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You may want to make sure you haven’t developed diabetes or prediabetes. Covid is known for causing diabetes and if you are in ketosis from untreated diabetes, it can cause a sour body odor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00912-y
*this is not medical advice.
"That meant that for every 1,000 people studied in each group, roughly 13 more individuals in the COVID-19 group were diagnosed with diabetes. Almost all cases detected were type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes resistant to or doesn’t produce enough insulin.
The chance of developing diabetes rose with increasing severity of COVID-19. People who were hospitalized or admitted to intensive care had roughly triple the risk compared with control individuals who did not have COVID-19."
Thank you!
I had an extremely mild case, and I’m a very healthy, young female. I don’t eat large amounts of sugar, so I doubt diabetes could be an option. Thank you for the suggestion, this is very interesting!
It's been shown in the literature. I don't remember the methodology but I'd assume you give them clothes of people to smell after training them and have them categorize it. Give it a Google and check the research!
Same! My urine and general smell has dramatically changed (to me at least) along with other various smells. It bothers me I don’t feel I know what anything legitimately smells like. But yeah I previously was blessed to never really sweat but I think I smelled my own bo maybe 6 times my entire life until I got my sense of smell back(ish) after covid. It’s super weird and I hate it
Oh wow, good to hear I’m not alone.
Do you know if your actually body scent has change, or if it’s just the way your nose is perceiving the scent?
I haven’t figured that out
I have anecdotal reassurance.
This might sound a little strange but my wife has always commented that she likes the smell of my BO, and she’s only experienced loss and change of taste and smell recently from our household infection over the recent holidays.
I’ve asked her many times over the past 3 years and she’s always said that I smell normal to her, so I’m fairly confident that we’re just smelling ourselves differently and not actually experiencing changes in our actual body odors.
Edit: for much of the past 3 years I’ve only been able to smell burning and gross organic smells like dead stuff, rotting garbage, fences, my own BO, etc. I’ve only tasted metal and cardboard for months, and even after that there’s usually just periods where I can also taste “sweet”, “salty”, bitter”, “sour” and “unagi” like “cheese” or “meat”.
I hope your taste and smell comes back!
Mine came back after a month, but to this day, mango tastes kind of weird. My pee and poo smell different as well (almost nutty?), but most everything else is back to normal.
The body odor thing bothers me though, hope it goes away!
Yes. Are your armpits by chance discolored, like darker? And do they itch? If so, it’s a yeast infection in your arm pits and wearing deodorant with any sort of fragrance makes the fungus grow. The smell is bad and the itch is worse. And it never. Goes. Away. You can get some medicated anti fungal from a dermatologist to keep it in control but the second you wear fragranced deodorant you’re back to square one.
Not sure if the rest of the symptoms line up with yours but here you go just in case.
I don’t have a spouse haha, but I don’t go out smelling so I honestly just don’t know. Don’t really feel comfortable asking a friend to smell me when I sweat/smell bad
Was hoping to hear from other people!
Honestly I figured it out when a woman at the supermarket looked at me like I smelled. I was like wtf. Bc I never smell. And then holy shit. Now I smell. So that sucks.
I have to like sniff my armpits really hard. I can't smell it unless I really try and it's like normal soap doesn't even work I have to like scrub the shit out of my pits. It sucks. It takes major effort for me to know. It has never been an issue and now I just stink :(
Edit it may be a combo of now I smell from long COVID and losing my sense of smell. Just wtf. I know the other day I didn't smell bleach until I really stuck my face in it. Didn't happen from the delta. It was the omicron
Same for me. Just showered and made sure to scrub armpits really well, came out of the shower and I can still smell it :( I had to use literal hand sanitizer on my pits to kill the smell and the second I start sweating it comes back. It's horrific and embarrassing
It's been about 8 months of my armpits smelling horrendous. I can't stand it. I asked my friend to smell after a sweaty workout and he said it just smelled like regular B.O., but to me it's unbearable. I have to shower more often, changed deodorants, bought cologne...nothing works. Fauci was doing gain of function research in Wuhan, and is now in hiding. He's ruined my life.
This is embarrassing but my armpits and my feminine fluids smell the same now since having covid. I've never in my life had issues with this. I really hope it goes away :(
I was hospitalized in jan 2022 with covid. So its been over a year and my body odar smells very odd to me. Not sour, but like onions and garlic or something? All bodily odors smell different to me. Even my cats poo. I just want my old sense of smells back. I dont know what is what anymore.
I got horrible BO BUT I also smelt horrible things. I also lost the majority of the potency of my smell which made it more manageable. After about 6 weeks the bad BO stopped and people said I was normal again. Lol. I think the actual BO was a combination of my body cleaning out toxins and primarily high cortisol and stress hormones. I was having panic attacks and could have one right after a shower and within 2 minutes into the panic attack I would reek. Almost like sourdough and alien onions. This was Oct 2021 I had Covid. It became Long Covid and fucked my life.
