Need help and opinion about why my feet stink with shoes on?

There is also a possiblity, if nothing else works, to do some injections to help kill the sweat glands in your feet so they stop producing stinky sweat. Good Luck! I hope you find something that works! My nephew has the stinkiest feet I've ever smelled and he has had this problem all his life, so has his dad, who is my brother, but my nephews are worse!! He thinks it is funny though and seems to enjoy grossing people out with his stinky feet! I guess if you cant beat it, you have to find the humor in it! Hang in there Alfon! Go see a podiatrist!

1) Get a diagnosis for plantar hyperhidrosis from a podiatry clinic so you know what the cause for your problem is. Tell them to take a sample from your skin for bacteria analysis if possible.
2) Kill bacteria with strong anti-bacterial substances such as boric acid or manuka oil (research indicates its 10 times more effective at killing odor-causing bacteria than black tea acid). Gehwol foot deodorant cream worked great for me, if you cant find it in your country (i live in Greece) then look for a deodorant with at least 40% manuka oil contentrate. Do not get discouraged if you dont see immediate results, i saw an improvement only after 2 weeks of daily use.
3) Decrease foot sweating by using an antiperspirant rich in aluminium and also take oxibutynin pills, or any other anti-cholinergic medication. Google it to learn more about its anti-sweating effects.
4) Disinfect your shoes once per week with alcohol and bleach.
5) Keep following the very basic rules of preventing smelly feet (rotating shoes, anti-bacterial soap, breathable shoes & socks, powders, odor inserts etc) that you can find everywhere in the internet. They wont solve the problem but they certainly help.

I hope this helps! My feet can still get a bit smelly after a long day at the office, but it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

One thing to consider is that their is also something called olfactory reference syndrome, first make sure that you don't have this syndrome as either i really didn't have the foot odor and i was precieving i did or i did have it and i don't have it anymore. I have had multiple family and friends who have smelled my foot and slso my shoes to make sure there is c absolutely no odor and tgese are people with very sensitive noses. I have one final (2nd popodiatrist) to see on tuesday
and if he can confirm that i have no foot odor than i should be good to go. One thing when i had my family and friends smell my shoes, i actually wore the same v shoes c and socks for 2 days in a row and they v still confirmed no odor

DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AND PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU TREATED IT AND DID IT GO AWAY? I know its part of sweating alot called Hyperhidrosis and 3 years ago the doctor gave me a prescription of the sweating and tried it but it never worked cause it still smells so foul. THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL YOUR HELP THIS COMMUNITY GIVE ME HOPE AND I WISH I COULD JUST FIX MY FEET FOUL ODOR SMELL PROBLEM.

- ALFON

I think you may have what is called Olfactory Reference Syndrome. Olfactory Reference Syndrome (ORS) is a condition whereby an individual is chronically obsessed with the belief that they emit an offensive body odor which the individual confirms based on the perceived reactions of others and leads to abnormal social behavior. I will post links to research papers below and you should especially focus on the clinical case/report sections. But PLEASE read everything, knowledge is power and you will get a better grasp of the condition. The experience might be very similar to yours as it was to mine. Like you, I had eventually concluded that I might have Plantar Bromhidrosis but I realized later that that was not the case. I had all the symptoms you guys have described: smelly feet with or without shoes, smell could be detected from a distance, depression, socially withdrawn, anxiety, tried every possible solution, etc.

Sometimes, and I am not sure why, but our brains will force us to believe that something is real even by stimulating our senses to make us think that we smell, see or hear things that are not real. I have strong reason to believe that you have absolutely NO persistent, foul-smelling feet odor and that it is all made up in your mind. The sooner you realize this, the earlier you can seek help or treatment and save yourself many years of unnecessary suffering. I endured this condition or delusion for 9 years! From age 14 to 23. Years that I will never get back. I suffered from this dreadful thing called ORS and even after I discovered my condition it was hard for me to let go of it. But in time, you will get back to normal as long as you stay positive and keep assuring yourself that there is NO smell.

People around you may seem like they are avoiding you or are disgusted by you but remember that this is an assumption that you are making in your head. You most likely have never gotten CONCRETE PROOF that you actually do have a constant foul foot odor. It is all made up in your mind because you choose to analyze things only from your perspective. I have reasoned that maybe it began when a person had a severe case of anxiety at the same time with an incident where there was actually a bad smell coming from the person. Thus, due to the humiliation, the person was left traumatized and a false notion of having a bad odor was planted in the mind even after the initial bad smell was long gone. Due to ORS, whenever I was in the presence of other people I was constantly anxious and concerned that they could smell my “awful feet odor”. I took anything as a sign that they could smell it and were disgusted by it to confirm my false beliefs. For example, people rubbing their noses, people sneezing, people putting their hands over their noses, someone moving to another seat, people choosing to sit somewhere away from me, people looking down and making facial expressions of disgust, etc. But in fact, I had NO certainty about any of these assumptions I was making, NO way to actually prove without a doubt that they were in fact behaving this way in response to a bad smell coming from me. NONE OF IT WAS REAL. It was only real in my mind because I was so fearful of it being true that I looked for ways to justify it.

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