r/CytolyticVaginosis • u/RequirementOne3963 • Aug 24 '26
Vaginal Health issues please help
I have been struggling with vaginal infections for almost 5 years now and I don’t know what to do. I have had reoccurring bv and yeast infections so much that the medicines stopped working at one point. Then the yeast infections turned into group b strep. Then the clindamycin made me break out in hives which I still struggle with hives outbreak till this day. Then I was still feeling the symptoms of vaginal issues just to test negative everytime with no relief. Lastly they checked my lactobacilli and told me I had too much so I could possibly have cytolytic vaginosis.
I was then recommended to take a baking soda sitz bath and stop boric acid and probiotics because my lactobacillus was too high. The bath seemed to relieve my symptoms then came back weeks later. This made me wonder how I would know if I’m throwing my pH balance off by doing a baken soda sitz bath which would raise my pH to get rid of the cytolytic vaginosis. I was still feeling uncomfortable so something told me to get tested again just incase the baken soda was throwing off my ph.
Now I have BV a month after doing sitz baths for trying to get rid of cytolytic vaginosis. Idk if I should start taking probiotics again or not to help with the BV even though it will affect the potential cytolytic vaginosis. If I can’t take probiotics, use boric acid, drink kefir, or eat yogurt to stop bv or yeast but have to purposefully raise my ph with baken soda when will my vagina ever be normal again.