If you like me who has had bacterial vaginosis before, you may understand what I am talking about here about the frustration I have. When you see your doctor, I have been given antibiotic metronidazole to treat my bv. At first, I was thinking antibiotic should help me to cure bv. It does cure my bv the first time. However, my nightmare comes after the first cure though. What I have experienced is that I end up going through multiple courses of the drug when bv recur, and each time your doctor kept insisting that the treatment would work, and the dosage is getting heavy each time.

As we know we need to take the antibiotics for a complete cycle. My doctor told me to take it for several days to prevent the chance of missing some bacteria. The first time was very effective. After taking the antibiotic for the complete cycle, my symptom was gone. I was so happy to get rid of those fishy odor.

What upset me was that these symptoms come and go. The next time I saw my doctor again, she gave me a stronger antibiotic because it seemed like the previous dosage was not effective anymore. Taking antibiotics is not an enjoyable thing to take. It has its side effects. In addition, I was worrying to take stronger antibiotics each time bv recur. Thus, I decided to investigate alternatives for treating bacterial vaginosis on my own, and I was shocked by what I found. Metronidazole, the medication recommended for treating for bacterial vaginosis was banned for use in animals in the EU. The reason is because it has been proven to cause cancer.

I was shocked with this finding! I am taking something that is prohibited to be used on animals. I wonder why my doctor insisted that it would cure my symptom without considering the potential risk of using this prescription.

I did some more research and discovered that metronidazole had been found to both change genetic material, and cause cancer when tested on animals. Although no evidence showing it has direct relation of causing cancer in human, it may because not enough research has been done on human.

To protect myself from exposing to this potential risk, I continued to look for other alternative vaginosis remedies. What I have found is that there are some natural ways for treating bv. The reason that it is working is because instead of killing the bacteria, it adjusts the pH value in your body so that the bad bacteria cannot dominate that area. I have also found that some feminine hygiene products do more harm than good to me. Now I understand how to keep myself away from bv by changing my daily habbits.

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