[arj75]

So I am still on my quest to find somewhere to buy b-complex injections, and I got real excited when I found a link. As I began reading the article, they were b-complex injections...but for freaking cats. lol The interesting part (for me) was that this treatment is used by vets to treat cats with chronic renal (kidney )failure!

Our adrenal glands sit right on top of our kidneys and there are blood vessels that link them together. So, if b-injections are given to people under high stress or anxiety..which is most likely caused from overactive adrenal glands.. I can see why this can cause problems with repeated urinary tract infections too..or renal failure. (In my case)

[i'vehadenough]

you get that bad taste in your mouth too? If i yawned or sometimes it would just happen , id get this nasty taste manly in the back of my throat.

Oh it was soooo nasty. The only thing that seemed to take it away was eating so all I did for a week was eat

[LoveLife]

So I'm going to try a crazy diet/lifestyle change dealy to see if I can't get rid of this. Three months. No sugar, yeast, processed food, fermented foods (unless it's naturally done with good bacteria), wheat. etc. see my previous post. Plus, I'm going to try to eat as much raw food as possible.

I'm also taking a multi vitamin, Femdophilis, oregano oil pills alternating every four days with grapefruit seed extract and goldenseal, enzymes, a blue-green algae supplement, an extra 2000 MG of Vit C and fish oil. And for the first little while (i'm not sure how long yet...) I'm going to use boric acid tablets in le coochie. Plus maybe try some extra relaxation and maybe a chi gong class. I'll keep you posted as to how I'm feeling! Oh and I'm also going to be taking Dong Quai.

I'll also let you know if I change anything too. Oh and please let me know if you have any recommendations for this! I would really appreciate it. Thanks

[Italianwife88]

So I went back to the specialist today and the BV is gone after the first round of treatment. I am glad that part is over because I couldn't stand the taste it gave me in my mouth. I took my best friend with me and she had no symptoms. The Dr was shocked!!! I now use BA for 30 days and then use metrogel for 6 months twice a week. Hopefully this will knock it out but I am not feeling very hopeful. I do have 2 questions for you guys.

How do you know the potency of the BA? He told me to use 300 or 600 (I can't remember which) once a day. The bottle doesn't say anything about how much it contains. In the past I was just filling up an empty cap.

2nd. Do any of your partners have a hard time using condoms? My husband just can't do it. He is suppose to use one for the first 3 months of this study. We used one once in the past 2 weeks and he couldn't stay erect. I know is is totally psychological, but he refuses to admit that. I guess we just won't be having sex for the next 2 and a half months

you get that bad taste in your mouth too? If i yawned or sometimes it would just happen , id get this nasty taste manly in the back of my throat.

[Lotus0910]

OK, so I was diagnosed with B.V. about a year ago. I went on Flagyl and it cleared up. Around the same time, my boyfriend and I broke up.
I stayed celibate for a good eight months or so, and recently (about a month ago) had sex for the first time after the breakup.

God damn it if I don't have weird shit going on in my crotch again! Strong smell, air bubbles, the works. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Does intercourse trigger flare ups? Maybe the only reason why it went away at all is because I wasn't having sex for all that time.. if so that would SUCK.

Any thoughts?

[prvtpuss]

the flagyl worked so far... no stinkiness.... i'm still waiting with bated breath.

good luck to all of you

[jewelscando]

AIR BUBBLES.....Yes...we've spoke of these before. This is normally one of the first signs for me that I have B.V.

Neverending...it's been so long since I ordered. I would just go to search and type in the name you are looking for with the words "Buy Online". That's how I found mine.

Feel free to P.M. me. I don't check this site everyday, but if you P.M. me, I get an email saying so!!

Still B.V. free on my end. Got rid of the ex, got rid of the B.V......

[i'vehadenough]

So I went back to the specialist today and the BV is gone after the first round of treatment. I am glad that part is over because I couldn't stand the taste it gave me in my mouth. I took my best friend with me and she had no symptoms. The Dr was shocked!!! I now use BA for 30 days and then use metrogel for 6 months twice a week. Hopefully this will knock it out but I am not feeling very hopeful. I do have 2 questions for you guys.

How do you know the potency of the BA? He told me to use 300 or 600 (I can't remember which) once a day. The bottle doesn't say anything about how much it contains. In the past I was just filling up an empty cap.

2nd. Do any of your partners have a hard time using condoms? My husband just can't do it. He is suppose to use one for the first 3 months of this study. We used one once in the past 2 weeks and he couldn't stay erect. I know is is totally psychological, but he refuses to admit that. I guess we just won't be having sex for the next 2 and a half months

[neverending]

Does anyone know of a good site where you can buy any med you want? I remember Jewels saying something about a site but what was the name? JEWELS, I NEED YOU HUN!

