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Question: OK I have asked this question before but need some more calcification the more I think about it. I'm 35 I suffer from anxiety and I have been going nuts since i can't see my doctor for another month. I have noticed bubbly or foamy urine lately and it has been causing me alarm. 6 months ago I have had a physical done including blood panels urine etc all came back very good. I have had some blood pressure issues, with it at times running high but when I exercise and don't drink as much, as I have lately, it stays normal for most part and I don't take medicine for it.
Is my foamy urine cause by protein in urine or kidney failure? I noticed I do not have bubbles or foamy urine when I sit to urinate and have very little if any when I drink a lot of fluids. I do sometimes have trouble sleeping which I heard may be a symptom.
Is my foamy urine cause by protein in urine or kidney failure? I noticed I do not have bubbles or foamy urine when I sit to urinate and have very little if any when I drink a lot of fluids. I do sometimes have trouble sleeping which I heard may be a symptom.
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Hello again,
I'm sorry you are feeling so anxious about this problem. While I think the foaming is most likely related to volume changes, which would also explain why it changes with your position for urinating, there is a simple solution to putting your mind at rest over this: get a urinalysis. This will check for the presence of protein in the urine. Simply go in to an urgent care clinic, tell them your symptoms, and they will do a dip-urine test while you are there (which gives some information such as if protein, sugar, blood, or signs of infection are present) and then the urine can be sent to a lab for a full urinalysis (provides more details, but the dip-urine test will already give you an initial idea). You do not need to wait for a full appt. with your doctor to just go and have this done at an urgent care clinic. You can probably even ask them to show you the dip-urine interpretation chart, along with your dip-urine stick (the special stick they will put in your urine after you give a specimen there).
A person who is in kidney failure is usually ill, and making less urine, and sometimes producing blood in the urine, depending on the cause for kidney failure.
You mention that you have trouble sleeping sometimes, and I recommend you mention this too, because treatment for anxiety will likely help. Trouble sleeping is not diagnostic for kidney disease.
I hope this information helps you out. Please let me know how else I might help.
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Detailed Answer:
Hello again,
I'm sorry you are feeling so anxious about this problem. While I think the foaming is most likely related to volume changes, which would also explain why it changes with your position for urinating, there is a simple solution to putting your mind at rest over this: get a urinalysis. This will check for the presence of protein in the urine. Simply go in to an urgent care clinic, tell them your symptoms, and they will do a dip-urine test while you are there (which gives some information such as if protein, sugar, blood, or signs of infection are present) and then the urine can be sent to a lab for a full urinalysis (provides more details, but the dip-urine test will already give you an initial idea). You do not need to wait for a full appt. with your doctor to just go and have this done at an urgent care clinic. You can probably even ask them to show you the dip-urine interpretation chart, along with your dip-urine stick (the special stick they will put in your urine after you give a specimen there).
A person who is in kidney failure is usually ill, and making less urine, and sometimes producing blood in the urine, depending on the cause for kidney failure.
You mention that you have trouble sleeping sometimes, and I recommend you mention this too, because treatment for anxiety will likely help. Trouble sleeping is not diagnostic for kidney disease.
I hope this information helps you out. Please let me know how else I might help.
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