Post by Arun Nagrath on Jun 29, 2011 18:44:56 GMT
EnjoyThisStuff
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Can you smell yourself?
TMAU sufferers, I was wondering if you guys are able to smell yourselves? The only thing I can smell off of me is my feet if they sweat and my breath all the time and trying to figure out the source.
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jcc34
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Generally I find it difficult to smell myself. I can a bit if I get my nose right in my armpit or something.
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Pupung
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
i dont think i have tmau but i can whiff myself a second or two from time to time especially in the office
after i do number 2 and return to my cubicle in the office then drink bottled water.. while drinking water i can whiff myself.. it's a bad smell that i cant describe kinda fecal with a combination of sour smell like a bad milk or something..
i also have musty/homeless bo in my armpit that i can whiff for a second or 2 from time to time specially if the air is still.. or if i just entered a room and aircon blows infront of me..
arrrgggghhhh this sucks....
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William
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I don't know whether I'm fortunate or unfortunate to be able to smell myself. I will say this much. I have a very keen sense of smell. My nurse told me that maybe my olfactory senses worked too well! I mean, it's a nose right? What else is a nose suppose to do? Besides being an anatomical part of your face, your nose's main function is being able to recognize different smells. I digress but you get the picture. What do I "think" I smell like?
Cigarette smoke
Cigar smoke
Burning rubber
Chemical irritant
Unpleasant
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have laundry issues on top of all of this? It's one thing to have TMAU, quite another trying to keep my laundry smelling clean on top of having TMAU. No matter how often I wash my clothing, twice, three times, four in one setting, the odor is locked into my clothing. Using vinegar no longer works. Baking soda doesn't work either. I might have to throw them away and purchase new ones. Totally frustrating. I remember back in 2000 and 2001, how I could use a bath towel for like two weeks, and my towel still smelled of fabric softner and detergent.
I would only wash "one" towel and the rest just stayed in my cabinet smelling fresh. I rarely if ever used them! Back then, my apartment smelled extremely clean also. I've had neighbors in my apartment who complimented on how wonderful my apartment smelled. Back then, I couldn't get rid of my neighbors fast enough. They were always in my apartment. Not anymore! My laundry back then? Totally clean smelling! I use to love the smell of my T-shirts and all of my clothing after laundry. Everything just smelled so clean back then. Now, my life is a complete nightmare! What the hell happened between 2000, 2001 and 2011, is beyond me. I have my theories but it's not proven. Candida? IBS? Secondary TMAU?
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livininhope
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi William
when I had problems with excessive sweating on my feet and repeated athlete's foot infections, my chiropodist suggested a product called Eradicil.
It is not just for feet - it can be used for all laundry. Apparently it kills 99.9% of bacteria, fungus, pathogens. Apparently you can transfer the bacteria in a cycle - for instance, from feet to socks, shoes, towels, bed linen, so simply washing the socks in a solution does not kill the bacteria as it would remain on the towels and sheets and would re-infect you when used - you have to treat everything. I assume it is the bacteria that causes the smell?
I do not know if this will help you, but it might be worth a try, or else google for something similar - what do hospitals use for laundry - would that kill allthe bacteria and so, the odours?
I did think there was a very slight chemical smell from the sheets when I used Eradicil, so do not know how it would smell on shirts? I have put a note of their website below:
Eradicil laundry santisier stops the cycle of Athlete's foot, thrush, fungal nail infection, jock itch, ringworm and impetigo. Use Eradicil to clear the infection where creams and powders can't ...
www.eradicil.co.uk/
Hope this helps. good luck.
Maureen
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi William
Just remember seeing a sports detergent - Halo - see below. Looks like they also do hospitals?
I also remembered that Madonna uses cheap vodka sprays on her costumes on tour to prevent sweat stains and odour??
