anyone else here (on estradiol) notice that estrogens cause your urine to become foamy? probably estrogen causes kidney damage and causes microalbumin!

If you are hydrating well and not eating soap chips I don't have a clue. 

Yeah, HRT can cause water retention, are you drinking plenty of water?

Most commonly caused by dehydration. http://www.md-health.com/Foamy-Urine.html

     USED BEER

Please drink a LOT more water (not a lot of cola, coffee, tea, alcohol or other diuretics)...

Quote from: Jessica Merriman on October 17, 2014, 06:58:22 PM
If you are hydrating well and not eating soap chips I don't have a clue. 

So are you saying I should stop eating the soap chips Jessica 

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on October 17, 2014, 07:01:00 PM
Yeah, HRT can cause water retention, are you drinking plenty of water?

Also Spironolactone is a water sparing diuretic and so can reduce sodium and water in the body, so if she's taking that also it might be a factor.

I have foamy urine right now with no HRT and plenty of poisoning T in my blood. When I did take E only for a short while I had the opposite effect and rather quickly (1st week). My urine became lighter in colour and clearer with much less foam.

Foamy urine can be a symptom of a number of serious conditions. You really should ask your Dr.

Several of which affect the kidney or are a result of the kidney function.

Quote from: suzifrommd on October 18, 2014, 08:44:03 AM
Foamy urine can be a symptom of a number of serious conditions. You really should ask your Dr.

Dr tests came back fine - not kidney disease, only happens when using the E.  Sounds like it is a H20 thing.

Ok, be honest, about how much water do others here on E drink?

I'm not on hormones, but I drink two bottled waters a day at work, and two or three glasses at night. Plus a few sodas (non-caffeinated).

I drink 3 -20 ounce bottles to and from work, 32 ounces in the control room and 60 ounces at my desk, 16 ounces at lunch and 40 to 60 ounces at home. I also eat a lot of salt; my sodium is low and potassium is high (ok with my PA). My urine is mostly clear.

During work out night I have 20 ounces during training and 20 ounces after.

I only drink water and 4 to 8 ounces of grape juice per day and nothing else. No coffee, tea or colas. 


When I drank (clean and sober 17 years) my pea had 1- 3 inches of foam on it and smelt bad.

Quote from: BreezyB on October 17, 2014, 09:49:05 PM
So are you saying I should stop eating the soap chips Jessica 

I drink literally a gallon or so of water a day. Just let your body have all of the salt it wants. My need for salty food went nuts on Spiro. Sodium Chloride, NOT, Potassium Chloride. 

Interesting.
I don't do spiro or anything like that.  I'm post-op, so its just me and Estradiol.

When I take it orally, I don't get the foam but I feel very dehydrated, like for the first two hours after taking it (and yes, its been a continual even 5yrs post op), but for the first two hours, I feel like something from within is sucking the water out of me & I'm useless until I drink a lot of fluid and wait for that initial time to pass.  In any case, on oral E, everyday I drink:
-1 liter of non caffeinated, non sugared plain soda seltzer, then I fill that up twice with tap water which comes to a total of 2 liters plain water and 3 liters overall fluid.

When I use the vivelle dot patch, I get modest amounts of foam in my pee, but do not get the dehydration feeling and so I drink only 1 liter of fluid a day, alternating 1 liter of soda seltzer and then the next with 1 liter of tap water.

Anytime I use the vaginal estrace cream, the very next time I pee, there are a lot of bubbles in the pee (little pop bubbles but NOT foam) the very next time, but not after that - and thats regardless of what I drink.

Additionally, I've been known to drink a cup of decaf black tea and/or a sprite zero here and there, but I don't include these in my overall totals.  I drink absolutely NO alchohol, NO caffeine and NO sugar.

I wish I could combine the less dehydratey feeling from the patch with the no foam of the oral. Sigh.
I guess some forms of estrogen help the kidneys, others hurt it & I think testosterone also accelerates kidney loss. So what is safest for the poor kidneys?