How there be a cure when you haven't truly seeked the cause of the illness?

Authored by: huglerr on Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 11:13 PM MST

I can understan your pain, and sadness.I am a male with the same problems.As bad as the problem is.At least you know that there are other people with the same problem(you are not alone).So its much easier to communicate your pains, and hurts to someone whos dealing with the same problem.

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Authored by: tocute4this on Monday, March 03 2008 @ 12:19 PM MST

OMG!! I feel the same as you. I'm an extremely attractive 28 yr old BW with excellent hygiene and still I suffer from bad breath. I'm currently seeing the ENT for chronic sinusitis and I'm sure he won't solve my problem. However, I recently had a complete physical done in January and my physician notice something is abnormal with my liver. My enzymes are higher than normal. So, hopefully that's the underlying problem as to why I suffer from bb.

I'm so depress! My friends all know and still no one says anything about it. However, they offer me gum and mints all the time. I'm sure they know I'm aware of the smell therefore; they don't want to hurt my feelings. My ex boyfriend was always honest about my bb. He even tease me often about it...even still he loves me and still wants to be with me.

My current bf never says anything about it and it drives me crazy. I don't understand how he deals with it. I'm sure he wants to say something but, he doesn’t know how I'll take it. I wish he would say something....he has no idea how relieved I'll feel.

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Authored by: sharmayne on Monday, March 10 2008 @ 03:25 PM MDT

You are not alone that's all I can tell you. I share your pain and its not fair. It just makes you ask why me? It is so unfair to be treated like a monster when your really not one. I know, I remember being in college and going through all that humiliation and the laughing, I don't understand why anyone would think that this is funny. But unless they are in our shoes that can not possibly understand the pain and loneliness we have to endure on a daily basis. As the years go by without a cure you just develop thick skin and just try to live through it.

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Authored by: Humble on Friday, June 20 2008 @ 09:42 PM MDT

Hello, I am a Black woman, who has been dealing with this issue for over a decade. My entire life has been put on hold because if BB. I don't socialize and interact with people as much as I used to before the issue. My dating life has been a disaster. I am in my late 30's. When I talk to people, I try to keep my distance and not talk in their faces. I don't look at people in their eyes anymore. I have tried various remedies, but with no success. I have gone to dentists, who told me to just "brush my gums". I finally found one that suggested that I have my molars pulled and get Periodontal treatments. I pray that this will be the remedy. I want my life back again.

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Authored by: MeToo on Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 10:00 AM MDT

I too am a beautiful BW with a beautiful spirit in my late 30's. I have suffered since I was 22 years old. I have tried many things to include getting dental fillings re-done. I recently heard of a sea salt (no-iodine) flush that is supposed to draw the toxins out of your body. I am currently using a parasite cleanse first and then will proceed to the sea salt flush and hope this will help. I have prayed and asked God for a miracle and feel like He's brought me this information for a reason to include finding this blog site. For your sinuses, I have used a 1/3 cup of hot lemon juice (concentrated) with a small amount of sugar or 1 packet of splenda in the mornings and found that this cleared mucous from my throat and also my sinuses. I used to always have to clear my throat before this.

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Authored by: juslikeme on Tuesday, November 25 2008 @ 10:48 PM MST

I'm also a BW with this issue. I've had haliometer tests, they say I don't have BB, but you can tell when your breath isn't right when you are talking to people. I've had my tonsils removed because I had tonsiliths. Of course now I don't have them, but the BB is still there. I know I don't drink enough water, but who does ?? What makes me so different then the next person. Its very stressfull and sad, I disables me from being me. I've tried different remedies, but thing so far has helped. I do you a tongue brush and tongue paste, that cleanses my tongue (I have a white sticky coat). I've been told that I'm healthy. My next step is to see a Digestive Care specialist. Its just so hard to have to tell people I'm here for BB.

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Authored by: juslikeme on Tuesday, November 25 2008 @ 10:55 PM MST

Yes. My situation is the same, as far as the friends and boyfriend thing. I guess they are like, she apparently can't do anything about it so why mention it. I must admit though most of the ppl around me are very nice about it, they still talk to me at close range. My bf says I don't have a problem its in my head, I'm like NO you know when something just isn't right. I feel as if anything i try will not work anyway so way bother. Then I join here and see that other ppl have the same issue(s) and they haven't found a cure or success in what they have being trying, I don't want to be like this forever !!

