Question about urine

[Angel1954]

          I want to know if anyone that has kidney disease or failure do they still use the bathroom and if u are having problems with your kidneys what color is your urine.
And if i drink more water my urine is almost clear is that normal or not

                                   thank you Kathy

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[sandman]

Well, as far as I know, I am not suffering from kidney disease or failure but most of the time, my urine is usually clear like water but with a light tinge of yellow color to it.  But sometimes it is rather dark, sometimes almost greenish.  I don't know if this is normal but I find that when my urine is the clearest, it's when I have drank ALOT.  More then 2.5 liters during the day.

I too would like to know if this is normal or if I am just lacking in proper nutrition.

[Rerun]

All I know is before I had kidney failure, I had to get up in the middle of the night to PEE.  Every Night!  Then all of a sudden I was sleeping through the night and was SO Happy that I had finally grown out of it at age 24.  Then a month later I ended up in ER with kidney failure. 

[MelissaJean]

I still use the bathroom regularly, and my urine is dark yellow no matter how much  or how little I drink throughout the day (I have between 4-8 drinks per day).  I actually go pee more often now that I do CCPD rather than hemo.

[Panda_9]

When you are in complete renal failure (0% kidney function), you do not produce any urine at all. Of course you do still do umm poo's lol If your urine is quite clear then that is good, it means you are nice and hydrated and drinking enough. If it is dark, it is more concentrated, meaning you need to drink more water. Obviously it can mean other things, but if you are healthy with no kidney or other problems, clear/light yellow is normal.

When I started CAPD I was still urinating, but only a very small amount, and it was almost brown. I assume that may be because the dialysis is taking care of most of the fluid loss instead of your kidneys.

[angieskidney]

When I was still peeing on PD mine was very colourless like water because I was not filtering anything anymore. It was basically just running through the kidney (transplanted one that failed). Then about a year before I started hemo I stopped peeing at all. I have not peed now for 2 years.

[Panda_9]

When I go to the toilet I still get an urge to pee, and sometimes its kind of painful. Does anyone else get this? It feels like you are about to do one, but nothing comes out. Its annoying!

[angieskidney]

When I go to the toilet I still get an urge to pee, and sometimes its kind of painful. Does anyone else get this? It feels like you are about to do one, but nothing comes out. Its annoying!

If it is painful maybe you have a bladder infection? I worry about that. How do you know if you have one if you don't pee. Hell if I know. Probably a blood test.

[Joe Paul]

I have about 6% kidney function left, and still urinate. The color is deep yellow/orange

[goofynina]

Amber,  When that happend to me,  it was a bladder infection, they had to give me antibiotics and it cleared up in a couple of days.  Those are so very painful, that i know.  Take care and please let your dr. know A.S.A.P. so you wont have to go through the pain that lies ahead, (shivers at the memory)....

[Sluff]

I pee alot because I drink alot. It is usually light yellow, orangeish occasionally pretty normal I guess, except for the foam which is the loss of protein.  Not on dialysis.

[Rerun]

When I go to the toilet I still get an urge to pee, and sometimes its kind of painful. Does anyone else get this? It feels like you are about to do one, but nothing comes out. Its annoying!

Yes, this happens to me. 

[Black]

Frequency, volume and color depend on many factors, as previously mentioned.  Generally very dark urine indicates a problem -- could be either minor or serious.  PKD patients sometimes continue to pass large volumes of colorless urine for many years after their kidneys quit working.  That does help tremendously in allowing them to not be so concerned about fluid over load, but that's about the only thing they continue to do, and for most PKDers even that function eventually ceases.

[Bajanne]

I have wondered about this whole urine question. In fact, I myself have asked some questions on this site.  I am not sure how much kidney function I have right now.  When I started last year, it was just under 10%.  Now, nearly a year later, I still urinate.  Not as much as before but several times per day.  I had asked when does it stop altogether, but no one has ever been able to tell me.

[livecam]

Lets see, I never stopped urinating while I was on dialysis.  A good marker for kidney disease is lots of foaming in the urine which I still see now.  The foaming is likely coming from my original kidneys which are probably still doing something.  Just a had a transplant followup visit and lab review today and all is perfect so nothing to worry about with kidney number 3.

[Panda_9]

Ive had it all along. Ive had numerous tests for infection throughout my whole body, so its not an infection. Im sure Ive mentioned it to them before, cant remember. Some people on dialysis never stop peeing. If you are going to stop, it usually happens quicker once you start dialysis.

[angieskidney]

I had asked when does it stop altogether, but no one has ever been able to tell me.

No one can tell you because there is no exact  time when "oh such and such a time you will suddenly stop peeing!" ... No .. it is NOT like that.

Like I said ... I was on dialysis for a few years and was still peeing long after my kidney function stopped. The doc said that I was filtering nothing so just water was passing through. I kept peeing for almost 4 years while I already started PD. I only stopped peeing just about the beginning of last year .. but I lost track of the last time I peed .. so maybe it was 2 years ago now .. who knows.

No one can give you an exact answer so I hope this is good enough

[Rusty]

My family hates it when I drive on long trips, 'cause I never have to stop to pee.

[sandman]

My family hates it when I drive on long trips, 'cause I never have to stop to pee.

Now that has to be one of the only things about kidney failure that I can be envious of.  I would have to stop about every 100 miles or so.

[Panda_9]

You know I actually would LOVE to do a HUGE wee right now!!! It just feels wrong when nothing comes out.

[GuyIncognito]

After 4 years I still pass alot of urine actually after the two days off I am usually at or around my dry weight, but recently I have been getting up 3 to 4 times a night to go and it seems very thick and foamy.... does anyone know if this is a potential problem as during the day everything seems fine.

[goofball]

GFR 25%, very pale yellow, and rather foamy. 

Some days I feel good, but when I see that... it's a reminder that not everything is alright.

[Charlie B53]

For the past few years before starting PD my urine had slowly darkened, smelled bad, and was foamy from the amount of protein leaking.

Started PD just a year ago, still P, less volume but it seems like more frequency.  Maybe being full of fluid puts pressure on the bladder giving that urge to go, even when there is very little to go.

A little less smelly since the PD is removing so muhc toxins, but the foaminess from protein loss is still there. Color still dark yellow.

Collection labs a few times a year show a steady decline in daily volume.  Who knows how long I'll P?  No way to tell.

[LisaBart]

My partner pees more so at the night, so this causes him to lose sleep....7% function and last urine collection he was peeing out more than he was taking in, no doubt this is a good thing.
Urine still very frothy but not as dark as it used to be but still quite yellow..but he does take a vitamin at night which may add to the clour....he sips water all through the night...not on dialysis....yet..