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[mandible]

For the past few weeks I have noticed that my urine somehow smells. It's not bad but it definitely has a smell to it.

But usually fresh urine should not smell at all, right? At least mine didn't smell otherwise I'd not have noticed a change.

I wonder if this a reason to worry? I also take vitamins (multi,C,E,B complex,folic acid, P5P but I don't know if this could have

anything to do with it).

I get blood works done even few months but I read that you can have a kidney disease which does not show up in a normal blood work. Uric acid

for example can be normal but you can still have something going on. In order to find out you need special tests.

 

What would you do? Would you go to a specialist?

Edited by mandible, 19 January 2015 - 06:02 PM.

[ZHMike]

b vitamins can definately make your urine to smell funky, if you have kidney disease it would show up in a standard blood chemistry, you would have an elevated serum creatinine. I bet its the B vitamins, but you could always call your doctor try to get more bloodwork and a Urine analysis done. 

 

prob the b vitamins though

[Danail Bulgaria]

The urine smells, even if it is fresh. It is normal.

 

Why not you make an urine test?

[mandible]

Elevated creatinine and uric acid would be signs that something is wrong. However I know with absolutely certainty that these parameters can be normal and you can

still have a kidney disease. There is something like a "blind" range where you can be sick but it doesn't yet show up in the standard tests.

 

I'm not sure if the B Vitamins are the reason. I have been taking them for many months and I don't think that the smell has existed that long.

I also tried not taking the B vitamins on a day and to see if the smell would go away but it was still present.

[StevesPetRat]

Taste it.

Mine sometimes smells of butter or coconut depending on the predominant fat I'm ingesting. Have there been any dietary changes recently?

[Danail Bulgaria]

Taste it.

Mine sometimes smells of butter or coconut depending on the predominant fat I'm ingesting. Have there been any dietary changes recently?

 

Lol Did you mean TEST it?

[StevesPetRat]

Taste it.

Lol Did you mean TEST it?

You heard me.

[niner]

In the past, doctors used to taste urine in order to diagnose certain diseases, particularly diabetes.  I think that practice has pretty much fallen by the wayside, except on the internet, of course...   Mandible, you get blood tests every couple months?  Wow, that's a lot.  Is there some reason you need to test that often?  It's not unusual for urine to smell.  Different foods and different levels of hydration will affect it.  Do you have any reason to think that you are sick, other than a change in the smell of your urine?   Are you prone to hypochondria?

[mandible]

No changes in diet. I also drink pretty much. I remember in the past when I drank much the urine was usually without any color and also without smell.

I'm not sure if it's also more yellow now. Should I experiment a bit and for example drink a lot and then see if the urine gets brighter and loses the smell?

Maybe only the more concentrated urine smells.

 

Yes I'm hypo. In 2013 I went to a nephrologist and he told me that measuring kreatinin isn't really that

effective cause there is a range where you can be sick and it won't show up in the kreatinin levels. This,

of course, scared me. In 2013 I had to collect my urine for 1 day and then they measured all kinds of things

and it was normal. But I kept this in mind and now where I noticed the smell I thought of this and got

scared.

 

I also have various health issues. It's not like I imagine everything.

I also take antidepressants. The end of the year I was on anafranil but it didn't work. Now I just started with cymbalta.

But the urine smell isn't totally new so it probably has nothing to do with cymbalta.

Edited by mandible, 22 January 2015 - 11:18 PM.

[resveratrol_guy]

OP, asparagus is strongly correlated with this issue, if it happens to pertain to you.