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kidsgotlyme
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Does your hubby smell it too??
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- There have been times when I needed to bathe TWICE a day. Yes, the liver and kidneys work over time with such a toxic infection and the medicines can also cause odor.
Maybe more warm baths to get the lymph moving and sweat out more. A warm bath is best (do not get too hot).
You might need to increase your intake of leafy greens. Rather than one serving with each meal, you might go to two. Leafy greens are the very best help, along with eating raw parsley in bunches - and taking chlorophyll supplements/liquid.
Lots of vegetables (and dark berries) are needed to supply key antioxidants and also to help move the toxins on out. You may need more fiber of all kinds. If the bowels are not happy and working well, body odor will result. Something to keep in mind. -
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Randi, if the smell was coming from you, it would be where ever you went. Including outside, the car and other rooms.
Do you have a crawl space under the house, where the bedroom area is located? If you do, check that. If not check the closets for shoes. Best I can think of, right now.
Congratulations on the weight loss, keep it up !!
We are proud of you.
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I had a similar smell on my bath towel after a shower.
I would wash and dry as usual, only to find out that the bathroom smelled like cat urine!
This has resolved for me, but I was very embarrassed by it.
My husband could smell it and thought a cat peed in the house!
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randibear
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well i woke up this morning to that smell and hubs wasn't here.
also i was sitting in the lr today and sure enuff, smelled it again.
maybe it's my breath, or something. he says he doesn't smell it.
but when i go someplace or outside or something, i don't smell it.
really strange.
i do have thrush. could that be causing it?
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glm1111
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Randi,
I have often smelled the odor of cigar/cigarette smoke and no one was smoking in my house or near it. It could be that you don't smell it outside because it's dissipated.
I have read on here where others have had similar experiences. I can't remember exactly what the cause is, but maybe someone else will. Maybe neurotoxicity.
P. S.
I was the only one that could smell it also.
Gael
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Yeast can make your body odor change. Breath and skin. Terrible and distinct smell, I think.
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YES! This is so interesting. I have been really troubled by this for years.
I can only smell it after I've been sleeping all night. I'll get up in the morning, go to the bathroom, and when I return to my bedroom I can smell it. It's a musty odor, and I can only describe it as smelling like paper grocery bags (weird). And the smaller the room, the stronger the odor. I think it must be from some sort of chemistry change that we're offgassing.
I can also smell it in my office at work, after I've walked out and returned.
Anyone else?
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I noticed my sweat is much more smelly since being in treatment for lyme..
I think the toxins coming out in the sweat make the odor stronger
Paul
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My bedroom smelled musty at one point, because I was sweating quite a bit in my sleep.
The sheets and bed itself must have been getting damp, then getting a musty smell. Especially if you have a feather mattress topper, or a down comforter or pillow, this can happen. But you don't need to have any feathers for the musty smell to happen.
I got a waterproof mattress pad, so that no smells would get into my new mattress if I did sweat while asleep. And now if I wash the sheets often enough, the bedroom doesn't have that musty smell.
Dunno if the sweats were from babesia or sleep apnea. Both can cause it. So can hormones.
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randibear
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ah yes it must be yeast because i've been fighting this thrush for several months and been on diflucan for a week.
hoosier that's it exactly. a musty kind of (i know this sounds funny since i'm i texas) but it smells like old beans!!!!
alright, alright, calm down.....but that's what it smells like.
(glad i provided another funny for the day)
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Before I started treatment, I also could smell something weird in certain places in our house.
No one else could smell it.
And it smelled like rotting garbage. It nearly drove me crazy! I would walk all over the house saying "Where is that smell coming from?!!!!"
When I would drink water out of a glass, the glass would smell like hot burning glass. It was really intense.
And our wood cupboards smelled like moldy rotting wood.
Within a month of treatment, it all went away.
My husband has Lyme disease , and he is always walking around the house saying "Boy, do I ever stink!! I need another shower!!!"
No matter how much I tell him that he smells great, he doesn't believe me and showers 3 times a day. He puts on tons of deodorant and some cologne and still thinks he stinks after that.
I smelled his skin , and told him he smelled fine. I even went over and smelled his armpits, and they smelled fine to me!
He was outside one day and said to me "A skunk must of just died! Can you smell it???"
I told him there was no smell, just the wonderful fresh country air!
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Are you sure it just wasn't that great 'country air'? A couple of days ago I swore I had some sort of fungus growing in my nose because of the horrid smell. Then yesterday when I finally left the house I realized that the 'smell' I thought was up inside my nose was really freshly spread manure.
Also, if it's humid or damp, every smell seems to get magnified.
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