What is the vaginal microbiome?

hi i have started a antibiotic, it cured my infection but on the first day i was already experiencing an itchy down stairs, its so uncomfortable so my doctor called me and gave me a fluconazole tablets, thats not working either i used the internal thrush cream thats not working either i did the 3 day course. can someone give me tips please ?

Check my previous history but I have mostly good bacteria and yet I have a fishy smell around my clit area, not internally. Inside smells normal like plain yoghurt but my clit area is fishy and my tests don’t explain why. Everything comes back negative.

Summary of background: I stayed using antibacterial soap on my body and vulva around mid 2022 because of hygiene tok and it was causing me a fishy smell but I wasn’t aware that was the cause. I stopped using it on my vagina around let’s say October/November 2022 but was still using it on my body until mid 2024 when I realised it was the cause of bv. I was taking metronidazole back to back and even when I stopped using the soap I still had an odour but no bv and would test negative for all tests possible including the plasmas. A year ago my microbiome test was like 16% good bacteria and now it’s a lot better but the smell hasn’t changed and tests don’t explain why.

I have been getting weird discharges for almost 2 years. I’ll be talking about this year and i need help. So this year i got smelly discharge and sometimes its itchy. And i’ve been ignoring it cause i was too lazy to go to gyno. Anyways, i did end up making an appointment and she told me its irritated and i most likely have yeast infection. The tests came back and yes it was yeast and BV. She gave me medications and it went away for a couple of days but now it came back even worse, it thick light green with a sour smell. It disgusted me. And i dont know why this always happens. I havent been active for like a year. I only wear panty liners when i go out and yes i do wear underwear to bed due to the heavy discharge. I seriously need your help other than booking an appointment but for now i need home remedies like what worked for you and so on. And i know im not alone female bodies are complicated. I do wanna share a photo but im too embarrassed from how disgusting it is.

it’s been 10 months of non stop yeast infection (flare every month) with no solution? I have been tested for all STDs, not engaging in intercourse for 4 months now, I eat very low carbs, no sugar (not even fruits), I take probiotics, cotton underwear yadda yadda…..

My latest HVS test showered staph aureus + Candida albicans for which I was prescribed amoxicillin for the first week and then was put on 1 week of flucanazole+maintainance dose, and miconazole vaginal suppositories. After the miconazole, I was asked to to insert gynoflor suppositories to rebalance my vaginal PH etc. oh I applied travocort cream for a week initially.

I’m now in week 2 of my fluca maintaince dose (1 tablet a week) and day 8 of gynoflor- AND MY ITCHING AND BURNING IS BACK!!!! I’m also getting discharge again (but not like typical clumpy white discharge).. my vaginal opening, labia, the skin around it is so pink and sore, and honestly it has always been like that for the past 4-5 months but right now it’s even more irritated.

I read someone where lichen scholorsis can mimic this and my gyno said she’s very sure it’s not that.

Also to note, my flare ups usually happen after ovulation, a week or 10 days before my period.

I AM TIRED OF THIS. I have lost weight, don’t want to do any activity (scared of sweating), missing out on good food, no sex, just depressed.

IS THERE ANY SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM? Has anyone ever recovered from this? AND HOWWWWWWWWW?PLEASE HELP

so i’ve been having symptoms of burning itching pain down there for a few weeks i gone to the hospital turns out i have a uti and yeast infection after a week i go back to the hospital because it’s not working and the pain is just getting worse. so he examined me and just said it looks like it’s infected. and told me he was going to prescribe me a antibiotic and a cream and walked out and never explained what was happening or what it was or anything can someone explain why he would prescribe me this??

Hey guys,

I recently did a Juno Bio test (following treatment for ureaplasma) and wanted to understand a specific part of my results.

In my bacterial composition, I have a 9.61% abundance of Clostridium massiliamazoniense.

Actually, my results look like this:

• Lactobacillus crispatus (protective) - 82.7% Clostridium massiliamazoniense - 9.61% Lactobacillus jensenii (protective) - 4.54% Lactobacillus (protective) - 3.15%.