Halo Non Bio Laundry Detergent - Laundry
The worlds first Non Bio Liquid Laundry detergent scientifically proven to kill Hospital Super Bugs at 30 degrees. Proven to kill Bacteria Spores such as ...
www.germwarfare.co.uk/index.p...leaners/halo-n
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
William
I know exactly where you are coming from here, you sound just like me (re neighbours laundry etc. never used to be a problem a few years back now is really bad).
I believe my problem is candida on top of my TMAU too.
On the TMAU site someone mentioned adding citric acid to the wash, although fades clothes a bit in time. This is supposed to be very effective.
I use fairy non bio and hang clothes outside to dry, this makes a big difference for me.
SK
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Girl
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
This is a really interesting subject. Yes, I can feel rarely. Usually this happens when my breathing "knocks" somewhere and "turn". It's tricky trying to explain, hehe, but I think it It is a smell that is very similar to rotten eggs or breath.
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optimistic
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Do you all want to hear something funny? Yes, I can smell myself. I always smell rosy fresh like my deodorant or body spray. You know, so fresh and so clean! Sometimes I get a wiff of farty smell when I am in the car. I used to chalk it up to sulfur coming through the car's ventilation or just passing the city dump. The funky smell that other people can smell, I do not smell. Isn't that a hoot?
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webster
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can smell myself, although the smell is hard to describe of much more than just plain unpleasant. actually i like to think of it more of a taste than a smell.
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Jax.the.Max
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can't smell this horrible odor that everyone(except family) attest to, and that in itself drives you crazy
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi livinginhope,
I cant smell the TMAU smell which drives me nuts because I cant work out what works, and when you ask other people if theres a smell on you or clothes etc, you dont know whether THEY can smell it properly or not , so you still dont know for sure! aggrrraaarararrr!!!
William,
if you have a good nose for this TMA, can you please do an experiment to see if this recommendation on our TMAU UK site works? I trust the person who recommended it, Im not saying I don’t believe them, I use this recommendation on every wash, but it will be interesting if it passes YOUR inspection if you do have a very sensitive detection organ
Add one or two teaspoons of citric acid (ebay etc) to your laundry detergent drawer, with normal detergent. Citric acid is supposed to cause chemical reaction to unlock the TMA from the fibres of clothing (where it prefers to remain during normal washing.) Too much citric acid will have foam pouring out of soap drawer. The change in pH the acid causes might reduce efficiency of laundry liquid, so use more. Does this help?
Do a second wash with vanish extra hygiene in a dosing ball in drum, plus normal detergent. Does this add to the effect of the citric acid wash??
I cant wait to hear if this does actually make a big difference
#13
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mpdela
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi EnjoyThisStuff, William, Maureen, and Pupung,
It’s good that all of you are able to smell at least your feet and breathe as opposed to nothing at all. To be able to do this gives you a certain level of control, though very limited at times.
William, your description of your odor is very similar to mine. Burnt rubber always comes to mind when I smell the oils on my face and scalp. I can pretty much detect odors in anywhere in my body, and my husband reconfirms them from time to time. I suppose skin oils are a good source of “trapping” the odor, so that if you rub the oil off on your fingers or hand and then smell it, you should probably detect something. This also works on saliva. We tend to think of halitosis related to the dorsal tongue, but we do need to keep in mind that TMA and possibly other chemicals are also secreted in the body through saliva, as well as urine, skin perspiration and oils, as well as the alveolar breath.
It’s interesting, Pupung, how the way you describe your odor is different from the way William and I perceive ours. If I’m not mistaken, it seems that yours is more similar to how Maureen has described hers. I wonder to what degree our interpretation of odor is in the chemicals themselves and how much has to do with how our olfactory system perceives it (Olfactory sensitivity and perception). By this I mean how our nervous system identifies the scent it perceives. I wish we could identify the chemicals that produce these different odors in a more scientific manner, so that we can trace them to the metabolic processes and/or microbial process that produce them, so that we would have an idea of how to best treat them.
