LadyConstanze
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I don't produce the smell, I always assumed that I couldn't smell it on myself, so after indulging in a lot of asparagus other half went to the bathroom, I complained, opened the window and said I rather use the other bathroom, then joked that we better not get visitors since both bathrooms now might smell, he joked that he's sure I'm worse and stuck his head in and said "I can't smell a thing", we also had a nice bottle of Sauvignon Blanc with it (always a pain in the neck to find a wine that will go with asparagus without the wine tasting like it came out of a tin can), so we were joking a bit and he was fascinated, blamed it on my flush technique, so he asked me not to flush next time because it can't be, everybody smells after asparagus... I didn't (mind you I didn't invite all friends or random strangers over for a sniff test so it's not representative). I left it at that, only about a year later after an emergency rush to the hospital, I had eaten shrimps in a mild cheese sauce and ended up in horrendous pain and with a belly that looked like I was 9 month pregnant with twins, turned out to be a severe gall colic but they found no gall stones, one of the doctors talked to me and said if I had something like that before, I said not quite so bad but after chicken alfredo I had similar symptoms. So they put me through all sorts of tests, asked about reactions to food, I mentioned that more than a minimal amount of red meat leaves me with a feeling of dizziness and like I've eaten something that was off, apparently not all that rare and due to a lack of an enzyme, they said the positive side is that it also takes care of the asparagus smell...
Apparently that ties in with an incompatibility to some dairy proteins when mixed with fowl or fish proteins, oddly enough I am fine with mixing some cheeses and fish/poultry but others just don't work, same with broccoli (or anything related to cabbage) and coconut products (I love Thai food but always study the ingredients when going to a restaurant). Let's say I do whatever I can to NOT set another colic off, I thought I was going to die and it's not that I am super tough or anything, but I seem to have an amazingly high pain tolerance because even as a kid I managed to fall off my bike, broke an arm (which I didn't know at the tender age of 5) and decided there isn't any blood, just a "funny lump" so it can't be bad, proceeded cycling to my friend where I proudly showed up my lump "Look what I got" her mom freaked out a bit and so did mine... Even after falling down the stairs, it didn't hurt that much, so I thought if I lace myself up in Doc Martens for stability and take the dog for a short stroll, it might help, it actually didn't because I ended the stroll by crawling home on all 4s through the snow (dog was a bit confused and nudged me along), it's possibly that in cases of injuries/pain/shock, I have a high adrenaline production which blocks out the pain. In some cases it can be good, when I was robbed in LA at gunpoint, I calmly handed all my stuff over, with "No problem, have it, we're cool..." as soon as they were gone I thought I better find a cop and inform the embassy as my passport was also gone, still feeling rather calm, then as if somebody had flipped a switch, vomited, shivered, crumbled and was a crying wreck with "Ohmygodihavebeenrobbed HEEEEEELP"
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