Anyone experienced kidney with 'excess' protein intake?

[MartinB]

I’m on a course of antibiotics to clear up a urinary tract infection. I was in hospital thinking it was appendicitis, but it turned out to be thIS other thing.

Apparently, these infections are quite uncommon in men and usually point to other kidney or bladder problems. I didn’t get much info from the hospital except advice to go to my own doctor for thorough examinations, which I won’t be doing until next week when my blood work comes back.

Anyway, I started hitting the weights three months ago and with that came an increase in protein intake (about 1.5g per pound bodyweight) as well as the other necessities. As far as I know protein doesn’t cause renal problems, but they may show them up and I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced problems with this.
To be honest, at the moment, I’m more pissed off that I’m not doing my workouts. I find it quite difficult to be too worried about an infection and I'm tempted to just keep trucking with the normal routine. Should I cut the protein until I'm sure?
By the way, I’m 21 and STIs have been ruled out.

 

[MartinB]

Edit: Should say, Anyone experienced kidney PROBLEMS with 'excess' protein intake?

Obvious, but I've been on forums before and usually know the first response to typo.

 

[mrRuckus]

The only people who have problems with kidneys on high protein are people who already have kidney problems.

Drink enough to get keep your urine running pretty clear and your kidneys will be fine assuming they were fine to begin with. Same with creatine. You need more water on creatine.

Define excess anyway. What is excess? If you're using it all for something then it's not excess. "More than normal" maybe...

 

[MartinB]

I wouldn't call it excess, but everyone who doesn't lift weights expects no one to take in more than 50g a day.
I never had any apparent kidney problems for the last 21 years and was wondering if the jump from the average joe intake of 50g a day to 150g would have showed this up since I only started three months ago.

 

[mrRuckus]

I don't believe the average joe gets only 50g a day.

You said you did 1.5x body weight. You weigh 100 lbs eating 150 a day?

 

[KarmaSutra]

Before I started watching my carb intake and taking it seriously, I had excess protein in my kidneys. It has since cleared. Confirmed by blood tests as of last week.

 

[MartinB]

I don't believe the average joe gets only 50g a day.

You said you did 1.5x body weight. You weigh 100 lbs eating 150 a day?

Just throwing out a number....

I'm 154lbs at the moment with about 12% bf. I should be taking in about
200g a day.

 

[MartinB]

Before I started watching my carb intake and taking it seriously, I had excess protein in my kidneys. It has since cleared. Confirmed by blood tests as of last week.

Did you give a urine sample as well? Did protein show up in it?

 

[KarmaSutra]

Did you give a urine sample as well? Did protein show up in it?

Yes. A urine sample is part of my labs and I did not show any abnormal protein levels in these tests.

 

[xilley]

i don't know if your talking about kidney infection or what... my english ain't so good.
but i had about 80 G of protein shake a few days ago and had kidney infection the next day.

i've taken it about 3 times already...
should i stop?