About the laundry, Maureen, I was trying to find Eradicil Laundry Disinfectant to buy some myself, but all I keep getting are UK products sold in British Pounds. I tried looking up the ingredients in them to try to find an equivalent in the US, but none seem to be posted online. Would you please look at the bottle to see if it specified?
Wonder1, that’s a great idea about citric acid. I’m going to try to find it online.
William, I can fully identify with your laundry mission! I do soak all of my family’s laundry that has the “unusual” odor, which is 50 to 75% of the clothes (now that we are all on different degrees of low choline diet) with baking soda and drain the water before washing it with detergent. They’ve commented on the Sunday conference calls that if you put baking soda with the detergent, the pH of the detergent is altered thus rendering the detergent ineffective.
It was recommended on the call to soak the clothes in baking soda and drain and probably rinse them a little before doing a whole wash with the detergent. Another person has recommended that we use fragrance free detergents to wash, just in case our skin might be reacting to the fragrances.
I find that on the close that I’ve managed to remove the odor from with baking soda, using only a little Fabrese works well. I put vinegar in a washload and soak my white clothes only because vinegar tends to bleach the colors. I also use borax on whites also because it does tend to bleach. I think sometimes when we add too many of these products in one washload without draining the water before adding the other product; In this way, we change the balance of the chemicals and thus neutralize their effects.
Yet, there are some clothes that simply have to be washed 2, 3, and even 4 times more before the odor totally disappears. There is one pair of shorts that my younger son has that I think I might have to throw away… I think it would be cheaper to throw them away and buy a new pair than to continue to waste money in water and electricity. My younger son tends to go into denial from time to time and seriously breaks his diet only to be reminded again when the odor slaps him in the face.
Thank God my older son is very much more disciplined and rarely breaks his diet, so his laundry is usually the best one! He is the one that had intense odor for 8 years throughout his 4 years in high school and 4 years in college. I’m sorry to say that my younger son’s odor (when he breaks his diet) is equally as strong as my older son’s was.
EnjoyThisStuff, thanks for starting this thread, it's very interesting.
María
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Hermione
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can smell myself I think most of the time, but other times I think I smell fine, yet everyone around me is coughing and gagging like they are literally allergic to me.
As for washing odors out of clothes; I had the same problems for months just last year, then I researched laundry detergents. I used to smell this fried fish/garbage type smell on my clothes that wouldn't come out. After a while I found out it was my clothes that smelled. So I tried Tide cold wash and it got the smell out. Only problem is now I smell like fecal/fermented lunch meat...I don't know if I have TMAU or if it's something related to having IBS. Wish I could figure it out and regain some confidence.
For any that want to get the odor out of their clothes, I'd give the Tide cold wash a try. It's got 3 different types of odor eating enziymes (sp.?) in it. It works really well on clothes, just wish it could rid my BODY of this awful odor!
~Michelle~
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mr.chamber
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Usually I can't smell myself directly but sometimes I get whiffs of pooh or something sulfurous. And sometimes if I rub my armpits and smell my fingers they smell like cat urine. If i use no deodorant, my armpits start to smell like garbage. Some mornings after I have eaten breakfast and go back to bedroom i might sense smell of boiled cabbage in the room, but am not sure if it's just my imagination. The more i try to use my nose, the less i can sense the smell, so the sense only comes accidentally.
Often if i have sweat and go to shower, i can notice a rubbery/sulfurous kinda smell. What is weird is that it feels like it's not coming from me but somewhere near me - i can tell it's me when it's my feet or armpits that smell, but i can't detect the source of this rubbery smell in me (though it has to be since it's so clearly related to my sweating).
Not sensing my smell is terrible, cause i can never know if other people will find me disgusting or not, so i tend to avoid social situations.
junear
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
In my mind it's not possible to smell yourself. This is a big problem for some of our mankind
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Can you smell yourself?
