Dear Aunt Vadge,
I have a vaginal infection that will not go away!
- I tried vitamin c with rosehip tablets inserted into my vagina.
- I also tried douching with hydrogen peroxide and apple cider vinegar.
- I also went to an obgyn and he prescribed me with flagyl for seven days. I thought it went away but it came right back.
In short, I’ve tried EVERYTHING in the books, however, it does not go away. The weird thing is, I have yellowish discharge (not yellow green) but no smell.
This morning I woke up with white pasty discharge with no smell. Mind you, this whole time I never experienced fishy odor. Anyways, I decided to douche with hydrogen peroxide again and stick two acidophilus tablets up there. I notice my finger had a slight fishy odor when I took it out (yuck!).
I have tested for STD and it came back all negative.
Please help me! I’m helpless and hopeless as I don’t know if it’s BV, yeast infection, or something else.
Sincerely,
Infected
USA, Age 19
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Dear Infected
That sounds like hard work! One of the problems with you having just been prescribed antibiotics is that there hasn’t been any diagnosis or tests taken to determine what specific infection you may have.
Your doctor should be able to test for BV, yeast or other bacteria, so you should go back and request that they do these specific tests. If you don’t know what it is, then you can’t treat it, since most infections respond best to specific treatments and flailing wildly in the dark only very occasionally gets good results.
Fishy odour can be caused by a couple of different bacteria, but most often it is caused by BV (Gardnerella vaginalis and friends).
We have the Killing BV program, but before you get that, you really need a diagnosis, because it could be something else. Some STIs are not routinely tested for in every country, and it could be an obscure one.
Don’t let them fob you off. Demand to be tested, but before you go in, don’t use anything for a week on your vagina, because you want the bacteria present to be in high enough numbers to be tested accurately.
Using probiotics and douches clears out most of the free-floating bacteria, but you need that bacteria to be present to get an accurate test result.
Good luck, and let us know what it turns out to be!
Warmest regards,
Aunt Vadge
References1,2
- 1.Van Der Pol B. Diagnosing Vaginal Infections: It’s Time to Join the 21st Century. Curr Infect Dis Rep. Published online March 30, 2010:225-230. doi:10.1007/s11908-010-0096-1
- 2.Sobel JD, Hay P. Diagnostic techniques for bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis – requirement for a simple differential test. Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics. Published online May 7, 2010:333-341. doi:10.1517/17530059.2010.488688
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