r/mildlyinteresting • u/urosrgn • 5h ago

My patient’s urine was bright green today.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Completed the rainbow today. 15 years in urology but this was my first green. Patients took B2 (makes urine very yellow) and methylene blue (makes urine blue) together and here we are.

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u/rivertpostie 5h ago

Post rainbow pics!

Also do you have black and white?

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Seen black (old blood)- many times.

White is common from pus or infection, sediment.

Red is blood or beats.

Orange common with pyridium (used for urinary pain).

Purple seen in an infection called purple bag syndrome, see it about once a year.

Blue described above.

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u/rivertpostie 5h ago edited 4h ago

Not to tell you how to live your life, but you should absolutely become an artist and paint with all the forbidden colors only you know.

Watercolors, ya know? Peaceful little piss beach scenes, and all that.

People would be at least mildly interested in your process

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u/LonelyGameBoi 5h ago

"you should paint with piss" really should have been expected but it still caught me off guard

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u/mustafa0319 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/EiiKZ3IZf8Vzi
Have you ever been given a cup of lavender piss?
Or urine that is deep burgundy?
Can you sing with all the voices of the toilets?
Can you paint with all the colors of the pee?

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u/Radiant8763 5h ago

Well, I've had enough internet for today 🤣

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u/Echo-Azure 5h ago

Bravo! You make me glad I clicked on this thread!

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u/MyBatmanUnderoos 5h ago

The Joy of Pissing, with Bob Ross.
https://giphy.com/gifs/rYEAkYihZsyWs

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u/Capital_Shopping277 2h ago

a wizard always pisses precisely when he means to

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u/Lucas1543 4h ago

For once being German pays off: we have an idiom called "Blau machen" which is just "making blue", and it means that you're skipping work.

The history is: the guy producing the colour (Indigo) used woad and piss to do so. To get the people to pee a lot, he'd have them drink beer, which would in turn make them unable to go to work the next day, thus "making blue"
(skipping work after getting beer drunk for free so your pee can be used for indigo production.)

Sorry this isn't written well, I'm tired after my nightshift, chief.

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u/Kidkrid 5h ago

Painting with Piss sounds like it could be a viable thrash band name...

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u/SpottyNoonerism 5h ago

"Paint with Piss" is Murderface's 2nd solo album.

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u/Stenbox 5h ago

"I'm gonna treat you for urinary pain."

"But I don't have it?"

"Yes, but I want to paint a sunset later today"

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u/Anderson22LDS 4h ago

I call this piece, ‘Golden shower hour’.

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u/Illustrious_Talk9656 5h ago

PURPLE?!!

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

This is a bit of a cheat for the ‘rainbow’. The urine is actually yellow but the catheter bag becomes discolored purple so it looks like the urine inside the bag is purple.

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u/mischievouslyacat 5h ago

I am a little disappointed that there's no purple pee. I know it would probably be a terrible thing, but still

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u/squushee 5h ago

maybe take methylene blue and eat a bunch of beets???

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u/Squream 5h ago

I don't like beets. Can I just bleed during the piss instead?

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u/silence_infidel 5h ago

If piss color theory holds, you may be on to something. Now who’s gonna volunteer to try it out?

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u/cassbiz 5h ago

I worked for the army national guards ASAP program—they did all the drug testing for the guard. I’ve seen purple pee. Some of the supplements these guys take turn pee wild colors lol

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u/Adventurous-Map7959 4h ago

Maybe they found new places to stick the crayons into?

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u/TaylorBitMe 3h ago

I guarantee they've already put the crayons in there. Check the nursing sub

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u/TheFerricGenum 5h ago

If the patient has acute intermittent porphyria and their pee is exposed to UV light, it will turn purple.

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u/ohhhtartarsauce 5h ago

I'm determined to find a way

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u/vladashram 5h ago

Porphyria can absolutely cause purple urine.

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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe 5h ago

I was just going to say this

what the fuck is porphyria btw

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u/_maynard 4h ago

Has to be exposed to sunlight though. (I (also?) learned this from Scrubs so I’m sure it’s 100% true

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u/Moveitalong123 5h ago

The first time I saw that I was absolutely convinced the patient was pranking me. 

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u/JeffWingrsDumbGayDad 5h ago

Yeah I'm not googling that one

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u/lagerforlunch 5h ago

Freaked me the fuck out when I pissed purple. In the ER, with kidney stones.

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u/LordFuzzyGerbil 5h ago

Was just listening to Purple rain. Oh gods.

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u/orthogonius 3h ago

She used a raspberry bidet

The kind you find in a second-hand store

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u/20milliondollarapi 5h ago

I feel boring… my pee has only been yellow.

