you just don’t know how happy I am to have come across this website, this forum, all the advice and responses on “bv”. its been really hard to get a straight answer from a medical doctor.

I too was diagnosed and treated for bv a month after my baby was born (12/06). i might have had it prior, but I was never really officially diagnosed and treated for bv until after my baby. I am currently suffering from it. the first time I had it, I was treated with some type of antibiotic shot or something that immediately took the pain away, and that was followed with doxycycline. the second time I was treated with vandazole gel (generic for metronidazole gel). the third time I had it, very apprehensively, I was treated with the shot again and a different oral antibiotic (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim). now that I am currently on the fourth go around of battling with it, I have been put on the vandazole gel again, and for the first time, my husband is treating with metronidazole oral tablets.

the more knowledgeable I become about medicines the more I have been trying to avoid having my family and I take them. my concerns with this reoccurring bv is the possibility of scar tissue. I hope to have more babies in the near future, but I don’t want to do anything or not do anything that would compromise my fertility, and my doctor knows this. prior to the 3rd treatment of bv, I tried the peroxide douching, and my doctor kind of hinted at it possibly causing scar tissue. I don’t know if that was just a scare tactic to keep me from treating this problem naturally or what, my suspicions are that it was.

my husband has been really cooperative with me on my new quest for natural remedies, but he feels as though we should finish the treatment this last time. go ahead and kill off all the bacteria, good and bad. go back to the doctor to make sure that the bacteria is gone. and then follow up with taking the acidophilus. I understand his logic with us being fresh on the idea of using natural remedies, but I really don’t want to do the meds again.

and last but definitely not least, the other guilt factor of taking the meds is that I’m still breastfeeding my soon to be 9month old. every time that I’ve been to the doctor, I always ask "is this safe for me to take while breastfeeding?" and both my OB/GYN and family doctor say that its perfectly safe. but just recently reading the little leaflets that come with the prescription it says that "THIS MEDICINE IS EXCRETED IN BREASTMILK. check with your doctor or pharmacist to discuss the risks to your baby." for me, commons sense tells me that whatever the side affects are for me then they would be the same for my baby and that’s not cool at all!