Did he take 7 days or more than 7 days
So I'm wondering the same thing. After my bf finishes treatment, I will give it a few months and update with our results. I've never had bv before and I'm 41 years old. I was having sex with him for 3 months, and no bv, never even heard of it. Then, I was with a girl who didn't smell so good - but not like fish. I screwed up and used the wrong side of a dildo that we'd been sharing, and 2 days later? BV. That was almost exactly 6 months ago. Every time I stop putting something up my vagina to control the ph, 2 days later: THE SMELL... probiotic inserts worked the best but they made me runny then I developed discharge that was stuck on my walls and just like toothpaste, and my vagina became so so dry.... That whole having to stick food things up my vagina to control pH is just BS, it's NOT normal. So I stopped putting ANYTHING AT ALL up there. And two days later: bv. So I demanded all kinds of cultures bv, av, mycoplasmas. 10 days later: the results are "still pending". From labcorp. What's up with that? Anyway, I went on metro pills - again. 500 mg 3 times a day for 7 days. I'm done with treatment and things are beautiful!! I was so so so so scared that I had ruined my vagina putting all that c**p up there. Thank God I haven't. I smell, taste and feel so good and normal!! And I will never put anything up my vagina but a finger or a penis. Ever. Metro causes cancer. Recurrent bv and using metro your whole life can give you cancerous tumors. I still don't have my labs so idk if I will need doxycycline for ureaplasma or clindamycin for atopbium or whatever for aerobic bacterias like e coli and such - but I do know my pH is acidic and I taste soooo good and don't smell like a cross between a hard boiled egg and rotten milk, festering in a garbage can in the 100 degree heat. Ewwww. Anyway, a have the same dose for my bf - the same guy: first three months together no bv, I was with the girl - got bv for the first time, the next 6 months of me and his relationship: bv, bv, bv, bv, bv. And it was all my fault because I'm the one that caught it and brought it. And he has been soooo good about it. So, I will see him in a few days and get him started on metro and hopefully I'll get the results of my lab. I will not let him near my vagina for a few more weeks. A month later I'll get reswabbed. A few months later I will update this post. Been on metro gel and pills 6 times now in 6 months. Inserting and eating jarro 2 times a day almost the whole time - that's so expensive!!! Every time I stopped putting something up there - 2 days later, bv. I will probably always ingest a jarro a day, though. I pray to God that this nightmare is finally over. ......"there are no gender specific germs!!!" LMFAO!!!! and "LADIES!!! Stop sticking stuff up your vaginas!!!" are the two best quotes I've ever heard in my life at this point!! Best of luck to ALL of you. And please after you're healed, tell all your female friends about bv and that girls can give it to each other. I'm positive some dude somewhere had bv germs and my vagina was strong, bomb p***y.... till the girl's germs defeated it - she wasn't the only girl I've ever been with either. "If it ain't right, ya better take flight!" But please, educate the poor girl about bv before you do. Wish me luck - I'm only one day off metro, but this time with 6 months of probiotic in my tummy, a bottle of metro for bf, and a promise to myself to never stick stuff up there - I really thought I had damaged my vaginal walls and would never self lube again or give myself that horrible disease where you vagina skins scars over and grows shut - look it up, seriously. Find out your germs by testing for all the types of vaginitis germs, take your proper antibiotics for each type of germs you have, get them for your man too, already be eating the right strains of vaginal probiotics, don't have any sex for 3 weeks after starting treatment so your flora doesn't get scraped out, and never douche ever. Peace =)
Guys and females need it! Males carry it through foreskin and you can also smell it in there semen
Bv in men what treat bcause no treat fluconazole 150mg cap. Still
What where the symptoms for you?
as a male I had none. but my gf now my wife would have a bad fishy smell that she would get treated almost every 6 weeks. one day she had a substitute doctor and he mentioned that it might have been coming from me to her and back to me. he prescribed us both with the same pill which then treated the problem and since then it has not come back
I'm an emergency physician and I have personally and professionally adopted this practice by treating men & women for BV. It is a treatment protocol in many other countries despite 5 out of six studies saying treating men didn't help the incidence of BV recurrence. However, these studies were not powered to answer this specific question and no evidence to treat is NOT evidence not to treat (let this sink in a sec). There's is by my opinion plenty of anecdotal evidence online and in literature demonstrating help for women (and men) with this problem. Of note, my wife & I are a monogamous couple for 7 years with nobhx of STD's. Here are the treatments we tried with no avail:
1) Metronidazole intravaginally for 7 days
2) Metronidazole 500mg by mouth 2x/day 7 days
3)Clindamycin gel intravaginally for 7 days
She inevitably got yeast (which recurred and sometimes coincides with BV) after many of these so then...
