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Definitely smelly gas!! it mainly comes when I eat sugar and white flour. BM's change yes, it depends a lot on what I eat. Diarrhea is really only when I eat white flour stuff. Body odor, not so much. My hubby says I have a sweeter breath and I have a different/ sweeter taste in my mouth. I think that is from ketosis.

 Foul smelling gas - true - however controllable by what you eat.  What affects you varies from person to person.

Chronic Diarrhea - rare.  Now what's true and quite regular is loose stools.  It's just like a poop, but softer, but no running to the can in a panic or crapping your drawers.  I do this every morning, and that's it for the entire day, usually.  This can also be affected by what you eat.

Body odor -- rare.  I've never met anyone here in my neck of the woods that had any kind of body odor unless they farted.  

We get almost an identical post roughly every 3 months on this board.  Just curious when you say "I have heard"...who is saying this?  Is it doctors, people on other boards???

To answer though....some people have foods that don't agree with them.  It can be dairy, wheat, fake sweetners, etc, and it may cause diarrhea.  This may or may not be surgery related.  I don't know.  If they don't do some trials to see what works and what doesn't and stop eating the offending foods, then yes, maybe some people would have diarrhea.  The majority of people on this board are happy and healthy.  There will always be people outside of the "bell curve" who have issues.   They are also more likely to post them here than the "my life is great stories". 

There has been a couple of people that did truly have a body odor that was surgery related but it was a complication that I believe was fixed thru additional surgery.  That seems very very rare though. 

Gas and bowel movements stink to high heavens but we don't walk around farting and ****ting all the time just like we didn't as pre-ops.  This is because our bodies don't digest the food fully.  No, it doesn't come out whole, it just doesn't have as long to break down. 

 Unless they are DSer's I'd take what they say with less than a grain of salt. I will say that as good as my hygeine was before my ds (and I still maintain the same hygeine) I fell more clean and less 'smelly' now. Why? I don't  sweat all the time just from walking up a flight of stairs or down the street. I don't have the extra moisture on my body between my fat rolls, so honestly,I probably smell better now than I did before. 

Gas and bm smells can smell really bad, depending on what I eat. If I eat too many simple carbs or lots of salad yup, I'm more smelly, but I know this so I don't eat them when I'm going to be around people. Though I do enjoy a salad every evening at home, because by the time it affects me I'm in my bedroom and my dh is typically sleeping in his truck thousands of miles away for work.

Sometimes I can have gas that doesn't smell a bit and sometimes I can have gas that will make you tear up!!!  All comes down to what I eat and how my DS insides process it.

I poop at least once a day and like clockwork.  Everyone morning I poop, and maybe again that day, usually depending on what I ate the day before.  I wouldn't call it diarrhea by any means, just a softer...easier poop.  And constipation can happen too from the vitamins, so you need to find a good balance between food, vites, fiber and fat.   I was a very regular once a dayer prior to my DS, so I might go a little more frequently now.

And that body odor thing is a line of crap! I probably smell better now then I ever did before my DS, since I quit smoking and rarely perspire. Whoever came up with that one is probably just jealous cause they gained all their weight back LOL