I had a horrific pain in my back yesterday. I also had other symptoms which reminded me of a kidney infection I had about ten years ago. Not being one to mess with my health - I’m a single mom and if I die there’s nobody to take care of the buglet - I went to the ER.
Doctor confirmed that it is, in fact, a kidney infection, and gave me some drugs to fight the infection* and to numb my urinary tract so that the pain would go away.
The nurse warned me. Rasa told me, too.
I’m peeing bright orange. Fluorescent orange. Tang[sup]tm[/sup] orange. It looks like I have been eating cheesy poofs with my labia.
Quixotic78 in his drunken state last night told me that it was probably ferrocene that caused the colour change. He’s such a geek.
Long story short, I feel like a circus clown.
*On the up side, though, if I come into contact with Anthrax, the antibiotic I’m on will take care of it. Yay Cipro!
Hey, ferrocene was my idea, since it’s my chemical and all. Quix rambled about reactive metals or something. I’m not sure how I feel about my chemical being associated with your labia. Not that there’s anything wrong with your labia! Erm, I mean, if I knew anything about your labia, I’m sure I’d find them to be just fabulous…
Like you said, look on the bright side–you’ll be all set if you had anthrax! Hope you’re feeling better soon, and enjoy the Tang pee while it lasts. Your kid will probably get a huge kick out of it.
The medication that turns your urine orange is called “Pyridium”. It helps calm down the spasms from your bladder when you are suffering from an infection. I took this stuff once and it does indeed turn your urine a lovely shade of orange. I’ve also heard that ingesting methylene blue will turn your urine a bright fluorescent blue. Maybe if you take both medications at the same time, maybe you will get green urine (ewwww!)
Ack! Ow! (like I said in chat). Hope you’re fully recovered soon.
Cipro is good stuff, though when I took it it didn’t turn my pee neon orange. I got a horrible intestinatal bacterial infection on the plane on the way home from Prague. I was home for a week and couldn’t be away from a bathroom for more than an hour. I was also tested for every intestinal parasite known to man, but it was just nasty bacteria.
As far as I can tell, bright orange urine is the only cool thing about having a kidney infection. Of course, I freaked out when I saw my own orange urine – in my delirium, I had forgotten that that was a side effect of the medicine, and I was sure I was peeing blood.
Ok, we know from that other thread that you’re a redhead, and I’m going to take a guess here…
What with the presumption of what it looks like normally, when coupled with labia the color of a Hawaiian sunset, your crotch looks like Bozo is trying to whistle through orange wedges.
Please tell me you have an SO to amuse with your colorful display.
Ah, I’m with you on that. I’m allergic to the stuff- course, you don’t know til you try. And, the doc neglected to tell me that it turns things orange. You can see where this is going.
One pill later I’m in the bathroom vomiting everything I’ve eaten, breathed in, or looked at for the last ten years, and it’s bright red. With a fever of 103, damn straight I thought I was dying. :rolleyes:
Ginger, I hope everything clears up soon and you’re back to your normal, happy, yellow-urine self!
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