I'm male, 29y.
My urine has recently (for about a week) became of a darker tone of yellow than usual, a bit brownish I'd say. I tried drinking a lot of water for a couple of days and it cleared up, but after I returned to my usual intake my pee got dark again.
I searched the other symptoms for kidney issues (pain when urinating, getting tired, losing weight) and I don't have any of those.
However, I am still worried for two reasons:
1- I've had kidney stones in the past (two times, last one was 7 years ago). I've experienced severe pain and since then I didn't have any problems because I increased my water intake.
2- I have genital herpes outbreaks around 4 times in a year, and I take 800mg of acyclovir per day during the outbreak weeks only. This medicine has a (rare) possibility of causing kidney damage.
Personally I don't think it's another kidney stone because I didn't have any pain so far. But I'm concerned that I could have damaged my kidneys from taking acyclovir. Or it might be a bladder infection.
Should I look for any other symptoms, ignore it or rush to the hospital??
Thanks