JPSkate

I managed to hide the drinking from my family and co-workers, and around day 7 after quitting, a girl I work with made a comment on how i smell "fresher," it makes me wonder what I smelled like before!

KateL

Vodka used to ooze from my pores... yuk!!

VOisEvil

Day 3 and I can finally smell the soap on my skin that I showered with this morning! And the God-aweful taste in my mouth almost gone. YEA :-)

phoebe64

People smell you. My mother was an alcoholic. I could smell her the minute I came home from school. I always knew when she has been drinking. She drank hard stuff. But I can smell alcohol on my husband, if I am close enough, after just sips on a beer. I have always been that way. It is so twisted, but it is part fo why i began to drink more. if husband was having a few, I would, so the smell would not bother me. Not that I dod not enjoy my few, but I recall sometimes dieting or such, but having a glass or wine or beer "off me diet" to tolerate the smell(to be intimate). The smell is an emotional flashback and bad memory of my angry drunken mother and childhood tummy aches over it.

I have a friend who likes that smell on her husband. They are not alcoholic drinkers. I do think it depends how heavily you drank the day before, whether you carry it on you the next day. I have only rarely caught that whiff on my husband in the morning. Maybe after a big night out with the buddies or a sports event.

I now wonder if I stunk dropping the kids at preschool. I would only drink wine, and genrally not crazy heavily on nights where I had to get up and go, but there was a bad patch there where I know I had hangovers on many of those days. So, I probably smelled. Ugh.

tgirl

ermergad! thank god I quit! lmao
but on a more serious note... a co worker smells rancid, and he doesn't seem to notice, I always have to back out of his office....

lala34mc

Yes, I had this weird skin grossness the day after drinking often, especially at the end. It's nasty. And when I quit, my skin broke out in a rash all over my arms and legs and FACE for about two weeks. Hello, detox!

Either way, it's 'normal'

VOisEvil

It's only been happening to me for the past few months - and only after drinking 2 or 3 fifths over the weekend.

Typing that just made me reailize what a ****ed-up life (what life?) I've been leading for the past few years. No wonder I smell funny...FFS sheez

me

VOisEvil

tgirl, define ermergad fer us 'mericans, please ;-)

me

Olive1

My first impression was er mer gad, southern for omg?
But I could be wrong.

VOisEvil

...interesting No wonder I suck at those word and letter game shows

me

SnoozyQ

Ermergad = Is a drawn out OMG VOis

ZeldaFan

Yep and Yep! The "movements" I used to have on a daily basis were the furthest thing from natural I ever want to see come out of me. That mixed with the foul stale smell of alcohol seeping out of my pores. Ugh... so nasty to think back on that! At the end it was so bad a few coworkers told me I smelled like booze.

youngcatlady

My husband used to tell me I reeked like booze, even if I'd only had a couple. I used to get so defensive and mad bc I thought he was exaggerating. After quitting I smelled like a drunk person who just ran a marathon. I couldn't believe it. It was the worst smell ever. Now I know he was right all along. So glad to be past that. Thanks for the memories, it's definitely a good (and much needed) reminder.

justbrowsing

Day 5. What was everyone's experience on the smell, when did it disappear?

SweatyHands

I had that horribly four years ago when I went in for detox, and almost as bad during my last couple of relapses this past winter. What made it worse was that I didn't eat during my benders. Not eating made my body go into ketosis and expel all sorts of toxins while I was digesting my own body to stay alive. Once when I was at work at the brewery, I was pouring sweat, bright red, and smelling like burning metal and rotting meat. I realized that I hadn't taken in anything but vodka for about 48 hours, so I went in to the kitchen and drank about eight ounces of maple syrup. Needless to say, my body didn't react to the sudden spike in sugar very well. My body started tingling, although already sweaty, I sweated through my clothes in about one minute, my legs went out from under me, and I got myself into the room with the one person who knew I was a severe alcoholic. He got me beer from downstairs just in time to stop a seizure. That was a Friday. I threw away my work coveralls, changed into my street clothes, and went home to decide what I was going to do. After a few more days of my bender, I went to detox the following Tuesday. When I was healthy enough to get out of bed, a nurse took me in to the shower to clean me while they stripped my bed, because the smell was intolerable to them. I was sitting on a plastic chair in the shower while she scrubbed me, and I could just smell the vile toxins coming out of my pores for the last time. When I smelled that again this February while I was standing outside of my apartment talking to the police, I made the decision that I was done. For ever.

SweatyHands

The smell went away after about three days of sobriety and eating enough calories a day to start getting back my strength.

zlhzlh

Morning 😝lol.

Soberwolf

I found this and basically when we attack the cleansing organs with so much alcohol the organs are overloaded and alcohol builds up till it's coming out of our pores in some bit broken down form hence the smell

Here is something I copied & pasted

"One specific congener implicated in hangover effects is methanol, which
is an alcohol compound found in alcoholic beverages along with ethanol.
The two compounds differ slightly in chemical structure in that methanol
contains one less carbon atom and two fewer hydrogen atoms than ethanol.
The same enzymes that metabolize ethanol, alcohol dehydrogenase, and
aldehyde dehydrogenase also metabolize methanol; however, the products
of methanol metabolism (i.e., formaldehyde and formic acid) are extremely
toxic and in high concentrations may cause blindness and death.

Support for methanol's contribution to hangovers comes from several sources.
For example, distilled spirits that are more frequently associated with the
development of a hangover, such as brandies and whiskeys, contain the
highest concentrations of methanol. Moreover, in an experimental study
with four subjects who consumed red wine containing 100 milligrams per
liter (mg/L) of methanol, Jones (1987) found that elevated blood levels of
methanol persisted for several hours after ethanol was metabolized, which
corresponded to the time course of hangover symptoms. Methanol lingers
after ethanol levels drop, because ethanol competitively inhibits methanol
metabolism.

The fact that ethanol readministration fends off hangover effects may be
further evidence of methanol's contribution to the hangover condition, given
ethanol's ability to block methanol metabolism and thereby slow the
production of formaldehyde and formic acid.