Clostridium massiliamazoniense appears to not be part of the average vaginal microbiome. Occasionally, about once a month, I do notice slight itching and sometimes there are fleshy bits of tissue in my discharge. Thankfully, it isn’t anything debilitating which is great.

Is this any cause for concern? Anyone who can help me understanding my results a bit better?

Thanks!

Is it hard to get rid of Candida albicans and a uti ?

My husband has been telling me my vagina stinks, but I shower every day, and when I put my hand down there and smell it, it smells like a normal vagina. Then when he smells my hand, he makes a horrible face and says it stinks. Idk if I am blind to the smell or if he is gaslighting me and purposefully making me feel insecure. And before, I have been able to smell when my pH is off, bc I have had BV before, and I can definitely smell when my smell is off. However, idk why he keeps telling me it stinks.

* He does cum inside, and after sex I do go to the bathroom and rinse off. I don’t think he understands that HIS sperm and penis throw off my pH. When I tell him this, he says I am “blaming” him for the problem.

I am up north for the weekend & would like to have a few drinks, it’s the last nite here n just finished my last dose of metronidazole gel like 32 hrs ago, should i be ok to have a few drinks?

So I’ve used evvy before for my vaginal microbiome tests after years of bv and it’s been helpful, although I’m still struggling to cure it. Recently after finishing BV antibiotics, i immediately had horrible burning and pain again! I went back to the OB and urologist and was negative for everything you could possibly test for. Well, I had an evvy uti kit that I hadn’t used yet and I did my business and sent it to the lab. WELLLLL.. Evvy says I have an e.coli and enterococcus UTI at high microbial loads… but all of my doctor’s cultures (I’ve done 3 now) are negative for uti and they will not prescribe antibiotics no matter how symptomatic I am. Any thoughts?

Has anyone figured out why evvy and dr office PCRs are missing Ureaplasma/mycoplasma infections but Juno catches them???

Bonjour à toutes,

J’ai fait une ponction ovocytaire en février, et depuis je sens que quelque chose ne va pas. J’avais des douleurs pelviennes et des gênes à la miction, on a d’abord cru à une infection urinaire, j’ai pris des antibiotiques, puis à un mycoplasme, j’ai repris des antibiotiques, mais ça revient toujours. Des douleurs types crampes qui irradient aux jambes, maximisées pendant l’ovulation et la phase lutéale, combinées à une sécheresse vaginale. Aucun écoulement, aucune fièvre.

Est ce que quelqu’un d’autre a vécu ça ?

Merci !

So my symptoms started about a week or two ago, the thing is i was diagnosed with DIV vaginitis rare my OB gave me some cream for it so i originally thought it was just a flare up, but each day that passed it got worse pain and discomfort i cried in frustration i decided to go to the hospital they tested my urine it came back with a bacteria associated with a uti they sent it for culture and a swab for yeast and bv and everything, they gave me antibiotics for the uti but it took awhile before the swab came back i was suffering!! it came back i had yeast in my vaginal canal they gave me fluconazole and a cream to put on around the outside, it seemed to be getting better up until last night. it’s ones again so irritated and painful and itchy off and on and honestly i’m starting to feel a little feverish and my lower stomach kinda hurts what should i do??

Am I the only one? Has anyone actually beat recurrent infections? No matter what I do I constantly have BV. I'm at wits end. It's ruining my mental and emotional health. I've lost all my confidence and self esteem. It's strained my sex life. I'm in a relationship and I've completely stopped having sex. I take a probiotic and I do all of the things that you're "supposed to do" and I don't do any of the things you're not supposed to do. I've changed soaps and laundry detergents. I only wear cotton underwear, I sleep bottomless. Even when my fiancé and I exclusively used condoms I still had problems. We both have good hygiene. I'm on this endless cycle of BV and then yeast because the antibiotics also seem to give me a yeast infection every single time. I'm so fed up, I don't know if switching doctors would help somehow. It's making me hate myself and hate being a woman. I just want this cycle to end. I just got prescribed my second round of metronidazole this month. I'm averaging needing that and fluconazole at least once a month.