Has your BO (Body Odour) changed with your treatment?

 Loved the tossed salad comment  @Blossom1961,  only reason I am having a good laugh is thank god it isn't just ME. going through this shit!!!!  (excuse the pun )  I hear you @Sister I have got the fast waddle down pat now. When you gotta go you just gotta go. 

My armpits were whiffy and deoderant didn't work. I rubbed some mother apple cider vinegar on my armpits each day instead of deoderant and it worked. I just smelled like a tossed salad instead.

I've been using Brut Endurance 24hr Roll On deodorant for the last couple of weeks & it is great.  

It isn't excessively strong in odour .... and is working well

Don't worry about it too much, @Flaneuse as it doesn't happen to everyone .... 

What I really find interesting - is that I have my shower, wash down well with soap in the armpits & rinse well - and I already smell whiffy in my radiated arm as soon as I towel off!!  Weird!! It is as if it is impregnated in my skin around the armpit!  :(  

Maybe it will lessen in time ... fingers crossed!   ;)  

I mainly noticed a different and not pleasant smell under my armpit after surgery. Guess it’s from having the nodes removed. Good old MooGoo deodorant fixed it for me. I was amazed how well it worked. Ah, the joys of it all!

Thank you everyone for this; it's helped fill in the picture for me about what's ahead and also where I am now. I'm 3/4 way through chemo and lots of these experiences have been mine too. I've been waiting for signs that I'm whiffy because a friend (3 year survivor) told me her body odour changed and her grandchildren didn't want to hug her any more. Difficult for me to judge because my sense of smell has changed too. Nobody is telling me. But the constant bottom alert bells have been ringing for some time. My online supermarket delivery order contains all the necessary products every week. Anyone would think they were delivering to a young new mother.

Checked my bloods before breakfast this morning @Zoffiel  .... 5.8, so happy with that.  (Keith is a diabetic - his was 7.5 so not too bad, as we regularly check his too.)  As far as I know, most people have funny smelling urine after eating fresh Asparagus (not sure if it relates to tinned asparagus tho!)  Check it out next time you eat some - usually within an hour or so of eating it, you should notice a distinctive odour to your urine!!

Yes, lots of things get biffed when coming in contact with what almost amounts to Baby Poo type liquid shit!  I almost considered wearing a pad to stem the leak as it just did ... but I'd gotten rid of all of those years ago ..... so just used some folded up toilet paper to 'plug the hole' (so to speak - or should I say 'slot'.)  Not very comfy, but it did the trick!  My session of 'the trots' only lasted a day or so, thank goodness!

I remember cleaning up my stepmother when she shit herself one night when I was staying with her (she was about 90 & went into a nursing home shortly after.) It was incredibly difficult, what with me heaving/throwing up & trying to wipe her bum, legs, inner thighs ..... and that was AFTER I'd put her in the shower at 2am!  

@Eastmum - that's an interesting thought - that it may relate to the node removal, as I had thought my right side was more 'whiffy' than
my left side!  Hmmmm .... food for thought!

It is amazing how everyone's observations paint a fuller picture!

Hmmmm .... I've had a couple of hot flushes in the last week and can fully understand why showers may be needed (recalling my night sweats back when going thru menopause 15+ years ago .... not regular just now, thank god - and they seemed to be more in my face than lower body!

It's  the night sweats that does it to me, I  have to wash my hair everyday or I feel like I smell sweaty and dirty. I can smell it so I am sure others would too. You can't wake up covered in sweat with dripping hair and not wash it, well I can't anyway.

@arpie - definitely noticed a change in body odour even since my mastectomy - I thought it might have had something to do with having nodes removed. I just can’t seem to stay feeling fresh all day and it’s winter!! It’s definitely possible that chemo is exacerbating it all. 

@AllyJay - can SO relate! I’ve been much more musical since Taxol started! So far have managed to get to the loo mighty quickly with the @Sister waddle! 

OMG Ladies ....  I can relate to SO MANY of these comments - and I didn't even have chemo!!

Yes ... the lady garden also smelling 'different' - not really 'chemical' for me - just appreciably 'different'!

Yes, also been caught out with the bottom bassoon, @AllyJay ..... tho I put it down to some sort of diarrhoea .... I was TOTALLY surprised!  LOL

Haven't noticed the smelly feet, @Sister .... tho my toe nails seem to grow 3 times faster than my finger nails!  LOL  Matter of fact .... I'm just trying some glued on ones on my 'strumming fingers' - cos I've worn them down to the flesh .... it feels SOOOOO WEIRD!!!  Tomorrow will be my first 'play' with them on the uke.  See how I go!!
 
Take care out there!  xxx