UTI advice

[Evelynmia'smom]

Hi there...I need a little advice about how to treat my uti. I had an e-coli uti and took the antibiotics for a week in addition to taking d-mannose.....it doesn't seem to be gone. My dilemma is that I may be pregnant...I took a test yesterday and it was a very faint positive. So, I'm sure my ob is going to rx another round, but I really don't like the idea of taking antbiotics in the first tri. what else can I do to knock this out? I'm nervous also about not taking the antibiotics because of the risk of miscarriage...anyone been in this situation?

[kjbrown92]

They cultured it and it was e. coli? And it was the proper abx per the sensitivity test? If so, then it's more likely that you have a new UTI, and you'd have to be recultured to find out what the new bug is and the sensitivity. Not sure how D-mannose works, but is it possible since you took both, that the abx was rendered ineffective by it? You could take a home UTI test (Azo is a popular one available in most big drug stores) and see what it says.