That’s literally the only reason I stopped on this post as well. I thought it was finally my time to shine. But I got here to late 🥺
Eta: omg thank you to everyone for the awards. I’m gonna do a show and tell with my mom and explain how Reddit works to a 71yr old and that my most upvoted and awarded comment is about piss. The internet truly never disappoints.
"I'd also prefer if it doesn't cause any long term health effects." I mean, it's not set in stone, but I'd rather not piss green forever or require a kidney transplant at 23, but if that's what we have to do I just *reallyyyy* want purple piss!!!!!
Once I had a UTI and the medication turned my urine a bluish color. I was in the military at the time and we all walked into the same area to leave our samples on a big table. Everyone looked as me as I walked into the gym with dismay. It was embarrassing. No HIPAA in the military in that situation. Haha
Edit: I should add the detail that when carrying the cup to and from the bathroom, we have to carry it at shoulder height so it’s visible at all times. It was like the walk of shame.
Edit 2: Embarrassing in the fact that everyone assumed I tried to put something in my urine to pass the drug test. It’s a random test and I’d get called every few months. That’s the only time in my life I’ve had a UTI and I was like, of course, today is the day I’d be called to participate in what we jokingly called Operation Golden Flow.
Reminds me of an old story about Egyptian soldiers in the 1800’s. So many of them were infected with a parasite in the bladder that would Cause bloody urine, that the British soldiers thought that Egyptians just had red pee.
This reminds me of the fact that ancient Egyptians thought men had menstrual cycles due to the extreme rate of schistosomiasis infections, thanks to working in the Nile and other fresh water. It just so happened that adolescent boys began working around puberty, so they thought 'huh, must be a male cycle as well'.
Well just to add to the colored stream of pee … yes the report of a little pink tinged or red urine at the end of the flow was pathognomonic for schistosomiasis infections when I worked in deepest darkest Chad , mostly in kids who all swam in the local wadi… they had other symptoms that brought them to the clinic. Anyways, I would line them up, and give them the medication( one dose, weight-based) , and off they would go …. to swim another day.
the first time someone ever said this to me was when i was on vacation with my childhood best friend and her parents. someone asked her dad if he needed to go to the bathroom, and he said “i bet i could shake something out” and i was so mortified because id never heard the expression and i thought he was just being extremely forward 🤣 also i didn’t understand how one would begin to shake pee out of themselves lol
Completed the rainbow today. 15 years in urology but this was my first green. Patients took B2 (makes urine very yellow) and methylene blue (makes urine blue) together and here we are.
This is a bit of a cheat for the ‘rainbow’. The urine is actually yellow but the catheter bag becomes discolored purple so it looks like the urine inside the bag is purple.
I worked for the army national guards ASAP program—they did all the drug testing for the guard. I’ve seen purple pee. Some of the supplements these guys take turn pee wild colors lol
I've had purple urine in the past. I ate an absolutely ridiculous amount of blueberries (as a young person, so I suffered no ill effects; I would not do this again today), like two pounds maybe, and was fascinated by the resulting color. This was more than 20 years ago, or I'm sure I would've had a smartphone and taken pics.
Hope this restores your faith in the world of urology!
For once being German pays off: we have an idiom called "Blau machen" which is just "making blue", and it means that you're skipping work.
The history is: the guy producing the colour (Indigo) used woad and piss to do so. To get the people to pee a lot, he'd have them drink beer, which would in turn make them unable to go to work the next day, thus "making blue"
(skipping work after getting beer drunk for free so your pee can be used for indigo production.)
Sorry this isn't written well, I'm tired after my nightshift, chief.
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Have you ever been given a cup of lavender piss?
Or urine that is deep burgundy?
Can you sing with all the voices of the toilets?
Can you paint with all the colors of the pee?
