(NSFW) How does the body react when one pees out medication?

Asked by talljasperman (21916

) March 22nd, 2015

Sometimes I have a medicated pee and my body reacts as if It was still in my system and is removed fully. How does the body know when medicine is out of my bladder and out of my system? I don’t know how to word it any better. It is like the medication is still working in my bladder until the very end in my body when I pee it out. Do you have this medicated pee too?

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The nose knows.

Like the nose, the body knows when metabolically active medication(s) is (are) present.

Once the medication has been been processed through the kidneys, the body is done with it.

Some medications have a fast half-life (less than an hour) with a metabolic effect that is over even before the drug’s metabolites can be eliminated from the body. I was taking a drug that had a 3 month half-life and it took well over a year for it to completely leave my body.

Urine is not the only way medications are eliminated from the body. Medications and or metabolites of medications are also eliminated through feces, sweat, skin cells and breath. So to answer your secondary question, yes I’ve peed out medications. Also pooped, sweated, exhaled and skinned out medications.

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