4) Monostat 1 day, 7 day
5) Diflucan 150mg x1 and then every 3 days for 6 weeks
6) STD testing for us both (negative)
7) lactobacillus VSL#3 (helped but no cure)
8) Dietician visit-she went on a complete elimination diet for 2 months (no gluten, starch, complex carbs, or dairy )....helped but no cure
9) Dietician then did 3 stage fecal culture to evaluate her gut flora and recommended low carb/starch diet-no help
10) I accompanied her to her obgyn over 5 times asking for vaginal cultures for atypical microbes and yeast-no help
11) We used only condoms for 3 months after no sex for almost 2...no help (see a pattern here?)
12) After reading extensively National Institute of Health, CDC, Medscape, UpToDate, Textbooks, Clinical trials, Lancet, American College of Obgyn treatment guidelines and the trials in Nairobi, Kenya and France, Germany, Finland & the Netherlands...I decided to be treated with Metronidazole 500mg 2x/day for 7 days; I had a hell of a time convincing my primary to treat me, doctors have doctors too and the US medical system is a pain for us as well. Me and my wife are 2 more months of condom use to ensure no infection and her remaining asymptomatic and guess what? Me being treated was the answer...not enough to publish but I'm a believer now.
-Dr G. Giordano
1) Metronidazole intravaginally for 7 days
2) Metronidazole 500mg by mouth 2x/day 7 days
3)Clindamycin gel intravaginally for 7 days
She inevitably got yeast (which recurred and sometimes coincides with BV) after many of these so then...
4) Monostat 1 day, 7 day
5) Diflucan 150mg x1 and then every 3 days for 6 weeks
6) STD testing for us both (negative)
7) lactobacillus VSL#3 (helped but no cure)
8) Dietician visit-she went on a complete elimination diet for 2 months (no gluten, starch, complex carbs, or dairy )....helped but no cure
9) Dietician then did 3 stage fecal culture to evaluate her gut flora and recommended low carb/starch diet-no help
10) I accompanied her to her obgyn over 5 times asking for vaginal cultures for atypical microbes and yeast-no help
11) We used only condoms for 3 months after no sex for almost 2...no help (see a pattern here?)
12) After reading extensively National Institute of Health, CDC, Medscape, UpToDate, Textbooks, Clinical trials, Lancet, American College of Obgyn treatment guidelines and the trials in Nairobi, Kenya and France, Germany, Finland & the Netherlands...I decided to be treated with Metronidazole 500mg 2x/day for 7 days; I had a hell of a time convincing my primary to treat me, doctors have doctors too and the US medical system is a pain for us as well. Me and my wife are 2 more months of condom use to ensure no infection and her remaining asymptomatic and guess what? Me being treated was the answer...not enough to publish but I'm a believer now.
-Dr G. Giordano
Wow this was very helpful info
Wow this was very helpful info
What were your symptoms as a male if I may ask
There were no symptoms. That's what makes it difficult for men to be treated. Males, when in contact, will become host and the infection will be dormant in the body. Females will be the ones who's body will react with bv such as foul smell.
I've been battling BV for the last couple years and nothing makes it better for long. I switched doctors recently and she prescribed flagyll for both myself and partner. This is the first time I have been hopeful!!! It has made a difference treating him as well. Fingers crossed it stays gone
What was the outcome after you & your partner were treated
My initial entry to this group was about 3 yrs ago. Since then we have not had any issues on either side since being treated. Men have to be treated as well as women do. Do not let uneducated doctors or PA's tell you otherwise.
Yes!!! If you play with his penis before sex and he gets aroused enough to pre cum, smell your hand...if he jas BV it'll smell like fish