Why does my wee smell like beef?

[pinkflamingo12]

I wasn't really sure whether to post on here or health, so i'm sorry if this is the wrong topic...

Basically, myself and DH (of 5 years) have been going through a rough patch for the last 6 months or so. About 4 ish months ago the arguing got particularly bad and we started to call each other out about the tiniest things leading to some quite explosive rows. This led me to move out and stay with my mother for a while, which was less than enjoyable but i don't want to get into that.

i've now moved back into our house as we have decided to give our relationship another go. We've started going on date nights twice a week, which i'm definitely enjoying as it's nice to just relax with him again. However, i'm seriously struggling to trust him. When we were separated there was a period of maybe 3 or 4 weeks where we didn't talk at all. Meaning i didn't know where he was or what he was doing during that time.

I can't help but have this nagging feeling that he has cheated on me.

This feeling is made all the worse by the fact that my wee smells like beef. Last week we went on a date night to a lovely little italian in town and we got a little drunk and ended up having sex for the first time in months (we stopped doing it before as we started arguing more and more neither of us felt like it). It was lovely to reconnect but now, when i go to the toilet my wee smells distinctly of beef.

I think he has given me an STI - which he clearly caught from someone when we were separated. I can't imagine any other explanation as to why my wee would smell like this. My personal hygiene routine hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is that i've have sex with DH.

Please tell me if i'm being silly about this. It's driving me insane.

Are you sure it wasn't just the spag Bol/lasagne you had at the Italian restaurant?!

Oh shit, just read the update. I am so sorry OP😞 well done for leaving. Like you said, here's to a new chapter

What a total penis

I'm so sorry to hear that OP, what a twat. Obviously your intuition was telling you something wasn't right at least now you can move forwards with the truth.

Wishing you a bright and happy future without arsehole DH

Sorry to hear about the affair, etc. How rubbish.

Here's to a new start

I'm sorry to hear that OP.

Try drinking more water rather than jump to conclusions. I have just had a few weeks of drinking a fair amount of alcohol (on holiday) and not as much water as I should do. My pee smelt meaty too but now that my holiday has ended and the alcohol consumption has decreased, I am drinking more water and my wee looks lighter and is less smelly. I have had this before and just upped the water.

I also got the smell after a urinary infection.

It is a different smell to that after you have eaten asparagus.

Pink Flamingo - sorry to hear that. Didn't read your update before I posted the completely irrelevant info above.

Good luck with your fresh start.

665 You're an idiot.

Bollocks. ZOMBIE

First of all, i doubt that cheating has anything to do with pee smells. I mean, my pee smells like TBones since i workout waayyyy often and thats just because of my creatinine blood levels that are naturally high because of muscle tissue breakdown.
Secondly, i dont wanna sound rude but ill go straight to the point; if youve got insecurities, keep in mind that people do not always have sex all of the time when they are not with their love partner. If that doesnt help with insecurities, find a way to fix them, like be spontaneous and have sex more often. Maybe that will help. Thing is, you put too much energy on accusations before that you even thought your urine smell has anything to do with your partner. Alot of factors can change the urine smell, like what you eat, what you drink, how much wprkout you do, what vitamines you overtake or undertake, uti (urinary track infection) wich are all factors that has absolutely nothing to do with a sex life, even uti can come from dehydration or things like sitting on a toilet bowl that wasnt well cleaned. Shen its a sti, youd usually get more symptoms than that. Besides, some people catch crabs because they sat on a public bowl that someone who had crabs sat on before them. It would be ridiculous to blame someone of cheating without throughful evidences and im not talking about an infection or craps or even any illness that you can catch because of a health issue that you are the only one in the couple to really have. Alot of stis did not necessarly start off of a sexual intercourse but from dirtyness, cutaneous touch, blood that has touched a wound or simply lymphatic system issues. Basically, its best if you just prevent yourself from suffering by giving yourself a secure ground before hitting on anything.
Indulge in what you wrote, the issue seem to be in the fact that you thought he would have sex when he is not with you, hence maybe you think that you dont give him enough and feel guilty about it wich triggers an auto-rationnalising response that will accuse another for something that your subconscious doesnt want to feel guilty about. This is not an invention of mine but its part of PNL. Focus and aonowledge the problem in order to fix it, and accept that it might come from your end and that it could be easily fixed with some deeper thoughts about how you process the information naturally.

(sighs)

it's half term, isn't it? always the weird threads at half term.

This thread is like 3 years old. 🤷 The OP has probably worked it out by now.

I had chlamydia twice in 6 months (late teens, not proud of it) and never once did my wee smell of beef.
I think because you have convinced yourself your partner has cheated you have it in your head he may had given you an STI. When actually you probably just need to drink more water!
Best of luck OP with your future hope you get things sorted x