Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell. The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious... Has anyone experienced the same thing? -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell. The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious... Has anyone experienced the same thing? -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this. jena We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee :)For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell.The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious...Has anyone experienced the same thing?-JoannaSCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this. jena We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee :)For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell.The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious...Has anyone experienced the same thing?-JoannaSCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this.I agree. I just started taking a multivitamin, and I always notice a much stronger smell and color. That's probably all it is =) Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 40 mg 1x per day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this.I agree. I just started taking a multivitamin, and I always notice a much stronger smell and color. That's probably all it is =) Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 40 mg 1x per day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 If yourt pee is a bright yellowish color then it's niacin. Water soluble and your body doesn't keep any more than it uses. Multivitamins generally have way more than your body could ever need in a day. I bet if you skip the vitamin for a day your pee will be normal, then try the vitamin and within 6 hours you'll have the smell again.-UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a dayTo: BTVC-SCD From: luckycharms@...Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:39:15 -0500Subject: Re: TMI- Strange Smell Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this.I agree. I just started taking a multivitamin, and I always notice a much stronger smell and color. That's probably all it is =) Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 40 mg 1x per day Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 If yourt pee is a bright yellowish color then it's niacin. Water soluble and your body doesn't keep any more than it uses. Multivitamins generally have way more than your body could ever need in a day. I bet if you skip the vitamin for a day your pee will be normal, then try the vitamin and within 6 hours you'll have the smell again.-UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a dayTo: BTVC-SCD From: luckycharms@...Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:39:15 -0500Subject: Re: TMI- Strange Smell Quite often, especially if our body doesn't need them, extra vitamins are excreted in our urine. The strong color/smell will probably be this.I agree. I just started taking a multivitamin, and I always notice a much stronger smell and color. That's probably all it is =) Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 40 mg 1x per day Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Thanks to everyone for getting back to me so quickly! You know how our imagination tends to get the best of us. My mind is at ease now. I love 's idea- I will stop the second multi for a few days and see if it goes back to normal -Joanna I bet if you skip the vitamin for a day your pee will be normal, then try the vitamin and within 6 hours you'll have the smell again. > > - > UC - 1+ years > SCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet. > Asacol - 5 pills a day > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Thanks to everyone for getting back to me so quickly! You know how our imagination tends to get the best of us. My mind is at ease now. I love 's idea- I will stop the second multi for a few days and see if it goes back to normal -Joanna I bet if you skip the vitamin for a day your pee will be normal, then try the vitamin and within 6 hours you'll have the smell again. > > - > UC - 1+ years > SCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet. > Asacol - 5 pills a day > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my research. [grin] Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream…. The rest ends up excreted in our urine. The absorption percentages increase in a softgel capsule, up to 25 to 30%. Better absorption when a liquid form is used, close to 100%. The dosages in a multivitamin tablet are high, so that the small amount that is actually absorbed by our bodies is enough to be effective. Which means a lot ends up in the urine, causing odd colors and smells. Kim M. SCD 6 years Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my research. [grin] Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream…. The rest ends up excreted in our urine. The absorption percentages increase in a softgel capsule, up to 25 to 30%. Better absorption when a liquid form is used, close to 100%. The dosages in a multivitamin tablet are high, so that the small amount that is actually absorbed by our bodies is enough to be effective. Which means a lot ends up in the urine, causing odd colors and smells. Kim M. SCD 6 years Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Joanna, I haven't had exactly this, the strange smell, but even long before SCD, before even when my gut went nuts (and I thought I was healthier than I was), periodically I would get cloudy urine. Maybe half a day or a day. Eventually I asked the doctor about this and he said the body just dumps things periodically that it doesn't need, and the cloudy would be dumping excess minerals. I don't see why vitamins or whatever wouldn't do the same thing. They always say we pee out excess vitamins and who knows what they smell like! We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell. The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious... Has anyone experienced