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[tofearandloathe.livejournal.com]

I have a urinary tract infection. and oh holy god does it hurt. I went to the doctor and I'm taking a prescription for it. One of the pills turns my pee blue. Magical urine.

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[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that made me snarf ginger ale out my nose. Magical urine... Hope your UTI clears up soon.

[lilcowgirl019.livejournal.com]

i would be way too amused by the blue pee thing.

hope you feel better.

[leave-it-be.livejournal.com]

man, you got blue?? i had orange. my pee's boring!

*pouts*

stupid Uristat.

[andreaishot.livejournal.com]

i had orange too!! bah! i was going to say maybe next time...but i dont really want there to be a next time!

[malantha.livejournal.com]

yeah, i got orange too. like neon/koolaid orange.. it was cool, but blue is way cooler.

[mays-rays.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I'm sorry! I had one of those a couple years ago -- I dreaded going to the bathroom. I'd have to clench my teeth and grip my pants in my hands, it hurt so bad to pee. Cruel and unusual, is what I call it. My doc put me on some pills, but my pee was still boring old yellow! Lucky, you get blue. :D

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

Drink lots of water!

[washburnbear.livejournal.com]

Ask your doctor if you can drink cranberry juice (no blends, as little sugar as you can tolerate). This helps urinary health, and may boost your meds.

Oh, and keep a look-out. If you have the same blue-pee inducing pills I had, they're sulfa based. And that's how I found out I'm allergic to sulfa drugs - I broke out in itchy red dots aaaaalllll over. Had to stop the blue-pee drugs early, while itching, and before the UTI cleared up. Soooo a few days later I was back at the doc for the yellow/orange-pee inducing drugs for another 10 days. An itching-and-burning combo that should never be repeated.

[theophaneia.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you were to eat a lot of red beets, would it turn purple? Or what if you ate lots of asparagus, would it become an aqua/teal? Why don't you try that and let us know? Just to pass the time, I mean. :)
Hope you feel better anyway; nothing hurts worse.

[sparklesistah.livejournal.com]

My big bro's pee turned bright pink when he was younger. He ate waaayy too much beetroot!

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

beeturia! (http://allergyadvisor.com/Educational/Febr03.htm)

[timbrel.livejournal.com]

The dreaded uti- I wish you heaps of luck in feeling better soon!

I dunno if this is a once-ever thing or if you are prone to them (like i am), but I just learned yesterday that you can drink a glass of water with 1/2 tsp of baking soda in it to make them go away (early in the onset). Id been warding them off with cranberry for a while now, but this works so much better.

I probably wouldn't do it with your meds, but if you ever start to get one again, the burning is gone in 15 minutes!

[lady-leonore.livejournal.com]

you can also take 3-4 tums with a glass of water if you cannot tolerate the taste of the baking soda, and generally it willw ork about as well as the baking soda.

[punk-is-so-dead.livejournal.com]

Mine never turns any interesting colors - probably becuase I drink like, a gallon of water every hour when I have a UTI.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

You got a blue pee pill? I always got orange pee from UTI medication.

[lady-leonore.livejournal.com]

ahh, yes, the blue pee pills. wonderful things unless you are allergic ( i hope that you are not). seeing it yourself is funny enough, even funnier if someone else finds out, but i will never forget the look on the pre-op nurses face when i handed her a sample for tests. guess she forgot to heed my warning, but she got exceptionally confused then fell down laughing. eh, forgive my ramblings.

i hope the uti is on its way out and you are feeling better.

[applebastic.livejournal.com]

awww all I got was bright orange too, where it turns EVERYTHING orange. Too bad they didnt make one that turned urine purple:D

stains orange

[glassdragonfly.livejournal.com]

okay when I was in kindergarten, I had a uti and slept through having to go at naptime, my teacher, to spare me embarassment, went & got my mom who was a teacher, little did she know that there would always be a telltale orange stain on the carpet to tell the truth. I think that they had to replace the carpet that summer. lol!

[only-a-dreamer.livejournal.com]

I have a UTI now and they gave me orange pee pills. It's really weird looking in the toliet and seeing orange pee. Something you CANNOT get used to. I so feel your pain though. I'm miserable!