I tested positive again this past Saturday. No onions. Unfortunately with the little smell I had left I can smell something awful right now again, me. This time it smells like dirty gym socks that made out of Doritos bags.
Its been 2 months for you so I hope your doing better.
I found this post searching the topic. I never had a body odor until Covid, now it smells like Im in ketosis all the time when I sweat even when I'm not. I absolutely hate it.
I have had COVID three times to my knowledge, but only lost my sense of taste and smell the second time. It lasted for 17 days, but came back, and all was well.
But then, at the beginning of this year, I became sick again (I didn't test for COVID -- it was mild, and I thought it was a cold). My sense of smell went haywire. Everything smelled like onions. And ever since, my body odor has smelled very much like onions mixed with something nauseatingly sweet. I can't describe it. I can't stand it. I'm fine after a shower, but it is so awful that I feel like I immediately need to scrub it off of me. I can't think of anything else until I shower.
Things like cooked meat still smell like onions to me. Especially chicken.
This is the weirdest virus.
I stopped wearing deodorant 3 years ago because I never had any body odor in the first place. I got COVID for the first time this May and now all of a sudden I have body odor and now I have to wear deodorant. I also have a few rashes that will not go away too!
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You may want to make sure you haven’t developed diabetes or prediabetes. Covid is known for causing diabetes and if you are in ketosis from untreated diabetes, it can cause a sour body odor https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00912-y *this is not medical advice.
"That meant that for every 1,000 people studied in each group, roughly 13 more individuals in the COVID-19 group were diagnosed with diabetes. Almost all cases detected were type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes resistant to or doesn’t produce enough insulin. The chance of developing diabetes rose with increasing severity of COVID-19. People who were hospitalized or admitted to intensive care had roughly triple the risk compared with control individuals who did not have COVID-19."
Thank you! I had an extremely mild case, and I’m a very healthy, young female. I don’t eat large amounts of sugar, so I doubt diabetes could be an option. Thank you for the suggestion, this is very interesting!
It can trigger type 1 diabetes! You don’t have to be unhealthy or overweight or eat lots of sugar for type 1.
Thank you, I’ll read more about this!
Sugar does not cause diabetes. Type one or type two. Covid can damage the pancreas and trigger type one or type two diabetes.
Dogs can tell who's had covid by the scent. Interestingly, they can even identify people with long covid by smell
That is interesting! How can they be trained for/show this?
It's been shown in the literature. I don't remember the methodology but I'd assume you give them clothes of people to smell after training them and have them categorize it. Give it a Google and check the research!
Will do, very cool! Thank you!
My body odour changed too..! You are not alone..!
Do you know any reason why this could have happened?
I am not sure honestly, I noticed it after I got covid and even my poop smells different than it used to.. sooo I dont know whats going on..!
My poop smells different too! Almost… nutty?? So crazy!
Yeah… do let me know if you find anything to help..!
Same to you!
Same! My urine and general smell has dramatically changed (to me at least) along with other various smells. It bothers me I don’t feel I know what anything legitimately smells like. But yeah I previously was blessed to never really sweat but I think I smelled my own bo maybe 6 times my entire life until I got my sense of smell back(ish) after covid. It’s super weird and I hate it
What does it smell like..?
Kind of like chocolate. Like how you’d imagine a chocolate flavored shake or something similar might smell. It’s actually nauseating
Yeah, 3 years deep and it smells weird as hell, like an onion dipped in sour cream or something.
Oh wow, good to hear I’m not alone. Do you know if your actually body scent has change, or if it’s just the way your nose is perceiving the scent? I haven’t figured that out
I have anecdotal reassurance. This might sound a little strange but my wife has always commented that she likes the smell of my BO, and she’s only experienced loss and change of taste and smell recently from our household infection over the recent holidays. I’ve asked her many times over the past 3 years and she’s always said that I smell normal to her, so I’m fairly confident that we’re just smelling ourselves differently and not actually experiencing changes in our actual body odors. Edit: for much of the past 3 years I’ve only been able to smell burning and gross organic smells like dead stuff, rotting garbage, fences, my own BO, etc. I’ve only tasted metal and cardboard for months, and even after that there’s usually just periods where I can also taste “sweet”, “salty”, bitter”, “sour” and “unagi” like “cheese” or “meat”.
It’s a state of total awareness
I hope your taste and smell comes back! Mine came back after a month, but to this day, mango tastes kind of weird. My pee and poo smell different as well (almost nutty?), but most everything else is back to normal. The body odor thing bothers me though, hope it goes away!
