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If u have discharge that smells like fish and youve had for bout 6 months what could it be?

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Vaginal Discharge: Vaginal discharge could be secondary to many reasons, but mostly infections. Typically a fish odor discharge is due to bacterial vaginosis, which is usually your own bacterial overgrowth and usually not a std. One of the causes is using vagina douching which is not good.

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Answered 9/28/2016

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