I have a very similar issue. It's gone in and out since I was 18 when I started doing LSD smoking pot and drinking. I feel like I've done everything to mask/workaround this issue. Sometimes it occurs constantly.. meaning there is a very faint liquid coming from my anus I can feel. Almost like like sweat. I believe it is liquid or mucus leaking out, and the mucus has a very pungent odor. That's my guess. For me it's either fart smell or nose burning smell. I carry an enema with me in my bag everywhere I go and use it after every bowel movement. I've gotten endoscopies, colonoscopies, even a barium rectal exam where they take an xray of a bowel movement. Everyone says they don't see any problems. I have yet to get a full check up for incontinence since liquid does come out and sometimes gas involuntarily, but no feces at all. I think there is an anus/rectal digital test that they put up there to see if you have the proper pressure for your internal and external sphincter which I need to do. Oh and like you, I have to lay off of the alcohol, coffee, etc anything that get my bowels going in a 'nervous' way because that's what starts the liquid/mucus and will eventually leak out. So I've constantly taken pepto bismal after every meal to help with the odor, use an enema religiously to keep the rectum clean as possible, and watch what I eat and drink. Seems like if it's bad, I'll take some of that fizzy laxative from the drug store in the glass bottle and fast for a whole day, then take it at night. This cleans my system out and it's really the only time I am completely odor free and normal. But I have to eat, so it will start back up once I get food in the colon. This problem just seems to get worse if we don't figure out the problem. (i.e. weight gain, age, etc seem to make it worse for me).
Please contact me, it's been a long going problem and we need a solution.
do you take medacations? Certain ones can be the cause.Also taking too much vitamin D may cause it too.I was taking the drug apo-leflumaine and just stopped it due to constant fecal awful metallic smell.I want to see if it goes away after being off the drug a week or so.