To Flagyl or not to Flagyl?

[thebunnygeek.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone!

Phew! Things are finally coming to a close. I think this is my "final boss battle", if you will.
Yesterday, I finally got to see my gyn who told me that everything on my cultures came up negative (no STIs, no yeast, no nothing!), except for my bacterial culture which came up "indeterminate". Apparently that means that more likely than naught I had/have BV, which is what he diagnosed me with. He asked me how the amoxicillin went (didn't help), and went on to prescribe me flagyl. I explained that I've been doing so much better after switching detergents (a few of my mom's friends divulged that using this detergent resulted in them having BV), using tea tree oil and taking boric acid. He didn't seem convinced, but still was happy that I'm doing better. But... he still prescribed me flagyl (in his words "just in case").

Now... Should I take it or not? Boric acid has made me feel good enough that I've been able to spend quality time with my boyfriend (ahem). Sometimes I still get a little itchy, but I think it may be mostly because once I get a little "excited"  I get very wet very fast (and I couldn't when I had raging BV because it would hurt too much). Also, I'm super sensitive (like, if you grab me I will turn pink and get a rash) and not removing my hair has caused me to be super scratchy.

I'm just absolutely terrified it will come back. I think I've had it for a very long time (memories of being 13 and crying in the bathroom at school because walking was just too painful), and I kind of want to be able to deal with it. This will be my 8th or 9th night of taking boric acid too.

Comments

[buttcrackderby.livejournal.com]

If you still feel itchy or anything that's just not your natural self, I say take the dive and try the flagyl.

Yeah, you won't feel great for a week or so but it's so worth it to be able to NOT have to rely on boric acid. If you still have to use the boric acid to feel comfortable during any act then it sounds like you're taking care of a symptom but not the source of it.

I'm only saying this because I had raging BV for like four months and my gyn prescribed me all kinds of weird chinese herbal meds (I live in Japan and going to a gyn is like a crap shoot here) and a few antibiotics (NOT known to even treat the bacteria I was diagnosed with) before I was able to rattle a flagyl prescription out of her after months of arguing and no results from her solutions.

In order to make the symptoms bearable I was doing the boric acid thing too but the BV crap always came back at the end of the day.

I ended up taking an oral and vaginal suppository dose of flagyl for two weeks. I felt pretty ill (nausea) when I was taking it, but when I was done the BV was completely and utterly gone. No more boric acid for me because everything went back to normal. :D

I would recommend taking it.

[thebunnygeek.livejournal.com]

Wow, everything went back to normal?
I'm super scared of taking it, because I've heard that it makes you really really ill and potentially give people ulcers...?
Or how did you prevent YI from taking such a strong antibiotic?
How long have you been BV free?
I think I'll go the weekend without boric acid, and if it goes back to itchiness then I'm going to take the flagyl.

[buttcrackderby.livejournal.com]

I had a YI to begin with in combination with the BV so I took a diflucan toward the end of flagyl cycle.

Let's see... I took the flagyl in mid December and I've been BV free since about X-mas? Not a single problem since.

I won't lie, the flagyl DID make me so nauseous I threw up once about a week in. That was the worst though.