HELP!!! Sour milk / rotting vegetables smell

Okay, I learned via my bf that I sometimes would smell like rotting vegetables.  Previously, he was smelling it when I would breathe out through my nose -- he said it smelled like rotting vegetables and I would sometimes taste of them too.  It showed up less when I breathed out through my mouth than through my nose.  I eventually was treated with some antibiotics for a couple of possible sources of a fever including the possibility of a sinus infection.  After taking the antibiotics, the rotten veggie smell went away.  But, it has recently been making it's way back with just some wiffs of it here or there (I can't smell it but the odor is coming from me and my sinuses are always messed up due to a variety of seasonal allergies). 

Today when I got home, the rotten veggies smell was back and worse than it had ever been before and this time it was coming more from my mouth when I breathe out versus my sinuses.  To emphasize how bad it is, my boss looked at me funny at work and thought my lunch might be smelling funny and closed my office door to contain the smell; at home, I went to bed and my bf stayed up awhile but when he came into the bedroom (door was closed) he said the WHOLE ROOM smelled of the rotting vegetable smell!!!  Now, I want to say, my bf is INCREDIBLY supportive about the whole rotting vegetable saga and has worked hard to not make me feel bad or self-conscious about it.  But this time the smell was apparently just over the top.

So, I have had the rotting smell issue before this week though it had gotten much better post-antibiotics and had previously seemed to stem mostly from my sinuses.

Fast forward to today, I have been working toward going low carb over this last week and I suspect that I might have finally gone into ketosis today.  I know that at work, I was definitely functioning on a low carb day today.  I've had some missteps this week, carb-wise, but I've been making improvements and I feel I've been succeeding in going lower carb.  So, I think today, I might have slipped into full blown ketosis.  So, I suspect the rotting/sour smell might have been from that.  I HAD NO IDEA IT WOULD BE THAT INTENSE!  And, of course, I don't know for sure that it was a ketosis response.  It could have been something else all together.

What I have done:  I took some probiotics after the antibiotics in the form of Kefir and Good Belly but I haven't had any in maybe three weeks.

What I'm planning to do:  I'm going to pick up some probiotics today, probably pill form, and hit them kind of hard.  I'm also upping my carbs with as many sweets and/or complex carbs as I care to have for a day or two.  And, I haven't been taking any zinc with any kind of regularity.  I suspect it gives me belly aches so I tend to avoid that pill.  I'm going to pick some more up and start taking it as well.  I've heard that it can be useful toward controlling body odors.  In a few days, I will refocus my diet with a possible starting point of 70 carbs a day and slowly decrease them to see where I start to lose weight.  I've gained 10 or 15 lbs and I'm wanting to get them off.  In addition to that, I fell short of my wt loss goals by about 50 lbs (now plus an additional 10 - 15).  I haven't been working out with any type of regularity.  I will increase carbs and will work hard to increase activity and watch to see where the balance is between carbs and activity that will lead to weight loss.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Any hints as to what might be going on in case it's not ketosis?  Any suggestions as to the type of probiotics?  Any wt loss/not-so-low carb suggestions?

Thank you all.  I appreciate you reading all of that!  And I appreciate any guidance you can give.  THANK YOU!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primal Defense Ultra is very high strength and one I've seen recommended by DSers repeatedly.

Thank you!  I'm heading out this morning to pick some probiotics up.  I'll look for that brand.  I'm gonna try to get two kinds.  I've heard a lot of people mention combining types to get better probiotic coverage. 

Just saw someone else recommending this one on another thread on here http://www.renewlife.com/ultimate-flora-super-critical-200-b illion.html this one has 200 billion probiotic cells vs Primal Defense Ultra's 15 billion.  

It may be one to work up to if the lower one doesn't help.  Hopefully you'll start to see a difference in a few days!! :-D

Thanks!  I think that Rite Aid might have had that one!  I'll check it out.

BTW Amazon has Primal.

Ouch it's expensive!  Maybe just do it for 7 days and then go on Primal Defense Ultra for maintenance assuming that probiotics do do the trick for you.

lol... Yeah, I'm surprised at how much some of the probiotics cost!  Between vitamins, protein galore, wow... it all adds up!!!

A nettie pot may help with the sinuses, which can cause some horrible breath.  My mother does it every morning to clear them out through the summer.

I've got one but haven't used it since before I took the antibiotics.  I'm glad you metioned it.  I need to get back to using mine.