N-Acetylcysteine and Body Odor

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About 1 week into taking 750mg NAC daily for liver enzyme control. I cannot shake the aroma of sulfur coming off my body. Others say they can't smell it. But when I sit down, or lay down for bed, I can smell it on my skin. Within an hour of showering, I can smell it.

I am aware of the sulfuric odor from the supplement itself, I just didn't expect it to excrete from my body as well.

Anybody else have this interaction? I've read only a few reviews online talking about this.

If it persists, I may make a switch to TUDCA or Liv.52. Should I consider this? or do the beneficial studies of NAC outweigh the cost of switching?
 

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Not aware but if I recall this one smells like dead fish in raw powder form. If I may ask what are your or were your AST and ALT numbers, is your liver enlarged? and I would love to know the progress if you continue using it
 
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Not aware but if I recall this one smells like dead fish in raw powder form. If I may ask what are your or were your AST and ALT numbers, is your liver enlarged? and I would love to know the progress if you continue using it
AST - 301 (10-45rr)
ALT - 162 (6-46rr)
Bilirubin - 1.0
History of Alcohol Abuse - Yes (10 days abstained at time of testing)
Ultrasound - Typical Liver Profile, non-enlarged
Spleen - Typical, non-enlarged
Iron - Tested, waiting for results
TIBC - Tested, waiting for results
Hepatitis Panel - Tested, waiting for results
Symptoms - None

Yes, the raw form is very sulfuric. Not recommended to take powdered form for that reason. I noticed my feet and palms smell of sulfur around 1 hour after ingesting. Urine odor is normal. Breath smells fine.

I have follow-up AST/ALT testing in a week or two to check levels again.
 

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Did they happen to give you egfr and creatinine?
 
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I wish I had those levels.
Yeah the only levels out of whack were my AST/ALT.

The 2:1 ratio, with a history of alcohol use points towards Alcoholic Hepatitis, or AFLD. I don't have specifics on the liver ultrasound yet, all I was told was it didn't look enlarged.

So we shall see what the doc says once my labs are back in.

I work in a high-risk environment for Hepatitis, so that's the big monkey on my shoulders. The irony is I did the lab work out of curiosity and wanting to know my hormone levels and the doc said we should just do a full annual lab. Then spotted that liver enzyme issue. So it's possible I caught it early, or am still dealing with the healing part of being an alcoholic.
 

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I've been dealing with kidney and liver issues for a few yrs and docs are baffled. Because the huge swings in numbers I have and enlarged liver. No alcohol.
 
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I've been dealing with kidney and liver issues for a few yrs and docs are baffled. Because the huge swings in numbers I have and enlarged liver. No alcohol.
Interesting.

You've done all the viral tests? How are bilirubin levels? Biopsy?

Also, if you have a thread with your bloodwork, I'd certainly take a peak. Not that I know any better than a doctor. But I do have a propensity to dive deep into causality and circumstance.
 
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Hepatitis B Surface Antibody - Reactive
Hepatitis B Ab Quantitative - 56.5 (High)
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen - Nonreactive
Hepatitis B Core Antibody IgM - Nonreactive
Hepatitis A Antibody - Nonreactive
Hepatitis C Antibody - Nonreactive
HIV 1/2 Screen - Nonreactive

Good news I guess.... But when the actual fuck did I have Hep B??? I feel like I have to make a few phone calls now to ex's......
 

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No biopsy yet but I'll post some labs later tonight. I probably just post screenshots of the trends that might be better. Their hypothesis right now is being an extreme premature baby with agent Orange exposure, in addition to medicine induced damage mainly acid reflux and arthritis meds.
 

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If I recall your high hepatitis b antibodies means that you have had vaccine, but I think it has to correlate with the other hep b test in quite a few years since I had to read those. So don't quote me on that
 
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If I recall your high hepatitis b antibodies means that you have had vaccine, but I think it has to correlate with the other hep b test in quite a few years since I had to read those. So don't quote me on that
Just got my immunization/vaccination records back from the health department - I was not vaccinated for Hep B. So I did in fact catch it at some point.

Fucking icky.
 

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Nac has a sulphuric taste as well as excrement smell of sulphur as well… i can only take it sparingly…

St johns wart, liv52, and there are a few ither organ/liver detoxes out there you could try such as tudeca?? …. (forget the exact soelling) but its supposed to be pretty dang good
 

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I have some NAD+ on way to try it doing I.V therapy.
 

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I have been taking NAC morning and night for years and have had no odor issues.

Trust me, my girl would tell me if I did!
 

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