I admit, I'm scared
I don't normally talk about such things online, but this has my nerves a bit on end...
After an hour of research about my current dark-brown urine, going through many possibilties that said I should immediantly go to the Emergency Room, and words like "imminent kidney failure, liver failure, spleen rupture, cancer" and the like, I found a bit of rest in the final result, but I'm still scared. Apparently, for all we can figure from other symptoms or lack thereof as well as recent diet and medicines, is that I have zinc toxicity/poisoning.
I have yet to hallucinate from myglobins running rampant in my system, or other things that usually acompany the "could die at any time" brown urine (I'm being nice in my description). I don't have the symptoms that go along with the myglobin problem, but I fit zinc poisoning quite well. If I had realized the zinc levels I was already ingesting in my recent diet, I would have never taken zinc for my late ear infection. Craziness. Apparently, too much zinc destroys red blood cells and other nasty stuff like that.
So, instead of going to the ER for them to do what they have done to many others willing to post it online, and have them tell me that I have blood in my urine and need to go home, drink a lot of water, and wait a week to see what happens, I'm going to save the $250+ and do it without them having to tell me what I already knew and was going to do about it. I still face kidney failure and a few other rather unpleasant things, but since I'm not in pain like that and I am starting the only apparent treatment for it right now, I expect to still be here for years to come. I can't help but be a bit scared however.
If all is still rather scary come tomorrow night, I'm going down to the free clinic for their weekly Tuesday night drawing of straws. I don't look forward to the things they do to test you when you have brown urine. I'm telling my body that it better start to show signs of improvement by then. Until then, or rather until next week, I will be drinking a couple of gallons of water a day.
*sigh*
After an hour of research about my current dark-brown urine, going through many possibilties that said I should immediantly go to the Emergency Room, and words like "imminent kidney failure, liver failure, spleen rupture, cancer" and the like, I found a bit of rest in the final result, but I'm still scared. Apparently, for all we can figure from other symptoms or lack thereof as well as recent diet and medicines, is that I have zinc toxicity/poisoning.
I have yet to hallucinate from myglobins running rampant in my system, or other things that usually acompany the "could die at any time" brown urine (I'm being nice in my description). I don't have the symptoms that go along with the myglobin problem, but I fit zinc poisoning quite well. If I had realized the zinc levels I was already ingesting in my recent diet, I would have never taken zinc for my late ear infection. Craziness. Apparently, too much zinc destroys red blood cells and other nasty stuff like that.
So, instead of going to the ER for them to do what they have done to many others willing to post it online, and have them tell me that I have blood in my urine and need to go home, drink a lot of water, and wait a week to see what happens, I'm going to save the $250+ and do it without them having to tell me what I already knew and was going to do about it. I still face kidney failure and a few other rather unpleasant things, but since I'm not in pain like that and I am starting the only apparent treatment for it right now, I expect to still be here for years to come. I can't help but be a bit scared however.
If all is still rather scary come tomorrow night, I'm going down to the free clinic for their weekly Tuesday night drawing of straws. I don't look forward to the things they do to test you when you have brown urine. I'm telling my body that it better start to show signs of improvement by then. Until then, or rather until next week, I will be drinking a couple of gallons of water a day.
*sigh*