Metronidazole for Bacterial Vaginosis User Reviews (Page 5)

• Ann...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 6, 2019

"I'm currently writing from the toilet. 500 mg 2x a day (1,000 mg a day) pill for 7 days. 1st time on pill. 1st day took it before dinner with water and felt the food was stuck in my stomach! Had 3 sips of beer and immediately felt sick. Holy moly was unleashed and I had to live on the pot. I took a hot shower and felt better. Slept all day. I'm between jobs. Otherwise - help us all. Day 2 I can control my bowels! BV smell is gone, I never smelled of fish or was burny itchy. Had a light odor and was yellowish on white toilet paper. My ex triggered the BV. Yes, sex does that! I tasted metal, I pop the pill to the back of my throat and chase with water or soda. Get probiotics, you will bloat. Had BV for 10 years off and on. Mostly clears up after a cycle, this time it stayed. Finish the dose. You'll be thankful. Use condoms. Don't touch there. Be OCD or it'll keep coming back with vengeance. BV sucks worse than this pill. Tried all the other home-based tricks to fix it, but nothing but this pill works. Gels don't."

• Ano...
• July 29, 2016

"I was given the one-time dose of 2000 mg to take at once. I had the pills a full 5 days before I said screw this fishy smell and milky discharge and just crushed them and downed them with milk. Truth, the taste is HORRIBLE!! Death in a pill! However, I had NONE of the deathly experiences so many of you have described. A little nausea and dizziness. The slightest though... Like the kind you get from being too hot for too long. Nothing major. But it's been 12 hours now and the discharge AND fishy smell are GONE!! I'm mad I hadn't taken them already now, because I could be back to my regular, clear discharge. But I recommend it!!!"

• Ash...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 29, 2019

"I’m on day 7 of the 2x a day 500 mg pill. Overall, not a bad experience. The only side effects I can say I’ve definitely noticed are the metallic taste of the pill while swallowing, which I took after breakfast/dinner. I also had very soft stool throughout the entire week of the medication, and my urine was significantly darker than usual, but other than that, nothing major. My BV discharge and smell went away, so I would say it did its job!"

• Bch...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 16, 2016

"I'm on day 2 of a ten-day treatment right now, and this has to be at least the 3rd time I've had to take these. They work really well. I'm just very prone to BV. A new partner, taking a bath, wrong underwear... can set it off. But my gosh, I hate taking these things. Mainly because of the horrible taste in my mouth for the whole ten days I take them. I eat constantly in an attempt to get rid of the taste. I maybe get slightly nauseous for a little bit if I take them on an empty stomach. Otherwise, not bad. But, to me, the taste in my mouth is horrible."

• Anonymous
• January 19, 2019

"I felt the need to make this review after reading all the bad reviews by others when taking this medication. I had no bad side effects and just wanted to ease some minds of people who may be overthinking because of the bad reviews. I have a good review and thought I should share it. I guess everyone is different and for me, other than some slight nausea, I didn't have side effects. I took it twice a day, 12 hours apart and always with food for 7 days. It wasn't a bad experience for me."

• Mis...
• February 18, 2021

"I went for a pelvic exam and was told I have BV, so I was prescribed metronidazole. I had to take 1 tablet every 12 hours for 7 days. So I took 1 at 8:30 am and 1 at 8:30 pm for the 7 days. I thought I was doing well with the medication, but I noticed it has a horrible metallic taste when I put the tablet in my mouth. Then, for some reason, around day 3 or 4, I started having extreme bouts of anxiety and depression. I started crying out of nowhere and felt extremely moody. It was insane! Throughout the rest of the days, I was having anxiety again where I was about to delete my social media platform for no reason, and I was getting irritable with people around me. I would have racing 'What if' thoughts and cry when I had those anxiety attacks! On day 4, I had diarrhea and was fatigued. I started having some itchy rashes on my skin and vivid, scary dreams. The side effects of this medication were so bad! My BV has disappeared, but I would NOT recommend this medication."

• slm...
• March 6, 2016

"Started taking this medication 3 days ago. The smell is completely gone. I thought that because I am overweight, having a smell down there was normal until I started getting back pain and discharge, then I knew something was wrong. The back pain is gone too, however, I feel sick, not so bad that I can't do anything, but enough to be annoying, and this awful taste in my mouth has altered the taste of foods, etc. However, I would go through this again for the relief it gave me."

• Lin...
• August 1, 2016

"I knew for a while that something was off down there. I suspected BV and went and asked my doctor for the antibiotic. I am VERY sensitive to most medications, which typically cause me intense nausea. So I was very nervous to try this stuff, especially after reading reviews. But I'm happy to say I've had little to no side effects, aside from a slight headache. However, I did start with a very small dose, just to try it out. My doctor told me to take 500 mg (two pills) a day with food. But the first day, I only took half of a pill (about 125 mg) just to see how it went down. No problems. Day two, I took the full dose, no problems, and BV symptoms are almost gone. Coated my pill in peanut butter as per my doctor's suggestion and have yet to taste it."