TMAU sufferers, I was wondering if you guys are able to smell yourselves? The only thing I can smell off of me is my feet if they sweat and my breath all the time and trying to figure out the source.
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jcc34
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Generally I find it difficult to smell myself. I can a bit if I get my nose right in my armpit or something.
#3
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Pupung
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
i dont think i have tmau but i can whiff myself a second or two from time to time especially in the office
after i do number 2 and return to my cubicle in the office then drink bottled water.. while drinking water i can whiff myself.. it's a bad smell that i cant describe kinda fecal with a combination of sour smell like a bad milk or something..
i also have musty/homeless bo in my armpit that i can whiff for a second or 2 from time to time specially if the air is still.. or if i just entered a room and aircon blows infront of me..
arrrgggghhhh this sucks....
#4
2 Weeks Ago
William
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I don't know whether I'm fortunate or unfortunate to be able to smell myself. I will say this much. I have a very keen sense of smell. My nurse told me that maybe my olfactory senses worked too well! I mean, it's a nose right? What else is a nose suppose to do? Besides being an anatomical part of your face, your nose's main function is being able to recognize different smells. I digress but you get the picture. What do I "think" I smell like?
Cigarette smoke
Cigar smoke
Burning rubber
Chemical irritant
Unpleasant
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have laundry issues on top of all of this? It's one thing to have TMAU, quite another trying to keep my laundry smelling clean on top of having TMAU. No matter how often I wash my clothing, twice, three times, four in one setting, the odor is locked into my clothing. Using vinegar no longer works. Baking soda doesn't work either. I might have to throw them away and purchase new ones. Totally frustrating. I remember back in 2000 and 2001, how I could use a bath towel for like two weeks, and my towel still smelled of fabric softner and detergent.
I would only wash "one" towel and the rest just stayed in my cabinet smelling fresh. I rarely if ever used them! Back then, my apartment smelled extremely clean also. I've had neighbors in my apartment who complimented on how wonderful my apartment smelled. Back then, I couldn't get rid of my neighbors fast enough. They were always in my apartment. Not anymore! My laundry back then? Totally clean smelling! I use to love the smell of my T-shirts and all of my clothing after laundry. Everything just smelled so clean back then. Now, my life is a complete nightmare! What the hell happened between 2000, 2001 and 2011, is beyond me. I have my theories but it's not proven. Candida? IBS? Secondary TMAU?
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livininhope
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi William
when I had problems with excessive sweating on my feet and repeated athlete's foot infections, my chiropodist suggested a product called Eradicil.
It is not just for feet - it can be used for all laundry. Apparently it kills 99.9% of bacteria, fungus, pathogens. Apparently you can transfer the bacteria in a cycle - for instance, from feet to socks, shoes, towels, bed linen, so simply washing the socks in a solution does not kill the bacteria as it would remain on the towels and sheets and would re-infect you when used - you have to treat everything. I assume it is the bacteria that causes the smell?
I do not know if this will help you, but it might be worth a try, or else google for something similar - what do hospitals use for laundry - would that kill allthe bacteria and so, the odours?
I did think there was a very slight chemical smell from the sheets when I used Eradicil, so do not know how it would smell on shirts? I have put a note of their website below:
Eradicil laundry santisier stops the cycle of Athlete's foot, thrush, fungal nail infection, jock itch, ringworm and impetigo. Use Eradicil to clear the infection where creams and powders can't ...
www.eradicil.co.uk/
Hope this helps. good luck.
Maureen
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livininhope
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi William
Just remember seeing a sports detergent - Halo - see below. Looks like they also do hospitals?
I also remembered that Madonna uses cheap vodka sprays on her costumes on tour to prevent sweat stains and odour??
Halo Non Bio Laundry Detergent - Laundry
The worlds first Non Bio Liquid Laundry detergent scientifically proven to kill Hospital Super Bugs at 30 degrees. Proven to kill Bacteria Spores such as ...
www.germwarfare.co.uk/index.p...leaners/halo-n
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SmellyKelly2
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
William
I know exactly where you are coming from here, you sound just like me (re neighbours laundry etc. never used to be a problem a few years back now is really bad).