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Authored by: ElGrizzle on Saturday, December 13 2008 @ 02:55 AM MST

I totally understand. But you've got to hold your head up! There are so many things to be appreciative for, this forum for one! If we all come together we will figure this out. Here is what im thinking is the cause....

An immune disorder against certain bacteria.

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Authored by: juslikeme on Saturday, December 13 2008 @ 09:29 PM MST

That makes sense. Now, we just have to figure out how to find out if that's the problem. I've been attempting to make a dr appt with the Digestive Care Center where I live. I've made a couple attempts but never actually made the appt. I called and asked if they saw ppl with bb, they said yes. I guess I will go through with it b/c it would help either way (rule it out, or lead me to the problem).

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Authored by: prdgroupco on Tuesday, April 07 2009 @ 10:03 PM MDT

From experience I can say confidently if you use Therabreath for oral care you might as well use water to brush your teeth. Therabreath destroyed my dental strudcture. It-is-useless. Don't waste your money.

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Authored by: sharmayne on Sunday, May 17 2009 @ 08:54 AM MDT

You hit the nail on the head. They must get to the root of the prob. We need the best chemists out there, or there will never be a cure. I've resolved to just trying to live with it. I have no choice, I'm not going to kill myself. I'm not going anywhere, they'll just have to deal with it. I have to live with it every day... the pain and the shame. A misfit in society.

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Authored by: PIMP on Thursday, November 26 2009 @ 12:49 PM MST

Hi there i had the same problem and i have a solution please let me know if u still need it

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Authored by: AnthonyJay on Friday, September 10 2010 @ 04:55 PM MDT

My heart goes out to you, that sounds terrible. But I wonder if you just mentioned it to your boyfriend, allow it to come out on the table, that way you can talk about it in a safe way. I wouldn't ask it in a way that says "why do you never ask?" because that will put him on the defensive. But try to just mention it and talk about it, because I assume your bf cares about you enough not to judge you for your bb.

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Authored by: Brad1234 on Tuesday, March 22 2011 @ 04:21 PM MDT

I also have the same problem, i brush 5-10 minutes morning and night, used every single toothpaste/mouthwash on the market, hydrogen peroxide,Baking soda, gargle salt water.

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Authored by: BBRuiningMyLife on Wednesday, April 06 2011 @ 07:13 PM MDT

So I just joined this site about 10 minutes ago after finding this forum about bad breath on google. I am going to share my story with bad breath for the first time to anyone. So please, what you're about to read is my story with bad breath and how it has affected me. If possible, please give me your replies to it. Thank You.

So I guess you could say it all started in about eighth grade. I was sitting in math class one day, and I was sitting next to this girl who was my math partner. She started to cover up her nose and mouth, which was probably my very first encounter with bad breath on a serious note. From what I remember, as the days went by, she kept covering her mouth & nose more & more, and each time it got me more halitophobic. Keep in mind that at the time I was only 13-14 years old. I thought it was only a temporary thing. But boy, was I wrong.

About 4-5 months later. I started high school. My hopes for the summer were that high school was gonna be the best 4 years ever. When I first entered my high school, the first 2-3 months were pretty good. I had made some friends, and was getting some cool people to meet. But then it happened. My whole world was flipped upside down.

In October of 2008 was where it all took a turn for the worst. Trust me. One day, I saw this kid in the hallway and I tried to make a joke about his name, and I guess he didn't find that funny. So there I had made my first enemy. I wasn't trying to hurt his feelings, I was just trying to be funny and make a new friend, you know, like most people like to do when they're a freshmen in high school. But then, I think about a few days/weeks later, I had to sit next to him in my biology class. I think I had said something to him one day and he automatically said something about my breath. He made a joke and said something about how I had bad breath. Now imagine my reaction as a high school freshmen being made fun of in front of nearly 20 people. Yeah, embarrassing.

Pretty soon, more and more people started noticing and commenting on it. I had slowly started to lost all of the people I had first met when I started high school. Eventually, I guess it came to a point where I felt like I was being labeled/dubbed as "The Bad Breath Kid". I didn't understand. I never had problems with BB up until then. It got even worse, where some people would actually tell me that I had bad breath. Wow did I feel like crap. I mean, what was happening to me?

