Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

hey people I just wanted to quickly post if anyone has un-explained bb, or your willing to eliminate a possible causes. Make sure its not acid reflux.

i just want to maybe save somebody a few bullshit runs to dentist taking your money.

Im not a professional on this, but I cant tell you how many tears ive cried just becase I was lost in not knowing why i had bb.

Just a few months ago I could not go out anywhere w/o someone smelling my breath, now nobody smells me feet away. (thats a big one for us bb sufferes) I know people come on here and claim to have bb....but just have some minor issue! But there are those of us who are 100% clean freaks, been doing all we can and still have bb...yes that was me!

So here were some of my symptoms that I had:

White-Tongue ( anything you eat sticks on it)

Slight sore throat (not like a cold but irritated feeling)

Ear Pain/ burnng

Swallowing issues (food feeling stuck in upper neck)

Nauseous in the AM (but it goes away once you’ve been up for about 5minutes)

Dehydrated feeling (dry mouth)

Smelly throat (thick salty spit)

Nasty taste around back teeth ( acid migrating in mouth)

Constantly having to swallow a mucous bulge in throat

Sleep Apnea (feels like you need air)

Sleep sitting up

A lot of mucous production

Rush of burn when you lean forward or down to tie shoe.

Constant Feeling of tightness in tummy area.

BAD BREATH!!!!

Ok so if u feel any of this…..try to see if you can begin to take some PPI proton pump inhibitors. I don’t recommed tums for people like me with severe reflux…because honestly they don’t do a thing!
I know theres is a lot of controversy surrounding long term use of PPI’s….but Im healing so forget that, I bet those people don’t have bad breath!

Ok so anyway…You may be in the stages of causing a throat ulcer or just bad scaring from the acid.

Im in the beginning stages of healing years of un-noticed acid reflux. Though Im only 1 month in…I already feel like DAMN….THAT WAS IT! Do u know how it feels to walk through a store and nobody makes a bad breath gesture! In just one month of treating the acid…?? So I will share this all the way on every forum that I can! So just try and see if acid is your issue too! We have lives to re-claim. All of us!

congrats

do you think you will be able to stop taking drugs?

I am not sure what is the proble in my case, but i had this infection feeeling at the back of my throat

like everything is infected back there

and nobody till now claimed that the bb can come from stomach

I ocassionaly have acid reflux, I mean I can feel sometimes the acid but that is rare, I does not hurt me or anything

Jimi
i too ocasionally only have the acid reflux in my mouth come back up when i burp or something but i also have problems with feeling like something is caught in my throat when i eat foods especially like meats or breads and large pills are hard for me to swallow like they get caught in my throat. i have problems with my ear as well and post nasa drip basically sinusesl but no heartburn so i begiining to think my cause maybe silent relfux which is when the top of the esophagus spincther muscles doesn't work right instead of the bottom like with gerds.

free2breath i think your on to something! i have been dealing with the exact same issues!! you're taking prevacid? has it been helping your bad breath? have you asked others or noticed and changes in people's reactions when you talk? also, are there any side effects?

@ruthere1
I take nexium right now. I took the prevacid before I began the nexium. The ENT put me on nexium. I’m not sure but the active ingredient in prevacid and nexium are different.
When I was on the prevacid It worked...but I had to take to take them same time daily or I felt the acid coming on FAST, and I took Alka-Seltzer with it.
Unlike this nexium....I take it everyday but even if I’m late in the day...no acid at all. I have no acid at all.
It’s a lot for me to try to explain because I don’t want to speak too soon. But there are some very obvious changes going on in my throat since I began this nexium last month. My throat feel so different, Is it healing? I don’t know? it feels stripped...when I swallow it just feel different. where as before...My throat was constant coated i think with excessive mucous and acid build-up.
It is my honest thought that I have just bad eroding…so I’m just going to continue taking the pills and fully focus on getting better. Just like you heal anything, you have to give it time and take care of it. I drink warm water and honey in the morning to relax my throat from all the snoring. Then water all day. Then my pill , try not eat unhealthy, ( trying so hard) then warm tea again at night. I don’t sleep laying down, and I turn my head to the right to relax my left side. ( I know its a lot)

@Jimi
I have read on so many site where people take nexium for years! Well for me I refuse too. If your taking pills just so you can eat crappy foods, then its being done in vain.
I have to create a new diet plan

I also have that same feeling in back of my throat , even after I eat I feel it more. Either irritation on that area from years of reflux.

I know we all have different issues on here…but for your throat try to slowly drink some warm water w/ honey in the am. After that it will loosen the buildup in throat. After u let that sit for about a hour drink water ALL FREAKING DAY! Just keep that area as clear as possible, not allowing no buildup. Then the warm water and honey again at night. do what the occasion demands that’s what im doing…just focused on healing my throat and creating a new diet.

i cane across this site that shows how to test for low, too much, or normal acid in the stomach check it out if you suspect either one.

http://www.drdebe.com/stomach-acid-assessment.html

i did this test and burped twice within the five minutes so i assume silent reflux is not the caustive agent for my bb back to square one.

i thinking hpylori now

is it possible to have normal stomach acid and still have silent acid reflux? from my understanding it seems that it is possible if it just means that your top esophogus spinchter muscle isn't working properly and trapping food which explains why most with this don't get heartburn hence the word 'silent'.