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 5h ago

It's the only color they didn't list, you should go and give them a sample

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u/InvertebrateInterest 4h ago

Take B2 for a day as a little treat.

edit: It will be

YELLOW

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u/Herteitr 5h ago

Been in health care 20 years, still havent seen purple. Its been a dream.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Hang around my guys with catheters!!

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 5h ago

And here I thought I had crazy dreams

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u/Herteitr 5h ago

Healthcare workers are built different

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u/ironwoolf98 5h ago

Orange as a Pulmonologist I often see from rifampicin for anti TB treatment

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Same! Bright orange as well.

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 5h ago

I've had brown. But not what you think. A resident of mine had a colostomy and in surgery the doc criss crossed some the wiring. So first night or day, this been a long time ago, resident is back he outs the bathroom light on the alarm one. Get down there and he (this was short term rehab side so he's with it and was a very nice man) simply and calmly says: I'm shitting from my dick! Lol

I'm like wth? God I wish I could deacribe and tell yiu this guy's name. Especially his voice details might fuzzy almsot 2 decades later but not the man himself... he said I am serious I am shitting from my dick look!

He got sent out and everything got fixed he eventually went home. Great guy.

But when people talk different urine samples, colours, etc etc. I like to say yeah I had a resident with a brown sample then tell the story.

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u/TheLegoPanda04 5h ago

New body horror just dropped

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u/Aware-Maximum6663 5h ago

Oh wow. I misread colostomy as colonoscopy and spent the rest of the story terrified of my fiftieth birthday or whenever I have my first one.

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u/IpsaThis 5h ago

Just need yellow and you're done!

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u/bittypineapplekitty 5h ago

they didn’t happen to ingest any methylene blue by chance did they? (this happened to me after my surgeon injected methylene blue into my stoma, the green my urine changed to was so bright it scared me lolol)

(ooh, i just read your comment above)

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u/Electrical-Speech-39 5h ago

You can DIY this result with a heavily frosted Cinderella birthday cake, ask me how I know lol

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u/unrepentantlyme 4h ago

Oh yeah, reminds me of waking up to "Mom, come look at this! My poop is GREEN!"... brought to us by a cheesecake with a rainbow coloured marble effect.

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u/Goochenhaumeister 5h ago

There’s a sleeping supplement in Japan. It’s a little bottle you drink and it makes your pee highlighter yellow.

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u/Empty_Calendar6191 5h ago

Some B vitamins do this, forgot which one, I remember whenever I take a B complex I have like highlighter pee the next day lol

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u/Responsible-Meringue 4h ago

Its B2, SWIM likes to spoof drug tests

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u/Adorable-Client8067 5h ago

I can’t wait for St Patrick’s day!

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u/WorldsDeadliestCat 4h ago

I remember the first time I saw blue and I was like HOLY SHIT this man is going to DIE!!!! Until I learned that happens with the methylene blue

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u/No_Drama2424 5h ago

Why do they take methylene blue? Is it quackery for healthy ppl to take it?

I know it's the remedy for sodium nitrite poisoning.. is it possible it could detox a person from a diet high in nitrites from eating processed meats, or does it probably not work that way?

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u/saggywitchtits 5h ago

It's also a treatment (IV) for methemaglobinemia,

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u/ILoveMyThighs 5h ago

And we sometimes use it in the ICU for profound shock when a patient is still hypotensive despite using all the typical vasopressors.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Quackery is a bit offensive so I don’t love saying it that way. It’s his body and he gets to do what he wants with it.

But for all intents and purposes, you are correct, he is taking the methylene blue without a scientific reason.

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u/Mithril_Leaf 5h ago

Seems like there's a perfectly good reason on display here, it turns his pee green.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Ha! Yes good point.

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u/MarcusRoland 5h ago

Now I kinda want green pee.

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u/Darth_Balthazar 4h ago

If you’re doing something for health reasons and its not scientifically proven to be beneficial to health in any way, I think calling it quackery is fair.

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u/Lee_Townage 5h ago

Nice! I should take those next time my doctor needs a urine sample

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u/AlbinoWino11 5h ago

Hesitate to say this is above mildly interesting level.

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u/etimalac 5h ago

Consider posting your rainbow of urine to r/rainboweverything. I am trying to collect a rainbow of pleural effusions.

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u/S7Ninc 5h ago

He's probably an Alex Jones listener. Constant Methylene blue sales pitching

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 5h ago

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u/Luminusian 5h ago

Right off the bat I just know this is somewhere in the Philippines

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u/sptrck 5h ago

idk why photos taken in the philippines is specifically distinct...

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u/BathalaNaKikiMo 4h ago

Similar to how you can tell something was taken in CA, especially LA. The light hits a specific way from the marine layer and smog

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u/GrammatonYHWH 3h ago

Or how Geoguessr players can identify Mongolian grass

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u/Noppppppppppppe 4h ago

the facebook compression due to the image being shared around

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u/audiate 5h ago

How long have you been waiting for the perfect moment to use this?

