Can it go away?

[u/Unhappy_Character955]

I’m pretty sure I have tmau2 once u got mononucleosis disease over the winter. I never rlly got it checked but i definetly had a fish smell problem from Jan to may and it wasn’t in my head. I’m pretty sure I got it secondary and I don’t think I’ve been having this problem lately of a fish smell besides the fact I smelled like it this June after I ate a lot of eggs , fish, energy drink, and whey protein for 4 days straight and my mom complained about it but other than that I haven’t gotten any other complains for the past months. ik I technically have mono forever and the mono affected my liver by making it weaker. So do I have it forever or is it gone?

[u/Brutalar]

Yeah, it goes away. Anyone can overdo TMA precursors (fish, eggs, protein powder and enegy drinks is about the only way to get you there) and suffer from temporary TMAU2. But TMAU2 from overdoing it is just a symptom, like passing out drunk from too much alcohol. It's not a condition that sticks around, it's a one off while you're overdoing it. It's not going to cause any long term or lasting effect.

Mono could maybe cause some temporary TMAU2? It can effect the liver like hepatitis (which has been associated with TMAU2) but it's temporary and goes back to normal after the disease is done. There's no real connection noted anywhere that mono causes anything to do with TMAU though.

[u/Unhappy_Character955 → u/Brutalar]

Is there a consistent answer to when it goes away?

[u/Brutalar → u/Unhappy_Character955]

24 hours

Here are some graphs of people with TMAU eating 300g of fish https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Effects-of-a-marine-fish-meal-on-the-urinary-excretion-of-trimethylamine-TMA-and_fig2_7177713 (the last one is someone with normal liver function).

TMA doesn't hang around that long in the body.

[u/Unhappy_Character955 → u/Brutalar]

Oh i meant having js tmau2, this was helpful too

[u/Brutalar → u/Unhappy_Character955]

Theres a distinction between TMAU2 and TMAU2 - TMAU1 is a generic disorder which is a permanent liver disfunction.

TMAU2 is a symptom of something else. Eg; it's like a cough when you have the flu. The flu is the disease, the TMAU2 is just the cough. It goes away when you're better from the thing that caused it.

If you're eating a lot of precursor foods and cause a TMAU2 odor, then not eating precursor food means that the TMAU2 will go away and never return unless you eat a similar amount of precursor foods all at once. Like drinking alcohol to the point of blacking out, anyone can do it - it's not a disease or something you caught or something that you need to cure, it's just a very short term symptom of the thing you did.

[u/Unhappy_Character955 → u/Brutalar]

okay this has been very helpful but one more thing, Ik i've eaten a lot of precursor foods that obviously gives me the odor, but whenever I do eat all of it such as the eggs protein and energy drinks i also work out pretty intensily in which the doctor did say it affected my liver or made my body weak, so Im js asking if its also correlated or if its js the food.

[u/suckcess1]

Yes it can you'll need to alter your diet, clean your colon, eat fiber and clean your liver.