- I think the problem has to do with my muscles or tissues and not my digestive system..
I really need to be able to go out in public without not being able to raise my head.
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It's called, TMAU. Research it and take 2 tabs of activated charcoal and 1 tab chlorophyll up to 3 times daily. Also, GOOD probiotics that need to be refrigerated should be taken.
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It could be Candida. Candida like sugar and fruits contain sugar so does yogurt. I've found  Dr. Jennifer Daniels Candida report and going to do as she suggest. I also am subscribed to Montereal Healthy Chick and The Detox Dudes on YouTube. They gave me new hope when I was willing to die. Knowledge is power
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My doctor put me on some antibiotics called Flagyl. It kills parasites and for 5 days in 10 years I’ve been smell free.
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What did your doctor test you for?  I’m curious because I’m taking Flagyl now.
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You are more likely not emptying your bowels completely. I over thought this for a few years but once I used common sense I fixed it. If you smell poop or fart smell and people around you are saying they smell it (you may not always be able to smell your body odor but do get a whiff of it periodically) then its definitely **** that they are smelling that is coming from your ***. Ask yourself what could possibly be causing the contents in my colon and rectum (where poop sits before it exits the body) to emit a smell and let those contents you without my discretion (you farting on purpose). Your problem is possibly what they call "neurogenic bowel". In my case it was "flaccid bowel". This is when your body no longer signals your brain that you have poop sitting In your rectum waiting to be expelled. You don't even feel the poop move through your colon and in to your rectum (that feeling when you say "I have to take a ****"), that feeling is absent. What also happens is that the muscles or what they call spinchters that are involved in holding poop in or letting it out are malfunctioned. Whenever poop or gas folks your rectum, your internal spinchter automatically opens but your external spinchter stays closed in case you aren't ready to fart or at a toilet to poop. What happens is as you breathe the AIr literally pushes out small spurts of air from your poop filled rectum or fart unconciosuly and unwillingly. That's why you smell like it without even knowing you farted an you would never attribute it to that because you can't even feel the poop or gas in your rectum. To fix it (I know this is all your want), it takes a few things overall but one main thing. You have to become "regular" meaning taking COMPLETE ***** whenever you do. Problem is your intestines and rectum don't contract at all to push the poop through so you must do it yourself. (Gross but its better than walking around smelling like **** because you do, its not in your head.) To do this is not through tons of laxatives but actually promoting the nervous actions of the nerves in your butt to contract the muscles of your rectum and allow you to have complete *****. To do this is a action called "digital rectal stimulation" . get latex glove, lubricant or petroleum jelly and stick your finger up your *** and wiggle until you feel your rectum filling with poop or the urge to poop. You can be creative and other things but make sure its wrapped in a latex and use lube so there is no pain it should be painless and easy. When you finally began to poop (because you are constipated more likely or least I was lol ) while you are pushing the poop out hold your breath. You can see for yourself that when you breathe out the poop will slowly but surely contract back inwards and makes your hard earned progress seem retractive. When you hold your breathe the poop while slide out clean. Also change your diet, NO DAIRY AT ALL, THIS CLOGS YOUR SYSTEM PLUS MAKES THE SMELL WAY WORST, GLUTEN MAY DO THE SAME. WORKOUT DAILY. DRINK WATER, EATS LOTS OF COOKES VEGETABLES THAT ARE HIGH IN FIBER, NO SMOKING AS IT RELAXES THE SPINCHTERS AND MAKES THE POOP SMELL COME OUT ALL DAY AND TAKE CHARCOAL TABLETS. JUST LIVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND GET YOUR INTESTINES CONTRACTING AGAIN SHOULD WORK. P.S. - IF YOU WIPE AND STILL SEE POOP ON TOILET PAPER, THAT IS TELL TELL SIGN THAT THERE IS STILL **** IN YOUR RECTUM AKA BUTTHOLE. AND PRAY TO GOD. HE ANSWERS ALL PRAYERS. GOD BLESS. HOPE you CAN MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE AND CHANGE YOUR MINDSET LIKE I DID.
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Chosenone25, can you tell me what type of doctor diagnosed you?