[LoveLife]

Hi~

New here! I have been battling recurrent BV and yeast for over 2 years. It comes back like every 3 months. At one point I took oral and vaginal flagyl like 3 times in 2 months. I wanted to cry!! Anyway. I just stopped using stuff. (It didn't go away) I have another one right now. Yay. I also get recurrent UTIs. Which have gotten better, but
it burns all the time when I pee, been tested, no problems... I'm just "sensitive".

Just some info:

Symptoms: I have a strong smell (not usually fishy, but strong crotch odor) usually thicker discharge, sometime greyish green and sometimes white.
The worst and most annoying and obvious that I ahven't noticed many people talk about are the air bubbles i feel leaving my pussfactor ALL DAY LONG.
It drives me nuts! its like a freakin bubble machine in there. Anyone else have this problem? Could it be something else?

What I've tried: Boric Acid, kinda burns and irritates the skin for me. I use Yeast Guard though and I know there are other things in there. It's kinda scratchy...
Like all of the stupid prescriptions, oral and vaginal. "oh well, let's just try ONE MORE course of meds and see if it works this time..." riiiight.
Also take acidophilis and bifidus daily, doesn't really help. I'm gonna buy Femdophilis tho and try that. And I tried it vaginally, helped for yeast... not for BV.
RePhresh or whatever. Took away the itch, not the freaking bubbles though. And gave me a grotty chunky white discharge. But I'll use it again if I'm really itchy.
Aaaand I think that's it... Oh! I went on a month long cleansing diet, no sugar (incl. fruit! esp. fruit juices!), no vinegar, no processed foods, no flour, no molds (cheese, certain types of nuts, mushrooms), no alcohol... that seemed to help all of my problems actually. no more burning pee and less bubblyness. maybe i should have tried for longer.

I also have IBS and chronic sinus infections too. I can't help thinking that at least for me, these chronic problems are perhaps related to my immune system. Does anyone take high doses of Vit C regularly? Astralagus? Anything for immune boosting? Or what about oral anti-bacterials like garlic, grapefruit seed extract, oregano oil? Female repro balancing herbs like Dong Quai? I can't help thinking this is a body problem and not just a vag problem with it being recurrent and all.

Sorry so long. Welcome some feedback!

Sorry one more... anyone tried these (i just found them, didn't read anything about it here):
"Herbal-C" suppositories -- contains Myrrh, Echinacea, Slippery elm, goldenseal root, marshmallow, Geranium and yarrow (available from Vitanica)

"Vag-Pak" suppositories -- contains Anhydrous magnesium sulfate, Glycerin complex, Hydrastis tincture, Thuja oil, Tea tree oil, Bitter orange oil, Vitamin-A (as palmitate) 100,000 iu, Ferric sulfate, Ferrous sulfate in polybase. (available from Vitanica)

Or an Apple Cider Douche?

[brandils]

Just an update about the femmesil that I tried. As I said I had just finished my monthly and thought that the bv was back. I am taking B6 and folic acid daily. I used the femmesil 3 times a day for 2 days and once a day for 3 more days. The last time I used it was 2 days ago and so far so good. Knock on wood. The femmesil has silver and some other natural ingredients. It worked for me and was worth the $25 I paid. It is a small tube but it doesn't take much and I will have enough for 2 or 3 more full treatments if needed. Maybe this info will help someone else. Don't know if it is the vitamins or this femmesil or both.

[SwtSimplicity]

I have good news and bad news: I took a yeast test at my doctors office and my doctor called me and said, "I found two types of yeast in your test results", "so I'll be treating you with boric acid capsules that are inserted into the ______ and diflucan." After she told me that I swore the angels were singing from the heavens above, because I know I'm not going nuts.


All this time I thought I had a bacterial infection. Ugghhhhh .....

[arj75]

Well, I went to the doc in the box friday (allergy season yay!) anyways, I told him him it took me years to get "my pee" to come out, so he checked for a UTI and of course I had one. So, I have the Cipro, and I will have to report back to him and make sure that it worked. However, I have decided I'm done with all the freaking antibiotics...I found this in "Prevention" magazine it listed herbal treatments (by a herbalist that see's that this does work...and very often to treat UTI's. So, this is what I'm gonna try, and I will know if it worked or not because I have a follow-up. (That doc in the box was HOT) can't wait to go back. lol

This is what the herbalist suggested in the Prevention magazine:

uva ursi or pipsissewa
several studies have shown that uva ursi's active compound has an antibacterial effect on the urinary system. Although pipssewa is less researched, it has the same compound and appears to be easier on your stomach.

Take 2 to 3 ml of either herb listed three times a day..until it's cleared up...now I don't have a clue as to how long it takes..but I will let you know.

If you open any Anatomy and Physiology book...it says the lungs and kidneys are responsible to maintain your bodies ph level (if it says body's PH, I would assume that includes Zee Twat too. So, if our kidneys are jacked, our twats could suffer the impact? If our lungs are exposed to enviromental toxins...(smoking, or whatever...our vagina's will be impacted?? Maybe, it's out there...but I like being out there!

