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[Truegem]

I have had this problem for about 5 years. I really think it's time Dr's started taking us seriously. I have discovered that the problem is worse after an orgasm...the juices expelled during orgasm really smell bad! I didn't think that fresh healthy fluids would smell, I assumed it was just my vaginal canal. I even expected fresh healthy fluids to feel cleansing, but nope.
It started at symptoms of BV...pearly white discharge, fishy or musky odor. Now the smell is there all the time.
I don't understand this at all. So many are having this problem and the Dr's act like we're crazy. I am doing everything they say also, but I refuse to NOT use soap. No way! People would be able to smell my odor through my clothes! I use allergen free soap, though. I haven't read this entire thread...I'm hoping I can find some good remedies by perusing through...

[Truegem]

P.S. I don't believe it is a pH problem at all. I used litmus paper and tested my pH and it was normal.
I am so sick of this problem! I am embarrassed to have sex! I thought, what if I somehow lose my husband (heaven forbid)....I would never have sex again. My husband is understanding, but a new guy would run for the hills. I can bathe and we have sex right away, but I'm going to tell a new guy I meet that "we have to have sex right away. If we wait too long I will start smelling"?????

[BV Girl]

Thank God for Understanding husbands!!!

[BV Girl]

I wonder if this has anything to do with oral sex, not just traditional sex? Has that option ever been brought up to a doctor by anyone?

I have suffered and suffered with this problem now for the better part of ten years. I do not believe I am able to have children, although I have never been specifically told "you are not able," but after being with my husband for seven years and NEVER preventing it, you'd think it would have happened by now, right? I feel like maybe all the discharge is "preventing the flow" of sperm to where it needs to be. I can identify with everything everyone of you has posted here. I've read this thread and each post from beginning to end. This thread started over THREE YEARS AGO, you'd think this problem was widespead enough that SOMEONE would do SOMETHING to help us. I had not heard of tindamax until today, and called my Dr.'s office (who know me on a first name basis now,) who said they had a free sample I could come get. I am getting ready to go up there right now!!

This has COMPLETELY taken over my life. I have been married only four years and my poor husband (and poor me too) maybe get to have sex three times a month. I have or had a healthy attitude toward sex, and enjoy it when we do. But at this point I like to have a drink or six before, just so I can NOT think about what is coming out of my body and how it smells!!

And this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what we have really been through!!

Please Dear God,

Help us!!!

[Jumo16]

BV Girl - I too have wondered if oral sex is also a culprit! But, I've had regular vaginal sex with my bf and a few days later get the smell and discharge. I'm going nuts too! I've had all the antibiotics, tried to use natural remedies too: the probiotics, folic acid, low sugar diet, etc. It's frustrating when you think it's working and then it doesn't! It makes me feel like less of a woman... like I'm broken or defective! WHY don't doctor's know anything? They think we're either having too much sex or it's all in our minds. It's taken over my thoughts and I find myself on the internet way too much looking for a cure. Some women say they have been cured... WHY NOT US?????

[Angelhalo052010]

I have not had sex in 5 years and I have been dealing with this problem for 4 years. It isn't always due to sex. I don't know what could have caused my BV because I am very clean.

BV is taking over my life, too, and I am also on the internet too much trying to find a cure. I don't know why some people say they get cured and we can't. I think they just get excited after trying something for 1 day, thinking it works, so post they are cured, but they really arnt.

My doctor prescribed vagifem to me a few weeks ago. I took it for 2 weeks and then stopped because I felt like the symptoms were getting worse. I called the doctor yesterday and he told me to keep taking it and to take acidophillus with it. I told him I took acidophillus for 2 years and it didn't do anything. He said to take it with the vagifem though and if I don't notice any change to call him back in a couple weeks, so that's what I'm doing. I have already tried all of the antibiotics about 10 times. My pH is 7.5 and I asked him if there was anything to bring the pH down but he said the vagifem should actually bring the pH down. Im going to keep using it but I think its a bunch of bull and dont think its going to work.

I pray everyday that God will cure me. I feel like I'm going crazy with this. I just dont know how to treat it anymore.

Just felt like venting.

[ErIya]

Angel I hope youre feeling better today. i cant believe your pH is so high! how long has it been that way? Im sure that must be terrible. I used to test mine all the time and it never went above 6. i can only imagine what you must be dealing with... have you tried diets geared to lower ph, or using a low ph yoghurt vaginally?? Good luck, i'll pray for you!

[Angelhalo052010]

Angel I hope youre feeling better today. i cant believe your pH is so high! how long has it been that way? Im sure that must be terrible. I used to test mine all the time and it never went above 6. i can only imagine what you must be dealing with... have you tried diets geared to lower ph, or using a low ph yoghurt vaginally?? Good luck, i'll pray for you!

I'm guessing it has been that high since I have had BV...It usually goes down with boric acid but I have to use it every day. I have tried cutting out sugar but that didn't work. I have tried using yogurt vaginally and that didn't work either. I have tried so many things, antiobiotics and herbal remedies. I have tried sticking garlic up there too.

The weird thing is that everytime I go to the doctor they tell me I look normal and they do the swab or whatever and it comes out negative. This last time I went to the doctor he did a DNA swab and it was negative. I don't know what's going on but I'm sick of dealing with it and the doctors making me feel like I'm obsessed (although I am but who wants to smell like fish) and that is all in my head.