• Spi...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 21, 2017

"I have had bacterial vaginitis unknowingly for two and a half years, and my ob-gyn prescribed me 500 mg of metronidazole for seven days. Now I've read a lot of comments about how this didn't work or that didn't work, and whilst I haven't tried all of these, and every woman's body is different. I do know that most couples tend to do 'it' more than once a week, and I don't know if your ob-gyn told you this or not, but if you have sex unprotected whilst taking metronidazole or Flagyl, it just gives the BV on him and back in YOU. Which causes the bacteria to just keep getting transferred, so if you wanna get rid of it and haven't tried not having sex, then try to not have sex during the 7 days and 48 hrs after the seven days. It worked for me!"

• ste...
• August 22, 2013

"So the infection cleared up in a matter of two days, but I've been dizzy, lightheaded, short of breath, coughing (I smoke every now and then, and I've been feeling it), weird appetite. If I don't drink enough water before I sleep, I wake up feeling almost hungover. Essentially, I feel weak and tired, and the pill tastes awful. Thankfully, today's the last day."

• Poe...
• July 8, 2016

"My doctor gave me 500 mg of metronidazole, which was about four pills to take as a single dose. I went to the doctor after finding out my guy has been having unprotected sex with another woman as well as myself. I think maybe it threw off my pH balance. I also had a UTI, but so far, it seems like it worked. I won't know for sure for two weeks when I go back for my other STD test results. I hope it is gone, but I didn't experience any side effects."

• Jhh...
• November 12, 2015

"Honestly, the medication didn't have much or any side effects for me. I didn't have any mental or psychological problems like a lot of users said they did. It actually scared me reading these reviews at first, but I experienced none of that. My breasts were a tad tender, and I had a bit of soreness around my pelvic area at times, but really, overall nothing. It cured the odor. I had to take it for 7 days, 2 pills per day. All done now. I drank alcohol the day after I was done with my prescription (one glass of wine) and felt fine. The next day, I had two glasses of wine at night and totally fine too. Girls, don't get too worried about taking this."

• Mel...
• March 1, 2017

"I am a student, so obviously being given this medication, where I'm told I'm not allowed to drink 48 hours before taking it and 48 hours after was going to prove to be difficult, but I managed. The tablets were so effective, and I am so happy I was given them. But I recommend anyone who decides to have a 'mad night out' after taking them to wait over a week, 72 hours is too soon, and I was very drunk and very ill, blacked out on the night, vomiting all night and the next day. Make sure they're out of your system!"

• SJa...
• January 11, 2020

"I was diagnosed with BV and a yeast infection. I know what a yeast infection looks like, and that’s not what I had. I initially went to the doctor for extreme burning sensation, bloating, and constipation. I do have sex with my boyfriend, but I couldn’t believe this was any reaction to sex. So they prescribed me one single dose for the yeast infection and 7 days for this metronidazole. I’ve been taking it, and I did slip up and have sex with my boyfriend in between taking it, but I wasn’t getting any symptoms. Now today is the last day of my medication, and this morning I woke up, had to pee, and it burned, and the feeling doesn’t go away until hours later! I don’t understand why this is happening."

• Hal...
• August 24, 2013

"I'm on day 4, and all of my symptoms from my infection have subsided, but I have been experiencing a few mild side effects from the medicine. It seems to dehydrate me, as every morning I wake up feeling weak, and my urine is orange/almost brown, which is normally not common. I drink about 2 32 oz bottles of water daily. Also, since I have been taking my doses during breakfast/dinner, it has been making me restless and keeping me up a while longer at night. Other than that, the only real complaint I have is the horrible taste of the pill. I have tried putting the pill in a chunk of jello, taking it with orange juice, and each time I take it, I still get a small taste of the pill, and that alone makes me want to throw it right back up."

• Jay...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 20, 2019

"I left an earlier review but am now finished taking this medication, so wanted to share my final experience, and yes, I do mean final because I will NEVER be taking this medication again. It made me extremely, extremely sick to my stomach, unable to move, feeling like I was gonna puke, appetite gone, terrible taste in my mouth, etc. These symptoms actually got WORSE the longer I took this medication. I quit taking it on day 4. I couldn’t take it anymore. I finished out inserting boric acid suppositories to fight the rest of the infection. I am hoping that works. Yeah, this medication was a nightmare, and my body does not like it for some reason. AT ALL. I don’t know if anyone here has had the extent of sickness I did while taking this medicine. But if you do, trust me, you are not the only one who is unable to take this."