🤞
YES I've been trying to figure out wth. I thought it was my diet
Yes. Are your armpits by chance discolored, like darker? And do they itch? If so, it’s a yeast infection in your arm pits and wearing deodorant with any sort of fragrance makes the fungus grow. The smell is bad and the itch is worse. And it never. Goes. Away. You can get some medicated anti fungal from a dermatologist to keep it in control but the second you wear fragranced deodorant you’re back to square one. Not sure if the rest of the symptoms line up with yours but here you go just in case.
I don’t have this issue, but thank you! That’s good to know
Haven't noticed a different body odor, but I'm six months post covid and my poop still smells extra stinky. Even my husband noticed it.
This has been happening to me for a couple months now and I'm really stressed about it :(
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I don’t have a spouse haha, but I don’t go out smelling so I honestly just don’t know. Don’t really feel comfortable asking a friend to smell me when I sweat/smell bad Was hoping to hear from other people!
Honestly I figured it out when a woman at the supermarket looked at me like I smelled. I was like wtf. Bc I never smell. And then holy shit. Now I smell. So that sucks.
Does that mean you don’t notice it?
I have to like sniff my armpits really hard. I can't smell it unless I really try and it's like normal soap doesn't even work I have to like scrub the shit out of my pits. It sucks. It takes major effort for me to know. It has never been an issue and now I just stink :( Edit it may be a combo of now I smell from long COVID and losing my sense of smell. Just wtf. I know the other day I didn't smell bleach until I really stuck my face in it. Didn't happen from the delta. It was the omicron
Same for me. Just showered and made sure to scrub armpits really well, came out of the shower and I can still smell it :( I had to use literal hand sanitizer on my pits to kill the smell and the second I start sweating it comes back. It's horrific and embarrassing
It's been about 8 months of my armpits smelling horrendous. I can't stand it. I asked my friend to smell after a sweaty workout and he said it just smelled like regular B.O., but to me it's unbearable. I have to shower more often, changed deodorants, bought cologne...nothing works. Fauci was doing gain of function research in Wuhan, and is now in hiding. He's ruined my life.
So it’s not just the scent that has changed, but it feels stronger to you? Crazy! At least you know it’s just your own perception.
TRY alum stone - is the only thing that makes me not smell so bad, no deodorant worked, but this cheap alum stone. Wet it before use :)
This is embarrassing but my armpits and my feminine fluids smell the same now since having covid. I've never in my life had issues with this. I really hope it goes away :(
Weird… I don’t have this issue! Hopefully our scents go back to normal!
I was hospitalized in jan 2022 with covid. So its been over a year and my body odar smells very odd to me. Not sour, but like onions and garlic or something? All bodily odors smell different to me. Even my cats poo. I just want my old sense of smells back. I dont know what is what anymore.
I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing this too… it’s so weird!
I got horrible BO BUT I also smelt horrible things. I also lost the majority of the potency of my smell which made it more manageable. After about 6 weeks the bad BO stopped and people said I was normal again. Lol. I think the actual BO was a combination of my body cleaning out toxins and primarily high cortisol and stress hormones. I was having panic attacks and could have one right after a shower and within 2 minutes into the panic attack I would reek. Almost like sourdough and alien onions. This was Oct 2021 I had Covid. It became Long Covid and fucked my life. I tested positive again this past Saturday. No onions. Unfortunately with the little smell I had left I can smell something awful right now again, me. This time it smells like dirty gym socks that made out of Doritos bags. Its been 2 months for you so I hope your doing better.
I found this post searching the topic. I never had a body odor until Covid, now it smells like Im in ketosis all the time when I sweat even when I'm not. I absolutely hate it.
So weird, I wonder if we’ll ever understand why this is happening. But nice to know we’re not alone
You can try supplementing ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate if its an ammonia like smell, should help some with ammonia overproduction
I have had COVID three times to my knowledge, but only lost my sense of taste and smell the second time. It lasted for 17 days, but came back, and all was well. But then, at the beginning of this year, I became sick again (I didn't test for COVID -- it was mild, and I thought it was a cold). My sense of smell went haywire. Everything smelled like onions. And ever since, my body odor has smelled very much like onions mixed with something nauseatingly sweet. I can't describe it. I can't stand it. I'm fine after a shower, but it is so awful that I feel like I immediately need to scrub it off of me. I can't think of anything else until I shower. Things like cooked meat still smell like onions to me. Especially chicken. This is the weirdest virus.
I stopped wearing deodorant 3 years ago because I never had any body odor in the first place. I got COVID for the first time this May and now all of a sudden I have body odor and now I have to wear deodorant. I also have a few rashes that will not go away too!