Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

Hi friends,

I am wondering how many of you can smell or taste when your breath is bad.

If not, what methods do you use to measure your halitosis?

Sometimes in the morning I have a shitty taste if I force air from my throat out of my nose. The other way I can tell if my breath is bad is by putting my fingers right to the back of my tongue and scraping a bit, then rubbing the saliva on the back of my hand (gross, I know) - This seems to be pretty reliable as far as I can tell.

I think part of this awful condition is that it's so hard to tell when we are improving etc. It makes us paranoid 24/7 because we are always unsure

I can smell and taste it at all time every day. I hate it so much

I can smell and taste it also all the time since using a mouthwash. It's horrible

Oneday4800, what mouthwash? Before that can't smell anything?

I have a bottle of colloidal minerals that I mixed with water for mouthwash. It made my teeth/gums hurt after a few days so I stopped using it. The mix was gross,like bleach times 10. Before using that mixture,I could only smell and taste my bb sometimes at random for 1-2 secs. Now,the smell is always there and I taste it 24/7

Hello

I hav read on some medical books that we are immune to our own breath. It is impossible for us to know how it exactly smells. It means that only a trusted person can tell us if we hav bb. What we smell is the common bb which everybody has. What we smell right now is different from what other people smell from us. Even our own family will deny it.

Ricky wrote:Hello

I hav read on some medical books that we are immune to our own breath. It is impossible for us to know how it exactly smells. It means that only a trusted person can tell us if we hav bb. What we smell is the common bb which everybody has. What we smell right now is different from what other people smell from us. Even our own family will deny it.

Yes I think so too. But i have a bad baste in my mouth most of the time which is a good indicator

Hello again.
I sometimes smell the breath of my officemate. A man. His breath is awful. Like dry morning breath. Or maybe acidic. But the funny thing is, i dont see any reactions from others who smelled his breath. He maybe have the common bad breath which almost everyone have. As for me, i really couldn't smell mine. I do smell something but i am very sure that what i smell differs from what other people smell from me. This is why it is so hard to explain to the doctors. I really get irritated whenever i remember the money that i spent. I think i cud buy a second hand car. ***k!

Hello
I have a theory. We all know that the phlegm that is crawling up in our throat is connected to our bad breath, right? We all have that. And we all know that our breath smells fecal. I think that the odor we smell is a vapor coming from our gut. I think that the phlegm should be tested for its composition. And our stool too. Whatever is to be found there must be different from other people. There must be a connection here. Unfortunately, i'm jobless. I can't afford any of these. Has anyone ever tested their phlegm that is crawling from our throat? Or our stool?

I can only taste mine. I can smell something faint very rarely.

When my mouth is feeling fresher, it feels lighter and there is more saliva, and tastes more neutral (even then I worry though)

If you can not smell or taste it and go off only peoples "reactions", how can you even know that you have bad breath??

jo317 wrote:I can only test mine. I can smell something faint very rarely.

When my mouth is feeling fresher, it feels lighter and there is more saliva, and tastes more neutral (even then I worry though)

If you can not smell or taste it and go off only peoples "reactions", how can you even know that you have bad breath??

You dont. I know because my son tells me. Naturopath will smell your breath, regular doctors wont. At least where I live

jo317 wrote:I can only test mine. I can smell something faint very rarely.

When my mouth is feeling fresher, it feels lighter and there is more saliva, and tastes more neutral (even then I worry though)

If you can not smell or taste it and go off only peoples "reactions", how can you even know that you have bad breath??

I also went to a dentist and took a halimeter test. Thats how you know

I can't smell mine. Surprisingly, fellow suffers can't smell each other too. I don't think all of us have the same type and severity. Somehow, we can smell other strangers' BB.

winter wrote:I can't smell mine. Surprisingly, fellow suffers can't smell each other too. I don't think all of us have the same type and severity. Somehow, we can smell other strangers' BB.

Of course not. Some have room filling bb some bb that you only smell when you come close.

Oops I meant I can only taste mine.

And I suppose, but I've heard those halimeter tests are bullshit