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Yea, you get past the waiting hordes at emergency fast by handing the nurse a bottle of reddish-black pee though.

Problem is, I always worry now after a big workout - is it going to happen again? I just try to never do too much if I have aches and pains from an illness, and so far so good.

The good news is, once the IV has cleaned you out there won't be any permanent damage - multiple doctors said that as long as you can still pee when you go to the hospital, i.e. your kidneys aren't totally plugged, there's no permanent damage. For the cases where they are too late, it's dialysis to the rescue.

I had the same thing from a taekwondo workout - doctors said it should never have happened. Their best guess, I had a virus that exacerbated it - like how your muscles can feel sore from a virus, I had that when I did the workout - result, four days on IV in hospital. My pee was like coffee when I went into emergency. Good stuff.