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Please please answer! I think i'm going mad
Please please answer! I think i'm going mad
However I just can't seem to accept that the smell may be gone and I'm always looking out for peoples reactions due to the past. Do you think it's possible that the bad breath is now simply just gone due to brushing teeth more and brushing my tongue? It seems too hard to believe since I had very very bad breath. Even my mum and dad have said that my breath is perfect and admitted in the past it had a slight smell. So what do you think? Am i just being paranoid or do you think they're just being nice?
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So its quite possible that any BB you've supposedly had in the past was down to nothing more than poor oral hygiene practices.
If you can accept this then hopefully you can accept what people are telling you about your present breath situation.
If you are still worried, then find a dentist who can test your breath with a halimeter.
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If someone could have tricked my mind in some way into believing that I no longer had BB I would have gladly opted for that. BB is only the problem we allow it to create for ourselves through our consciousness of having it. And that's how you need to approach this now. Throw yourself into your life and if nobody seems to mind then whether you have BB or not becomes irrelevant.
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I dont get any reactions if I talk near anyone - not that I ever got any reactions before because I made sure that nobody was ever subjected to my BB. I'd smoke, eat, chew gum, or RUN for dear life to ensure this. And I lived like a hermit. My brother tells me my breath doesnt smell anymore.
But yet at certain times, like if im doing sports or if im thirsty and my mouth doesnt feel fresh, the fear that my breath might smell still terrifies me. I have very deep seated mental problems from this because it goes right back to the way I was made to feel in my childhood and this will always remain with me. Maybe with time these issues will undo themselves, but I'm FAR FAR from that still.
But I made the conscious effort to throw myself into trying to live normally because I felt there was a very good chance I was cured - and so far it all seems to be ok and now able to exist without constant thoughts of BB running through my mind at every moment.
The trust has to come from within yourself. Nothing that anybody says can remove your fears, you have to remove them like any other phobia, by facing up to it.
EazySlug there is EVERY reason not to trust your family when they tell you there is no smell. They dont want to see you going nuts over what they consider to be something so harmless. They hope you'll simply believe them when they say your breath is ok and forget about it.
I agree that young children are quite good for feedback though. If you stink they dont consider the implications of being honest with you.
EazySlug I just always think my family don't want to hurt me so maybe that's why they say theres no smell, but who knows? we'll see!!
It's certain that there is a long way still before acting with confidence or at least normally in front of people, after all everyone of us has suffered in the past with people's reactions and mockeries.
But I think that's a huge step yet that close friends or family members keep telling you that no you have nothing, or at least nothing noticeable to them.
I don't know why we always have to mistrust them because they're close and therefore they want to be nice and not hurt us.
A couple of days ago I kissed my mother on the cheek and she stepped back a little. I didn't say anything but I knew that my breath was abominable.
Anyway, I think that close ones are both able to tell us when we stink and when do not.
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I'm trying to say to you that if you think its possible that you no longer have BB, then u need to try to overcome your phobia by throwing yourself into life. If you are treated like a human being instead of an animal, then whether you have BB or not becomes irrelevant. In my case, because of my own self-perceptions, I know how I would have been treated had I tried to do this while I knew I still had BB - so I simply didnt go there.
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Whenever I wanted to know how bad my breath was from this point I'd ask my brother to gauge it for me. I already knew how bad it was though because my tongue would have such a strong odour on it which always correlated. He'd simply describe it as shit breath.
When I had the tooth out, the taste I was so used to was gone almost immediately, even with all the blood and guts of the extration. And my mouth would no longer feel "inflammable" within an hour or two after brushing my teeth. It just remains neutral. My tongue hardly smells except the very far back, but not on the same scale to what it used to smell like.
The odour on my tongue was identical to the odour pouring from the gum around my tooth. Very similar to tonsillotith odour or flossing odours.
It was years after discovering this stinking tooth until I finally had it removed. I just wasnt able to handle the prospect of zero hope if the tooth turned out not to be responsible for my BB(like my tonsillectomy turned out not to be). But by some miracle, it was.
Question about the halimeter test. Were you able to try the test before you fixed your tooth problem? I'm just curious what score someone with confirmed tooth-caused BB get from the halimeter.
I've taken the test three times before, and always had low scores. I'm wondering what BB causes can be ruled out by those who score low on this test.
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If your scores are low and you know for certain that you do have BB (as confirmed by another person, not reactions) then this probably means the foul gasses you are producing are not the two main gasses which a halimeter is designed to detect. The oral chroma test will detect more of the known BB gasses.