It's gone
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:47 am
Hello everyone,
I will give here a detailed background to my problem. I am a 24 yr old student and I have dealt with bad breathe for two years. The past 18 months or so I didn't care at all, I thought well yeah its normal, I should brush more, floss, chew gum all day and worst case go see a dentist. But nothing changed, it ruined many dates with other girls and just killed my social interactions in university. I worked part time also in a type of work where I had to communicate with clients, and I saw the reactions all the time, wasn't too good. I quit the job for other reasons but I'm sure someone would have told me sooner or later. I tried to cure it once for all so I bought a certain brand (I don't know if I'm allowed to state the label on the forum). It worked the first time, I was happy that it went away that easy. The second time it stopped working. So I tried all their product, I thought eventually something was going to work, and If I have to pay 50$ every month so be it. But unfortunately, or fortunately it didn't work so now I knew that it is serious. And I post on the acute subsection because when I did the finger test it smelled like feces, and I know it was bad. I always had the morning breath, a permanent feeling/taste close to the teeth in the back of my jaw. I went to the ENT, he said nothing was wrong and scheduled me for X-ray on my chest. I thought that I wasn't going to do that and that's stupid (like I know more than a doctor, lol). I should have I guess.
I'm going to tell right away what I did and tell you about my background after, maybe some can recognize the same.
So for the first time the bad breath is gone. I did the finger test last night and smelled nothing, so I thought it was from the food that I ate and that it was temporary. But the most amazing thing was that this morning I did the finger test as I woke up and smelled nothing. Since I feel that this temporary (or permanent, if the Universe aligns for me) success was due to this forum I wanted to share my story.
So right away I started doing what is written in this thread,
viewtopic.php?t=3886
and it made a lot of sense. I went to buy the enzymes but I was hesitant, I didn't want to rely on it. In 2 weeks I have only used it 5 times, during lunch (noon meal), therefore I don't believe it is the most important point.
But, I must say that I liked right away the idea that the breath doesn't originate in the mouth but in the stomach, so it was time for a diet change. I read a little about alkaline food and added a lot more raw vegetables to my plate. I reduced everything else and doubled up on raw green stuff. As I will say later for my background, it was very hard for me to not eat too much. I have always worked out and eating less means losing weight, specially for something that I wasn't sure was going to work. But now I know that it works (at least for today and yesterday).
So to recapitulate, I reduced everything else for the lunch, especially the meat, which I thought would give me the most digestive problem, and added a lot of raw stuff (pepper, lettuce, broccoli). Sometimes I used the enzymes, but not always. For a snack I would just make a salad of cucumber, tomato and lettuce and noticed that it worked sort of like a mouth cleaner, I wouldn't have bad breath for a while, but of course it came back after.
At night I just refuse to eat meat, so rice, pasta, eggs or vegetables. I would still make sure that it is something that is easy to digest and not mix too many types of food at the same time.
Finally, to make sure that there is no build up for too long, I started taking slowly fibre supplements. After 2-3 days of functioning (read : heavy toilet work) , the bad smell went away.
This is what I plan to do for at least a month. A lot of vegetables, especially raw. Fibre supplements, drop the enzymes supplement and hopefully this is a final solution.
My background, I have always had allergies, and recently I felt a strong activity in my nose and throat region (I swallow all the time, my nose is blocked most of the time etc.) that pushed me to go to the ENT to see if the bad breath doesn't come from the 'post nasal drip'.
Two years ago (plus or minus some months) I started drinking milk heavily, 1-2 Liter per day. I became lactose intolerant and I had serious bloating. This made me think that I might have digestive problems for other foods too, as I was always bloated most of the time (since I started doing the new 'diet' I'm not bloated). Also I started taking whey gainer, for a good year and stopped when my bad breath became serious.
This is all, this is my first sign of progress since forever.
I will give here a detailed background to my problem. I am a 24 yr old student and I have dealt with bad breathe for two years. The past 18 months or so I didn't care at all, I thought well yeah its normal, I should brush more, floss, chew gum all day and worst case go see a dentist. But nothing changed, it ruined many dates with other girls and just killed my social interactions in university. I worked part time also in a type of work where I had to communicate with clients, and I saw the reactions all the time, wasn't too good. I quit the job for other reasons but I'm sure someone would have told me sooner or later. I tried to cure it once for all so I bought a certain brand (I don't know if I'm allowed to state the label on the forum). It worked the first time, I was happy that it went away that easy. The second time it stopped working. So I tried all their product, I thought eventually something was going to work, and If I have to pay 50$ every month so be it. But unfortunately, or fortunately it didn't work so now I knew that it is serious. And I post on the acute subsection because when I did the finger test it smelled like feces, and I know it was bad. I always had the morning breath, a permanent feeling/taste close to the teeth in the back of my jaw. I went to the ENT, he said nothing was wrong and scheduled me for X-ray on my chest. I thought that I wasn't going to do that and that's stupid (like I know more than a doctor, lol). I should have I guess.
I'm going to tell right away what I did and tell you about my background after, maybe some can recognize the same.
So for the first time the bad breath is gone. I did the finger test last night and smelled nothing, so I thought it was from the food that I ate and that it was temporary. But the most amazing thing was that this morning I did the finger test as I woke up and smelled nothing. Since I feel that this temporary (or permanent, if the Universe aligns for me) success was due to this forum I wanted to share my story.
So right away I started doing what is written in this thread,
viewtopic.php?t=3886
and it made a lot of sense. I went to buy the enzymes but I was hesitant, I didn't want to rely on it. In 2 weeks I have only used it 5 times, during lunch (noon meal), therefore I don't believe it is the most important point.
But, I must say that I liked right away the idea that the breath doesn't originate in the mouth but in the stomach, so it was time for a diet change. I read a little about alkaline food and added a lot more raw vegetables to my plate. I reduced everything else and doubled up on raw green stuff. As I will say later for my background, it was very hard for me to not eat too much. I have always worked out and eating less means losing weight, specially for something that I wasn't sure was going to work. But now I know that it works (at least for today and yesterday).
So to recapitulate, I reduced everything else for the lunch, especially the meat, which I thought would give me the most digestive problem, and added a lot of raw stuff (pepper, lettuce, broccoli). Sometimes I used the enzymes, but not always. For a snack I would just make a salad of cucumber, tomato and lettuce and noticed that it worked sort of like a mouth cleaner, I wouldn't have bad breath for a while, but of course it came back after.
At night I just refuse to eat meat, so rice, pasta, eggs or vegetables. I would still make sure that it is something that is easy to digest and not mix too many types of food at the same time.
Finally, to make sure that there is no build up for too long, I started taking slowly fibre supplements. After 2-3 days of functioning (read : heavy toilet work) , the bad smell went away.
This is what I plan to do for at least a month. A lot of vegetables, especially raw. Fibre supplements, drop the enzymes supplement and hopefully this is a final solution.
My background, I have always had allergies, and recently I felt a strong activity in my nose and throat region (I swallow all the time, my nose is blocked most of the time etc.) that pushed me to go to the ENT to see if the bad breath doesn't come from the 'post nasal drip'.
Two years ago (plus or minus some months) I started drinking milk heavily, 1-2 Liter per day. I became lactose intolerant and I had serious bloating. This made me think that I might have digestive problems for other foods too, as I was always bloated most of the time (since I started doing the new 'diet' I'm not bloated). Also I started taking whey gainer, for a good year and stopped when my bad breath became serious.
This is all, this is my first sign of progress since forever.