the same thing? -Joanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Joanna, I haven't had exactly this, the strange smell, but even long before SCD, before even when my gut went nuts (and I thought I was healthier than I was), periodically I would get cloudy urine. Maybe half a day or a day. Eventually I asked the doctor about this and he said the body just dumps things periodically that it doesn't need, and the cloudy would be dumping excess minerals. I don't see why vitamins or whatever wouldn't do the same thing. They always say we pee out excess vitamins and who knows what they smell like! We talk so much about poop, but now I've got a question about my pee For the past few days it's been smelling really strong (like when you eat asparagus)- it has a sweet yet acidic smell. The only changes I've made in the past few weeks is that I've added a little bit of nut butter and started taking a second multivitamin. I figure it's either my body peeing out some vitamin/mineral from the multi or something more serious... Has anyone experienced the same thing? -Joanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 was right! The smell was gone within the day when I didn't take the second multi-vitamin. So interesting. Kim- I am curious about your research- do you have a liquid mulitvitamin that you like? I hate the idea of trying to get these vitamins/minerals in my body and then just excreting them. -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > research. [grin] > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 was right! The smell was gone within the day when I didn't take the second multi-vitamin. So interesting. Kim- I am curious about your research- do you have a liquid mulitvitamin that you like? I hate the idea of trying to get these vitamins/minerals in my body and then just excreting them. -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > research. [grin] > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 you can get a multivitamin/mineral in liquid form but nothing will be as complete as what you can get in dry form. you'll see a short list of nutrition info on a liquid supplement compared to it's dry pill form counterpart. An even better option is to get them through phytonutrients, IE: fruits/veggies/ect. I look at it if you're peeing them out, you know you've got enough for your body to use. Unless they came out with something new within the last 3 years? Not too up to date anymore.-UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a dayTo: BTVC-SCD From: joannaultman@...Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:35:22 +0000Subject: Re: TMI- Strange Smell was right! The smell was gone within the day when I didn't take the second multi-vitamin. So interesting. Kim- I am curious about your research- do you have a liquid mulitvitamin that you like? I hate the idea of trying to get these vitamins/minerals in my body and then just excreting them. -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > research. [grin] > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 you can get a multivitamin/mineral in liquid form but nothing will be as complete as what you can get in dry form. you'll see a short list of nutrition info on a liquid supplement compared to it's dry pill form counterpart. An even better option is to get them through phytonutrients, IE: fruits/veggies/ect. I look at it if you're peeing them out, you know you've got enough for your body to use. Unless they came out with something new within the last 3 years? Not too up to date anymore.-UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a dayTo: BTVC-SCD From: joannaultman@...Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:35:22 +0000Subject: Re: TMI- Strange Smell was right! The smell was gone within the day when I didn't take the second multi-vitamin. So interesting. Kim- I am curious about your research- do you have a liquid mulitvitamin that you like? I hate the idea of trying to get these vitamins/minerals in my body and then just excreting them. -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > research. [grin] > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 That is good to know, . I definitely agree that healing is priority #1... then I will get serious about supplementation. The integrative medical doctor I see practices nutrigenomics and has taught me a lot about supplementation. He believes that even when we buy organic, the Vitamin B content is much lower in our fruits and veggies than it should be (or than it was 50 years ago when farming practices were better). Supplementing with B-100 can lower cholesterol, and impact your bloodcounts and monocyte counts. So once I get healthier, I definitely want to look into getting more B-100 -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > > > > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > > > research. [grin] > > > > > > > > > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > > > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 That is good to know, . I definitely agree that healing is priority #1... then I will get serious about supplementation. The integrative medical doctor I see practices nutrigenomics and has taught me a lot about supplementation. He believes that even when we buy organic, the Vitamin B content is much lower in our fruits and veggies than it should be (or than it was 50 years ago when farming practices were better). Supplementing with B-100 can lower cholesterol, and impact your bloodcounts and monocyte counts. So once I get healthier, I definitely want to look into getting more B-100 -Joanna SCD 9/2009, Crohn's 1992, 30mg Prednisone > > > > > > Just an FYI. One of the interesting bits of information I come across in my > > > research. [grin] > > > > > > > > > > > > Only about 10% to 15% of a multivitamin or other vitamin/mineral supplement > > > in a tablet form ends up in our bloodstream.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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