nogutsnoglory
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My family insists they know when my disease is very active by how much I stink up the house. I wonder if there is something to it because whenever I get close to being due for an infusion it smells really bad.
What, with your a$$? Might explode :ylol2:... and blowing out a match.
There is a spray glen 20 that I use after going to the bathroom and it eliminates the smell.Oh my goodness..the reality of it all. Yes yes and yes definitely I can tell when things are not "right" inside. I even had this problem for years and years before being diagnosed. Almost died of embarrassment several times. My question is ...is there anything out there to lessen the smell in the bathroom ? I've tried everything under the sun so far. Drops..sprays...candles..you name it. It must be so hard to live with me...!!
Yeah, I eat the same bland diet so if it suddenly smells that doesn't add up for me.I mentioned that to my doctor once, that my poop smells disgusting when I'm flaring, and he discounted it saying that smell had more to do with what you eat. However, I know, as does my husband, that when I'm flaring, it smells so gross it almost gags me.
Before I was diagnosed, I'll never forget this, I was in college living in the dormitories. I stunk up the whole floor, but I was so embarrassed that I left and hid at the student center. Later, my roommate told me that had searched the bathroom to see if something had died in the pipes!
This is an old thread, so i dont know how many people will respond, but for me, its just extremely potent or strong, it can linger for quite some time and in terms of smell itself, well it def smells like someone defocated,i guess almost like theres some kind of chemical, cuz i have had prople tell me they thought there was a odd smelling kind of fuel or some kind of smell in my trailer after using the trailer as a makeshift bathroom.Can y'all describe this smell? mine is odd and other-smelling. Almost chemical or medicinal. It's disturbing. It is not at all like sulfur (the traditional bad-fart smell).
What are your experiences?
actually, it's thought that too many antibiotics kill off the beneficial bacteria in our gut, as well as the harmful stuff, and that contributes to IBD. plus, your body can become immune to antibiotics just like it can any other medication.At times when I was on an antibiotic... Flaygyl It actually did take the worst of the smell away. Should we all be on a continous low dose antibiotic possibly ? Would it help or caues more harm ? Funny doc.s can't think of these lower cost methods of possibly quelling our disease rather than pushing for million dollar biologics and their like . Think those are doing us any long lasting good ? Hmmmmm ....food for thought .
Perfect description of what most of us think, most of the time!Even after my resection, being able to actually pass gass for the first time in 5+yrs, the smell is not wuite rite, and i slhave to be ultra careful for if i push the gas out, like the days of old, i could very easily shit my pants. Which might i add sux loke a motherfucker. I try most of my life not to take things for granted, but I can say, that I honestly took eating, digestion, and normality of using the restroom for granted in a very large way, and i miss how life was before all this came surfacing.
Me too.Perfect description of what most of us think, most of the time!
lolwhat, with your a$$? Might explode :ylol2:
I say bacterial overgrowth x 34 years of experience with exactly that. Probiotics, and antibiotics are godsends for me.My poo smells rancid when I am feeling unwell. I think it has to do with what I am/aren't absorbing and digesting. Just a theory, really. But yeah, my family knows I am unwell if the bathroom smells like something died in the toilet.
OMG i just tried to address this last week. I have a stoma, and took my used dressings in to my doc in a baggie, and said i cannot walk around smelling like this, so please take a wiff and give me a clue. My doc looked repulsed and did not want to take a sniff at all. But i did not give him much choice, however it was not comfortable at all. I smell like a ripe beach with dead fish on it in the baking sun. I can smell it waft out of my stoma sometimes, and it is the mucus in my dressing. When i change the dressing, the odor is completely gone. So the smell does not actually come from the stoma, but from the mucus discharge. Unbelievable i have been agonizing about this for a number of years now, and i finally plucked up the courage to force my doc to sniff last week, much to his obvious dismay. I am thinking of switching docs now, as that was totally uncool of him as he is a gastro, and i did not appreciate my doc making me feel like crap for trying to find something embarrassing out. Shame on him for that.My stools smell different when I am having a flare, but so does my body odour in general. It takes on an unpleasant (hard to describe) tone that I personally find quite repulsive (god help everyone else!) This is exactly the sort of observation that I have never seen discussed by the medical profession.