I've been on d-mannose for a few weeks. I'm also taking floxin 400 milligrams twice daily (for 6 weeks now) neither one is helping my infection unfortunately. Maybe it works just not for the type of infection I have (ureaplasma urealyticum)

good luck, take care.

Actually, antiobiotics do cure the bladder infection. They kill of the bacteria that has made your bladder a home. They do not, however, prevent re-infection. Is that what you mean?

I've never heard of d-mannose, but i'll definately do somemore research and perhaps try it.

Does d-mannose cure bladder infections? Or is it used a preventative measure?

I just bought some d-mannose on the web, so i'll let you all know how it works. I have been getting one uti after another lately. (second honeymoon sort of thing, which is nice; but these ongoing infections are a pain.) so, having tried everything else (cranberry juice, peeing after sex, rigorous hygiene), i'll be trying the mannose. It's one of the two main ingredients in a "bladder health" supplement for women that Dr. Andrew weil sells (the other is cranberry extract), and I tend to trust him more than most supplement peddlers. I hope it works, or our sex life is heading rapidly downhill.

I don't know whether you'd consider it more of a preventative or an early treatment -- it supposedly works sort of the way the cranberry extract does, by causing the offending bacteria to not be able to stick to the walls of the bladder/urethra, but instead to be flushed out again when you pee.

I came across D mannose whilst looking on the internet to see if I could find anything to help my 88 year old mother. She has been troubled with urine infections for years and this last year she has been on almost continious antibiotics with one infection after another.

Since the menopause,I also suffer from cystitis after sex and end up having to take antibiotics as over the counter remedies no longer work.

My mother has been taking two d mannose tablets everyday, 1000mg, for 7 weeks now and has had three clear urine tests and is feeling well for the first time in over a year. 7 weeks clear has been unheard of for her for a long while now. She is going to continue to take them daily.
I have taken them three times for cystitis and each time I have not have to resort to antibiotics. For me there is little improvement for three days although it does not get worse either and then it starts to clear up. I then continue to take one a day for about a week. This is just what seems to suit me
Give it a go...it just might help you too. Experiment with what suits you best. I believe they only work with e coli infections but they are the most common cause of these problems.

I came across D mannose whilst looking on the internet to see if I could find anything to help my 88 year old mother. She has been troubled with urine infections for years and this last year she has been on almost continious antibiotics with one infection after another.

Since the menopause,I also suffer from cystitis after sex and end up having to take antibiotics as over the counter remedies no longer work.

My mother has been taking two d mannose tablets everyday, 1000mg, for 7 weeks now and has had three clear urine tests and is feeling well for the first time in over a year. 7 weeks clear has been unheard of for her for a long while now. She is going to continue to take them daily.
I have taken them three times for cystitis and each time I have not have to resort to antibiotics. For me there is little improvement for three days although it does not get worse either and then it starts to clear up. I then continue to take one a day for about a week. This is just what seems to suit me
Give it a go...it just might help you too. Experiment with what suits you best. I believe they only work with e coli infections but they are the most common cause of these problems.

I have been dealing with a UTI since October and have a very well known urologist and he has prescribed 9 different antibiotics that were suppose to help the particular infection I had. My infection was due to the e coli bacteria and i have had nothing but problems with the anti biotics (allergic reactions, re infection, yeast infections); it seemed as if antibiotics were only making my situation worse. I started to do my own research on UTIs and kept coming accross this D-mannose supplement, so with nothing but hope that i could finally get rid of my UTI, I tried it. IT WORKS!!!! It was so relieving to finally be able to use the restroom pain free! I strongly recommend this product for those with the particular e coli infection, most of my research suggests that the molecular structure of d-mannose attacks the e coli bacteria molecular structure. After nearly 5 months of trying everything, D-mannose has been a life saver. I do recommend not to by the capsuls that are mixed with other ingredients, d-mannose is sold in pure powder form that you mix in water or juice, you cant barely taste it and what you can taste is sweet, d mannose is a form of sugar. I hope this helps someone.

I've been UTI free since I got the second brand of D-Mannose that I'm using now. The first one that I tried didn't seem to do the job (I won't say which since I don't want to dis it as it may well work for other people), however I tried some Waterfall D-Mannose (which I was told is a much more pure product) and it's been happy days since then. So far as I can tell from what research I've done in my spare time, anti-biotics tend to only kill off about 40% of the UTI causing bacteria (then it will come back later -much stronger than before), or are very harmful to use long term. I was suffering from an aqute e.coli infection. but it wasn't ever pick up on when I was tested in the UK. I had to send a sample off to a Dr. Toth in the US who did a test that took about 6 days, but he found the problem and now I get a maintainence amount of Waterfall D-Mannose from Sweet Cures.

I hope that this helps.

Chiyaki x

D mannose doesn't kill bateria it just flushes it away. I am very satisfied with this product.