17th June 2008
Ebon aurora - Wouldn't you know it, after discussing BV on here i end up with it and i haven't had it in about a year!!
Today i saw a different doctor at the clinic and she says all women have it, only some get the symptoms more so than others. I had been told this by another doctor a couple of years ago. I told her that most times i get BV it is accompanied by an 'amonia' type smell. She said that is the natural smell from "down there". I asked why doesn't it ALWAYS smell that way down there. She said if i'm always getting BV inbetween ovulation and my period starting, then it must be due to hormonal change.
The reason for me coming to post back on here is that i went to the Womens health section of the boards and there is a sticky note there by a poster regarding BV and how she treated hers. She did some research and BV is apparently a disturbance of the natural flora in the vaginal area. This is also what my doctor today said. My doctor today also told me that just because you take antibiotics doesn't mean it has been successfully treated.
For the BV she gave me Metronidazole (5 tablets which are taken as one single dose).
She also took a look at my cervix as we had had issues with my pap tests last year due to it bleeding every time they tried to do a pap test and the fact i suddenly began getting a lot of BV incidences out of the blue a few years back. She put me on a HPV type of medication used i think to treat pelvic inflammatory disease. Not that i had any of these conditions, but she said it can be used to treat many other things as there are so many varieties of bacteria and not every form of bacteria has had it's own antibiotic formualted. I can't recall the name of the one i was given last year, but they put me on one again today and it's called Doxycycline. It can't be taken within 2 hours of taking dairy products, antacids, iron or calcium, but must be taken with food. I think it will be a tricky 7 days with this particular antibiotic.
Last year they also advised my partner to get a gram stain test of his urethral opening as apparently men can carry a form of bacteria, which gives them no symptoms what so ever, but can cause problems for females vaginally. He tested negative.
At the end of the day i think the BV could be mostly hormonal in my instance. I began shedding hair in Jan 2001, then my cycles went all over the place later that year, then in 2002 i had my first ever bout of BV and have had it off and on since then. I know my hormones are out due to my thyroid, but am wondering when my hormones settle whether my BV will lessen. It has in fact lessened in the last year compared to previous years.
Hoping you are keeping well :)
Today i saw a different doctor at the clinic and she says all women have it, only some get the symptoms more so than others. I had been told this by another doctor a couple of years ago. I told her that most times i get BV it is accompanied by an 'amonia' type smell. She said that is the natural smell from "down there". I asked why doesn't it ALWAYS smell that way down there. She said if i'm always getting BV inbetween ovulation and my period starting, then it must be due to hormonal change.
The reason for me coming to post back on here is that i went to the Womens health section of the boards and there is a sticky note there by a poster regarding BV and how she treated hers. She did some research and BV is apparently a disturbance of the natural flora in the vaginal area. This is also what my doctor today said. My doctor today also told me that just because you take antibiotics doesn't mean it has been successfully treated.
For the BV she gave me Metronidazole (5 tablets which are taken as one single dose).
She also took a look at my cervix as we had had issues with my pap tests last year due to it bleeding every time they tried to do a pap test and the fact i suddenly began getting a lot of BV incidences out of the blue a few years back. She put me on a HPV type of medication used i think to treat pelvic inflammatory disease. Not that i had any of these conditions, but she said it can be used to treat many other things as there are so many varieties of bacteria and not every form of bacteria has had it's own antibiotic formualted. I can't recall the name of the one i was given last year, but they put me on one again today and it's called Doxycycline. It can't be taken within 2 hours of taking dairy products, antacids, iron or calcium, but must be taken with food. I think it will be a tricky 7 days with this particular antibiotic.
Last year they also advised my partner to get a gram stain test of his urethral opening as apparently men can carry a form of bacteria, which gives them no symptoms what so ever, but can cause problems for females vaginally. He tested negative.
At the end of the day i think the BV could be mostly hormonal in my instance. I began shedding hair in Jan 2001, then my cycles went all over the place later that year, then in 2002 i had my first ever bout of BV and have had it off and on since then. I know my hormones are out due to my thyroid, but am wondering when my hormones settle whether my BV will lessen. It has in fact lessened in the last year compared to previous years.
Hoping you are keeping well :)