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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Sam, a 32-year-old architect, was on her way to her gynecologist, was on her way back to her third trip to her gynecologist

when she just had this realization

that she couldn't keep treating her recurrent BVie

or bacterial vaginosis with yet another course of medications.

She had already gone through two rounds of topical treatment with MetroGell,

and now she was on her second round of oral medication with metronidizol.

She's just like there has to be something I can do about this and some underlying reason

that this is happening.

Hearing about me from a friend, she made an appointment to come and see me,

and together we began to sort out what was going on,

which for Sam included a recent new relationship that had her going out to dinner and drinking

more than usual and having a lot of sex using a brand new condom company that she hadn't used before and Lube.

And all at the same time she'd recently started a new job which was really demanding

and stressful and activating her IBS which she hadn't dealt with since college.

And also this new job and stress was affecting her diet.

She used to stop and really make herself breakfast,

but now she was just so, you know know needing to prove herself and show up and

she was grabbing coffee and a muffin on most days and she felt just not quite

herself so for Sam we figured out what to do, getting the sugar out, reducing

the alcohol, telling her about a healthier condom and lube choice that she could use,

resetting her gut health, and a non- antibiotic approach

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