To sum up my story I began suffering from this almost exactly one year ago. In the beginning I would regularly get reactions from people. I work at Best Buy on the sales floor and have plenty of test subjects so to speak
Reactions ranged from finger under nose, to coughing, to backing up, little kids blatantly saying "He has bb", etc.I now believe I have seen marked improvement in my condition to the point where 80% of people I talk to show no signs of reaction whatsoever. Remaining reactions seem mild and sporadic, possibly not related to any smell at all.
3 Things that really helped: (I think)
-Eating less 'junk' food such as fast food. I have recently begun to live on my own and as such am very poor. Less crap food seems to equal less bb.
-Moving away from a place where I would have severe allergic reactions upon waking up. When I lived with my parents across town I would regularly wake up and have a 5 to 10 minute sneezing fit. I'm guessing it was because of the many open fields in close proximity to the house. At my current residence this still happens, but much less frequently and much less severely. PND seems greatly reduced.
-No more toothpaste/mouthwash/stupid-rip-off-products. For the past few months I simply brush my teeth and tungbrush my tongue with water. I don't have nearly as much white tongue coating and I believe its partly related to not waking up and feeding the bacteria toothpaste.
I also want to note one last important thing:
My tonsils were literally swollen, veiny, and red from Jan to June! I began to think they were gonna stay that way forever, but now they are fairly small and inconspicuous in the back of my throat, plus when I touch them the stink is much less shitty. They no longer form pockets of white gunk. My mom told me she suffered from terrible BB when she was my age as well as many bouts of tonsillitis until she had hers removed. I believe I inherited her propensity to get smelly germs stuck in my tonsils and hope I may have a cure in a tonsillectomy.
I apologize for this long-winded post, just wanted to stay loyal to the group and try to give some clues as to possible remedies.
P.S. I am still not sure if its contagious. I have a girlfriend who I regularly tongue-kiss and she seems completely un-affected. But in the past I have had a gf who developed a really nasty looking infection in the back of her throat not too long after we started making out. It went away with medicine and she seems fine now. My theory is that a person's individual immune-system is the main factor in determining if BB bacteria can cause chronic halitosis.
