Frequently reoccurring UTI, yeast infections, and BV. At my last rope

I'm so sorry you're suffering from this. I to have been suffering from chronic bv and yeast infections for the last 5 months. I had my paragard removed a little over a week ago, and for now I'm trying to get back to health. Everything I'm doing is already very helpful and can be found on this amazing website I found. Www.allthingsvagina.com

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Please check out that website and ebook as it is worth every bit of your time.

Best
Stephany

Maryann,
I will discuss this with my doctors. I feel a long term antibiotic treatment would end up causing harm in itself considering my reaction to antibiotics.
I did mention resistance to my primary but he said my blood work comes back with low to no resistance.

Susan,
I have considered the possibility that the IUD is causing (if not retaining) the bacteria. I never dealt with BV until after paragard. I do wonder if taking it out would correct that issue.

Thank you both for replying.

My reason for choosing IUD over the pill was that I had seen a bad reaction to loestrine. Severe mood swings into depression, bloating, hair loss, and weight gain among others. For some reason I also spot frequently in between periods on the pill.

I am the unlucky person to experiance these problems with side effects while having other issues where I need medications to prevent worse consequences.

As of now I am thinking I need to go back to the gyn since the infection I am currently experiencing seems to only minimally be getting better after taking diflucan 4 days ago and using an external antifungal cream. I know by day 4 I should be near clear, but instead I am still expering mild discomfort through the day and discomfort moderate enough to keep me awake and some slight peeling still going on.

I have also been feeling mild flank pain, so all I keep thinking is here I go again...

I just want to feel healthy, long term.

Hello Anonymous,

It troubles me that this ongoing cycle has left you feeling miserable and hopeless.

Erik P. Castle, M.D. who is a board-certified urologist on the Mayo Clinic staff stated these factors that can increase a woman's risk for developing recurrent urinary tract infections:
kidney or bladder stones
bacteria enter the urethra during sexual intercourse
an abnormal urinary tract shape or function
an inherited risk of developing bladder infections (genetic predisposition)

Have you ever had a cystoscopy or CT scan of the urinary tract?

Dr. Castle suggests in cases where the cause cannot be found, one of these options may help:

A long-term, low-dose antibiotic for as long as six months to two years

Intermittent or self-directed antibiotic therapy — for instance, taking an antibiotic after intercourse or starting a course of antibiotics supplied in advance by your doctor at the first sign of a UTI.

Anonymous, has any physician suggested antibiotic resistance as a possible reason for your recurrent urinary tract issues and development of bacterial vaginosis?

The overuse of antibiotics promotes antibiotic resistance.A bacterium is resistant to a drug when it has changed in some way that either protects it from the action of the drug or neutralizes the drug.

Any bacterium that survives an antibiotic treatment can then multiply and pass on its resistant properties. Also, some bacteria can transfer their drug-resistant properties to other bacteria.

I hope that this additional information empowers you in future conversations with your physician and get closer to a solution.

Maryann