i poked at a sore on my elbow and after a day it is swollen, red and hurts. do u think thats a bacterial infection? can it be treated with antibiotics?
swollen 2" in diameter around the spot i poked

I’ve had recurrent BV (bacterial vaginitis) for years, my dr’s seem to think it has nothing to do w/me not getting pregnant.. I however beg to differ.. one reason is b/c it makes CM hostile to sperm and I’ve also read it can lead to PID and/or damaged fallopian tubes. Has anyone battled with this and/or was able to conceive or not? I’m really worried I will never be able to have children w/o IUI or Invitro we have been TTC over 2/5 yrs.. any advice??
Thanks! atleast there are some people who understand how frustrating this is. Lisa, keep me posted and let me know if u get any new info, I think I need to switch Dr’s as well b/c mine doesn’t seem to think it’s as serious as I do.. Plus I’m the one sufferring and she doesn’t understand.. SO thanks! and keep me posted definitely!! hopefully we will find an answer!!

i had a lot of protected (condoms) sex for a week straight as well as using my vibrator the entire week too. since i used a condom i dont think its an std or anything, but at the entryway to my vagina itches. i have white discarge but i ALWAYS have bad discharge. could all the sex and masterbation have cause either a yeast infection or bacteria vaginosis, or even something else?

I’m getting treated for BV and me husband and I want to get pregnant after it clears up. I want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

My sister went in for a regular pap smear the other day and was given a prescription for bacterial vaginosis. She has begun taking the medicine but it is making her sick. The medicine she was given is called Flagyl. Is there any other medicine out there that she can take to cure this infection? Something that she doesn’t have to take orally and that won’t make her so sick would help.

I’ve been having this trouble since last February! Having sex all of a sudden became painful and directly afterward, my vaginal walls feel like they are burning and sometimes itchy. Any clue?

I don’t have health insurance but thought I could go to the health department, any idea if they would look at this sort of thing/how to make an appointment?

thanks!

About a month ago I was in a public place and after I did my business, I discovered there was no toilet paper. Hooray! And I wasn’t about to go and change rooms, because the place was so busy and I wasn’t in a stall, so I would be going out into a public place with my underwear smelling like piss afterwards.
So I looked around on the ground and sure enough, found TP. It looked clean and unused but smelled a bit of urine. I figured that pee is supposed to be sterile, so I went ahead and used it.
Well my hands smelled like urine for the rest of the day, while my vagina smelled like piss as well as itching later on that night and for the next 2 days.
It was slighty red and had little uniform raised bumps, almost like chicken skin, only present in the labia. No pus or anything. I washed with soap and the next day the bumps receded and I figured I’d cured it.
Now I have the same stuff, but with the opening of my vagina is sort of whitish. No funny discharge. And I wouldn’t be able to tell you the smell – I have a cold.

I narrowed it down to two things – bacterial vaginitis or yeast infection. I’m hoping it’s a yeast infection since it won’t need such a big treatment. If there’s anything else you could think of, please help!

When I fed my fish this morning, I noticed that one of my brilliant rasboras was quite pale, and his body looked almost like it was covered in a thin layer of slime. A few short stringy strands of slime are hanging off his body. (They’re not very long.) Only one fish is affected, and he was behaving normally – eating, swimming, etc.

I had to be to work before the pet store opened, but I will stop by on my home. I will, of course, ask what they think I ought to treat with. I have Melafix, but I didn’t put any in the tank. If the infection is fungal, I figured it wouldn’t do a whole lot of good, and I’d rather treat the fish properly than guess at it and do more harm.

Anybody have any idea what this infection is, where it came from, and how to treat it?

20 gallon
2 glass catfish
3 brilliant rasboras
1 pineapple swordtail
1 susnet platy

My husband is a lab technician and due to some mild discomfort we discovered i have bv ( bacteria vaginosis) anyway i have some metronidazole pills that exp. 11/11 but is it still safe to take them and will it still be effective. This pill is commonly prescribed to treat bv. So should i take them?
11/10 is the exp. date sorry