[Jarheadwed]

A lot of you may already know this, but I didn't and wanted to share just in case. I am also going to post this on the TTC your first forum:

In addition to TTC without success, I have for the past few months been dealing with recurrent BV infections. I saw my normal physician for my most current BV a few weeks ago. I was experiencing BV symptoms again but my test had come back negative, but since I was confident thats what it was my doc gave me antibiotics as a precaution in case it was a false negative. She also referred me to a gyno to discuss optimizing chances of conceiving and to discuss the recurrent BV. When I saw the gyno, he tested me for two infections I had never heard of, mycoplasma and ureaplasma. I didn't give it much thought because all over infection tests came back negative. Today his nurse calls me to tell me I do have a mycoplasma infection, and that it does cause infertility. She said most antibiotics don't kill it, but a one time dose of zithromyacin for both my and DH (it must be taken at the same time, couples can pass it back and forth) would do the trick.

I have read up more on it tonight and a lot of online sources say many doctors believes that it can cause infertility until its treated, and if the woman does it pregnant, it usually will cause a miscarriage. Online it also said not a lot of doctors test for it, but I am not sure why.

I just wanted to share, so if any of you are not getting pregnant with no other obvious cause, maybe ask your gyno about this. My gyno tested me with a vaginal culture.

PS- she said it may or may not be behind the BV infections. Mycoplasma doesn't often cause symptoms, so its possible to have it without symptoms.

[SavaAngel]

Interesting.

[Hopingfor1soon]

WOW...very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[Christine-MA]

Very interesting....I had BV about 10 years ago. I had no symptoms, so I recently started to worry about it again. I have to make an appt for a pap, and I'll ask if they can do a culture for infections too. I have no reason to think I have it, but why not rule it out, right?

[Jarheadwed]

I agree, its so easily detected and treatable.

[snsgirl336]

Wow, that's very interesting... I'll definitely have to write that down and talk to my Dr about it. How did they test you for it? Just curious! Thanks for letting us know!

[Jarheadwed]

He just did a vaginal swab on me, it was super easy.

[richmond_girl]

My RE tested for ureaplasma with a urine sample. I tested positive so both DH and I were treated with antiobiotics. This was about 6 months ago. He said there's no direct linkage between ureaplasma and infertility but it's easy enough to test for and treat, so it's part of their routine for all patients.