Am i cured?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:58 pm
Hi!
Today was a really interesting day in my crusade for a cure. Since im new to the forum, let me sum up my background.
I`ve been suffering from chronical bad breath my entire life. I believe it is connected to my allergy and hypersensitive mucus membranes in which causes mucus to drop down to my throat creating a smelly layer on the back of my tongue.
I have certified the fact that i have bad breath in honest moments with my mother as well as my dentist in order to ensure im not haliphobic.
This desease has totally reduced all quality of my life and had me on the edge of s*****e for years. In this depressed state i couldnt really do anything about it and was just looking one day ahead.
About four years ago i found a profession on the internet in which i became quite successfull with. With time i gradually improved my self esteem and i became more social. About three years ago i met a girl while travelling in which i am now married with.
I always wondered why she didnt react to my bad breath. The logical answer i came up with is that i`ve become so good in my small routines designed to hide it - spanding from looking away as i talk to chewing gum in the most ciritical moments - that she could live with it.
My self esteem and resources has been growing to a level where i 2 months ago started a crusade against my BB. I decided to do whatever it takes to combat this dreadful desease. And so i found this forum and other resources and started educating myself.
I started irrigating my nose with saltwater before spraying it with Nasonex. I`m drinking Noni juice 30 minutes before breakfest everyday in order to enhance my immunesystem. I drastically cut down on sugar and fat.
In the same time had booked an appointement with what is belived to be the best ENT doctor in my country after discovering a polyp or cyste in my left maxillarsinus. Three weeks into my new healthy life i visited him.
At first i was dissapointed as he told me my polyp, in which has a dimater of 2.5cm! covering 70% of that sinus cavity, was no bad source for anything and not in any way bad. He belived the reason for my high production of mucus and chronical cold was an obstruction of the nasal passages by what is in Norwegian called "nesemuslinger" (something you have three of which can surgically be done smaller).
I explained him that i had a chronical bad breath as well. He denied this, and he didnt lie. Believe me. He also said he couldnt detect a hint of bad breath the second time i went to him.
Well, i guess i met him on a lucky day i was thinking. Two weeks passed and i was in a concert with my girlfriend. In the concert i became seriously depressed from looking at all the happy people talking together without paranoia. Was thinking about how much i want to be a likeable friendly guy. We went home before the concert finished. Well home i finally took the big step and told here all about my problems with bad breath through history.
Than to my big suprise she told me that i had no bad breath. She didnt lie. I tested her over and over and over again. She didnt lie. I went through the whole thing with here. Stuck my fingers in my throat, let them dry and asked her to smell it. That smelled horrible she said, but my breath smelled nothing. She idmitted i had a morning breath about every second day, but that all her previous boyfriends had as well she said.
Than the most funny thing. Did the test on her as well. The back of her tongue smelled the same, and she rarely has a bad breath. She also has a similar white coating as my tongue.
So, we`ve been together for three years now, and she has NEVER experienced me having bad breath "excpet from once i ate a terrible shawarma".
How can this be explained. After experiences in life im so afraid of my bad breath that i have to be 1.5m away when talking to somebody, including her, if not cheweing gum, having a good moment etc. Now she suddenly tells me im all good.
Believe me. I`ve had my bad breath confirmed before, even from my mother.
Whats up? Could i be cured or could she possible be immun to my smell as a rare case? How do you certify that you are cured?
Today was a really interesting day in my crusade for a cure. Since im new to the forum, let me sum up my background.
I`ve been suffering from chronical bad breath my entire life. I believe it is connected to my allergy and hypersensitive mucus membranes in which causes mucus to drop down to my throat creating a smelly layer on the back of my tongue.
I have certified the fact that i have bad breath in honest moments with my mother as well as my dentist in order to ensure im not haliphobic.
This desease has totally reduced all quality of my life and had me on the edge of s*****e for years. In this depressed state i couldnt really do anything about it and was just looking one day ahead.
About four years ago i found a profession on the internet in which i became quite successfull with. With time i gradually improved my self esteem and i became more social. About three years ago i met a girl while travelling in which i am now married with.
I always wondered why she didnt react to my bad breath. The logical answer i came up with is that i`ve become so good in my small routines designed to hide it - spanding from looking away as i talk to chewing gum in the most ciritical moments - that she could live with it.
My self esteem and resources has been growing to a level where i 2 months ago started a crusade against my BB. I decided to do whatever it takes to combat this dreadful desease. And so i found this forum and other resources and started educating myself.
I started irrigating my nose with saltwater before spraying it with Nasonex. I`m drinking Noni juice 30 minutes before breakfest everyday in order to enhance my immunesystem. I drastically cut down on sugar and fat.
In the same time had booked an appointement with what is belived to be the best ENT doctor in my country after discovering a polyp or cyste in my left maxillarsinus. Three weeks into my new healthy life i visited him.
At first i was dissapointed as he told me my polyp, in which has a dimater of 2.5cm! covering 70% of that sinus cavity, was no bad source for anything and not in any way bad. He belived the reason for my high production of mucus and chronical cold was an obstruction of the nasal passages by what is in Norwegian called "nesemuslinger" (something you have three of which can surgically be done smaller).
I explained him that i had a chronical bad breath as well. He denied this, and he didnt lie. Believe me. He also said he couldnt detect a hint of bad breath the second time i went to him.
Well, i guess i met him on a lucky day i was thinking. Two weeks passed and i was in a concert with my girlfriend. In the concert i became seriously depressed from looking at all the happy people talking together without paranoia. Was thinking about how much i want to be a likeable friendly guy. We went home before the concert finished. Well home i finally took the big step and told here all about my problems with bad breath through history.
Than to my big suprise she told me that i had no bad breath. She didnt lie. I tested her over and over and over again. She didnt lie. I went through the whole thing with here. Stuck my fingers in my throat, let them dry and asked her to smell it. That smelled horrible she said, but my breath smelled nothing. She idmitted i had a morning breath about every second day, but that all her previous boyfriends had as well she said.
Than the most funny thing. Did the test on her as well. The back of her tongue smelled the same, and she rarely has a bad breath. She also has a similar white coating as my tongue.
So, we`ve been together for three years now, and she has NEVER experienced me having bad breath "excpet from once i ate a terrible shawarma".
How can this be explained. After experiences in life im so afraid of my bad breath that i have to be 1.5m away when talking to somebody, including her, if not cheweing gum, having a good moment etc. Now she suddenly tells me im all good.
Believe me. I`ve had my bad breath confirmed before, even from my mother.
Whats up? Could i be cured or could she possible be immun to my smell as a rare case? How do you certify that you are cured?