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The syndrome that makes you smell like rotting fish .
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CHERYL Perkins has grown up feeling lonely and unloved. She was bullied at school, shunned by colleagues at work and is subjected to jeers and ridicule by strangers in the street.
The 30-year-old has no friends, struggles to hold down a job and, for the past 11 years, has endured humiliation and isolation on a daily basis.
For Cheryl, even buying groceries in her local store is a mortifying ordeal as other shoppers hold their noses and step three paces away from her.
And her suffering is all down to bizarre circumstances that are, sadly, beyond her control.
She has trimethylaminuria, a rare and incurable disorder which affects only 600 people world-wide and which causes them to smell like rotting fish and faeces.[/QUOTE]
Mirror.co.uk - Your Life - Health - I SMELL OF FISH - BUT MY TERRIBLE ODOUR IS NOT MY FAULT
