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running4myhealth
running4myhealth Posts: 96
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Pee?

I drink at least 3L of water daily but my urine has gone from being clear like water... to bright yellow to the point where I think it would glow in the dark if I turned off the lights!

What gives?!

It all started once I started taking my GNC women's ultra mega active vitamin twice daily. I looked up online and it said this is a common occurance for people taking vitamins that have like 500% of your daily needs for some nutrients. My husbands best friend works at GNC and recommended me taking it since I'm so active (running 5-7 miles daily... sometimes more, lifting weights, etc).

Should I give up the vitamin? Or just try and drink even MORE water? I have to admit, seeing my pee that color is a tad scary!

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  • running4myhealth
    running4myhealth Posts: 96
    Pee?

    I drink at least 3L of water daily but my urine has gone from being clear like water... to bright yellow to the point where I think it would glow in the dark if I turned off the lights!

    What gives?!

    It all started once I started taking my GNC women's ultra mega active vitamin twice daily. I looked up online and it said this is a common occurance for people taking vitamins that have like 500% of your daily needs for some nutrients. My husbands best friend works at GNC and recommended me taking it since I'm so active (running 5-7 miles daily... sometimes more, lifting weights, etc).

    Should I give up the vitamin? Or just try and drink even MORE water? I have to admit, seeing my pee that color is a tad scary!
  • RachVR6
    RachVR6 Posts: 3,688 Member
    Happens to all of us. When I take my morning vitamins, I pee bright yellow the first time or two that day. Your body just can't absorb ALL of the nutrients in those vitamins at once. That's why they say you can't just replace all your daily needs with pills, you need to get calcium/vitaminC/etc from foods also. That's why they're called "supplements". :flowerforyou:
  • marisa0918
    marisa0918 Posts: 178
    It is completly normal when you are taking a multi vitamin. Mine did the exact same thing. Just keep up what you are doing....no need to really change anything
  • LeanLioness
    LeanLioness Posts: 1,091 Member
    It is normal, no reason to give up the vitamins...............

    I used to take the Ultra Mega Women's formula from GNC.............

    They are GREAT!!! I recently switched to a new vitamin called Juvenation on the advice of my Chiropractor and naturopath.................

    They do the same thing with the neon yellow pee.
  • Anna_Banana
    Anna_Banana Posts: 2,939 Member
    Mines Clear:bigsmile: But I took some pill along time ago for water retition and i peed bright green. It was from the blue food coloring in the pills
  • havingitall
    havingitall Posts: 3,728 Member
    Vitamin B makes it bright yellow...pretty huh?
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    I've been told the yellow is getting rid of what you don't need in the vitamin.
    I take mine at Bedtime and never see the yellow anymore.
  • jsmccloy
    jsmccloy Posts: 59 Member
    You may also want to switch to a time-release multivitamin. If you're peeing out so much of the vitamin that it give you psychedelic urine than your body isn't absorbing enough of it. . .but give it a week at least to see if your body just needs to get used to it.
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Well due to the huge amount of water I drink during the day, my pee is usually pretty clear.

    Until I take my prenatal vitamin!! Then it becomes psychedelic babyyyyyy!!th_happy0005.gif


    :bigsmile:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I always thought it was the C....oh well!

    :glasses:
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    ha ha in a past life, I may have known someone who may have needed to cleanse their urine for whatever reason..... :ohwell:

    In the kits of "flush" tea, they tell you to take a vitamin with lots of B-12 in it in order that your super-clear urine doesn't give away the fact that you have just drank 2 gallons of tea in order to alter the results.
    :laugh:
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