Anyone have issues with BV? Yes, I know, it's disgusting but from what I'm gathering with all my Google searches, it is a major issue with women. I'm really wishing that someone would do a major research study on this stupid woman problem and find some real solutions! My dr has prescribed all sorts of antibiotics, creams, made suggestions (Pro-biotics, homemade inserts made of boric acid, etc... ). I seem to beat it, then have sex with my significant other of 5+ years and BAM! Back again... This bites!! I have read that pro-biotics, folic acid can help but no go. Maybe I am just allergic to my boyfriend? What's strange is that we didn't start having this issue until we had been together for 2 or 3 years and I came down with it and ever since that first time I just can't get rid of it. It's humiliating, embarrassing, gross... Ugh! Please help?!

Oh, in addition since I'm sure this may come up, I am 110% that my boyfriend is faithful. We are in a monogomous relationship so that's not the problem. I have been reading that it doesn't tend to be sexually related but I think differently. It's almost as though his sperm upsets my balances or something because I only have an issue when it comes to sex.

BV can be very resistant to any treatment and is most often actually triggered by the sexual activity. Yea, it sucks.

A friend told me some time ago that she beat it by using condoms after she's used the treatment prescribed - I think she did this for about a month.

Another woman told me used a clove of garlic as a vaginal pessary (threaded onto some string) for 5 consecutive nights, and that she never again had a recurrence.

I suspect the answer may lie in abstaining from sex for while - after you've completed a treatment - to allow the vaginal bacteria to go back to normal and be undisturbed. Can you abstain for a month?

Has your boyfriend been treated? This is a bacteria that can be passed to you through intercourse. If it continues to reoccur your boyfriend needs to be treated for the bacteria as well.