This may be an odd question, but...

[Galactus]

Thanks for contributing to my silly little thread.

I don't think it is silly at all. I have found many things have changed since I started therapy. I found some informative information in this thread just as I have in many others. No silliness here, not yet anyway! There's still time though.

[TyroneShoes]

I guess as long as there is real, helpful info along with the silliness, then its warranted. We want the info, but we gotta have fun getting it, and I find this forum both helpful as well as fun. Just please don't dare to challenge me about who can get silly, as I am the champ in that department, and you will probably live to rue the moment you brought that subject up

Cheers

[archangle]

An individual's body odour is also influenced by lifestyle, sex, genetics, and medication. It is not affected, so far as we know, by PAP therapy.

Doesn't untreated apnea often cause night sweats? Doesn't a higher level of sweat tend to add to the smell?

[DocWils]

An individual's body odour is also influenced by lifestyle, sex, genetics, and medication. It is not affected, so far as we know, by PAP therapy.

Doesn't untreated apnea often cause night sweats? Doesn't a higher level of sweat tend to add to the smell?

To paraphrase a portion of my explanation, the more you sweat, the greater the chance that you are providing a growth medium for smelly stuff.

[Peter_C]

An individual's body odour is also influenced by lifestyle, sex, genetics, and medication. It is not affected, so far as we know, by PAP therapy.

Doesn't untreated apnea often cause night sweats? Doesn't a higher level of sweat tend to add to the smell?

To paraphrase a portion of my explanation, the more you sweat, the greater the chance that you are providing a growth medium for smelly stuff.

I gotta ask? As all the people that know me are very surprised when I tell them I do nothing (yellow Dial bar soap) and even if I don't shower for 1-3 days, honestly no one (I have asked) notices any body odor - why? Just lucky?

[TyroneShoes]

I seem to be sweating more UNDER therapy than I was BEFORE therapy. Not excessively, but more.

[DocWils]

I gotta ask? As all the people that know me are very surprised when I tell them I do nothing (yellow Dial bar soap) and even if I don't shower for 1-3 days, honestly no one (I have asked) notices any body odor - why? Just lucky?

A bit of a combination of things, from your skin chemistry to how much and how you sweat.

I never use deodorants, use a non-soap soap (can't stand that sticky filmy feeling from normal soaps) and that is all - I eat garlic, everything, no problems, no smells. My Better Two Thirds only has to look at a garlic and she reeks of it. Go fig - hard for her with her love of the stuff and her Italian heritage. So, body chemistry, or more correctly skin chemistry and sweat patterns have a lot to do with it. There are non smelly bacteria on your skin, too, and they can help in all this.

[Peter_C]

Learn new stuff every day. Neat.

[Galactus]

You see that Peter_C even your skin bacteria is not working as it should. Non smelly skin bacteria, it should be a crime! Sounds like they are goofing off on the job.