It got even worse over the years. My 10th grade year, even the new freshmen and even most of the teachers started to notice my bad breath. How do you deal with walking around school knowing that almost everyone already sees you as the person with bad breath.

By 11th grade, the grade I'm currently in, I started to struggle with depression. Now I had dealt with depression in the past, but it was back in 7th grade, when I'm pretty sure bad breath wasn't a problem for me. But now it had come back and the main source had been from all the bullying I had to go through in the past 2 1/2 years of my high school experience so far. I soon was sent to the see my school counselor, whom eventually I had admitted to being bullied. I never said that it was because of my bad breath, because I didn't want to feel insecure and embarrassed. She then recommended that I start seeing a therapist. So I did. Later on, I admitted to feeling suicidal and homicidal towards other people and my counselor sent me to get an evaluation because of my suicidal thoughts. After the evaluation was over that day, I was sent to a program in a hospital to deal with my Anxiety and Suicidal Thoughts/Feelings. It helped a little, and I did miss about a month of school, but once I got back, my bad breath had not changed, and I still felt depressed. I was then recommended to go see a psychiatrist at the same hospital, and was also prescribed to take medication because of my suicidal and depression problems. I was also prescribed medication for my sleep and attention issues, but that's probably not relevant.

Now here I am. A 16-Year Old depressed, angry, and suicidal halitophobic. I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I've tried mouthwashes, mints, different toothpastes, gum, tonguescrapers, brushing my tongue with my toothbrush, scraping my tongue with a spoon, and many other things to get rid of my halitosis for good. And this isn't a a normal thing. People in school are always covering their noses and mouths. Some people at the program I was at even covered their mouths and noses a few times when I was around or when I spoke. Another downside to having it is that there's this really cute girl in my school who I've been interested in ever since I was in 9th Grade. I've always been really nervous to talk to her, mainly because of my bad breath. I don't what to do. I think she's even noticed it a couple times, maybe more. When I first entered high school, I thought I was gonna be the guy with tons of friends and in a number of relationships. But now I see that my main demon that has ruined my ability to have a good high school experience is my bad breath. I've been ignored, bullied, looked down upon, and it's even made me suicidal. I now have to take pills to deal with my suicidal thoughts because of my bad breath! It sounds crazy, right? But it's true.

For those of you saying you've thought of suicide, I COMPLETELY understand where you're coming from. I'm so afraid of being made fun of that I can't even stick up for myself when I'm being bothered or bullied. I have to bring gum, mints, and drink plenty of water everyday in the hope that my bad breath goes away. It feels like a curse. It hurts. I feel so alone sometimes.

So now that you've read my story, I guess the only thing to do now is to ask for help. So yeah, if there are any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them. I hope you guys understand what I'm going through, or at least try. Thank You.

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Authored by: Malika1 on Sunday, June 12 2011 @ 10:10 AM MDT

Guys i honestly know what you are going through, i went through the same thing at high school, but now i honestly have something that can help you guys. Its called bentonite clay. Its a simple, healthy, 100% natural cure that has cured so many people, however it has not been broadcasted enough because many evil compaines such as therabreath, orabrush, Breathrx, Breezecare and all other scams just want buisness and want money out of you.
This bentonite clay is not only 100% natural, but also THERE ARE NO SIDE EFFECTS. it does not harm the body in anyway, and it gives the body such a good detox. It cures the bad breath by killing the bad bacteria in the stomach, and it runs along the intestines, collecting any impurities in the body, and it is then removed as waste the next time you go to the toilet.
The only thing about this is that it needs alot of patience and willpower. Its not something that will work in one day. It takes 3-6 months depending on who you are, or how chronic your bad breath is, but the end result is amazing. Not only does it drastically improve bowel movement, but with a daily dosage of oral probiotics,your breath is 100% CURED, not treated.
This clay has been around for decades, and can be used for the body internally and externally.
However, this is only a cure for those who believe they have a bad breath problem because they have an imbalance of bacteria in the gut.
To find more information about this clay, please check on google, and type in 'bentonite clay' for more information.

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