WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for December, 2000: Re: but wht should i expect from using metrogel?

Re: but wht should i expect from using metrogel?

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 06:41:30 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 29 Dec 2000, alli wrote: >
>At Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Lynn D. Montgomery, MD wrote:
>>
>>At Thu, 28 Dec 2000, al wrote:
>>>
>>>thank you for the response, but what would be expected as a
>>>discharge/side effect of metrogel use? would the gel and lumpy white
>>>matter wash out? The white discharge (the supposed bcterial infection)is
>>>gone, but the gel comes out with little clumps of white stuff. is this
>>>bacteria being washed out of my system? no pharmacist can tell me what
>>>to expect with this treatment. my dr. is on xmas vacation, and i can't
>>>get the dr. who is filling in to get back to me, or her nurse. Also,
>>>what is a normal amount of healthy discharge? May a woman expect to see
>>>it when she pushes down to go to the bathroom, or should no discharge
>>>come out? I'm confused about this. thank you so very much.
>>thanks for your response, but what do you mean by microscopically noticable? Should I not see white clumpy discharge in and with the gel discharge?

I don't think that this is necessarily normal or abnormal. It is not unusual to see some white mucous associated with a vaginitis. What I meant was that when looked at with a microscope, this white mucous usually contains a lot of inflammatory cells in a patient with vaginitis. It is a reactive discharge-body's reaction to an irritation.

would this only be seen under a microscope?

No, it can be seen as you describe.

if this is the case, than is the stuff that I see, increasing each day of use (2 days to go until completed) not common?

I think that it is fine and really doesn't have a bearing one way or the other unless you are having other symptoms-particularly vaginal/vulvar irritation.

Would I be experiencing a yeast infection now?

It is certainly possible. If so, I would expect symptoms-again irritative symptoms.

Can you treat both at the same time if this is what the clumpy stuff is?

As long as you are not having any significant irritative symptoms, I would finish the gel and see how things behave in the week or so following. If you begin to get irritative symptoms, then certainly don't wait, give your physician a call... Lynn

--
Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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