• Rae...
• April 15, 2014

"I've been taking the medicine on and off for 5 years. I have a repeating bacterial vaginitis infection. The medicine tastes like metal. For those of you who ask, 'how do you know what it tastes like?' Your mouth begins to have a metal flavor, and the taste of your food is altered. The medicine literally makes me ill, my head hurts and my stomach is nauseous. There aren't any other medications that work for bacterial vaginitis, and this one obviously isn't perfect. Nevertheless, it does the job for 3-5 months, and then I repeat the course of action all over again. So my advice is to hang in there and take the pills until completed. Hopefully, you will have greater longevity."

• Anonymous
• August 27, 2016

"I took this as the 500 mg for 7 days. Luckily, I had no serious side effects. I get nauseous easily and was reluctant to take it. A few times after taking the pill, I felt nausea setting in, but I made sure to eat food with each pill, and the nausea disappeared. It doesn't taste great, but I didn't let it sit in my mouth. I started seeing results in just a few days!"

• kja...
• May 5, 2014

"This medicine is great at killing infections. I had bacterial vaginitis pretty bad, and by day two, the symptoms were gone. I'm on day 5 of a 7-day treatment of 500 mg twice a day, and I haven't had many symptoms till tonight. Before, I was feeling some dizziness, some fatigue, and a lack of concentration. I was also suffering from very uncomfortable constipation. Tonight, after taking it, I've felt nauseous, and my stools are starting to get softer. I'm really afraid to take it tomorrow for fear of how bad it will make me feel."

• Exp...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 28, 2013

"I've been prescribed 500 mg. The headaches are so persistent. This is day 3 of 7, and symptoms are pretty much gone, but the aftertaste of the medicine is horrid. So I take a lemon and bite it right before and right after the pill. It definitely works if anyone is as grossed out by that taste as I am."

• Law...
• September 14, 2014

"Definitely side effects, but tolerable! The first night I couldn't sleep, and day 2-4, mild stomach pains and nausea. I also had some anxiety along with some crazy dreams at night. The taste was bad, but I always immediately washed it down with food and juice. I admit I expected it to be a lot worse, but the biggest challenge was not being able to drink! As a bonus, my rosacea has almost completely cleared in one week. Who knew!!"

• Nee...
• July 25, 2015

"I am currently taking this medicine for the treatment of BV. I have not experienced any of the side effects from the pill, but it's just not working for me. I'm on day 5 of taking it, and my symptoms have only increased. The itching is unbearable, especially in the evenings and at night. It actually woke me up at 3 a.m. The discharge is even worse than when I started. I have never had the fishy smell, so I didn't need that to disappear. The pill tastes gross, but I haven't had any nausea from it. I called my OB/GYN on day 4, and the nurse said sometimes symptoms get worse before it gets better, but I haven't seen any other reviews that support that. I was really hoping they'd give me a different prescription, but they said wait it out. :("

• Lau...
• September 4, 2014

"1 star rating for the pills. 10 stars for the cream. I was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and bacterial vaginitis simultaneously. I was prescribed the pill form of Flagyl for the bacterial vaginitis. I was very nauseous after beginning the course of Flagyl, and within 24 hours, I began vomiting profusely. I vomited/dry heaved every 2 hours for about 12 hours. Since I couldn't even keep down water, much less food or the pills, the vomiting subsided. I contacted my doctor first thing the following morning, and she prescribed the Metronidazole Vaginal Cream. It worked amazingly well and cleared up the bacterial vaginitis. I had a slight yeast infection following treatment that cleared up well with over-the-counter cream."

• Anonymous
• December 13, 2012

"I've been using metronidazole in pill form for the past 4 days. I obtained it for bacterial vaginitis, and it works so quickly! No odor after the 3rd pill and very little discharge. Yes, they taste bad, but only for a second. No taste at all if you have water on hand and pop the pill in and chug water fast. Simple as that. I made sure to not take the pill on an empty stomach, and so far, I've had no upset stomachs or anything! Make sure to not drink any alcohol, even mouthwash. I forgot and used mouthwash and was puking in less than 15 minutes and felt sick the rest of the day. But overall, this worked wonders, and I couldn't be happier!"

• Pin...
• March 10, 2017

"After reading reviews on this medication, I was so scared to take it because of all the negative side effects people had from it. After blowing it off for 3 weeks, I finally decided it was better for me and also the baby if I just sucked it up and took it. I didn't have a single side effect! BV can cause early labor (for the pregnant ladies). I did have a lot of discharge, and my vag did have a weird smell, and none of the 'natural cures' on the internet worked. After 24 hours on the pills, the smell and discharge were gone completely. The pill is disgusting, but if you take it with juice, it's not horrible. My doctor stressed that eating a heavy meal with this pill was a must if I didn't want the side effects. I haven't had BV since."