Body Odor After DS ??

To be clear -- SOME people stink post-DS.  These are usually people who cannot or more accurately WILL not control their intake of fartogenic foods (which can vary person to person, but generally include refined flour, beans, broccoli, lactose-containing products -- the usual suspects), or take the minimal steps to address possible gut bacterial balance issues.  These pigs will inflict their dietary indescretions on their co-workers and the general public, and they give ammunition to the anti-DSers.

Another unfortunate group is those DSers who got lousy advice from crappy DS practices.  And finally, there are those who got subpar DSs, including those with too short of a common channel (the DS that was done in the early days often had a 50 cm cc).

They are the exception rather than the rule.

"My" ERny = Body odor similar to rotten cabbage out of skin with metalic taste in mouth and bad breath that could kill, gas that was rarely just "gas" but mostly required a 'pad' with an odor that could clear a restaurant, an airliner, mall (well you get the jest of it)....and the diarreah odor...well......no products could even touch it & the heavy greasy odor followed you out of the bathroom for an hour or two!

I revised to a DS= VERY odiforous flatulance.  Skin is great unless you catch me at the end of a workout.  Breath is great unless I've just downed some Italian food.  Potty is a couple of times a day now instead of non-stop so a good match and a spray of something wonderful takes good care of it.

Other's experience may vary. 

Consider your source as to who told you what and make up your mind to live life to the fullest after your DS while keeping up with courtesy flushes (as you would have pre-op) and stepping outside or away from the group with the possible gas.

Good luck on your journey!!!

Well; I probably did stink for most of last week. I was in Haiti working on a Super Adobe building; it was 95-98 with 80-90% humidity; I've never sweat so much in my life. The only thing I can think of that was even close was summer football practice when I was in High School and College, but that only lasted for an hour or two. The Haiti sweating was 24 / 7 for a week. I probably smelled good for about 15-20 minutes after taking my nightly bucket shower and putting on deodorant. The rest of the time, I'm sure I was pretty stinky.

And to be completely honest, if not for the DS, I would never have had that happen; there's no way I could have ever done what I did for a week as a Morbid Obese man, no way in hell; I would probably have had a heart attack the first day!

Now that I'm home, I only stink when I run or lift weights and get sweaty from that and it doesn't last all day, just until I get home and shower.

What you were told is a lie by someone who should know better but is too damn lazy to get himself educated and trained to do the DS. Stupid, ignorant, greedy, bugger!

Kerry

A doctor said "If you survive."? I would change doctors as I wouldn't trust a surgeon with that attitude with my life no matter what surgery I was having. That's up on par with the PCP who had my mom convinced she was dying two years ago. She is still alive and kicking. Has a new PCP too.

And no, after almost 10 years, I don't have stinky body odor nor has anyone else I have met who has the DS either. And oh, I'm still alive too. Please hang around to see what the real life issues really are with people who have the DS. And read the boards for the other surgeries to see what issues they face also. Then you can make a much more informed decision on what the challenges are for each procedure.

Sophielyn,
I not only survived, I'm thriving.   I am a lucky DSer who, at least so far, can get away with eating just about anything.  It is my understanding that some DSers require a little more dietary discretion to control the odors their body might produce from certain regions at certain times - meaning passing gas.  I do sometimes feel an urge to pass gas, but it is always within my control and I have time to excuse myself and not impose this on anyone.  My poop is definitely stinkier, but kitchen  matches and Ozium are two great products to help out with that, and I don't, as a rule, poop in public, so no worries there.  I say "as a rule" for there is always an exception:  I have small grandchildren who can't stand to have Grammo out of their sight sometimes and they are sometimes willing to endure my odoriferous emanations in the can and they have survived and have come back for more.  Small grandchildren are painfully honest and they will tell me that I am stinky when they have accompanied me to the bathroom.  They otherwise NEVER tell me I am stinky and so I must conclude that, indeed, I am NOT stinky.   Really stinky poop as a trade for the life I am living today?  WORTH IT!
Good luck to you!
Regards,

 i just came across this while searching the internet for some ANSWERS to my problem, i DO smell. Or so i have been told, i cannot smell it, it's not that my farts or poop smells, it's me. i had a DS in 2003, and i was told this was a bad problem in 2004/5. i thought it had cleared up from diet change, but i have noticed a lot of people commenting on a bad smell or a garbage smell around me. my mom told me she smelled it once on me in the last month, but she doesn't see me every day.

this is so anxiety producing for me, i don't want to go in public or be around people... i'm afraid i'll never be able to be in a relationship if i smell like garbage! and i can't tell when it is happening, and lots of people lie when you ask them "do i smell bad?"

i don't eat dairy, grains, processed foods, gluten, or sugar. HELP! i saw some older posts about someone using pancreatic enzymes, did that work???

does anyone know what the cause is? i do feel a little gas pressure in my gut right now, can that come out your pores? i am desperate for a solution. my doctor said "eat less fats and sugars" he doesn't really listen when i tell him i don't eat that crap! and he has no solution because he doesn't believe it exists, he thinks it's my poop i'm talking about.

thanks