WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 2003: Re: infection or mid cycle discharge?

Re: infection or mid cycle discharge?

From: William McIntosh, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:12:28 -0600 (CST)

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At Tue, 11 Feb 2003, BP wrote: >
>How do you tell the difference between an infection and a mid cycle
>discharge? I have been being treated for a bacterial infection for 9
>months and it will go away and come back. -no itching-odor-or anything
>but discharge- I have been on over 10 different medications and been
>going to my regular doctor and an obgyn and neither one of them
>mentioned midcycle discharge til yesterday at my reg. dr. they thought
>this was an infection being passed back and forth between my boyfriend
>and I even though he is in the military and 7 of the 9 months i have had
>this i didnt even see him. not to sound ignorant but is there anything
>you can do about it. i feel very inconvenienced by this and i feel very
>dirty when this happens. also i am 19 and have had my period since i
>was 12 and this just started happening 9 months ago.
>sorry so long!

The absence of odor, irritation, itching, burning or some other symptom other than just having a discharge would argue very strongly that this is a physiologic (normal) discharge, and no amount of medication is going to get rid of it.

-- William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG

This is for educational purposes only, and is not a substitute for consultation and examination by a licensed medical professional.

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