u/BugsButty

I feel like a leper. I feel untouchable. I feel smelly.

I shower several times a day with a fresh rag, antibacterial soap and acidified body wash and scrub every piece of my body. Deodorant, baby powder, one wear max before laundering on ANY clothes, wash my sheets once a week, I don't know what else I can do.

People have complained when I'm 30 minutes out of the shower. I do sweat a lot, and sometimes I can smell like a yeasty smell when I've been sweating all day, but otherwise I'm clueless unless someone addresses it, which multiple people have in the past, but not often. It's humiliating. It's isolating. I don't want to go outside and subject others to me. I feel like everyone hates me because I'm offensive without ever trying. What do I do?

Today three separate people chose to get on treadmills directly next to me within 20 minutes of eachother when there were ample unused treadmills.

I'm an introvert and very self conscious of body odor at the gym, so I moved at least one treadmill down the line so I wouldn't have anyone on either side of me TWO TIMES today before I finally left the gym to walk outside where the people weren't the third time a person saddled up next to me.

Why are people doing this?

Obviously if every treadmill is taken it's whatever, can't avoid it.

But people are seeing a beautiful, expansive range of treadmills and choosing to go right beside a stinky stranger and I can't comprehend it.

4/30/26 6:29am Ok, I've enjoyed my time arguing and reading your guys' comments in LemonGrabs' voice, but I still don't understand why people are mad as my choice to move negatively impacted 0 people. If anyone could explain it'd satisfy my curiosity. :)