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u/kopecs 5h ago

What the fuck lol

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u/drewer23 5h ago

13 years on reddit and this is the first time I've upvoted piss. I promise.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Thanks for the upvote! I have lots more piss related pictures…hopefully I can get a few more votes out of you!

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u/thesoulfield 4h ago

you can always squeeze out a few extra

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u/pala_ 4h ago

Utter shit gets upvoted all the time so it's only fair.

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u/Own_Survey_5672 5h ago

Was their name “Dwight Schrute” by any chance?

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u/Xclusivsmoment 5h ago

I'm all better now

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u/slayerrr21 4h ago

Dwiide Schruude

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u/gopacktennie 4h ago

Dwigt

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u/gogeri2632 3h ago

d-w-i-g-H-t

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 4h ago

You ignorant slut!

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u/Traditional-Weird322 5h ago

Is it normal to handle urine samples without gloves?

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

No. I was excited and washed my hands thoroughly afterwards. But you are correct. Wasn’t my most hygienic moment.

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u/Gripping_Touch 4h ago

The mental image of going to the doctor for a urine sample and the urologist being excited about the sample like a kid on Christmas is so funny to me 

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u/Lolseabass 3h ago

All doctors get exited with random body stuff.

In sure infectious dieseas doctors must get exited when bubonic plague comes through.

As a person with a bleeding disorder one time o had a bleed in my elbow joint. Since they had me on a bed in the hallway all the young doctors came by to see what an internal joint bleed looks like.

Also what is required to attend to a hemophiliac because they all assumed one paper cut I’m dead. They had my pain treated with morphine so I told the doctor I’ll answer any questions.

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u/mermermerk 3h ago

I have a rare neuromuscular disease that has a very particular EMG pattern. The first time I got hospitalised with it, the doctor got so excited she called up a whole group of medical students to show them that pattern (and me). Apparently, I was only the second ever patient of that hospital to have this disease (as far as the doctor remembered). I was glad I could help, lol

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u/surlesvagues 1h ago

I had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome when I was 20 years old. It’s super rare (affects less than 1% of the population) and potentially fatal. Anyways, I went to the ER and a TON of doctors, nurses, medical students etc., asked to see me because they’d heard about it in class, but had never seen it in person.

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u/JunohCat 2h ago

i work ems and most of my coworkers refuse to look at certain things when a patient offers to show. I'm all for it, "sure I'll look at the crazy growth on your chocolate starfish!" "you had a blue bowel movement? did you flush it yet!?"

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u/terrany 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/zOuRCHez5UsKY

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u/Cultural-Capital-942 4h ago edited 3h ago

With that face, do you know that diabetes mellitus has "mellitus" in name, that is "good tasting". That's because they used to taste the piss. And now you are making that face because someone is only holding the container, with their hands.

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u/enter_nam 4h ago

Small correction, "mellitus" means "sweet like honey". "Mel" is latin for honey.

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u/shs_2014 4h ago

Also, do you have extremely large hands or is this a cute small size of these urine collection cups? You're basically Shaq holding a Coke can rn

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u/SJane3384 ​ 5h ago

Someone didn’t do their workplace PPE training

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u/Hizankdtizank 5h ago

lol. Peepee-E training

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u/whoscareabtme 5h ago

Fuck you. Take my upvote.

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u/an_older_meme 5h ago

There's doing the training. And there's following it.

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u/paleoterrra ​ 4h ago

As someone who works in a lab… you’d be shocked and horrified at what some people handle without PPE. Lots of people get really slack with protection when they get “comfortable” in the role. Blows my mind. I change my gloves after every fluid and there’s some people that just raw dog it.

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u/9897969594938281 4h ago

Unbelievably relevant

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u/spideyghetti 4h ago

This is my sign to buy a 3d printer

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u/Father__Thyme 5h ago

You won't like your patient when he is angry

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u/Lunatik21 5h ago

I had bladder cancer surgery when I was in my 20s and seeing urine any shade of red or pink is panic inducing. So I don't fuck with beat chips anymore lol. Green would be hilarious to see come out though.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Sorry for what you went through.

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u/Lunatik21 5h ago

Oh it's all good now. Because of good urologists like yourself, they kept it at bay and it's been over 10 years since it happened and I'm still in the clear. I started learning about urology when I was going through it so I have a double-y deep respect for doctors such as yourself!

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u/yargmematey 4h ago

I once blew my nose and it was orange and for a few seconds I thought I was dying of an exotic fungal infection.

I realized it was from mixing red from blood and yellow from sinus infection eventually

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u/CalligrapherIcy5314 5h ago

AITA? My doctor posted my pee on Reddit

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u/Anal-In-Gus 3h ago

Hopital

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u/MrX2285 5h ago

Drink it you coward

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u/Violoner 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/JA1UDi153o7XdaCSvf

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u/MarcusRoland 5h ago

There will never be a better green goblin.

