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Info on Group B Strep Please!
I just recently got diagnosed with Group B Step. I'd really like to know more about it. From what I've been looking up it mostly effects pregnant women and newborns, I don't fall under either of those catagories. My doctor said that it most likely happend from having sex with my (monogomous)partner. He's been away, at war, for about 10 months and when he came home we obviously were trying to make up for lost time in the sex department. About two weeks from the time we started having sex again I started to get symtoms similar to that of a yeast infection. (which I sometimes get) I noticed though that the symptoms were stlightly different, which concerned me, usually when I get yeast infections, I'll have some discharge with minimal itching. This time there was little discharge and the itching was through the roof. So, I went to the doctor and they tested me for a bunch of different STDs and baterial infections as well. I didn't have any STDs and she said that this GBS isn't serious and she put me on a antibiotic supository.I'd like to know more about GBS. I know that it can go back and forth between two people from having sex. I realize it's not the same thing as when you have strep throat, but is it possible that because my boyfriend was sick while preforming oral sex on me I got this GBS? Or, is this strictly a genital thing. Also I know it can effect the anal area too, which I think it may have, will that be cleared up with the antibiotic supository that she put me on? Is this likely to come back again? Are there things I can do to prevent this from happening?
And if it can be passed to a baby, you betcha it can be passed during sex. I have cloudy dark yellow cm, strong odor, and yes, over time my husband has begun to smell (uncircumsized, bacteria trapped under forskin.) and his senen has turned yellow. I could bet a thousand dollars that gbs is in his semen. So far, he's asymptomatic which is good though. This has hampered my sex life, as it's extremely painful too. I want my life back. Ladies, I hear you.
Antibiotics don't do squat. You name it I tried it. Name a natural remedy, tried it. Wasted more money than I'd like to admit trying to calm down the gbs. Underlying causes can trigger the gbs. Immune system dysfunctions and endocrine disorders. Off I go to request these tests from my GYN. Here's to hoping she doesn't get mad at me. I feel like all doctors argue with me, then are done with me. This gyn seems compassionate, here's to hoping.
I'm appalled by the lack of knowledge that most ob/gyn's have with this infection. Yes, in some it's fine, the gbs just colonizes a woman with no problems. But in some cases it reproduces like crazy, triggered by another issue. Gbs can often piggy back other bacteria as well. Mine has migrated to my ovaries and has caused two painful accesses and chronic PID (which the doctors say isn't possible from PID). Hello?!?! Ugh there's tonnes if info out there, but it seems the professionals know only what they teach them regarding strep b and pregnancy. I've been suffering for 8 years and I'm not a step closer to seeing the end than when this started. It's truly emotionally and physically devastating for a woman.
I am so relieved to find some info on GBS for non-pregnant women younger than 60. I've been dealing with the almost debilitating symptoms for more than a year and have hesitated to do any medications in fear of treating the wrong symptoms and creating a bigger problem. After much research on a range of possibilities I finally went into the OBGYN & the culture came back positive for GBS.
I'm a bit unsettled with the prescribed treatment and the nurse who spoke to me on behalf of my doctor didn't seem to think it was that big of a deal. Clearly neither she nor mrstdd from above (Jul 02, 2013) have personally experienced this. Do they know what it's like to want to claw out one's own vagina with a grapefruit spoon for some type of relief? Just because it isn't taught in medical school or by medical teams, agreed upon by medical boards, or plastered all over the internet doesn't negate its reality. People used to be taught that the Earth was flat. Once that was dispelled, they believed the Sun rotated around the Earth. We know better now. I'm hoping the future will bring more understanding and answers for those of us dealing with this curse.
There are clearly so many medical processionals who have no idea how to battle this. I think I'll be giving the homeopathic methods a try too. Has anyone found success in treating their partner as well, and what was their treatment? It only seems to be common sense that if the bacteria was in the vagina and he came in contact with that bacteria he could be a carrier and re-infect. I'm so ready to be done with this curse!
I'm a bit unsettled with the prescribed treatment and the nurse who spoke to me on behalf of my doctor didn't seem to think it was that big of a deal. Clearly neither she nor mrstdd from above (Jul 02, 2013) have personally experienced this. Do they know what it's like to want to claw out one's own vagina with a grapefruit spoon for some type of relief? Just because it isn't taught in medical school or by medical teams, agreed upon by medical boards, or plastered all over the internet doesn't negate its reality. People used to be taught that the Earth was flat. Once that was dispelled, they believed the Sun rotated around the Earth. We know better now. I'm hoping the future will bring more understanding and answers for those of us dealing with this curse.
There are clearly so many medical processionals who have no idea how to battle this. I think I'll be giving the homeopathic methods a try too. Has anyone found success in treating their partner as well, and what was their treatment? It only seems to be common sense that if the bacteria was in the vagina and he came in contact with that bacteria he could be a carrier and re-infect. I'm so ready to be done with this curse!
Hi, not sure if you check this, but in the case that you do, I just ordered Allimax and was wondering what dosages you took to get this bugger under control?
Hi- I have been dealing with a Group B Strep infection for 5 years now. After reading the protocol you used, I was just wondering how you are doing present day? Has your body completely healed itself of the infection?
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