None . I have been to AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT Dr's and they all had diff. diagnoses. The first said she didn't smell anything then said it might be my nose not draining mucus properly . Then other doctor says it might be acid in my stomach coming up to my nasal passages. The reason both said those diagnoses is because I told them the smell was coming from my nose. Frankly I didn't know where it was coming from but I did know when my nose began to run the smell was the most intense. after clearing my nasal passages the smell still persisted. It was until a stranger friend told me FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER that I smelled like ****. And it always occured either after smoking or eating. I stopped smoking and it still persisted so I know it's my diet m other replies here say the same. Regardless of who diagnosed me, my method of healing could be used by anyone and only has beneficial effects. EAT HEALTHY, NO WHEAT/GLUTEN, NO DAIRY, EXERCISE REGULARLY, DRINK WATER, EAT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, TAKE PROBIOTICS, BE CONSISTENT. JUS ONE RELAPSE AND ALL YOUR PROGRESS IS GONE. WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM SUCH A SOCIAL DEBILITATING DISEASE, YOU WILO TRY ALMOST ANYTHING. YOUR COMMON SENSE WILL TELL YOU IF IT WILL HARM YOU OR NOT. AND AS MUCH AS Dr's say Google doesn't know anything I have had Dr's who told me exactly what i ******* read on Google and I was furious. Google has the answer to your problem you jus have to find out what your problem is first . A gastroenterologist may know but I have know insurance so that's out of the question. So now you heal yourself. It's possible. Antibiotics aren't good for you anyway and that's all the Dr's will give you this is America. A holistic method and change in diet and lifestyle shall surely produce results
Guys lets try Prozac or Zoloft ,those drugs are for anti-depression but they have another huge and strong effect on stubborn  candida .
Zoloft(sertraline ) 50mg a day for two months ,for Prozac  i don't know but you can google it to find the reasonable dosage.But it they both has the same science name which is sertraline i think . then just use the same dosage as for Zoloft.
I'm not talking hear about treatment ,im talking about cure forever.
currently i'm on herbal remedy .if i find it not working i think i'm going to start using this promising sertraline drug.
I think Tmau suffers have distinct smell(fishy-like) than those with candida disease which is usually like poop.

I'm not a doctor but i'm just offering help to myself and other poor people.
My best withes to you all.
I also forgot to mention that ,these drugs (Anti-depression ones) may cause you feel spacey and have other mild effects you should note overdose them and if you find severe symptoms just stop it or decrease dose .So ,Read everything about side effect and drug interaction.
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I think the problem is more on the psychological part, im 29 years old, and i remembered this started way back in middle school when i was like 13, i remembered holding myself to go to the bathroom also so maybe that plays a part as well, along with much acidic and irritating food, but the main thing i think was stress so a combination of all this looks like triggered it for the first time, after this, i noticed i used to smell like once a day or twice, it looks like it settle a little when i was 17 with a good diet and non stress life but after that i started drinking and it got worse, but it wasnt super bad, i started doing some recreational drugs like weed and coke and everything was still kind of ok, until one day i did some crystal, and i just remembered the veins in my skull hurt a lot, my jaw felt like jammed and i couldnt sleep well for like 4 days, i was more like taking naps only and then i noticed my bowels were making so much noise, and from then everything was worse than ever, i consulted many doctors and tried many things but nothing worked, until i asked a friend of mine that is a dr, and he explained to me that alcohol, cigarettes and many other drugs change the flow of blood in your intestines, so it really meses you up sometimes, and that the other thing is that the instestine has so many nerves that are conected directly to your brain so things like getting stressed affects you immediately and worsens your symptoms right away, ive tried everything but hasn't work, and im about yo try some antidepressants that will reduce my stress and pain by reducing the neurological signals that go to the intestines, wish me luck and ill tell you if it works. :) it feels horrible i know, make you wish you were dead, makes you want to hide frome the world and just lock yourself up in your room, but thats gonna make things worst, just get out there and take it like a man, dont give up, dont loose hope, laugh at yourself, see that your problem isnt that bad, many people cant walk, or hear or talk and still going, and like Winston Churchill quoted "never, never, never give up."
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I used to have your problem. After years of humiliation and trying every natural remedy known to man,and going to doctors who insisted it was probably just stress, l quit my job that l had for almost 10 years. Lo and behold, l was completely wrong. I thought the doctors said that because they couldn't or wouldn't bother trying to find the real cause, but within 1 year of leaving my job, l got better. Stress can do way more damage to your body than you think and you may be like me and not even realize you are stressed and the issues you decelop from the stress will stress you out more and there is no way out, except to leave all situations, places, and people behind who cause it. Learn to say no, love yourself, and stop caring about the wrong things.
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