I'm 23, fairly healthy and In good shape over all. For the past few months I have been battling with BV and to say the least it truly is devastating.
I have gone to my Gyno multiple times to and put on antibiotics that just got rid of the smell but not the actual symptoms like discharge! She also thought it was yeast recently but come to find out once the culture results came back I was clear, no bv or yeast was found. At that point, I'm like WHAT THE HELL is wrong with me then. I still had this white watery like discharge sometimes of a sticky consistency.
I took it upon myself to hit up my local Whole Foods for organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar and organic plan yogurt with live cultures. I diluted the ACV in water and soaked a tampon in it I did it twice a day. Also ate yogurt like a mad woman and drank water all alkaline and a few teaspoons of ACV in it. It has been 2 days and I don't feel uncomfortable or wet down there.
Although , I can't say it will be gone forever this has definitely fixed it for the time being. I also got tested for everything across the board today because I'm at wits end and if it's not BV what In the world is going on? Keeping my fingers crossed that everything comes back negative and these awful symptoms will just go away.
Please share your story or any tips, it would be greatly appreciated. If you come across my post I'm sure you're going through the same battle, and I feel for you. You are not alone.
Hi Stella!
I have been going through the same thing. I went to the doctors because of my symptoms I was having with discharge and irritation down there I didn't really have a bad smell though. My Dr. did some testing and culture came back as BV in my case so she prescribed me antibiotics first put me on mentronidazole to take orally for 7 days and that did not work so she prescribed me the same thing but in gel form w/applicators to insert down there and still that didn't work cause more irritation so finally today I had a over the phone appointment with her and now she is prescribing clindesse cream I will be taking this along with probiotics and I really hope this works for me. Last night was the first night I tried probiotics with plain yogurt inserted vaginally and today I felt quite better but it has only been one day so of course I still have discharge but felt less irritated down there. If none of what I'm doing works for me I will definitely try what has worked for you. Thanks for sharing and keep me posted if your results last
Hi, thanks so much for replying. How is it going for you so far?
I have been trying everything under the sun, except probiotics which I plan on buying this weekend, any suggestions?
The plain yogurt gave me some relief when I insereted with a tampon but I felt like it didn't do much the next day.
I've stopped the antiobiotics completely as they told me everything came back negative, but I STILL have discharge which is watery and sorta sticky. It's driving me mad! I have an appointment with my gyno again tomorrow. I honestly feel so defeated and do not know what to do anymore ☹️