Possible TMI but please your advice needed!!

Definitely sounds like you are dehydrated - drink more. If you can't do plain water, try low cal gatorade or cordial etc. By the time you get thirsty, you are already dehydrated so you need to be drinking much more, esp in the heat. If you can't drink that much, add icypoles, they seem to go down easily for most people and are good source of fluid.

Gee Rowena,
Sounds like you are a bit on the dry side!!!!!
Hope the nurse got back to you, but if she didn't, ring again and if no response got to GP or ring health direct.
Linda

I agree withkmsbj if you're hot and only drinking 2 ltr you could be very dehydrated - we often get a lot of our fluid in food and if we don't have much food there's not much fluid, and if it's hot and humid we sweat much more.
I also agree that you need to call the doctors and make an appointment pronto (tell them you are very worried and don't mind a piggyback appt) just in case of the other complications that may be indicated.
Good luck with it all, hopefully you'll be peeing waterfalls with the rest of us soon
xoxox
Pippa

Sounds to me like you are dehydrated and need to be drinking more. Possibly something like hydrolyte. Hopefully the nurse will get back to you shortly. Until then i say keep drinking.

Let us know how you get on, Rowena. Sounds worrying...

Hi

I don't go to the loo (ones or twos) anywhere near what I used to since the surgery even tho I'm drinking about 1 litre a day.

Have you heard from the nurse?

I rang my surgeon today and his nurse was supposed to call me back but she still has not :(

Please, please, please go to your doctor tomorrow morning. It is not right that your urine is that colour. Are you in a lot of pain? it is possible that you could either have a really bad infection or kidney stone.
If you have a lot of pain associated with the urine being that colour, go straight to A&E this evening. Extreme thirst can be a sign of diabetes too.
Dark brown rings alarm bells that you have blood (old) in your urine.

I don't mean to scareyou, but at the same time, I don't want you to sit around and not do anything, it needs to be checked out ASAP.

All the best,

Claire xx

Subject: Possible TMI but please your advice needed!! Thu 13 Jan 2011, 7:37 am

Hey My Friends,

Ok so here it is....

I went back to work this week and I drive a mobile food van. Its been really hot!

So here is the TMI - I used to go for wees atleast 4 times a day. Sometimes more...... However since I have had my surgery I am only going a max of twice a day. When I go, its really dark almost brown.

The other thing is that even tho I drink close to 2ltrs of liquid a day (mostly water), I feel constantly thirsty. Do you guys think this is mind over matter or that yes I am thirsty. My lips are always dry :(

I have rung my drs rooms and the nurse was supposed to get back to me but I am still waiting?

What do you think is wrong?