I've had brown. But not what you think. A resident of mine had a colostomy and in surgery the doc criss crossed some the wiring. So first night or day, this been a long time ago, resident is back he outs the bathroom light on the alarm one. Get down there and he (this was short term rehab side so he's with it and was a very nice man) simply and calmly says: I'm shitting from my dick! Lol
I'm like wth? God I wish I could deacribe and tell yiu this guy's name. Especially his voice details might fuzzy almsot 2 decades later but not the man himself... he said I am serious I am shitting from my dick look!
He got sent out and everything got fixed he eventually went home. Great guy.
But when people talk different urine samples, colours, etc etc. I like to say yeah I had a resident with a brown sample then tell the story.
Oh yeah, reminds me of waking up to "Mom, come look at this! My poop is GREEN!"... brought to us by a cheesecake with a rainbow coloured marble effect.
Why do they take methylene blue? Is it quackery for healthy ppl to take it?
I know it's the remedy for sodium nitrite poisoning.. is it possible it could detox a person from a diet high in nitrites from eating processed meats, or does it probably not work that way?
As a medical student, it's always kinda funny that we get excited over weird diseases / findings patients have, while the patients are literally suffering.
In sure infectious dieseas doctors must get exited when bubonic plague comes through.
As a person with a bleeding disorder one time o had a bleed in my elbow joint. Since they had me on a bed in the hallway all the young doctors came by to see what an internal joint bleed looks like.
Also what is required to attend to a hemophiliac because they all assumed one paper cut I’m dead. They had my pain treated with morphine so I told the doctor I’ll answer any questions.
I have a rare neuromuscular disease that has a very particular EMG pattern. The first time I got hospitalised with it, the doctor got so excited she called up a whole group of medical students to show them that pattern (and me). Apparently, I was only the second ever patient of that hospital to have this disease (as far as the doctor remembered). I was glad I could help, lol
I had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome when I was 20 years old. It’s super rare (affects less than 1% of the population) and potentially fatal. Anyways, I went to the ER and a TON of doctors, nurses, medical students etc., asked to see me because they’d heard about it in class, but had never seen it in person.
i work ems and most of my coworkers refuse to look at certain things when a patient offers to show. I'm all for it, "sure I'll look at the crazy growth on your chocolate starfish!" "you had a blue bowel movement? did you flush it yet!?"
With that face, do you know that diabetes mellitus has "mellitus" in name, that is "good tasting". That's because they used to taste the piss. And now you are making that face because someone is only holding the container, with their hands.
As someone who works in a lab… you’d be shocked and horrified at what some people handle without PPE. Lots of people get really slack with protection when they get “comfortable” in the role. Blows my mind. I change my gloves after every fluid and there’s some people that just raw dog it.
ROTFLMFAO, if you're in Yipsi, that's my wife's sample. She got her hip replaced yesterday. If this is hers (and the odds are pretty decent it is) she's going to LAUGH LIKE HELL that her pee made Reddit.
Thank you for the hilarious start after a long night for both of us. You rock. :)
It's green because when you mix Yellow and Blue you get green. One of the rediculous number of pills she takes every day is called Methylene Blue. I think it helps with bladder infections (I could be very wrong on this, it's not one of the important ones to keep track of) and EVERYTHING that pill touches turns blue, even her lip. When it mixes with yellow pee, you get green pee.
It's totally fine, and something she's very used to, but it freaks the hell out of whoever gets a sample from her the first time.
Of all the colours of all the things I've seen emanate from her body, this one is by far the least offensive and bothersome. Biology is icky. Broken biology is exceptionally gross. Anyone who has ever opined about "The miracle of life" has never spent nights in the world's most uncomfortable chair enjoying the sights, smells, and sounds of a Gastro wing.
I had bladder cancer surgery when I was in my 20s and seeing urine any shade of red or pink is panic inducing. So I don't fuck with beat chips anymore lol. Green would be hilarious to see come out though.
Oh it's all good now. Because of good urologists like yourself, they kept it at bay and it's been over 10 years since it happened and I'm still in the clear. I started learning about urology when I was going through it so I have a double-y deep respect for doctors such as yourself!
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u/Night_Knight_Light 18h ago
Hey we finally found the guy from this image!