Bacterial Vaginosis Treatment This is Incredibly Shocking
If you've had bacterial vaginosis, like me, you may have been given antibiotic metronidazole to treat it. If you're lucky, it worked for you the first time. But when it didn't work, and you had to take it over and over again, your doctor insisted that it was because you were doing something wrong because otherwise the drug would work.
I hope you found that as insulting as I did. Last time I checked, I knew how to take medication and follow doctors orders; I know you have to take all of the antibiotics for it to work properly. And to stop taking it, I'd have to have felt better; which I haven't.
So, while reading up on possible treatments for bacterial vaginosis, I came across something quite disturbing. Metronidazole, the medication my doctor told me was the preferred treatment for bacterial vaginosis, was banned for use in animals in the EU because it had been proven to cause cancer.
Excuse me? So I can still take it, and thousands of doctors prescribe multiple courses of treatments to women like me with chronic bacterial vaginosis every day, but they can't give it to animals? Because the animals might get cancer? That doesn't seem right.
Not wanting to overreact, I decided to look into this a little more, to make sure the information I had found was true. It was true; tests had shown that metronidazole caused cancer and other genetic changes when tested on animals. There hasn't been any link to it causing cancer in people, but is that because it doesn't or because there haven't been enough tests.
There are lots of drugs with harmful side affects, and yes, some can put you at a higher risk for certain kinds of cancer, but its an accepted and known risk. I wouldn't have a problem if a single course of metronidazole worked as a treatment for bacterial vaginosis. But since things like this have a cumulative affect, my point is that chronic sufferers of bacterial vaginosis shouldn't be taking metronidazole as a treatment multiple times, when it doesn't even work for them.
Instead, I continued my search for an alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis, and after a lot of searching, I found something that works for me.
I hope you found that as insulting as I did. Last time I checked, I knew how to take medication and follow doctors orders; I know you have to take all of the antibiotics for it to work properly. And to stop taking it, I'd have to have felt better; which I haven't.
So, while reading up on possible treatments for bacterial vaginosis, I came across something quite disturbing. Metronidazole, the medication my doctor told me was the preferred treatment for bacterial vaginosis, was banned for use in animals in the EU because it had been proven to cause cancer.
Excuse me? So I can still take it, and thousands of doctors prescribe multiple courses of treatments to women like me with chronic bacterial vaginosis every day, but they can't give it to animals? Because the animals might get cancer? That doesn't seem right.
Not wanting to overreact, I decided to look into this a little more, to make sure the information I had found was true. It was true; tests had shown that metronidazole caused cancer and other genetic changes when tested on animals. There hasn't been any link to it causing cancer in people, but is that because it doesn't or because there haven't been enough tests.
There are lots of drugs with harmful side affects, and yes, some can put you at a higher risk for certain kinds of cancer, but its an accepted and known risk. I wouldn't have a problem if a single course of metronidazole worked as a treatment for bacterial vaginosis. But since things like this have a cumulative affect, my point is that chronic sufferers of bacterial vaginosis shouldn't be taking metronidazole as a treatment multiple times, when it doesn't even work for them.
Instead, I continued my search for an alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis, and after a lot of searching, I found something that works for me.
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