[neverending]

so I'm on Cipro for my kidney infection... I probably end up with a yeast infection. last night i put tea tree oil on a tampon and put it in. maybe this will work...

neverending, im having a lot of gas and bloating and cramps lately too, has anything worked for you yet? maybe ill just pick up some GasX

I went to the doctor and he gave me a prescription for Bentyl. He asked if I was under a lot of stress and I told him yes school had started back and of course school can get a little stressful. Anyway, THAT WAS A WASTE OF MONEY. I'm not going to take the Bentyl. I'm going to head to the health food store to see what I can pick up.

[prvtpuss]

well, definitely i just learned in microbiology that flagyl works only on anaerobes, but i still wonder what it will do to my normal levels of everything- eh they're not so normal these days, so i'm going to go ahead and try. i took the first 250 mg pill an hour ago.

[Italianwife88]

so I'm on Cipro for my kidney infection... I probably end up with a yeast infection. last night i put tea tree oil on a tampon and put it in. maybe this will work...

neverending, im having a lot of gas and bloating and cramps lately too, has anything worked for you yet? maybe ill just pick up some GasX

[CanCan]

anyway, i guess my main question is what are the chances of this going away and never coming back. i've never had my puss smell so incredibly bizarre. it's beyond strange. i just popped 3 probiotic pills, emptied 2 capsules directly into my vagina and tomorrow i'm going to take a gram of flagyl to be followed by another gram the next day. could i freak out my bacterial levels even more with this kind of overkill??? all i know is the ammonia smell has to stop. i study for hours at a time and it's so hard to concentrate when i can't stop smelling myself and worrying that people around me can smell me too. wtf, i totally feel for you repeat sufferers.

thankssss!!!!
xo

Has anyone done this? I'm sure I read on this board that some of us have. Has anyone put Femdophilus up there as a vaginal suppository? How did that work out? I haven't tried that yet, and maybe I will. Prvtpuss, if you are going to do this, maybe you should insert the probiotics after you do the Flagyl treatment. So that you replenish the bacteria. And my other question is: does Flagyl kills the bad bacteria only? The anaerobic? Or the anaerobic and aerobic?

[prvtpuss]

i have a question. i just diagnosed my first (and hopefully last) bacterial vaginosis infection. after a couple of weeks of having an intense ammonia/garbage discharge i just figured out what was going on by googling garbage and ammonia and vagina. after reading this board, i'm totally freaked that this is the beginning of a lifelong hell!?! how often does someone just get one bout of BV and then never again? i'm 29 and have had a lot of sex with a lot of partners over the past 13 years and this is the first time i've ever dealt with this. i sort of know what happened. i started having sex with a new partner this summer, unprotected, with withdrawal (stupid i know), then i came back to school (med school - so i should know better) and had unprotected sex with another new partner (this one a virgin, i'm pretty sure). he came inside of me like an newbie and that's when the smell began. i would say that the BV is from the second guy except for the fact that all summer that i was hooking up with guy #1 i was slightly itchy and not quite normal down there. i thought it was a yeast infection or the beginning of one, but now i know the truth. so is it possible the BV is from guy #1 and the semen from guy #2 activated it or at least upset my pH enough to give the BV the foothold it was looking for?

anyway, i guess my main question is what are the chances of this going away and never coming back. i've never had my puss smell so incredibly bizarre. it's beyond strange. i just popped 3 probiotic pills, emptied 2 capsules directly into my vagina and tomorrow i'm going to take a gram of flagyl to be followed by another gram the next day. could i freak out my bacterial levels even more with this kind of overkill??? all i know is the ammonia smell has to stop. i study for hours at a time and it's so hard to concentrate when i can't stop smelling myself and worrying that people around me can smell me too. wtf, i totally feel for you repeat sufferers.

thankssss!!!!
xo

[pympmama1]

pympmama1,

Does yours just never go away? or does it just reoccur?

I think I have the solution for single women....find a virgin (while this may be much more difficult than finding a cure for bv...the man isn't gonna have a clue as to what a normal vagina smells like anyways. lol

Or, find yourself a fisherman, (the one that makes $$$$ and risks his life so we can eat craps and certain fish) hey, obviously, the smell doesn't bother them..or they wouldn't be able to do their job's. lol

Italianwife,

Penis soaks...hmmm never would have thought about that. I would grap your man's macho ass and make him read up. Sometimes seeing is believing.

Yes it goes away... but it reoccurs....eventually... and for the life of me I cannot figure out what I did different to bring about the bv...

[mfc10]

I've been having gas and bloating like crazy lately and I'm afraid to go to the doctor because he might give me antibiotics and I don't want this stuff to start up anymore. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of the gas and bloating?

Try an enteric-coated peppermint oil capsule. The enteric coating will assure that the peppermint oil will not contribute to acid reflux. My Mom & I swear by this.

Maggie C.