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unscented products (Hair & Scalp Odor Problem)

posted by SBayGirl, 12.03.2008, 21:13

OK, so I have continued to post in my thread on unscented products just in case someone has the same situation as me--a smell after beginning the use of a birth control product. In my case, I was using the NuvaRing for 15 months when the smell developed.

Yesterday, I had the weirdest smell--sulfurous gas emitting from my head like rotten eggs. :surprised: I am not sure if it was me or the diesel car that I borrowed from my mother while my car was in the shop for the day. If the diesel was smelly from not driving it for long distances as my boyfriend says can happen, the smell clung to me for a long time and emitted the gas several times. I then googled to see if there was something about wet hair that clings to external smells and came up with this weird but related link:

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/18072

So it might be that the smelly diesel fuel was the reason why my hair was emitted sulfur gas. It has not happened today, so I guess that's what happened. I am using a different shampoo today, though. I doubt if that's the issue since I have used that shampoo several times without that happening before.

I have noticed that my smell has changed to a weird scent, so I am going to switch soaps again. I think I am reacting to bar soaps. It might be the pH of the soap that causes that weird smell. I was doing well on Dove unscented, but I switched to another soap that I already had. It didn't seem to make a difference at first, but maybe that's the reason why I am having a weird smell.

The other interesting smell that has developed is a masculine cologne smell. :lookaround: It's actually not horrible, but weird in that it's coming from my sweat. I normally don't have much of a smell from my sweat, even if I don't use deodorant. I'm using Tom's Natural Unscented Deodorant now. I keep thinking that the masculine scent has to do with pheromones and hormones. Why? Because it's not really an ODOR. If I sniff around myself, it's not an actual smell. I smell clean. But there's this other scent, which I suspect is a pheromone, that smells like a guy. I must be emitting some weird breakdown product of the synthetic hormone from the NuvaRing. So I searched around to find these two websites, which are actually related.

http://www.thefinalclub.org/blogs/fall2007/SciB47/?p=25

"The small molecule pheromone in female moths is bombykol. It’s so potent that if a single female moth released all of the bombykol in her sac in a single spray, she could theoretically attract a trillion males in that instant."

So maybe the weird synthetic hormones were being broken down into a strange pheromone that others detect and repulse them instead of attracting them as usual? :confused:

http://www.drnorthrup.com/news/sexdrive.php

"Birth control pills are comprised of potent synthetic estrogens (for example, ethinyl estradiol) and synthetic progestins (for example, norethindrone) that diminish the levels of follicle stimulating hormones (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), two pituitary hormones. This results in the metabolic suppression of ovarian function, including both the suppression of ovulation and testosterone production!

"In addition, OCs also cause a marked increase in the production of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) in the liver. (This is the main binding protein for sex steroids.) The higher the SHBG levels, the more hormones are 'bound' and unavailable for biologic effects on tissues. In the recent study on the pill’s effect on testosterone, researchers found that SHBG levels were four times higher in pill users than in those who had never used the pill. This means that although a woman taking OCs produces testosterone in her body, it’s unavailable for normal uses such as stimulating her sex drive.

"Even more worrisome is that SHBG levels remained elevated in women for at least six months after they stopped taking the pill, after which the study was concluded. No one knows how long this effect lasts, but researchers are concerned that prolonged exposure to synthetic hormones induces gene-imprinted and increased gene expression of SHBG in the liver in some women who have used the pill."

Remember that I said that I smelled like a man? Since the hormones do have an affect on metabolism, and the pill affects the testosterone in a woman's body, my body must be making more testosterone because the SHBG levels are keeping the testosterone from being used for sex drive...and it's been 6 months since I stopped the NuvaRing.

My hope is that my body will revert back to its normal state after a full year, but who knows what will happen. I just know that my odor continues to change as my body breaks down the synthetic hormones. I really do think it's pheromones that people are smelling in my case, especially since not everyone can smell the scent. The majority can, but a minority can't smell a thing...and those who are closest to me can't smell it at all, which suggests pheromones.

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