I believe my problem is candida on top of my TMAU too.
On the TMAU site someone mentioned adding citric acid to the wash, although fades clothes a bit in time. This is supposed to be very effective.
I use fairy non bio and hang clothes outside to dry, this makes a big difference for me.
SK
#8
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Girl
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
This is a really interesting subject. Yes, I can feel rarely. Usually this happens when my breathing "knocks" somewhere and "turn". It's tricky trying to explain, hehe, but I think it It is a smell that is very similar to rotten eggs or breath.
#9
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optimistic
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Do you all want to hear something funny? Yes, I can smell myself. I always smell rosy fresh like my deodorant or body spray. You know, so fresh and so clean! Sometimes I get a wiff of farty smell when I am in the car. I used to chalk it up to sulfur coming through the car's ventilation or just passing the city dump. The funky smell that other people can smell, I do not smell. Isn't that a hoot?
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webster
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can smell myself, although the smell is hard to describe of much more than just plain unpleasant. actually i like to think of it more of a taste than a smell.
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Jax.the.Max
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can't smell this horrible odor that everyone(except family) attest to, and that in itself drives you crazy
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi livinginhope,
I cant smell the TMAU smell which drives me nuts because I cant work out what works, and when you ask other people if theres a smell on you or clothes etc, you dont know whether THEY can smell it properly or not , so you still dont know for sure! aggrrraaarararrr!!!
William,
if you have a good nose for this TMA, can you please do an experiment to see if this recommendation on our TMAU UK site works? I trust the person who recommended it, Im not saying I don’t believe them, I use this recommendation on every wash, but it will be interesting if it passes YOUR inspection if you do have a very sensitive detection organ
Add one or two teaspoons of citric acid (ebay etc) to your laundry detergent drawer, with normal detergent. Citric acid is supposed to cause chemical reaction to unlock the TMA from the fibres of clothing (where it prefers to remain during normal washing.) Too much citric acid will have foam pouring out of soap drawer. The change in pH the acid causes might reduce efficiency of laundry liquid, so use more. Does this help?
Do a second wash with vanish extra hygiene in a dosing ball in drum, plus normal detergent. Does this add to the effect of the citric acid wash??
I cant wait to hear if this does actually make a big difference
#13
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mpdela
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Hi EnjoyThisStuff, William, Maureen, and Pupung,
It’s good that all of you are able to smell at least your feet and breathe as opposed to nothing at all. To be able to do this gives you a certain level of control, though very limited at times.
William, your description of your odor is very similar to mine. Burnt rubber always comes to mind when I smell the oils on my face and scalp. I can pretty much detect odors in anywhere in my body, and my husband reconfirms them from time to time. I suppose skin oils are a good source of “trapping” the odor, so that if you rub the oil off on your fingers or hand and then smell it, you should probably detect something. This also works on saliva. We tend to think of halitosis related to the dorsal tongue, but we do need to keep in mind that TMA and possibly other chemicals are also secreted in the body through saliva, as well as urine, skin perspiration and oils, as well as the alveolar breath.
It’s interesting, Pupung, how the way you describe your odor is different from the way William and I perceive ours. If I’m not mistaken, it seems that yours is more similar to how Maureen has described hers. I wonder to what degree our interpretation of odor is in the chemicals themselves and how much has to do with how our olfactory system perceives it (Olfactory sensitivity and perception). By this I mean how our nervous system identifies the scent it perceives. I wish we could identify the chemicals that produce these different odors in a more scientific manner, so that we can trace them to the metabolic processes and/or microbial process that produce them, so that we would have an idea of how to best treat them.
