This site is amazing! Please help!

First let me start of by saying THANK YOU!! I am two weeks post op and this site is my BIBLE!!! Each one of you are true inspiration!!

So.. here is my problem! MY BREATH STINKS! My hubby and oldest daughter can't stand it! I am brushing 3 times a day! What is with this smell and nasty paste mouth??     My thoughts and prayers are with each of you!!

I believe its called Ketosis. You losing fat!!! Weight!!!. Congrats!!!

YEP!

Be glad for it. I have become a gum chewer, which I never was before, when I am around others so they don't think I have eschewed brushing and flossing. :)

"ketosis." You may read that it is a "dangerous state" for the body, and it does sound abnormal to be "in ketosis." But ketosis merely means that our bodies are using fat for energy. Ketones (also called ketone bodies) are molecules generated during fat metabolism, whether from the fat in the guacamole you just ate or fat you were carrying around your middle. When our bodies are breaking down fat for energy, most of the it gets converted more or less directly to ATP. (Remember high school biology? This is the "energy molecule.") But ketones are also produced as part of the process.

When people eat less carbohydrate, their bodies turn to fat for energy, so it makes sense that more ketones are generated. Some of those ketones (acetoacetate and ß-hydroxybutyrate) are used for energy; the heart muscle and kidneys, for example, prefer ketones to glucose. Most cells, including the brain cells, are able to use ketones for at least part of their energy. But there is one type of ketone molecule, called acetone, that cannot be used and is excreted as waste, mostly in the urine and breath (sometimes causing a distinct breath odor).

When I asked my surgeon about being in ketosis, he told me that I wasn't. :(

Everyone goes through it until they start adding carbs back in. Its a very normal thing. The longer you can stay in ketosis the better. He might not know much about it, but its more of a nutrition thing, so ask your NUT about it.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

According to my book weight loss surgery for dummies that mission weight loss issued me, you can take an anti-acid tablet to see if it helps or it is  Ketosis as the others have suggested.  You may also not be getting enough hydration.  If not try real hard to get the 64 ounces of water in.  God bless you.

Thank you Steve! Liquid is a problem!! I don' drink as much as I should. :( It is hard to get it down.