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[arethinn]

I'm currently taking a medication called phenazopyridine to take care of any possible urinary infection that they didn't detect any traces of when I gave a urine sample yesterday. The doctor said that it would turn my urine a yellow-orange colour and not to be concerned about that as it was a normal side effect of the drug. Well, he wasn't kidding. I swear it's like someone replaced the toilet water with pure yellow food colouring. It's pretty freaky.

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[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

You can look up phenazopyridine

Oh, I believed you. I just meant that when the doctor prescribed it, I had thought he was giving me an antibiotic.

I don't think I have a continuing condition; this isn't something that's been with me all my life or since I hit puberty or anything. It's not uncommon for me to get a couple of days of irritated urination after short visits (a day or two) with enotsola. Longer visits (a week or three) don't seem to produce the same effect. It's like we see each other rarely enough that our body chemistries are mutually alien and mine gets annoyed by it if it's just a couple of days and not long enough to actually get used to it, or something. He came to visit on Oct 10-13 and normally, it clears up on its own within a couple days. I thought it had, but then it came back... and went away... and came back.. and went away... and came back... until I finally got annoyed and brave enough to call up Kaiser last Friday.

I looked for cranberry capsules (since I didn't want the calories from drinking juice) but didn't find any. Of course at the moment I haven't been having any symptoms for five days, but if they come back I'll have to give Whole Foods a more thorough search.