Group B strep that won’t go away! 13 weeks pregnant

[Jazzy1990]

So I was diagnosed with group b strep when I was 8 weeks pregnant, was given antibiotics for a week. After one week I went to the gp to get my urine tested and it still showed high level of group b strep. What I don’t understand is why isn’t the antibiotics working? This group b strep causes so much discharge too, it looks disgusting. I just don’t know what to do. can it harm the baby? Can it harm me? Why doesn’t go. Anyone else experience this? Please share your views.

I had group b strep with all 3 of mine. I was never treated in pregnancy but I needed antibiotics in labour and 2 of mine needed antibiotics after birth. As long as they know about it then they will treat you during labour.

I thought 33% of people carry GB-strep at any one time? Only a problem if baby is early & you're positive then (I thought I read, yrs ago).

This puts on so much extra pressure. Now I’m petrified about what will happen during labour and when babies born. I don’t wanna pass this onto the baby and if antibiotics is not working on me now how do I know it will work in labour.

They will give you antibiotics during labour so don't worry about that. It's more dangerous when they don't know about someone having it.

How do people get diagnosed with it? Is everyone tested for it??

I asked for it to be done. It was found I had it (had no clue I had it) so had to have antibiotics. They also monitored my baby closely for 36 hours after birth - checking temperature etc.