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u/adsfew 5h ago

Regardless, we just want to see OP Gobblin' that Green pee

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u/zackthirteen 5h ago

I need to know what flavor each color is

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u/LikeItReallyMatters1 5h ago

Piss, probably

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u/tonycomputerguy 4h ago

So, non-zero chance it's either lime or sour apple right?

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u/Hizankdtizank 5h ago

Taste the rainbow!

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u/buttofthebaguette 5h ago

imagine being the patient and logging onto this app just to see a picture of your own pee 😭

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u/urosrgn 4h ago

I asked permission. He said he didn’t care.

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u/dardenus 5h ago

wtf does that?

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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 4h ago

B2 and Methylene blue. They combine bright yellow and blue into green.

No idea what those chemicals are, but OP said.

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u/Incoherrant 3h ago

The former is just a B vitamin, and not the only one of them that'll give a bright yellow result.

The latter I had to look up, a legit med that's been getting baselessly used as a health supplement for some reason; the wikipedia article about it has a cool (or weird and gross) photo of a brain dyed blue by it.

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u/Dbsusn 5h ago edited 5h ago

Once I had a UTI and the medication turned my urine a bluish color. I was in the military at the time and we all walked into the same area to leave our samples on a big table. Everyone looked as me as I walked into the gym with dismay. It was embarrassing. No HIPAA in the military in that situation. Haha

Edit: I should add the detail that when carrying the cup to and from the bathroom, we have to carry it at shoulder height so it’s visible at all times. It was like the walk of shame.

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Reminds me of an old story about Egyptian soldiers in the 1800’s. So many of them were infected with a parasite in the bladder that would Cause bloody urine, that the British soldiers thought that Egyptians just had red pee.

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u/luna_kuma 5h ago

I feel like you missed an opportunity to make an Avatar joke 😂

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u/Dbsusn 5h ago

Lmfao. Facts. I just told my wife this story for the first time. She just looked at me and said, okay papa Smurf.

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u/Night_Knight_Light 1h ago

Hey we finally found the guy from this image!

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u/ToRedSRT 5h ago

He’s probably taking Methylene Blue and he’s dehydrated. Yellow and Blue makes Green.

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u/Hot_Pianist_3630 2h ago

OP said methylene blue and B2

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u/mini_weez 5h ago

Did you tell the patient, ‘looks like ur-ine trouble’

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

I have a plaque on my desk that says ‘urine good hands’- does that count?

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u/belt-e-belt 5h ago

Interesting ad on this post.

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u/Illustrious-Growth42 4h ago

Imagine scrolling through Reddit and you see your bright green piss that your doctor is holding for upvotes

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u/dewky 5h ago

It's like in the movie Role Models and he's at the urinal saying it's like Shreks piss from drinking so many Minotaur energy drinks.

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u/MrGusBus524 4h ago

Taste the beast!

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u/Mastakko 5h ago

Dwight

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u/Jaepheth 5h ago

Someone does the Dew.

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u/Krimreaper1 5h ago

What did it taste like?

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u/umdas 4h ago

That’s a coolant leak issue.

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u/Acrobatic_Formal7610 33m ago

don’t know why this showed on my feed but it’s fucking weird that a health professional would post someone’s piss on reddit to see. the shit people do for attention is ridiculous

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u/No_Drama2424 5h ago

Bro how?

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u/urosrgn 5h ago

Completed the rainbow today. 15 years in urology but this was my first green. Patients took B2 (makes urine very yellow) and methylene blue (makes urine blue) together and here we are.

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u/AmbitiousLeek2077 5h ago edited 4h ago

I drank a few expired monster energy shots as a teenager and peed this shade of green. It was shocking but I’m also proud to know it was possibly more rare than I thought.

Shout out Big Lots!

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u/No_Falcon_3384 5h ago

I’m no doctor but fairly certain green colored urine isn’t healthy

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u/Subotail 4h ago

Green is good. Red is bad. It's Basic knowledge.

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u/Gogogofootballgo 5h ago

Takes a lot of otter pops to get there

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u/Swinship 5h ago

Immediately where my head went. This movie has a condominium in my head for life.

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u/BillyDeeChilliams 5h ago

It’s like Shrek’s piss.

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u/FatWalcott 5h ago

This is Lanterns marketing, I just can't prove it

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u/ProduceSeparate5822 30m ago

yeah and it’s a private medical problem i would appreciate not posting my technicolor piss

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u/Alone-Supermarket-98 5h ago

They're always after my Lucky Charms.....

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u/rose636 5h ago

Do you work in Chernobyl?

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u/Ok-Disk-2191 5h ago

Bro no glove raw dogging it too.