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Perspiration odor
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Mitchum is aces in my book. Use the roll on, if you can find it. Better than the stick. take some Betadine soap and wash your pits every morning….. then apply Mitchum anti persperant
Sinn Fein
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I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar.
Are you low carbing at the time? There is an odour that can come out through the skin in sweat (particularly the chest and head) when people low carb or sometimes go hypo. It is quite a nasty smell, one I can’t describe. There are lots of diabetic smells, from urine (particularly when bg’s are high), on breath, in the skin pores and the armpits – I highly recommend Mitchum brand deodorants for pits. If the odour is from ketones then only you can decide whether you want to compromise your carb intake to be more sociably acceptable. My perspiration since diagnosis is vinegary in odour. In fact I never perspired before diabetes diagnosis so underarm deodorants are a new thing to me.
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I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders "Let’s roll!"
This isn’t a joke. It happened to me, once. Over a span of 37 years of T1 diabetes, anything can happen. This type of BO will defy any form of deodorant, as it is NOT caused by skin bacteria. Even after showering with a strong deodorant soap, it still persisted. It seemed to be coming from my chest, although the sense of smell is hardly directional like sight or hearing. The problem, at least for me, was insufficient insulin, yet there were no ketones in the urine, nor excessively high blood sugar. (There are other symptoms of insulin insufficiency, but they are next to impossible to describe in words.) It was wierd. In switching over to human insulin, though, I have skipped that extra amount, and everything is going fine. This has to be the strangest experience I have ever had with my diabetes, and believe me, there is no simple explanation as to what the source of the odor is. Necrosis? Necrobiosis? Those sources can be smelled in advanced terminal cases found in nursing homes, but I have found that to be far more like over-ripe garbage than BO. I hope this person can find how to solve this problem. It could very well be due to something entirely unrelated to what caused it for me. Michel
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I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else?
Assuming the odor *is* the result of bacterial action in perspiration, there may be another way. Consider the Drionics instrument, a simple and inexpensive way to stop hyperhydrosis (excessive sweating). There’s one for the hands/feet, and another for the underarms. It’s sold by General Medical, I think. Goggle for "Drionics." .
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I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders It’s an *episode*, right? It goes away within a short period of time? Does it smell like the sour, nervous stink when you’re panicky and about to do something incredibly risky, like asking for a raise or telling someone much larger than you to leave the nice lady alone? Then I may have also experienced it when beginning a hypoglycemic episode. Can you keep your glucometer around in case this occurs again? Or do you have a loved one who lives in close enough contact to tell you if they’ve ever noticed it?
It might also be ketones. Get some ketostix and check. Jim
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differentiate that from the "diabetic arm pit smell" very similar smells……. just have to wash the pits out 3 times a day, and apply a GOOD anti perspirant to it the Dr can Rx some heavy duty stuff, but that caused me a rash on top of it
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – take some Betadine soap and wash your pits every morning….. then apply Mitchum anti persperant i get something in the arm pits that just stinks!…… amonia isn’t strong enough of a word and i have good bg control, but still stink unless i do this every night and morning good luck! I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders It’s an *episode*, right? It goes away within a short period of time? Does it smell like the sour, nervous stink when you’re panicky and about to do something incredibly risky, like asking for a raise or telling someone much larger than you to leave the nice lady alone? Then I may have also experienced it when beginning a hypoglycemic episode. Can you keep your glucometer around in case this occurs again? Or do you have a loved one who lives in close enough contact to tell you if they’ve ever noticed it?
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take some Betadine soap and wash your pits every morning….. then apply Mitchum anti persperant i get something in the arm pits that just stinks!…… amonia isn’t strong enough of a word and i have good bg control, but still stink unless i do this every night and morning good luck! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders "Let’s roll!"
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – take some Betadine soap and wash your pits every morning….. then apply Mitchum anti persperant i get something in the arm pits that just stinks!…… amonia isn’t strong enough of a word and i have good bg control, but still stink unless i do this every night and morning good luck! I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders
It’s an *episode*, right? It goes away within a short period of time? Does it smell like the sour, nervous stink when you’re panicky and about to do something incredibly risky, like asking for a raise or telling someone much larger than you to leave the nice lady alone? Then I may have also experienced it when beginning a hypoglycemic episode. Can you keep your glucometer around in case this occurs again? Or do you have a loved one who lives in close enough contact to tell you if they’ve ever noticed it?
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I’m a 52-year-old man, diagnosed with Type II about 10 years ago. Briefly, a few years ago, and again, quite recently, I noticed an unusual odor in my perspiration – especially the perspiration that occurs above chest level – I’ve never been in a position to check my blood sugar at the time, so I don’t know whether this odor accompanies high sugar. These are episodes that follow breakfast, usually, by about an hour or so. I’d like to say the odor reminds me of ammonia, but I’m not sure that’s it. Is this experience a known symptom of diabetes, or would it be something else? Eric C. Sanders "Let’s roll!"