No-sugars diet; D-Mannose is a sugar?

playethic

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No-sugars diet; D-Mannose is a sugar?

04-03-2011, 12:10 PM

The traditional Chinese medicine doctor I've been seeing (actually I think he's both western & eastern) has told me a bunch of dietary restrictions, mostly the same as the main IC diet restrictions with the addition that I'm to stay away from cheese and stay away from sugar.
I'm thinking about trying D-Mannose. Reading up on it, it sounds like it's a sugar. What kind of form of sugar is it though, like does the body recognize it as a sugar?

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ginaaa22

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04-03-2011, 02:16 PM

Not sure what that is but I do know that sucrose (simple sugar) can irritate things. I am fructose intolerant so I use dextrose instead of sucrose for all my sugar. It has helped with my IC symptoms also. There is a couple of books that talk about sugar and their relation to IC. I believe it is talked about in the better bladder book and to wake in tears.

Diagnosis: IC '09, vulvodynia '10, fructose intolerance '06, GERD '06, fibromyalgia '09, IBS '10 and TMJ '09, PCOS '11, genital herpes '12

Current Meds: Butrans patch, welbutrin, lamictol, geodon, xanax, aldactone, linzess, topimax, trazadone and diflucan as needed.

Meds tried before: Elmiron, elavil, antibiotics, welbutrin, cymbalta, prozac, nerve blocks, instills, nyastatin, flexerol, percocet, naproxen (which was what I was given for pain for years).
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