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Intermittent fecal/sulfur breath odor
After scouring the web, I'm certain I'm not the only person with this problem, and not the only person who's been told they were imagining it. Anyway, the issue is I have intermittent odors when I talk (yes, I've been to the dentist 10+ times-- all say my oral hygiene is on point and xrays and inspections showed nothing). The only time it's practically non-existent is when I eat an unhealthily low-carb diet. Like others online, I've had CT scans, Barium swallows, endosocopy/colonoscopy, screening for parasites (getting one more from an IDS before crossing that off my list). All showed up negative. I tested positive for SIBO, but after researching that for the past 3 years, I'm certain SIBO is more of a symptom than a primary causal problem. Furthermore, even when I treated SIBO with heavy antibiotics, it did absolutely nothing for my breath-- and yes I was cleared of SIBO after a couple rounds of work. yet, the moment I eat carbs, I still get a "did someone just s*it themselves?" comment.
I guess what I'm getting at is I'm tired of doctors just saying it's IBS and SIBO and then proceeding to do zero investigating afterwards. I want to get down to the root cause of this, but most doctors are either too apathetic or too incompetent to do anything. Are there any researchers who specialize in studying and diagnosing hard to find problems in the GI tract? Between the 3 GI docs, 2 ENTs, 2 NDs and 1 IDS, I just can't take normal doctors anymore. I want my life back and I want a specific root cause so I can work on progressing from there.
Further notes: Diarrhea actually cleared up when I ate junk food and I had zero bloating, albeit the odor remained.
Xifaxan and neomycin did nothing for the odor, nor did the elemental diet. I actually think the elemental diet made the smell as bad or
worse than before.
*******Nitazoxanide********** worked wonders for the month I was on it. Solid stools even with foods that normally cause my ibs to flare up.
It's exactly the reason I felt there was more going on to everything than just SIBO and IBS.
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I have had 3 scopes and I assume if I have h pylori, that is where they would have seen it.
No sibo test. I've thought about ordering an at home test. I haven't seen a gastroenterologist in years. I just got so frustrated with them and the whole process. The final straw was a doctor telling me she didn't care when I tried to tell her about this problem. Totally shut me down. She was only interested in setting up the scope procedure. My problem didn't fall into the normal acid reflux spectrum so she didn't even want to talk about it.
You would need to take the breath test to find H. Plylori. The scope probably wouldn’t find it. It measures gases, hydrogen and methane, I believe. You will have to blow into a bag, then drink a liquid, wait 15 minutes, and blow in the bag again. For SIBO, you need to take a breath test as well. I didn’t even have most of the symptoms of H. Plylori. I would get occasional abdomen pain, and the fart odor coming from my mouth. If it wasn’t for the odor, I could tolerate the occasional pain.
Have you tried digestive enzymes? My theory is your body isn’t producing enough acid to breakdown the carbs, which allows them sit and ferment in your gut longer, in turn it causes an overgrowth of bacteria. I use to take a supplement with Betaine HCL; it helped a lot, but the company stopped selling it in tablet form in the U.S. Other brands don’t seem to help.
A biopsy of the stomach and duodenum at time of Endoscopy is the gold standard to diagnose an H Pylori infection. A breath test is done a month after antibiotic treatment for H Pylori to determine if the eradication was successful.
An H Pylori infection of the stomach will give you ‘shit breath’. I am a dentist who takes immaculate care of my mouth. So I got so offended when my wife told me I had terrible breath. I subsequently got a diagnosis for H pylori from a biopsy at endoscopy.
This is one real possibility.
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2 ReactionsHello You are the first person that I was having this belching and it was terrible the odor was sulfur an I would have to run outside holding my breath it started 5 years ago, I went to my doctors, they thought I was crazy , I haven’t had any problems for a year now but I started having digestive problems when the belching stoped I just recently had a colonoscopy and found UC an the symptoms are horrible I’m waiting on a referral , thank you I know that I’m not alone .
I am not a doctor but I do have digestive issues and was just wondering if you have been tested for stomach motility issues. I did have a problem that involved my stomach not being able to actually digest the food I put into it. Not sure if it caused bad breath but it stands to reason if the stomach can’t process the food and it stays there for a long time there could be breath issues. I had an awful lot of tests and was diagnosed with a classic case of lazy stomach.
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1 ReactionOne doctor told me if the smell in in the nose and throat then it is coming from somewhere in the body. Could be the tongue
I had test for this from biopsy but it was negative
I've went through a couple boats of sulfur breath before, and I discovered that when I eat too much protein in the form of meat that this happens to me.