About the laundry, Maureen, I was trying to find Eradicil Laundry Disinfectant to buy some myself, but all I keep getting are UK products sold in British Pounds. I tried looking up the ingredients in them to try to find an equivalent in the US, but none seem to be posted online. Would you please look at the bottle to see if it specified?
Wonder1, that’s a great idea about citric acid. I’m going to try to find it online.
William, I can fully identify with your laundry mission! I do soak all of my family’s laundry that has the “unusual” odor, which is 50 to 75% of the clothes (now that we are all on different degrees of low choline diet) with baking soda and drain the water before washing it with detergent. They’ve commented on the Sunday conference calls that if you put baking soda with the detergent, the pH of the detergent is altered thus rendering the detergent ineffective.
It was recommended on the call to soak the clothes in baking soda and drain and probably rinse them a little before doing a whole wash with the detergent. Another person has recommended that we use fragrance free detergents to wash, just in case our skin might be reacting to the fragrances.
I find that on the close that I’ve managed to remove the odor from with baking soda, using only a little Fabrese works well. I put vinegar in a washload and soak my white clothes only because vinegar tends to bleach the colors. I also use borax on whites also because it does tend to bleach. I think sometimes when we add too many of these products in one washload without draining the water before adding the other product; In this way, we change the balance of the chemicals and thus neutralize their effects.
Yet, there are some clothes that simply have to be washed 2, 3, and even 4 times more before the odor totally disappears. There is one pair of shorts that my younger son has that I think I might have to throw away… I think it would be cheaper to throw them away and buy a new pair than to continue to waste money in water and electricity. My younger son tends to go into denial from time to time and seriously breaks his diet only to be reminded again when the odor slaps him in the face.
Thank God my older son is very much more disciplined and rarely breaks his diet, so his laundry is usually the best one! He is the one that had intense odor for 8 years throughout his 4 years in high school and 4 years in college. I’m sorry to say that my younger son’s odor (when he breaks his diet) is equally as strong as my older son’s was.
EnjoyThisStuff, thanks for starting this thread, it's very interesting.
María
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Last edited by mpdela; 1 Week Ago at 07:37 PM.
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Hermione
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
I can smell myself I think most of the time, but other times I think I smell fine, yet everyone around me is coughing and gagging like they are literally allergic to me.
As for washing odors out of clothes; I had the same problems for months just last year, then I researched laundry detergents. I used to smell this fried fish/garbage type smell on my clothes that wouldn't come out. After a while I found out it was my clothes that smelled. So I tried Tide cold wash and it got the smell out. Only problem is now I smell like fecal/fermented lunch meat...I don't know if I have TMAU or if it's something related to having IBS. Wish I could figure it out and regain some confidence.
For any that want to get the odor out of their clothes, I'd give the Tide cold wash a try. It's got 3 different types of odor eating enziymes (sp.?) in it. It works really well on clothes, just wish it could rid my BODY of this awful odor!
~Michelle~
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mr.chamber
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Re: Can you smell yourself?
Usually I can't smell myself directly but sometimes I get whiffs of pooh or something sulfurous. And sometimes if I rub my armpits and smell my fingers they smell like cat urine. If i use no deodorant, my armpits start to smell like garbage. Some mornings after I have eaten breakfast and go back to bedroom i might sense smell of boiled cabbage in the room, but am not sure if it's just my imagination. The more i try to use my nose, the less i can sense the smell, so the sense only comes accidentally.
Often if i have sweat and go to shower, i can notice a rubbery/sulfurous kinda smell. What is weird is that it feels like it's not coming from me but somewhere near me - i can tell it's me when it's my feet or armpits that smell, but i can't detect the source of this rubbery smell in me (though it has to be since it's so clearly related to my sweating).
Not sensing my smell is terrible, cause i can never know if other people will find me disgusting or not, so i tend to avoid social situations.
junear
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1
Re: Can you smell yourself?
In my mind it's not possible to smell yourself. This is a big problem for some of our mankind