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Bad Breath Since the Age of 10.
Bad Breath Since the Age of 10.
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I learnt more about BB in the past 2 years or so since joining this site than in the whole time I spent having BB. Its all about trial and error, dont expect the cure to come to you, YOU have to go out and find it. Forget about embarrassments. Become assertive and FORCE your doctors to take you seriously. Build up a plan with them and go thru things methodically. You might have the simplest of causes right under your nose just waiting to be discovered - once you get the right help. Snap out of the idea that just because the simple measures you've taken so far havent worked must mean your problem has to be so deep seated and complicated. Believe me, with the right help, the solution could be far simpler than you can imagine. So be positive, work on making a plan and then sticking to it.
Being told something so cruelly at such a young age will have magnified this problem in your head. You might even find out eventually that whatever problem you think you have isnt actually anything like as bad as you think it is.
You're so right in the fact that bad breath IS curable. There is a reason for every single case of bad breath. For some members on this website I do believe that they're suffering from halitophobia and so we should all ask ourselves has anybody ever directly told us that we have bad breath on a handful of occassions? Somebody may have told you when you were younger and it's stuck in your head. This avenue should ALWAYS be explored thoroughly. Just keep trying everyone
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I've never come across anyone with TMAU or fishy smells. I can rememeber a girl at school who smelled a little bit fishy, but it was mild and if she wanted to i'm sure she could have easily masked it. Her breath didnt smell bad, or fishy for that matter. I know that extreme cases of TMAU can stink a whole house out. If anyone really does have this level of odour, then they either have TMAU or something very similar.
The key point about this is that it is an inevitable fact that anyone who has teeth & gums is GUARANTEED at some point in their lives for problems to occur, which will cause them to have some level of bad breath. And depending on certain aspects, like our confidence levels at the time, others may want to ensure that we know about it. BUT what they dont realise (or maybe their evil does realise) is the seed they are planting in our heads for some of us. From that point on its like a switch has been flicked. We become aware of things we otherwise would not have become aware of. REACTIONS of others, our own tastes, odours, our tongues, our tonsils etc etc. By our own nature we are predisposed to the kind of sensitivity that turns what is nothing more than a harmless annoyance to others, into us becoming prisoners inside our own bodies.
The madness of BB, like most other forms of madness, stems from the unknown. Its impossible to know at any given moment whether your breath smells or not because you cant smell your own breath in the same way that another person can smell it. And because we cant absolutely trust anyone else, let alone ourselves, everything about our problem revolves around this uncertainty. So its about understanding the psychology of this problem as well as the true physiological aspects.
And just think about it. Why would we assume we have have BB because of what we think we can smell or taste, and yet someone you come across who definitely DOES have BB can be so blissfully unaware of it. What the hell is going on? how is this possible that we can be convinced we have BB because we think we can smell or taste it and yet there are people whose breath absolutely does stink but they can remain completely unaware? This is nothing to do with familiarization of odours, its about self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidence self-image. How all of these combine into the development of any obsession.
I know some people are convinced, not only of the fact that they have BB, but also of the type of BB and where it originates. But I'm mostly referring to the original poster of this thread and the trap which I think most of us can relate with.
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Would ANY human being who gets told their breath stinks (whether it did or not) eventually end up convinced they have bad breath once they start obsessing about it? I think so. Once this happens and someone eventually becomes aware of any odour, whether it be from the tongue or the tonsils or wherever, that's the trigger and they are going to be CONVINCED from that point on that they must have BB.