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Metronidazole 500mg pregnancy!?

Amarillys/22🧚🏻‍♀️

I was in the hospital yesterday and the doctor on duty for labor and delivery prescribed this because of BV and a topical treatment for a yeast infection but I have to take 500mg twice daily for the metro!???!!’ THATS SO MUCH THATS ALREADY 1000mg! I’m 31 weeks and will it pose any harms to my body whatsoever or to my baby please I need to know I hate taking any type of pill over 200mg

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He

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I took 500g of metronidazole twice a day (for 7 days) for BV when I was 18 weeks pregnant. I had no side effects. I’m now 25 weeks, the BV is gone & baby is doing great!

Kr

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That’s a pretty arbitrary number to place on a pill.. why do you care if it’s over 200mg? A tylenol is 500. Yet it is perfectly safe during pregnancy. The size of the pill means nothing. You aren’t taking 1000mg. Pills have fillers in them to make up the bulk of the pill which dictate how long until they dissolve in your stomach. Relax. Your doctor is unlikely to prescribe something that will hurt your baby. If he did, he wouldn’t be a doctor for very long and he would be under lawsuits and board reviews.

Ni

Nina • Feb 15, 2021
I had bv in my last pregnancy it’s just an over build up of bacteria they gave me medicine on the day I was going to deliver but I had it through iv but metronidazole isn’t bad for the baby and you only take it for a little while

Am

Amarillys/22🧚🏻‍♀️ • Nov 21, 2020
Told me* it was the medicine giving me super bad acid reflux and trapped gas everywhere and I never felt that in my life before this is why I hate taking medication because of the side effects but I’m still taking it so my baby can be safer without any infections

Am

Amarillys/22🧚🏻‍♀️ • Nov 21, 2020
I just don’t like putting pills in my body and Tylenol is 500 but I don’t take those ones either I never took anything this entire pregnancy until this and no one told me about the side effects of metronidazole and I went to the ER for what I thought was contractions it was the most painful thing I experienced but she toof

Sh

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Its normal. I have to do the same im 18 weeks and got bv too.

Am

Amarillys/22🧚🏻‍♀️ • Nov 17, 2020
Did you take 500 Mg twice daily? And no side effects whatsoever ?

Mi

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It’s normal I had it too at 33wks

Mi

Mi • Nov 17, 2020
If you don’t think you’ll get up that early Take a little later like 7/8

Mi

Mi • Nov 17, 2020
Yes and you’ll be fine

Am

Amarillys/22🧚🏻‍♀️ • Nov 17, 2020
So every 12 hours it’s best to take it? It’s 5 o’clock rn so I would take it 5 o’clock am? Then
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