Foul smelling urine

Lots of us have urine that smells weird in one way or another. It can be from the meds/supplements that you are taking, the bacteria that dies off and is processed through the urine, or other things. LOL! that's helpful, huh?

Anyway, here are a few links to other threads that have appeared here in this forum about how our urine smells:
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2651863

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2636136

In this thread, one poster says their urine has an asparagus smell as well.
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1797243

The other thing that can happen is olfactory hallucinations - you believe you are smelling something that's not really there. I've had this from time to time while I was still infected. Very disturbing depending on what you are smelling!

I hope that this helps some!

Gracelynn,
Remember that at least part of what you are dealing with is the disease - depression and the feeling of urgency. Have you had your thyroid and adrenals checked lately to be sure they are functioning at their best?

As for searching this forum:
At the top of this (or any) page - on the same blue bar as the log on/off button, but on the right hand side - you will see:
Home | Calendar | Chat | Search|....then a couple of others.

Click on the search. Once there, enter the term 'Lyme' first, then your search words. This will help narrow down the results to just the Lyme forum, but look carefully. It's easy to think you are going to a thread in the Lyme forum and end up in a different one. The other forums pages look just like this one.

I'm not sure I explained that very well, so if I've managed to confuse you - Sorry!! - just let me know - I can try again or better yet have someone else explain it! Giggle!

This is supposed to be a "safe" place for all to come when they are having the same kind of difficulties as you are going through - otherwise they would have kicked me out a long time ago. I've been a member since 2007 - so there have been a lot of days where I just was really down, and sometimes even truly depressed. This is the one place I could come and not fear someone telling me that I "was always depressed". Please feel free to come here for the support that you need. I just hope that we can always help.

Gentle hugs

Hi all,

The smell is ammonia which is a die-off from lyme bacteria whether the bacteria dies by itself or from using either antibiotics or herbal remedies.  

Ammonia in my opinion is one of the worse toxins there is and there are products to bind up that ammonia so your body can get rid of them.  I remember Razzle mentioned Yucca Root.  I used Dr. J's Neuro-Antitox Formula (I am not affiliated with Dr. J's botanicals, just used the botanicals to get better).

Below are some interesting articles:

http://jernigannutraceuticals.com/Ammonia.html

 

http://davidjernigan.blogspot.com/2010/12/alkaline-brain-dietary-concerns-in-lyme.html

Hope this helps!

Denise

I know that what I usually smelled in my urine was ammonia - that's why it always reminded me of cat urine () - although I didn't use abx!! LOL! My body was just that full of it - ammonia I mean!!

Major detoxing. I had added in binders (activated charcoal) and that made a big difference for me back then. I added in oil pulling this last time I was in treatment (last summer) and that helped me a lot as well.

And I don't have access to a sauna, so I would do what I could to get my body to sweat - always making sure I drank enough water too though to help flush those toxins better.

And always, always ask questions of anything you wish of things I've said. I also happen to know that Denise is the same way!! I tease her that she's my detoxing Guru because I couldn't get my body to detox when I first started - and I might as well had a three-headed green with purple polk-a-dots on my head when I asked even on here back then about detoxing!! Denise was definitely ahead of her time. She helped me through a lot, the very beginning stages of healing - getting your body to detox without throwing you into major herxes all the time.

We're just glad we can be of help!

Sorry, I've been away for a little bit.

Awww thank you Bellyfull!!! We are all here to help each other. I happen to believe that we are all in this together until the science catches up to the patients needs at least.

I think it's the cefdinir. When I was on Tazicef my urine stank.