Esperons

Hi all! I am 33 days in but new to the forum. I have a somewhat odd question to pose, and I am hoping others know what I am asking. When my ABF drinks a lot at night, I notice that the bedroom smells the next morning - like salami. That's the only thing I can think of to compare it with. He didn't have salami - he drank copious amounts. No matter what he eats that night, the morning after smell is always the same. Salami. Anyone else know why that is, or has anyone else noticed this? It permeates the room and I am very sensitive to it. Thank you in advance for your responses! Cheers!

ZenLifter

Maybe pickled liver smells like salami? 😜 Bad joke...sorry. Not sure why you're smelling salami. I know my BO was pretty rancid after being on a binge though.

entropy1964

Yikes. I know in hot yoga I smell all kinds of weird stuff emanating off people when the class is crowded...especially on weekends.

Does he realize that smelling like cured Italian meet in the morning isn't normal?

I feel for you. How bout some essential oils under your nose? That's what I do in yoga. ....that would be very off putting.

Esperons

Thanks, Zen! I don't know either. I know my father smelled the same way. Not that I had to get that close; just remember as a kid he always smelled like pickles. Pickled liver, probably.

Esperons

Thanks, Frick. Good idea on the essential oils. I'll try it!

AnvilheadII

the body tries desperately to remove the excess alcohol/toxins from the body.....the liver can only do so much and if one has drank to excess, it's overloaded. so the body will exude thru the pores, the breath and the lower GI tract. if one drinks to excess over time, there is toxic yucky buildup......which actually becomes putrid.

juppe

That smell is coming from his pores and it's his body dealing with all the poison he ingested

LadyBlue0527

My husband would sleep in the back bedroom whenever I drank. He couldn't stand the smell of it coming from my pores and my breath. Not to mention how much worse it was in the morning. He said it wreaked like a bottle redemption center. Maybe that's what you're smelling?

So glad those days are over.

Esperons

That's a really good analogy. I guess that's what it is. To me, it simply smells "pickled", which is precisely what it is doing to our bodies. Thank you so much for your post!

CaseyW

I stood next to a guy at the grocery store the other day who had that awful day after heavy drinking odor pouring out of him--it instantly brought back horrible memories of thousands of hungover mornings. Pickled or salami-like is a pretty good description. I'm glad I don't have to live that way today.

Winslow

Great description, I always thought my hubs smelled"spicy" salami is spot on,I'm sure I've smelled like that too but of course was to drunk to realize it, gross!

Easy2slip

Ha -- reminds me to cross salami off my deli shopping list !

In all seriousness... I know I must of smelled bad when I crawled into bed. But my dear wife never once mentioned it... it was the snoring that drove her nuts. Now that Im not drinking the snoring as subsided ... (Nice bonus!).

Easy2slip

BTW ,, What's a ABF ?

FBL

I believe it's Alcoholic Boy Friend

Esperons

Hi FormerBeerLover: I didn't think I made up "ABF", but I may have. I wrote it to mean "Alcoholic Boyfriend".

entropy1964

If you read on the friends and family forum they have so many acronyms for alcoholics and their relationship with them. It must be like trying to understand all the 100's of AAisms.

Esperons

Very true. I was trying to look all savvy with my acronym. I should know better. I used to think "LOL" meant "Lots of Love" and used the phrase to give my friend condolences for the death of a loved one. Luckily, she laughed at me.

vulturine

That's awesome.

Dee74

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-acronyms.html

wpainterw

I remember canoeing up in northern Minnesota over into Canada's Quetico Park. We packed in a lot of salami. No whiskey. The salami tasted pretty good when fried in a skillet with a little brown sugar as a garnish. Then one canoe went over the falls with the salami and we had to rescue it and hang it out in the sun to dry. Wet slimy, smelling salami. I'll never forget how nauseating it was and the flies gathered and sat on the salami.The guy who went over the falls was not popular. We choked down the salami and spent restless nights in tents to protect us from the circling mosquitos, each one as big as a fighter plane, or at least making a noise like one. They were particularly skillful in finding holes to enter the tent and sting the sleepless campers and we plugged those holes with our dirty, smelly socks.
Anyone out there have a recipe for wet, greasy, slimy, smelly, fly ridden salami? Bon appetit!

W.