Should I get tested for Trich ?

[Stunnah]

Hi ! I got screened for STD, and it turns out I had Chalmydia , took the antibiotic prescribed , and will know in a week if it's cured or not as I just got retested today .
After taking the antibiotic I noticed yellow dishcarge . I more than likely had this yellow discharge before I took the antibiotic but just didn't take any notice to it . So I have had this yellow discharge everyday for a month now that I have been taking notice to it .

It's not smelly , it just smells musty . I went today to also get tested for Trich and bacterial Vaginosis , however , they could test me because I still had some blood left over from the period . So they gave me a perscription for Bacterial Vaginosis , and told me if I still had symptoms to come back after a week ..

My issue is , I know that to treat BV and trich you use the same antibiotic , but for trich they just give you a different dosage , a higher dosage im assuming . So , if I have Bacterial Vaginosis and not trich , then I don't mind takinf the pescription . But if I have Trich , and I take this dose that they gave me , it will probably not cure the trich because it's a dose for bacterial vaginosis , and I will have taken antibiotics that didn't work because it's the wrong dose , and then will have to take ANOTHER dose of antibiotics if I do have trich .

So I wanted to just go back on Monday and get tested for Trich so I can know for sure if it's Trich or not , so that I don't have to take 2 sets of antibiotics - as if it is trich and not bacterial vaginosis , the dose they gave me won't kill the trich and I'll have to get another dose just to kill the trich .

Do you think I should ASSUME it's bacterial vaginosis and take the dose I was prescribed , and if I have symptoms still after a week, get tested for trich and if it is trich then take ANOTHER dose just for the trich .

Or do you think I should just not even take the antibiotics and wait til' monday to get tested for Trich , and that way if it is Trich they can give me the proper dosage , and that way I'll only have to take the antibiotic once with the right dose ?

Thank you for your help !

[Stunnah]

lol sorry i meant toilet paper not papert towel . And that's true the area does need to air out !
Anyway , I'll just go to s gynecologist and they can hopefully figure it out !
Thanks for all of your help !

[gracefromHHP]

honey - don't stuff anything in your underwear!!! all it is going to do is rub your skin and irritate it.  you want fresh air to your genitals which is why we recommend cotton panties :)

pap tests look for abnormal cervical cells. they are not proper std testing. you need totally separate testing for std's.

[Stunnah]

Okay , thank you ! I put paper towel in my underwear , so i look at it just before i pee , so the yellow wouldn't be from urine . Thats why I thought my discharge was yellow because i knew it was discharge but it looked yellow but i guess its just appearing yellow ? Ive stopped wearing the toilet paper in my underwear , and now its looking just wet in my underwear or white .

And do you know if pap smears test for STDs ? Or do you have to ask them to do a seperate STD screening ?

[gracefromHHP]

probably it's the urine making it yellow on the toilet paper.  Unless discharge is soaking your underwear or has an unusual odor to it or causes an itch, I wouldn't worry about it.

some women do get discharge daily.  you can have it tested again in a few weeks if it's still there to see if it's an overgrowth of lactobacillus or just a natural discharge.  things changes as we grow older too...sigh.  

even partially treating bv, odds are it's still gone.  

[Stunnah]

Thanks Grace .  Now I have an odd question . Ever since taking Azitthromycin , I would wear paper toiler in my underwear just to keep track of the color of discharge . So it would have a yellow color whenever id look , dry and wet .

This morning , noticed discharge it appeared yellow as usual on the toilet paper , except for some reason i decided to wipe my finger on it to see the discharge on my finger .. oddly it was not yellow at all . On my finger it appeared white , and clear and just like my normal discharge used to be !?

So have I been thinking I had yellow discharge this whole time , when it was the toilet paper making it appear yellow ? Why would it appear yellow on the toilet paper but white on my finger ?

And if it is infact white normal discharge , why am i getting discharge every single day and not just some days or days closer to my period ?

Thank you .
And P.S. i stopped my treatment , so would you still say its treated even though I stopped my treatment ? but , im going to keep track of the discharge now without toilet paper and see if it appears white !

[gracefromHHP]

there are different ways of testing for bv and trich. usually we just look under a microscope but there are other ways.

you've treated bv so at this point, wait a few more weeks and if the discharge is still there, be seen again.