Ordinary Girl you know nothing of the situation leading up to my contracting Septicaemia. FYI I did not wait four weeks to see a Dr about a UTI, I had one serious UTI/ kidney infection that I had been continually fighting but never getting rid of for OVER A YEAR! During that time I was frequently prescribed antibiotics and had two lots of antibiotics during (the four week period that I was taking D- Mannose) the lead up to my septicaemia. For that entire year I would be put on antibiotics then the symptoms improved enough for me to think the infection was clear and then within a fortnight I would be back calling the g.p out because it was back as bad as ever! The fact is, that I had this going on over FOUR WEEKS, whilst taking the D-Mannose and the two separate courses of antibiotics I had been prescribed! The D-Mannose DID NOT HELP ME, that is my experience and it is valid! Having had the same situation ongoing for a year, the fact remains that the only difference in the run up to my developing septicaemia was the D-Mannose!
I NEARLY DIED!!!
Forgive me if I don’t want to take the risk of trying it again! I spent over a week in High Dependency, I do not want to return there! Nor do I want to die age 36, leaving my husband and two children behind! So keep your assumptions to yourself as they are bullshit!
I came on here to offer the OP support, I merely mentioned that it didn’t work for me! Fanfuckingtastic if it worked for you, I am waiting on surgery to change my catheter to suprapubic to hopefully reduce infection, if that doesn’t work then they will wash my bladder out apparently. My urethra is wrecked, due to bladder spasms during infection pushing my fully inflated catheter out several times!
Don’t you think I would rather take this bloody wonder drug / supplement than go through the constant kidney infections (because it always affects my kidneys) and surgery? I had high hopes for D-Mannose, I wish it had been highly effective with me! Unfortunately it didn’t help AT ALL and for whatever reason I ended up seriously ill with septicaemia! So yes I am TERRIFIED to try it again. But I’m not allowed to say that as it’s scaremongering........
Newsflash, not everybody responds to the same treatment! Just because it worked for you, does NOT mean it will work for everyone else! To call my experience scaremongering is RUDE! To call my fear of trying it again scaremongering is NASTY!
Before I get accused of trolling, I will add that I frequently had urine samples sent to the lab only for there to be no growth! Even when I clearly was fighting a massive infection there was no growth in the lab! So my G.P’s were shooting in the dark with prescribing antibiotics! The intravenous antibiotics they gave me for urinary sepsis finally cleared me, as well as a further ten day course of 2000mg of Amoxycillan given three times a day!