Dark colored urine. Please advise!

[HOLYSHITLOOK@ME]

Hey guys. I'm 31 currently running 400/600 testE/EQ, nolva and clen. I had my first workout with my trainer today. Hit shoulders and cardio. I've drank over 1 gallon of water, close to 1.5 AFTER the workout. Workout was at 10am, it is now 7pm.

My urine is still.....either light-medium yellow or slightly-barely brownish(when in toilet-hardly noticeable. When in cup-slightlu brownish). I urinate normally with no pain or unusual change in frequency (more h2o = more pee)

My kidneys fucked up?


EDIT:

Did some research. Would this be possible. Keep this in mind. I never do abs due to rarely having the BF% to show them off and not wanting a thick mid-section with clothes on. My trainer put me through a heavy abdominal routine. My abs hurt immediately after the workout as if it was the next day soreness. Stretching them is painfull. (call me a puss, i guess i deserve it)



RHABDOMYOLYSIS

Rhabdomyolysis is a condition that happens when muscle is damaged. This releases pigments from the muscle and blood into the bloodstream. The kidney filters the pigments out of the blood. The pigments accumulate in the kidney, blocking up the filtering portion of the kidney. The kidney then fails. Conditions that cause rhabdomyolysis include crushing injuries to muscle, seizures, and exercise-related heat stroke. Other causes include severe frostbite, alcoholism, drug overdose, cocaine use, and as a side effect of some medicines. Occasionally, excessive high-endurance exercise by someone who is not trained adequately can also result in rhabdomyolysis.

 

[guest username]

If you have tea or coca colored urine, you might have rhabdo. You need to have your CPK and urine myoglobin checked as soon as possible.

 

[HOLYSHITLOOK@ME]

I'm going to the docs tomorrow (hope thats not too late) If this is caused by muscle damage wouldn't the color of urine go back to normal once the muscles heal?

 

[liquid1234]

u dont have rhabdo---usually get rhabdo from crush injuries or continuous falls( for example old lady/male falls becomes unconscious and is there for 3 days)----did you get your tbilirubin checked?? also might just be a Urinary tract infxn----keep us updated, best of luck
Liquid

 

[Tatyana]

This is another possibility:

Steroids increase your red blood cells. Red blood cells breakdown, release haemoglobin which becomes bilirubin.

Bilirubin is conjugated in your liver, excreted through your bile duct into your digestive system, acted upon by bacteria to become urobilinogen. Some is reabsorbed by the circulatory system and excreted through your kidneys.

Urobilinogen is what makes your urine yellow (or brownish if it is in higher concentrations), so more RBC, more bilirubin, more urobilinogen.

Just to complete the processing of bilirubin, urobilinogen is further acted on by bacteria in the large bowel and becomes stercobilinogen, which makes you faeces brown.

 

[liquid1234]

yes that could be true tatyana, but a rbc is in circulation for ~120 days, so doubt that would happen right away..... ---perhaps a hemolytic anemia going on, highly doubt it but always could be a differential----
Liquid

 

[Tatyana]

yes that could be true tatyana, but a rbc is in circulation for ~120 days, so doubt that would happen right away..... ---perhaps a hemolytic anemia going on, highly doubt it but always could be a differential----
Liquid

True, and we don't know how long he has been on cycle.

There may be an issue that a doctor can do a quick screen for with a urinalysis stick in his office, or the change in the colour of his urine could be related to hydration and subjective perception.

As he is on cycle, he may be more aware of medical issues that might arise, so more things appear different.

 

[bigtravis]

This is another possibility:

Steroids increase your red blood cells. Red blood cells breakdown, release haemoglobin which becomes bilirubin.

Bilirubin is conjugated in your liver, excreted through your bile duct into your digestive system, acted upon by bacteria to become urobilinogen. Some is reabsorbed by the circulatory system and excreted through your kidneys.

Urobilinogen is what makes your urine yellow (or brownish if it is in higher concentrations), so more RBC, more bilirubin, more urobilinogen.

Just to complete the processing of bilirubin, urobilinogen is further acted on by bacteria in the large bowel and becomes stercobilinogen, which makes you faeces brown.

You blew me away with that one. Please tell me you already knew that and didn't copy and paste.

 

[guest username]

u dont have rhabdo---usually get rhabdo from crush injuries or continuous falls( for example old lady/male falls becomes unconscious and is there for 3 days)----did you get your tbilirubin checked?? also might just be a Urinary tract infxn----keep us updated, best of luck
Liquid

You can get rhabdo from working out too hard. It doesn't always require crush injuries.

My last case I saw in the ER was a weightlifter just getting back into lifting whose CPK was 120,000 and who was in acute renal failure because of it.

 

[Tatyana]

You blew me away with that one. Please tell me you already knew that and didn't copy and paste.

Yes, I know what makes your wee yellow and poo brown from memory.

 

[bigtravis]

Yes, I know what makes your wee yellow and poo brown from memory.

LMAO! So does Stewie.