Why is my wee purple?

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Gave me a shock I can tell you, but not sure how worried I should be.

It's purple rather than red blood coloured IYSWIM and quite dark. I know it happens if you eat a lot of beetroot, but I can't remember the last time I did that.

Yesterday I ate shreddies with milk, a ham sandwich, banana and a Turkey dinner followed by Christmas pud. Today I've had boiled eggs with toast, a fresh fruit smoothie made with banana and a handful of frozen berries and a cold spread of bread, pate, smoked mackerel and cheese, followed by apple pie and ice cream.

Last night I had 2 glasses of red wine and 2 white wine, plus a coffee and today I've had a Lucozade sport drink. Other than that I've only had water to drink (and I drink a lot of that so wee usually very light).

I did a 10 mile run this afternoon, so feel tired, but not ill at all. It only started around 5pm today.

So, what can it be?

Could it be the berries?

I have had beetroot wee once before and I don't think it was the quantity of beetroot I ate so much as that I didn't have a huge amount of other things either. Your diet today does look a little on the light side (to me ) unless the quantities were huge.

this may help

Blimey! Thanks for all the minute detail.

Maybe wait til tomorrow and see if its still purple?

Gossip's linked article mentions tryptophan being broken down and leading to purple urine. Turkey is high in tryptophan. I'm no scientist or medic, but that came to mind when I read the article. If it carries on get it checked out!

did you have cranberries with your turkey too?

Blimey, it's not that purple Gossip, but that's interesting Selks.

Sorry baubley, but I could only think it must be something I ate, so kind of thought the detail relevant?

Yes, I thought there wasn't much there too goats, but I was out Thursday night, so didn't see much of Friday, until I had to go out again and I didn't get up very early today either. This time of year is all very well...I'll make up for it tomorrow! I suppose the berries are a possibility, but it really was only a few and I make the same smoothies quite often.

Didin't King George have purple/blue urine, it is a symptom or a rare condition but not sure of the details though, King George was mad though don't you know??

acute porphyria
causes urine to turn purple when it's left in uv light. If you had that, you would be pretty unwell. More likely to be something u ate.
It could be myoglobulin caused by muscle breakdown from the run. Drink plenty and see ur dr if it continues

I'm thinking porphyria too.

My mate took himself off to A&E after eating beetroot - he thought he had some horrendous internal injury when he saw what he was weeing.

The triage nurse just went "eaten any beetroot recently...?"

Red wine? Berries?

I have a condition called variegate porphyria which can cause my wee to go a dark red/brown/purple colour.

I had urine, stool, blood and genetic testing to confirm I have it. As my mum has it. VP is genetic.

Not related specifically to your question, but before I had green poo which was probably from drinking green apple sours the previous day.