Herxing odor?

Ok so this post might sound crazy, be a little gross and tmi so just a warning. You may not want to read any further.






Whenever I'm feeling the worst my body odor changes drastically for the worse. My wife says my skin smells like a mix of chlorine and ammonia. Also my urine smells like when you eat asparagus ×1000. Like really strong and nasty. Once I feel a little better the odors return to normal(pleasant and floral ). What's up with that? Die off? Normal or am I just a freak? Any literature on the subject? Should I be doing anything special during these times other than extra detox? My wife said not to post this because if I do I'm just the weird guy with stinky pee if no one else has had this happen. This has happened four or five times at least during treatment. Can last for 5 or 6 days to a few weeks. In one of those stinky ruts right now. All symptoms amplified.

The smell of ammonia needs to be dealt with. You can do a site search as it's discussed relatively frequently.

Here are a few links. davidjernigan.blogspot.com/2015/05/eliminating-ammonia-toxicity-in-lyme.html

davidjernigan.blogspot.com/2015/05/lyme-induced-leaky-brain-syndrome.html

A very good thread www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3774946

Hey WV Mike,

I have the same thing. It definitely comes and goes and I haven't necessarily tied it to when I feel at my worst. However I get a strong skin odor, something musty I can't really explain it, but it permeates my clothes, sheets, everything. I can take a shower and the smell is back on my skin very quickly afterwards. I've noticed less of this when I'm regularly doing the Sauna - so that is my recommendation, to sweat it out as much as possible. The smell also comes and goes in my urine, my wife has commented several times - it's excessively bad smelling, but only rarely.

It's not weird at all. 2 of the major detox pathways are through perspiration and urine - I would say your body is dumping out toxins during that time and it's a good thing. Try to help it, sweat it out and drink a lot of water.

TTKL