This has all been great information - I have recurring yeast infections due to a severe hormone flux - don't know WHY but I get a y.i. exactly a week before my period, every month to every other month from last November until this past December. Over the counter meds burn me to death, I can't even put into words the feeling. I have to use prescription Terazol cream or the Diflucan pill. I'm thinking of going back on BCP just to make it go away.

BV is actually the more common infection, and I haven't really ever heard of Flagyl being used for that - my husband had Flagyl for a c.diff infection he got in the hospital, it was a very powerful drug. Clindamycin cream is more commonly prescribed in this neck of the woods for that, maybe you can bring up the name of med to your doc the next time you get BV so that you don't get such bad side effects from the Flagyl.

I too got UTIs very easily. A nurse practictioner I used to love told me, always pee before and after sex. Never skip it, don't fall asleep without doing it. It rids the urethra of the germs that collect around it from sex. I haven't had one since 10/01. And three cranberry pills right after sex seemed to help, also.

Rephresh is great also, esp. after your period and after a yeast infection.