Hello friends,

"Why am I having recurring bacterial vaginosis?" this is what I asked myself all the time. I would go to the doctor like I was supposed to I thought and let them put me on antibiotics, the symptoms would clear up for a short time. I would think it's gone and it would be right back. Many women have gone through this same scenario and suffered needlessly.

I used to think that if you cleared up the symptoms of bacterial vaginosis it should be gone. It was nothing like a recurring yeast infection.

Actually the reason you get recurring bacterial vaginosis and candida infections usually stem from the same thing, antibiotics. The same antibiotics that cure your symptoms are also leaving you vulnerable to getting one again.

Let me explain, antibiotics are great at what they are designed to do, kill bacteria. However their not picky about which kind of bacteria, which means they end up killing both "good" and "bad" bacteria in the vagina. This is great for the immediate clearing up of your symptoms but with no "good" bacteria left to fight off an infection it’s just a matter of time before you have recurring bacterial vaginosis.

The funny thing here is it's not hard to find a natural cure program and follow it. Then you won't run into this problem of killing off the "good" bacteria, you just cure bacterial vaginosis. Now let me say I had to learn that the hard way and I did the doctor thing for years before I understood that.

Antibiotic use is the number one reason for a recurring bacterial vaginosis but here are some other reasons that may be causing you a problem.

Anything that may be changing your balance of "good" bacteria to the "bad" could be a cause. Things like douching, perfumed soaps, new intercourse partners or smoking just to name a few.

If your immune system has been weakened it could be another reason for recurring bacterial vaginosis. It is essential to try and maintain a healthy immune system and the proper balance of "good" bacteria to avoid future infections.

Another very common mistake is to treat bacterial vaginosis like a candida infection. With an estimated 29% of women in the US suffering from bacterial vaginosis it happens often.

A candida infection and bacterial vaginosis may mimic each other in symptoms but are treated totally different. So a candida infection treatment may reduce your symptoms of bacterial vaginosis for a short period but will ultimately make it worse. Behind using antibiotics this is probably the number two cause of a recurring bacterial vaginosis. However it's not really recurring it just has never has been cured.

Bacterial vaginosis can cause many problems for you, other than the embarrassing odor and yellowish discharge, so I recommend getting this taken care of immediately. Having bacterial vaginosis can increase a women’s susceptibility of contracting HIV and other STD’s and make it easier for her to spread these infections. Also if you are pregnant, bacterial vaginosis has been known to cause complications even preterm delivery.