I look at articles like that to glimpse what is possible and not cast in stone. I think you would know if you had a UTI because most of them are rather uncomfortable, to say the least.
Meat/ Protien, Kidneys and P*ss
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I have had cloudiness before, then I realized mine was form excess vit d intake. Once I reduced the vit d the cloudiness went away.
Now if I did have cloudiness at another time, if it was a one off, I wouldn’t get worried.
I just have doscomfort in my back right side. For the last 18 hours Id say. Nothing crazy, not debilitating but I notice some dull aching. Only the one side. I fly home. wed morning Ill get those Urine strips and in with my doc asap.
Oh damn, I do take vit D and K2 tabs too! Maybe Ill skip on those tonight, try them tomorrow. They are only 1000 IU though
Didn't read all the replies as I am trying to get through several sections:
Hard to answer but a few things I know for sure - too many specific vitamins and your urine gets dark yellow (no doubt you know that - vitamin B complex for example). Some medication will do this to your urine as well - I take it as a sign your kidneys are working harder but you can't assume that every time. If I see it, I read up on the antibiotic or whatever it is.
Yes, darker urine can be a sign of your kidneys not getting enough liquid and working harder to get the compounds out of your system. Easy answer is to increase your intake of water. Glass of water every hour or two and you should see it become much more clearer - if not then it can't hurt to talk to a doc. Darker yellow or even worse dark urine (as in whisky colour go to the doctor) - can be a symptom of multiple issues but don't panic, it probably isn't. I have been pushing urinalysis strips 9 or more (think they go up to 12 and you can download the booklet to understand each item) at a minimum and you can ask any pharmacist for them. I do it once a week on the weekend. It won't give you a creatinine or eGFR number but it measures your protein and checks for infections, etc. Not near as good as blood tests but what docs use to get at a physical before blood tests were so easy to order.
Vit C will not turn your urine yellow unless you are an anomaly, as for the PED's it would depend on the amount and how well your kidneys are working. I often have much more yellow urine in the morning because I slept 6 hours and didn't drink anything but my body is still removing / metabolizing some medications out of the body.
A simple and old school method of checking your kidneys and some docs still do it is to make a fist and reach behind and hit (not hard) up and down from your waist and up and if it hurts, it is a symptom your kidneys are struggling. I am not stating that works for fact, I am going by my last two docs who would do this, ask for a urinalysis and order bloods.
Best of luck. This is not medical advice as I am not a doctor and just my experiences and from reading. I have thought a few times my kidneys are struggling and they aren't.
Hard to answer but a few things I know for sure - too many specific vitamins and your urine gets dark yellow (no doubt you know that - vitamin B complex for example). Some medication will do this to your urine as well - I take it as a sign your kidneys are working harder but you can't assume that every time. If I see it, I read up on the antibiotic or whatever it is.
Yes, darker urine can be a sign of your kidneys not getting enough liquid and working harder to get the compounds out of your system. Easy answer is to increase your intake of water. Glass of water every hour or two and you should see it become much more clearer - if not then it can't hurt to talk to a doc. Darker yellow or even worse dark urine (as in whisky colour go to the doctor) - can be a symptom of multiple issues but don't panic, it probably isn't. I have been pushing urinalysis strips 9 or more (think they go up to 12 and you can download the booklet to understand each item) at a minimum and you can ask any pharmacist for them. I do it once a week on the weekend. It won't give you a creatinine or eGFR number but it measures your protein and checks for infections, etc. Not near as good as blood tests but what docs use to get at a physical before blood tests were so easy to order.
Vit C will not turn your urine yellow unless you are an anomaly, as for the PED's it would depend on the amount and how well your kidneys are working. I often have much more yellow urine in the morning because I slept 6 hours and didn't drink anything but my body is still removing / metabolizing some medications out of the body.
A simple and old school method of checking your kidneys and some docs still do it is to make a fist and reach behind and hit (not hard) up and down from your waist and up and if it hurts, it is a symptom your kidneys are struggling. I am not stating that works for fact, I am going by my last two docs who would do this, ask for a urinalysis and order bloods.
Best of luck. This is not medical advice as I am not a doctor and just my experiences and from reading. I have thought a few times my kidneys are struggling and they aren't.
Well the fist to the back doesnt cause any pain. And the aching is much less now. Who knows what it could of been, I skipped my vitamins today and been drinking the same volume of water. Urines just a light yellow. And only had a half lb of the beef. Feeling better about it and did order those pee strips too!
Apprecaite everyones input on this. 
I was taking around 4000 iu a day, and got cloudy urine, kinda freaked me out, thought I may have a UTI as well. Stopped taking all vits for a week, cloudiness went away. Then I read online that excess vit d could do that so I reduced to only 1000 iu a day.
It could have been that you just had excess vit d or didn’t utilize it and just flushed it out.
Are you still getting cloudy urine, or is it intermittent?
Skip the vit d for a few days and see what happens.
You can get UTI strips as well. If you bought the ones I suggested I don’t think they test for UTI.
Dull aching could be kidney infection.
When I take Multi vitamins I piss florescent yellow every morning its probably the vitamin C
Vit b is the extreme yellow culprit. Or that’s what I have found.
I had a kidney infection in July or September last year actually. Went away on its own cause my Dr was a flake and told me nothing was wrong. Pain didnt go away and went to another doc in ft mac while at work. They went over my past lab results and asked when they were from as it indicted infection, which was 6 weeks prior by that point.
Buy some cranberry juice and drink 2 big glasses a day, and increase your water intake to flush everything out.
Cranberry juice will not cure it, but the chemicals in it can help to keep the bacreria from sticking to the walls of the bladder, and the areas in the kidneys, so with a high water intake you can greatly reduce the total bacterial load, and then your body might be able to handle whats left.
I would go for antibiotics if you can, infections can cause scaring, and no one wants scaring in their kidneys.
BTW you need to figure out how you are giving yourself UTI’s. Clean you pocket pussy better, lol. Pee right after sex. Wash your hands before touching your dick? Butt sex? These are only some suggestions. But you need to think about what you are doing that would introduce bacteria into your penis.
I like to use my toys hard and put em away wet. Lmao
Jokes aside, Ill ask for antibiotics. I never got any last time. Wouldnt be surprised if I got scarring on my bladder tbh.
I wouldn’t freak. Get some astragalus as well, it is supposed to help rejuvenate the kidneys. With both Nac and Astragalus you would be likely promoting some healing. I bet some gh, mk or gh peptides on top the combination likely wouldn‘t hurt, but now I am just speculating.
But seriously though, think about how you are introducing the bacteria. Once you stop that you hopefully shouldn’t get another UTI.
Morning @storman - dark urine is a symptom of liver stress/issues. As in whisky coloured urine. When my friend almost died and spent 6 weeks in the hospital his urine started out looking like whisky. His liver finally gave out but it came back after a shit ton of lactulose from the nurses, a special diet, and some supplements. I'm sure yours was nothing like his as he almost died. The urine is not really darker yellow but brownish from all the bilirubin or so the internist told him.
Unrelated to this thread topic slight but, does tren in itself cause dark piss or is it the stress on the kidneys/ liver that does that?
I work in the oldfield, lotta smart guys and a lot of morons, on guy who was on my crew, not fit at all not even a lifter just got on tren and after a few weeks he said his piss was looking like pepsi.
Buddy also probably parties hard as fuck on days off he was a super weird flakey individual. Havent seen him in awhile he just stopped showing up AWOL.
I should of said a darker yellow. If it ever looks like whisky, then im headed to the ER