Leaky gas is just the name we've been using on this BB. There is no official medical term to describe our condition. Even in the list of functional bowel disorders, I have not been able to find a particular disorder that describes my condition, I kind of have a little bit of this and a little bit of that but never meet the full definition of anything. Actually, I was originially diagnosed to have irritable bowel syndrome but I don't have diarrhea, constipation, bloating, pain, cramping etc. Just gas odor and some annoying bowel symptoms of sputtering and rumbling. I even have some symptoms of TMAU in that I have the gas odor that I usually can't smell and don't feel gassy or even passing gas and someone can be standing right next to me and not smell anything and then the fan comes on and the odor is dispersed everywhere. I'm sure I don't have TMAU because my problem didn't start until I was 35 and I think it would be too much of a coincidence to have developed TMAU at the same time I developed annoying bowel symptoms, sputtering, rumbling, gurgling in addition to the gas odor. I don't think its so surprising to have people describe their symptoms differently ,its an individual thing. Look at the way people descibe their irritable bowel symptoms, some have C, some D, some have bloating, others have pain but they all supposedly have IBS. I don't believe that IE is the cause of LG. I feel worse when I do have what I consider to be IE and better after a BM, but I have the odor whether I feel anything unusual or not. Also I don't agree with the notion that we're hypersensitive to normal bowel sensations. I think there is something actually abnormal going on in the colon, for whatever reason. I frequently get very loud gurgles, growls, rumblings that everyone can hear and I'm not just hypersenstive to normal bowel sounds and this was never a problem before. ALso there's no all or nothing answers. If the question is can you smell your LG. It's not a clear Yes or NO answer. Most times I can not smell LG, for days or weeks on end, but put me in a room with a strong fan that circulates the air just so and then I can. There's another request for subjects re: IBS in Boston to which I'm going to respond. They'll probably turn me down again cause I don't meet their definition. Alot of us with LG don't have anywhere to turn because nobody's interested in our condition.