We cant smell eachother?

Scientist42 · Post by **Scientist42** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:29 pm

JC, being a hospital pharmacist, I have many doctor friends but I don't invite them to the Meetups because they would feel awkward.

The reason I say this is that most General Practitioners are reluctant to admit to any person having bad breath or body odour because they regard it as psychologically damaging. They have learned that admitting to people having strong odours often results in the patient attempting s*****e or having suicidal thoughts.

Instead, they have found that their outcome is better where there is ambiguity or uncertainty or where they can convince the patient that it is all in their head!

So instead, I have invited science professors and academics to our Meetups. They usually know better than to convince us it is all in their head!
Arun

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:36 pm

Arun,
can u tell me more about the people that participate in those meet ups?
Who ussually comes? u said doctors don't, and proffesors do. What kind of profesors, academics come? I mean what is their education-ocupation?profesors for math or profeors for biology?..u know what I mean...(I'm asking seriously).

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:35 pm

Sometimes the only time I can smell my own is if somebody walks by with another strong odor; usually perfume. Its very strange and only for a couple seconds, but I guess it tricks my body out of its scent-resistance to my own BB. This is how I know it's sort of fecal, sort of sewer-like

Larc400 · Post by **Larc400** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:01 pm

Eric wrote:Sometimes the only time I can smell my own is if somebody walks by with another strong odor; usually perfume. Its very strange and only for a couple seconds, but I guess it tricks my body out of its scent-resistance to my own BB. This is how I know it's sort of fecal, sort of sewer-like

I get the same thing. For example with perfume, I sometimes smell a fart-smell and know it's because it's the strong scent of the perfume mixing up with my volatile stench compounds

bleh · Post by **bleh** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:52 am

I've always wondered why I can never smell peoples bb except for my own (except on rare occasions). I always thought I had really poor sense of smell, but this is all starting to make sense to me. There was this one guy I used to work with that people complained always had bb, but for some reason I could never smell it for myself (I guess we had the same type). The one types of bb I can smell is cigarette breath and VERY strong nostrily fecal breath.

A funny thought though - when I go out for a heavy night of drinking and all my friends are drinking the same types of alcohol I am, I can speak to them pretty closely and none of them will even back away or notice my bb (or show signs that they can). Is it because they're too drunk to notice, or they have the same type of horrid breath I have so they don't notice it themselves?

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:00 am

A funny thought though - when I go out for a heavy night of drinking and all my friends are drinking the same types of alcohol I am, I can speak to them pretty closely and none of them will even back away or notice my bb (or show signs that they can). Is it because they're too drunk to notice, or they have the same type of horrid breath I have so they don't notice it themselves?

Tonight I tried to drink alcohol with my friends but it made my breath so horrid that I was compelled to leave early because of reactions. I believe that the kind of BB they have is similar to ours, but just not as intense or as persistent. I am happy for you though that your friends didn't react. I've had nights like that on occasion and they are extremely therapeutic.

04paynem · Post by **04paynem** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:52 am

Um, I definitely smell other people's BB.

nelly · Post by **nelly** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:09 pm

Im supersensitivspecialist in smells, and thouht I could always detect a bb. But I came too short when it came to Orodor.

sharmayne · Post by **sharmayne** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:28 am

I'ts great that neither of you smelt each other, infact I think it's down right ironic and amazing if you are chronic and full force, rotten egg halitosis breath like me. More power to both and good luck.

spygirl · Post by **spygirl** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:33 am

Jon and JC

Where in philippines do you live? How do you describe your personal aroma? Mine (according to people talking about me) is like dead rat's or corpse's. How many bb sufferers do you know are in manila? I hope I can meet up with you guys at the end of this year (tentative).

jc · Post by jc » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:11 am

spygirl wrote:Jon and JC

Where in philippines do you live? How do you describe your personal aroma? Mine (according to people talking about me) is like dead rat's or corpse's. How many bb sufferers do you know are in manila? I hope I can meet up with you guys at the end of this year (tentative).

We both live in Q.C. (well, Jon moved to another city recently).
I`ve heard different comments in the past (fecal, sewer, fart, foot odor breath & sometimes corpse)about my breath but recently someone commented that it smells like medicine. The odor probably changed since I`ve been taking oregano capsules for 6 months now. We don`t know any other bb sufferer here.
We`ve had 2 meetups at my place in don antonio heights.
We`ll be looking forward to meeting you.

spygirl · Post by **spygirl** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:28 pm

jc wrote: We`ve had 2 meetups at my place in don antonio heights.
We`ll be looking forward to meeting you.

Thank you.

Scientist42 · Post by **Scientist42** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:59 pm

Hi ICE,
We once had 2 professors who specialize in TMAU genetics come from the University of London (Professor Sheppard and Professor Phillips who was the first to discover a genetic basis for TMAU).

I am pretty sure that there is a non-TMAU variety of our condition that has a genetic component. Ofcourse, we are a long way off identifying the genes responsible for this. Just measuring the odour and finding the enzyme responsible are difficult enough tasks.
Arun

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:19 pm

Arun thanx for ure reply.
may I ask what is their opinionon TMAU and halitosis? have they done any research in this field? I really can not imagine 2 proffesors around a group of halitosis sufferers, Do they come with masks?

Have they shown any interests in "analzying" us?
Keep up the good work.!
Ice

sweets07 · Post by **sweets07** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:45 pm

sometimes i think this inability for some people to smell you is an act of God. i mean i remember in high school when i had breath that could fill a room, my dad made me breathe in his face and he couldn't smell anything. i realized i didn't have dry mouth or a bad taste in my mouth at the moment and was shocked. i mean why did i have halitosis and nasty taste all day long and the first time i had someone test my breath, it was fine. craziness!

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