My wee has had an unpleasant odour for the past few days, on and off, when I haven't drunk as much water.No other symptoms.

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I'd be concerned about a UTI, but I literally have zero other symptoms. And it's not everytime. Generally just first thing in the morning, or I've been slow to drink water that day. When I stay hydrated and my pee is clear, it smells fine.

Should I be worried? Only concerned because usually even when dehydrated, there's no odour.

Could you be pregnant? This was the first thing I noticed, before I took at test.

@FruitBadger Ahh no chance of that at all (sadly!).

Drink more water, mine is the same - coffee is worst for it. Should be a simple fix.

@bazoom Yeah, drinking more water does actually seem to fix it (I never drink coffee), but it's just strange as it's a new thing and never normally happens.

Just drink more water

I had a UTI a couple of weeks ago, my symptoms were pain when weeing, tummy pain, cloudy and smelly wee and finally a tiny amount of blood in wee, which is when I thought I have have a UTI. I got some testing strips which showed a UTI infection and then got 3 days of treatment. I must admit I drink 5 cups of tea a day, a Diet Coke and a coffee plus 2 glasses of water. We now leave a glass by the kitchen sink, so both DH and I drink water every time we go in the kitchen.

Ok - for me that is more unusual that it doesn't normally smell when dehydrated... I would say it is pretty normal in the morning and also when you don't drink enough for it to stink a bit🙂
keep an eye on it and see if it changes.

Isn't that perfectly normal when you are not as hydrated as you should be? Pee darker and stronger smelling as more concentrated?

Easy to fix. Drink more water!

Are you well hydrated? Have you changed any medication or eaten asparagus?
I frightened myself by thinking I had blood in my urine this morning until DH pointed out that I'd eaten pickled beetroot last night!

Possibly just dehydrated - but I will say I once had a UTI that lingered after I thought it had cleared up and the only symptom was my first wee in the morning was really smelly. The usual antibiotics got rid very quickly.

I guess it is normal for it to smell a bit stronger when dehydrated, but this odour I'm having is more like ammonia, like when you eat asparagus (I haven't!). Hence my concern.

If its brown & smells like sugar puffs I think that's fairly normal first thing in the morning as you're slightly dehydrated when you wake up. Just drink more water.

You can get test sticks for wee infection from Amazon I think - or your local chemist

Diabetes?

Have you been eating a lot of asparagus, meat, garlic or UPF's lately OP? I've heard that those make a difference to your piss odour.

But ammonia IS the normal.smell of urine!

Oh hmm, maybe I didn't mean ammonia then. It's like the smell of when you eat asparagus!

Smell can be the only symptom of UTI in my experience.

According to Google if your pee smells like asparagus then it could be indicative of liver problems.