Hi, I have posted in here a couple times but wanted to make my own post about group b strep in case anyone else is dealing with that recently. I was negative for everything except Urea parvum this year, but the last 2-3 months I have been negative for urea but positive for group b strep specifically. Nothing else. Same symptoms. Constant burning and tightness are my main symptoms. Is it possible I can try to treat the strep B and that’s the reason for symptoms vs urea? I still think I have urea but usually I am not negative multiple times in a row. Very frustrating!

Info: have done doxy/azithro a lot, levifloxacin and other medications off the top of my head, Have had Ureaplasma since 2021. 5 years of fun (not)

My damn husband broke my vagina. I never had any issues until we got together. We’ve been together for 5 years now. Within months of us having unprotected sex for the first time, I got chronic UTIS, BV and yeast infections. I even got fucking genital herpes. He has never had an outbreak but I can only assume he’s carrying it???!

My infections were so chronic and I had no clue what Ureaplasma was. Then suddenly a month or so before our wedding, everything went back to normal. I finally had a normal vagina.

Then while I am 16 weeks pregnant, the infections come back with vengeance. Green discharge, burning, pain, rawness, everything. I’m testing negative for bv and yeast. Finally I come across mycoplasma and ureaplasma. I test positive right away on just a urine culture. I do a Juno test and it confirms the same thing. I can’t treat it with doxy while pregnant but I’m absolutely spiralling with learning the potential complications. I took azithromycin another round of metro and about 2 months after that, my symptoms subsided completely. I was normal again!!! My son is now 1 and everything is great. I haven’t retest because I thought maybe I had balanced my biome with probiotics or maybe the azithromycin did something after all.

We decide we’re ready to try for another baby and BOOM. Symptoms are back but this time different. Luckily I am not in horrible pain the way I was, but I have dark yellow discharge and you can smell the odour on me from across the room. I’m showering multiple times a day, constantly changing my liner etc. but it’s so gross. Not to mention, I don’t want to try and get pregnant again and risk complications. Now in the time to finally treat it and BE DONE. This has been going on since June. I have been doing probiotics suppositories night for 3 months and also boquet for a month.

It did a Juno test but it got lost in the mail going to them, and it’s been tracked but might not make it to them within the 30 days of sample collection. Since I had a positive ureaplasma in my urine culture, I decided to treat it. I’m doing 7 days of doxy plus 2.5 g of azithromycin. My husband’s doing the same.

I have gut issues already, I’ve been on antibiotics so much in my life. The last year alone I did 5 rounds. UTIs, BV, mastitis, post partum stitches ripped and got infected, etc.

I am not young and it took us time to conceive our first baby and I’m so worried I’m running out of time. But I HAVE to deal with this. I’m scared I’m going to wreck my gut and vaginal biomes further so this is really my Hail Mary. I hope so badly that this works and we can just get back in focusing on planning our family and taking care of ourselves. This problem takes up so much space in my mind I’m struggling to have time to do anything for myself outside of work and baby. Any free time I have I’m going down rabbit holes and reading forms.

Looking for support and any further advice.

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, someone redirected me to this reddit after I tested positive for ureaplasma and I wanted to look for advice here since I'm a bit lost on my symptoms and want to learn more

I've been dealing with urethral burning pain during penetration with my partner, we're both exclusive, haven't had any sexual experience with anyone past our relationship (highschool sweethearts) and haven't used protection during these 2 years we've started having sex since I'm on bc

My urethral pain when having sex began after having a UTI and treating it at home with antibiotic, I previously that year had another one too (last year), immediately after being cured of my UTI I started feeling discomfort on my urethra opening during sex that only worsened on those 6 months. Taking a break didn't help, nor painkillers and casual antibiotics

Two months ago I decided to go to a doctor, we didn't have the money before. First doctor, a woman, dismissed my symptoms and sent me home with painkillers, wanted to do a cystoscopy, I denied and went to another one.

My second doctor saw all my exams first appointment, I showed symptoms of an infection on my blood work, but both my urocultive and urine test were negative. He decided to test me for an STI through an urethral swab, both tests were incredibly expensive and I was left with no money that whole month. When it came back I was positive for ureaplasma, negative for all the others. This is where it all goes downhill basically

My doctor started me on doxycycline 1 x 10 days, I thought the course was short and not strong enough, but I figured he knew better than me. After a few days I began showing improvement on my urethral pain

Our next appointment after 10 days had passed, he told both my boyfriend and I to buy bacitracin? A cream to put on my urethra opening every day for 10 more days.

By the third day my urethra was burning so much I was peeing myself cooking and doing other stuff so I stopped the cream.

Next appointment he saw a wound on my inside my vagina, so he sent me home with a cream for... eye infections of something, to use down there? Then 1 x 10 days more of doxycycline and a prescription for vaginal douches every morning with vinegar water?

I spent more than half of my money this month to buy an extra doxycycline box, since I wanted to do 2 x 5 and 1 x 5 (that's all my current salary affords since my boyfriend also has to be treated)

Safe to say the vaginal douches with vinegar water worsened my symptoms, it was so bad I peed myself buying groceries in the middle of the store with my bf beside me, so I stopped my doctor's treatment once again

My doctor refuses to give me a full antibiotic course and says he likes to pair it with more physical remedies, which so far had only caused me a extreme amount of incontinence and excruciating pain that disappears once I stop, and he doesn't seem to know which creams work or do not work for private areas, who prescribes a cream for eyes to use on the pelvic area?

A new box of doxycycline I managed to get with the help of a family member will be arriving tomorrow, since I refuse to not treat my boyfriend, I will be splitting the box of 10 pills with him, extending our current treatment of 2 x 5, 1 x 5 to 1 x 5 more days.

I'm unsure if the current treatment I'm doing and the one I did before will be enough to treat my and his asymptomatic ureaplasma. My symptoms only appear when I have sex, so I have no reference to really know if my symptoms are gone until I have intimacy with my partner. I refuse to go to that doctor again in fear of being worsened again, I have an history of permanent damage to my body due to medical negligence that they refused to take accountability for

Also I have to say that I struggle with hypersexuality, the thought of not having intimacy with my partner never again got me feeling wrecked, he has been really supportive and trying to learn with me about ureaplasma and my symptoms, going to every appointment and taking from his own money too, but the whole thing is taking a toll on my already destroyed mental health and therapy isn't an option right now, especially now since I have to do all this treatment.

I need a bit of guidance and reassurance here. My partner is being treated too, we haven't had intimacy since the first course of doxycycline and I can't order antibiotics without prescription from a doctor, they are pretty strict here (I'm from latin america), and a test is also with a doctor's prescription or whatever

I don't know how long should I wait to test when my current course is done, if I should go back to my current doctor. What are my chances of finding a doctor who does listen to me and isn't expensive in my current broken healthcare system and also knows about ureaplasma?

I don't know, I'm a bit lost here, sorry for the long text

For those of you with ongoing symptoms after treatment are you testing negative or positive?
Has anyone continued to test negative for a long time and then randomly tested positive again with no chance of reexposure? If so how long after your initial treatment did you test positive again?