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Do you know anything about D-Mannose tablets?. My urology consultant recommendedthem but are the tablets suitable for a diabetic...isn't 'ose' a sugar?
 
That is interesting, I can't answer your question but my Urologist advised against them because (she said) there has not been enough officially recognised research in the UK.
 
m-lister said:
Do you know anything about D-Mannose tablets?. My urology consultant recommendedthem but are the tablets suitable for a diabetic...isn't 'ose' a sugar?
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A quick google search suggests that yes, it's a sugar (close to glucose), so I'd suggest you talk with whoever manages your diabetes first. (It would depend how much of it you're expecting to have to take, I guess. If it's a small amount then maybe it wouldn't matter, but if it's not a trivial amount then I think it's likely to increase BG, which might matter, depending.)

Regardless, needs a discussion with your diabetes people about whether taking it is likely to be worthwhile. (I wonder if the urologist was considering (or was aware of) your diabetes? For someone that's non-diabetic I imagine the tablets might be an easier "why not try them" suggestion.)
 
@m-lister - so what level does your day to day blood glucose run at? I ask because high blood glucose is a mega common reason why diabetics (of all 'types') get constantly recurring UTIs.

Doesn't need to be sky high - just greater than approx. 5 on a regular basis - and I'd rather you addressed your blood glucose first before resorting to other drugs to address the outcome of not successfully gaining ongoing control of the diabetes. If you do that or have already done it and now have regular HbA1c results in the non-diabetic range, then something else is causing it so ignore me!

However I don't fancy some of the common side effects either - diarrhoea is just one of em!
 
I didn't know that about UTI's. I get about ten a year but I do have an SPC.
 
Hi @m-lister

I had regular (every two months) UTIs for about two years, with regular antibiotics. Having had one that developed into a kidney infection and an admission for sepsis I was very wary. However nothing was working.

I was recommended D-Manose who found it worked for her, and had I taken it I would have just checked in my glucose levels and added in carbs as necessary.

I ended up seeing a consultant and he recommended that we try to break the cycle And hit it with
- a short course of HRT pesaries
- methanamine (which was hard to get hold of. So as soon as I managed to get some my GP gave me another prescription. This enabled me to take it with just one break
I took these for six months and that was that. No recurrence for a year now.

He also recommended a very good book Coping with Cystitis.
It is excellent. Much of it is obvious, but the reminders helped us to make some changes to diet and I certainly drink a lot more water. I still sneak in the odd coffee here and there.

I still have some methanamine and if I am going away on an extended holiday I take that before and during the holiday.

I hope that helps
 
I have never heard of methanamine. I will ask my Urologist about it. I was admitted with sepsis last year and have had a few admissions for antibiotics by drip.
 
Edit, it also goes by the name Hiprex- that didn't work for me, I couldn't keep it down :(.
 
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