Thread: Flagyl and yeast infection?

Originally Posted by free spirit

Introducing food products into your vagina is just not 'good practice'. Besides, it's the wrong type of bacteria. The bacteria located in the vagina have the ability to attach to the vaginal walls were as the stuff in yogurt doesn't.

A homeopath like treatment for yeast or to prevent yeast when you have to take the dreaded flagyl (I won't touch the stuff, makes me sicker than a dog) is boric acid suppositories. Your doc can give you a script for them at a compounding pharmacy or I've heard of women using top grade boric acid powder in capsules. Don't use the lower grade, it's not as pure and won't work as well. If you use the boric acid as soon as you start the flagyl and for a few days afterwards, this should help return things to normal. The boric acid helps keep the vaginal ph acidic.

Hi freespirit -can i just tell you my experience having suffered two years with problems ...i had chlamydia ..for months ...my water test at local GU they missed it , therefore i was given pressary adfter pressary of Canestan 500 as the clamydia looked just like thrush and indeed thats what they thought it was ..i used so many , until i developed PID with the other problem hence 8 weeks of Metro , doxycycline and ofloxacin £ weeks at the same time as the metro of doxy and and 6 weeks of all the others of ofloxacin , plus steriods and plus other tablets and co codamol , anti inflamatory, morphine, and other stuff plus i had an ovarian cyst, and BV everything at the same time ...bad ehhh ...id already been taking constant antibiotics ..ALL of them for a year previous and continued with varios antibiotics for ages afterwards...I had to go in Acident and emergency several times because of acute persistant thrush ,...it took ONE year for the antibiotics to leave my body ...if you have bad thrush you need a longer course of treatment like the poster and i did , that is ORAl fluconazole for a while one a week for six months or till you have improvement ...my vagina was ulcerated and swollen shut ...I had every expert possible private NHS ect ...the only thing to do is take a longer course of treatment for thrush orally and Dalacin cream if this lady dosent she is in danger of getting salpingitis long term thrush can cause PID i was told that in accident and emergency but i did kind of know it anyway ..if she developes BV it also needs treatment agin it can cause PID and low birthweight babies ..that needs Dalacin antibiotic ...or she could try a broad spectrum Trichonomaside - canastan pressary des one available in accident and emercency but not i thing just over the counter ...placing anything else in the vagina including tampons or any other stuff is dangerous if you are suffering long term problems ..For this lady its not NORMAL to be having this amount of discharge she needs treatment and to be looked at by an expert in case she has cervical infection ...it would be the most sensible thing to do but dalacin usually clears up excessive dischrge in 7 days but it is antibiotic and perhaps she may get thrush agin , agin an oral tablet to kill the thrush IN THE BODY ...not just the vagina will sort it out

Regards catherine

Hello everyone. My name is Mercedes. I just started the birth control Loestrin 24 Fe a month ago. A couple weeks into it I got a yeast infection. Not sure if it's due to the birth control or due to wearing thongs to be quite honest. So FLAGYL. I went to the OBGYN-met like three different doctors. They gave me vaginal insertions & creams that burned the out of me. & now my last genious doctor decides to put me on FLAGYL. I have Crohns Disease-but that's another story. I asked my gastronenterologist about my "yeast infection journey". He told me FLAGYL is not supposed to be used to treat yeast infections. If anything-it may make it worst. He told me to try monistat & the over the counter products. I'm going to do that to see if it works & I have a feeling it just might. I don't really trust putting yogurt in and out of your vagina NOR garlic. I am going to give the monistat a shot & I am going to continue giving myself salt and vinegar baths. I'll let you guys know. I've been having this yeast infection for like a month.