Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

Tara wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:22 am Ive done two endoscopys and according to my doctors thrs nothing wrong with me and its all in my head.but i can actually taste that nasty breath in the back of my throat.my throat and my nasal cavity is always dry even if i drink 2trs of water.i just finished my 15 day fluconazole courde.n no improvement.i dont drink or smoke.but my breath is so bad i cant even go to work..can someone suggest me something pleassseee

Tara wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 1:34 pm Yes i was wide awake during my procedure .it wasnt painfull.but really really uncomfortable. i ddi an upper endoscopy to examine the upper part of the digestive tract.

Tara wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 1:34 pm Yes i was wide awake during my procedure .it wasnt painfull.but really really uncomfortable. i ddi an upper endoscopy to examine the upper part of the digestive tract.

heywait wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:07 am

Chronic dry mouth is called xerostomia, a condition where your mouth doesn't produce enough saliva, so talk about that with a dentist or ent, and indeed it can lead to bad breath mostly morning breath.

Also, you say you can't smell anything when you do the lick test, but you feel like others do despite holding your breath.
Have anyone told you got bad breath? Some will tell directly others will say something like "have you eaten today" or " did you eat onion?" I'm asking this because you seem to overexaggerate people's reactions, there's a condition called halitophobia where people are convinced they got bad breath despite no one around being able to smell it. Just ask a family member or a doctor if they can smell it. There are stories of people who spent 10-15 years in self isolation thinking they got BB, and no one could convince them otherwise, the problem solved when they got into therapy and learned not to read too much into any simple gesture like people scratching their noses. So, even if you feel like you got bad breath, if no one can perceive it then it's not a problem. This is similar to other conditions like anorexia, those people are fixated on the idea that they are fat and won't listen to anyone around them leading to a life of depression and basically self harm. So, just make sure others feel it too by asking them directly and not reading into their gestures.


An advice i can give you is to not be ashmed to tell doctors about your problem, for 10 years I was embarrassed to tell doctors I got bad breath so I just mentioned things like:" I think I have a cavity, I got a white tongue, I got tonsils stones,..etc." This resulted in me spending a lot of money on consultations and unnecessary tonsils,and nose surgeries.
It's only when I got the courage to tell a dentist about my chronic bad breath he checked each of my teeth and told me it's not a dental issue but probably a gastrointestinal disease. This way I found about my chronic silent reflux and keep a strict diet to keep it at bay.