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to be super puzzled why my elbow stinks

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samsamsamsamsamsam · 08/05/2019 20:57

what on earth...... I am clean. I am always clean. However for the past few days my right elbow (the crook of it) has been omitting a god awful stench. I can't wash it off. It is foul.

It smells like feet and rot and awfulness. There is no broken skin, it just looks like a normal elbow. WTF.

why is this happening? anyone got any ideas? soap isn't doing anything!

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mimibunz · 10/05/2019 23:55

My favourite thread ever! Even better than the Sistine Screamer. Grin

NCB2019 · 10/05/2019 23:53

Have you been on holiday somewhere exotic? Just thinking maybe something has burrowed under your skin (somewhere else on your person) and then the burrowing things have travelled to your elbows, been unable to escape and died! Thus the smellbowitis.

6079SmithW · 10/05/2019 23:40

Happy to report that neither my ears or elbows smell 🙂

Do we know what's wrong with OP yet?

Sissyjd · 10/05/2019 23:37

I just rubbed behind my ears and sniffed...ffs..lol jyst smells like week old pilliw cases. Not as bad as toe jam..thats bluecheese burgery Ooof nastiness..and yes i do shower daily. Confused

PegLegAntoine · 10/05/2019 22:58

I need to know if the elbow sniffer on the Newcastle train was a MNer (I may have missed an update though in my desperation to get an answer for smellbow)

I wish I’d thought of smellbow as a nickname for the band Elbow, we saw them supporting muse once and they’d certainly deserve it 😴😴😴

MrsBadcrumble123 · 10/05/2019 22:37

GummyGoddess - oh yeah ha ha!!!

HastaLaVistaPrint · 10/05/2019 22:37

Something will burrow out soon, like the poster who had maggots in her skin last week. Mark my words.

GorkyMcPorky · 10/05/2019 22:37

My two fave things about this thread:

  1. OP, when you said you 'took Bombay Sapphire' earlier, I thought you meant you'd medicated yourself with it Grin
  1. This:

Top of my ears smell like this like the flat ridge between you heard and then where your ear rim. I wash my hair and wash there every day at same time and by evening they smell of belly button it's rank but a pretty moreish smell...

Yes! Me too, except my ear jam is a bit lower down. Rank but moreish, as you say.

Everyone give the back if your ears a good rub, then sniff your finger.

CMOTDibbler · 10/05/2019 22:16

When I had to wear a plastic splint for 6 months I developed a really stinky arm. Washing with dilute hibiscrub turned out to be the best way to control the manky smell. It was def fungal

Hohofortherobbers · 10/05/2019 22:15

Before you go to gp, try what gp is likely to suggest, soap wash and antiperspirant on your elbow, wash with a proper old school soap and get mitchum roll on or block on it

IncrediblySadToo · 10/05/2019 22:13

warmestregards

The stuff that comes out when you clean under you toe nails.

I guess it’s soap, skin, nail, dirt, sweat...🤷🏻‍♀️

I like the smell of mine.

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 10/05/2019 22:11

The ad I'm seeing on the app has a great tag line for this thread!

to be super puzzled why my elbow stinks
LittleLongDog · 10/05/2019 22:07

I don’t understand why your boobs are in the way?!
Look up-ish and lift your elbow up to your head. A bit like a dab.

WarmestRegards · 10/05/2019 22:00

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GummyGoddess · 10/05/2019 21:44

@PleaseJustSayNo Sims 2 vampires! Grin

TildaTurnip · 10/05/2019 21:39

Our son calls elbows ‘arm knees’. Helpful.

OldAndWornOut · 10/05/2019 21:36
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ShesABelter · 10/05/2019 21:32

Top of my ears smell like this like the flat ridge between you heard and then where your ear rim. I wash my hair and wash there every day at same time and by evening they smell of belly button it's rank but a pretty moreish smell....luckily my husband's not the nibble on my ear lobe type for his sake 😂

Have made him and all the kids let me rub their ears there and none of theirs smell.

IncrediblySadToo · 10/05/2019 21:28

Oh and yep, sudocreme is useless shite

IncrediblySadToo · 10/05/2019 21:27

WTAF are some of you doing that your boobs are stopping you smelling the crook of your elbow?

Crook. Inside bit. Not outside bit

Suitably impressed by those of you who can snuff behind your knees. I think I was about 15 the last time I could do that - I found boys and gave up gymnastics.

PleaseJustSayNo · 10/05/2019 21:13

@GummyGoddess what on earth did you search for that picture?? 😅😅😅

PS both elbows smell fine

PPS Sudocreme fixes everything, stop being absurd

ScrambledSmegs · 10/05/2019 21:01

TracyBeakerSoYeah in my experience Parkinson's has a kind of greasy, musky smell, so that could definitely be what you could smell on your uncle.

stayathomegardener · 10/05/2019 20:46

Is it possible to be frustrated by a faceless strangers elbow?
Totally am.

goodwinter · 10/05/2019 20:30

I've had a stinky inner elbow, genuinely.

It's been from when my eczema flares up (in a rashy sense, not the dry and scabby sense) and I think it's fungal. Could be similar for you?

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