---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------hungrygirl wrote:How do they do it?
I know and have met lots of people with bb and i've been thinking lately how others interacted with these individuals so we can see some examples.
My 1st longterm boyfriend had it pritty bad, wasnt constant but would say 50% of the time and it was fecal, you could smell it from a meter about. He however had lots of good friends, he was social, loved going out and dancing and no one ever misstreated him.
Another friend of mine had it so bad, that when i picked him up in my car and he opened the car door from outside the smell hit me so bad that i wanted to kill him. That was from his mouth, nose, probably from hes ears too, terrible. He is very hadsome and the girls love him.
I have a pupil, she has bb, sometimes quite sitty, other times ... She also has a boyfriend for 4 years.
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Hungrygirl, I think you brought up a very important piece of fact. Forgive me for using your post but it's important.
Let me just throw out this bit of observation..., there has been about five people in my life that I too, thought they had halitosis b/c I could clearly smell/detect repulsive odor from them, and only exclusively from them. My former boss, former coworker, current coworker, and a former college dorm mate.
It puzzled me. But the more I closely observed their interations with other people, it finally dawned on me that somehow the chemical make up from their oral flora, perhaps minor suphur compounds due to gingivitis, ect, mixed with my odor produced a chemical reaction that undeniable digusting. It dawned on me that I was smelling my own odor breathed back to me/backdraft when they spoke to me. What a cruel revelation.
I observed my ex-boss during meetings with others, engaged in face to face conversations, throughout the day and no one reacted to him. He has three kids and a beautiful wife. It finally struck me that somehow, with some people, my odor can be deflected back to me, and he was one of them. He was a dynamic, ambitious man who climbed the ladder of success in the company that I used to work for. I could have been as successful as he, however, (gee I forgot) I have chronic halitosis and he didn't.
My ex college dorm mate is another example. I hated smelling his halitosis during those two years sharing the same dorm with him. He would snick in girls and do the "nasty" ect. I thought how the heck these girls were cluesless of his bad breath? Well several years later (today) I have the answer. It was my odor that was breathe back into my face by him and he wasn't a chronic sufferer like me. He commented about me having BB many times. Believe me, at that time I wanted to say, dude you're the one with bad breath. I am glad I didn't get in his face b/c he probably wld've used the toilet plunger on my mouth.
A chemical reaction mixed w my suphur odor breath and thiers will produce instint halitosis noxous gas; what a cruel revelation.
A while ago a member from China reported that she can smell bad breath of people riding in the same train and bus with her. She said that so many people had bad breath in China. Perhaps this is the exact phononmena that I, and a few of us, had encountered when we catch a whiff of odor from people whom we percieved had bad breath while standing at the check-out line in the supermarket, or talking to a cashier, or in a room where the air is still, warm and dry. These are the perfect temperature/environment when I detect backdraft. Not very often but enought times to remind me that..., you know.
I was no longer in "denial" after this cruel truth. Particularly my ex-boss b/c this example is the most recent so I can be more objective with the observation. I thought he had the wors breath in the world, but now I realized it was mine.
Perhaps this phonomena is NOT such a bad thing as it allows some of us a "live" person to gauge our BB, a person we can detect odor from w/o having to ask someone to smell our breath. I also gave the example of my current Italian co/worker and friend. I can detect my odor from her as well.
I believe chronic sufferers encounter this phononmena often. However, for me everytime this happens I just want to crawl under a rock and hide.
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