Excessive sweating and “smelling sick”

This might be kinda gross/TMI but we all experience not so glamorous parts of this “curse”, so here we go.

Part of ME for me is having some level of flu symptoms 24/7, to the point where I *have* to continuously take paracetamol and NSAIDs every day or I can’t function at all.

For a long time I thought it was like that for everyone, but apparently not.

So now I’m wondering about something else.

When I do something demanding, like yesterday when I had to put a piece of furniture together, I sweat so much that I literally can’t even wear underwear or socks. Cause even there I sweat so bad my clothes get… well, wet kind of? Pardon the TMI 😭

Does this happen for you guys too?

Also, since you got ME, have you noticed that you “smell sick”, like your sweat smells a way that it didn’t use to smell and it reminds you of “sick people smell” or almost “old people smell”?

I know that when my fibro got worse (or I possibly had mild ME, hard to say) I suddenly smelled more of sweat sooner after a shower. I had to try a bunch of different deodorants to find something that worked and I had to start using one of those scrubbing gloves in the shower and make sure to shave my armpits every time I showered.

Now when I sweat a lot, or after a few days without a shower, I just constantly think about how it smells like illness… or maybe medication. Hard to say what is what cause I’m on a lot of meds, too.

TLDR:

Do you sweat more than you used to, and do you find that your sweat smells like “sick person” or maybe medication?