does that mean the origin of my bad breath is likely confined inside my mouth and throat?
I’ve been paranoid that I might be the 10% of people who have extraoral halitosis meaning it originates inside the body like the intestines or liver.
but tbh it seems to get worse without mouthwash and during sleep so is it likely just shitty bacteria inside my mouth?
When I rub my back teeth I noticed it smells just like the tonsil stones. It’s like a greasy film that stinks. I brush that whole area including the very backs of my gums and cheeks thoroughly and use mouthwash and it disappears for like 20 minutes, but my breath still will smell bad anyway, and the stinky film will reappear again. This is so nasty.
I’m in the UK but hold a EU passport. The prices here for impacted wisdom teeth are crazy. Been quoted £400 minimum each which would be £1600, not including sedation and x rays.
Otherwise it’s going to be a year on the NHS waiting list. I can’t wait that long. I need these things out asap, they are infected and hurting my mouth.
I’ve heard good things about Hungary and Romania. If you know anywhere that can do surgical wisdom tooth removal for under 200 euros per tooth, please let me know.
I was wondering why my bad breath stopped being so room filling lately. I had been taking mild painkillers. Now it’s starting to make sense. Turns out tylenol (acetaminophen) reduces cysteine and methionine levels in the body. High levels of cysteine and methionine in the body cause that rotten egg/boiled cabbage smell.
Ive long suspected I have a metabolic disorder that causes excess C and M levels. However, you obviously can’t keep taking tylenol forever or even long term, so it is ruled out as a treatment plan. Sucks.
it’s like a sickly sweet rotten smell. Kind of like the smell of home cooking gas, the scent that gas companies use to scent the gas so people will smell it.
anyone else have this particular odor? I’m starting to think I might have hypermethionemia because it smells worse after eating dairy and high protein foods. when I eat fish my body odor starts smelling like fish too.
Google says it’s highly effective against sulfur gas producing bacteria. unfortunately it’s also really hard on the microbiome of your mouth and gut so you will have to take loads of probiotics afterwards to replenish them.
not sure if it’s worth it but I’ve seen a few success stories that make me wonder.
I’ve noticed almost all of us on this sub with bad breath have this issue of a white or yellowish tongue coating and stickiness/cloudiness in the throat. Often our tongues are red tipped or inflamed with bite marks around the edges too, and phlegm at the back.
Even when we tongue scrape and brush our tongues the coating and stickiness seems to remain for a lot of us. When I look at my friends or family members tongues they’re all pink and glossy and normal.
It’s only me who has bad breath and has this whiteish sticky tongue coating. I’ve taken antibiotics and anti fungal/anti candida meds and aside from that the doctor doesnt seem to care at all. When I talk to him about my tongue coloring he looks at me as if I’m crazy.
I’m considering trying to talk with a traditional Chinese medicine doctor because they seem to the be the only people who take tongue coatings seriously and see it as a major sign of internal health problems. I have nothing to lose at this point.
Besides antibiotics like flagyl.
Are there supplements that can reduce the amount of sulfide gases being produced by the tongue and body?
Ive heard about zinc, molybdenum and chlorophyl.
Licorice extract too. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22368239/
Western medicine has let me down so I was reading up about the traditional Chinese medicine approach to treating bad breath.
They believe bad breath is mostly caused by excess heat and dampness in the body, especially in the stomach and blood.
It’s associated with a greasy yellow or sticky white coating on the tongue, feeling hot or overwhelmed all the time, irritability, sweatiness, eczema and dry skin, lower back pain, phlegm, etc. All of which I have.
The treatment is supposed to be about cooling the fire in the stomach and blood, and increasing the yin or feminine/cooling energy in the body, with diet, heat-purging herbs and flower tinctures, teas, etc.
Has anyone tried this approach? I feel like it can’t hurt to try. I’m desperate. I’m going to buy a cheap ‘heat clearing herbal tea’ from a reputable seller soon and in the meantime going to try the ‘cooling foods’ diet. And see if it works. I have nothing to lose at this point.
I met a new doctor today and while he was talking I noticed his breath smelled really bad. it wasnt a food smell. It was one of those internal, rotting kind of smells.
You know like when the bad breath is coming from the stomach or an abscess or a sore inside the throat. He was sitting around 6 feet away from me across a desk and I could still smell his breath from there.
He didn’t seem to realize his breath stank either. He was talking very confidently, standing close to the nurse breathing in her face (she was covering her nose too), he was breathing on me during examination, it was so pungent and it felt weird being on the receiving end of bad breath when usually it’s me.
I also felt kind of hopeless knowing that even a doctor can’t notice or solve their own bad breath issue. How is he supposed to help me solve mine?
How long does your sudden bigeminy episode last? I know some people get it only for a few seconds and others get it for hours.
Ive had two episodes in the last 3 days. Both lasted about a minute-2 minutes each but it feels so much longer. Hard not to panic.
Had to jump up and down to make it stop. I hadn’t had bigeminy in months so it’s always scary when it suddenly happens. I think mine was triggered by spicy food today.