Persistent body odor for 8 years, WHAT is this??
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Hi, I'm 22 and female. I'm sorrt if this post is too long but this is a cry for help if someone can help please. Since I was 13 years old I've had an armpit odor that no matter every single thing I try, it seems it won't go away. Started in my early teens/puberty I would get the occasional body odor that is normal in preteens but it didn't happen everyday maybe once every 4 or 5 months, so I wasn't worried but when I was 13, a couple of months from turning 14, when I went to school I realized I smelled and everyone in the class was talking "Someone smells. Yeah and it's one of the girls!" I knew it was me but I was convinced that if I showered better next day I wouldn't be smelling, but how wrong was I. Long and multiple showers, changing to strong deos even driclor, using lemon, baking soda, acv, toothpaste, alcohol, clyndamicine, fusidic acid, fungus cream -I put everything in my armpits and it didn't help at all, most of them even made things worse. I would cry myself when i came home and had suicidal thoughts, the fact that I also suffer from generalized anxiety and chronic depression and ocd didn't help at all. My family didn't understand always judging, and I haven't told them what I went thru in school cause I know they'd blame me. I know they love me but since they don't have this problem they don't understand me. Bullying happened everywhere I went, school was a nightmare, gettin in the bus was a living hell. I had even grown azz adults bullying me. So that's why I also developed a social phobia and fear and hate interacting with others.
Right now I'm finishjng uni, still dealing with this, and about 6 years ago the odor also started in my groin and abdomen. (I have a bit of hair in my abdomen if that's a factor). I ultimately have bought a lot of supplements like different brands of chlorophyll, activated charcoal, vitamins b2 and b6, alfalfa, spirulina and many more but I haven't seen any improvement. I've spent thousands going to 5 dermatologists and 2 endocrinologist and they were useless. My armpits have this punget smell like mold, feet, pus, onions it's so grosss. My groin smells like onion or fish and people can smell it from far. They probably talk barbaric things about me. I was on metronidazoles but it didn't help amd only made my urine dark.They probably talk barbaric things about me. Don't know what to do at this moment, I just want a normal life, I will graduate with honors and will go to Madrid or London to study Forensic Psychology but with this odor, I'm so limited and inhibited from doing things I want, I have to turn down guy's invitations cause I'm afraid they will discover my dirty little smelly secret :'( If any of you is going through the same or has some experience please don't doubt in talking to me
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LinAon michelletatiana
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hi! I'm the same age as you and also a female. I'm a Psychology graduate. Idk if you still keep track of this post and I've come across it just recently. I suffer from the same thing. I dont even know how I was able to finish HS and college knowing that everyone found me repulsive. Somehow i tried staying oblivious to all the bullying for so long that all that pent up emotion just burst inside of me after a couple of years working. I was constantly bullied at work, theyd call me names and I would run to the bathroom and cry almost everyday so I decided to quit. I got so depressed and was unemployed for almost a year. To this day I
still suffer from it. I'm at the verge of taking my own life because i no longer find hope due to this. This odor caused me my life and my dreams. I know u were anticipating for someone to comment a cure but ive joined tons of groups on Facebook of people who we can relate to but they all do not know how to cure it. I feel hopeless.