BV and Yeast
Wow! Ginger I cannot believe all the intense work you've been doing to get to the root of the issue, but I am kind of the same way when it comes to finding out what is wrong with my body and why this is happening.
I've been back and forth with periodic BV and yeast for the last year. It was pretty much yeast each month before my period, so I started taking the pill again to try to get my hormones to calm down. That's doing fine, but whenever my husband and I have oral sex or regular sex, I get one or the other. In Feb I had BV after intercourse, and just last week, three days after we had oral sex, I had to go back and was told it was yeast. We now use latex-free condoms for sex. He gave me a one-dose cream which I ******ly forgot to write down the name of, it was a pink box, started with Gyno-...
Anyway, after reading all of the stories of these other women and realizing I don't have as big of a problem as others, I still have decided to start taking the Fem Dophilus, which was mentioned in Prevention magazine, which my parents get and is a good publication. I also ordered BioFem and tea tree suppositories from an English pharmacy. I don't understand why it isn't available in the states, but if it helps it will be worth it.
And here I am, one week after treatment, itchy again. I really feel that because my doc doesn't send out a swab to the lab he is misdiagnosing me. I think I have a strep B infection and he is completely missing the boat.
I'm going in my own direction and I'll see if these things can help keep my pH in check.
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