Who finds having to give a urine sample extremely embarrassing?

Who here finds having to give a urine sample extremely embarrassing? I had different doctors do them differently, my current primary has me do one as soon as I’m changed into the gown. There is a small bathroom thats next to his office (that connects to the exam room). When he explains to me how to do a clean catch sample adds to the embarrassment.

I usually do require a supervised urine sample as I hold the cup and just have her squat slightly and encourage her to try to relax to give me a quality sample.

Not me. It’s just a bodily function. I was recently in the hospital, labeled a fall risk. I was supervised doing #1 and #2. Even when I was younger it just didn’t matter to me who watched.

Not really embarrassing but kind of funny. I'm a crossing guard for the school system and when the nurse first came in my room she remarked “I know you. You're the crossing guard at the corner I pass every day”. About an hour later she came in to get a “sterile” urine sample. She says “stand up, open the gown and don't touch anything”. She proceeds to wash my penis on the outside, retracts the foreskin and thoroughly washes the inside then puts it in the sample cup. When that was full she pinches it to shut off the flow and puts it in the urinal bottle. She even shook it a bit to get off the last drop.

At a later visit I had to donate another sterile sample but the nurse assisted me that time. She handed me the wipes and watched while I did the wiping making sure I scrubbed the glans well. Then she brought up the cup and told me when it was getting near the top. (She realized I can't see that over my fat belly)

The first one asked if I could pee while she was holding it and said if not I can make you. I still wonder what she meant by that and how she was going to do it.

What I find a bit embarrassing is being handed the pot and directed to the bathroom by a receptionist in full view and earshot of other patients. I've also had to bring the pot back to hand over to the receptionist. If it's not announced to the world, and there is a little cupboard to put the sample in away from a public area, then I'm not embarrassed. But having to actually fill the pot with the doctor watching would be awkward!

Can't remember the last time I was asked for a urine specimen - it's been well over 10-15 years. Never was embarrassing as it was always given I private, except once for employment 20 years ago the bathroom door was left open and a female tech was in the adjacent office - she didn't watch. Blood tests are ordered every six months. Never was embarrassing as it was always given I private. Only times I remember my wife being asked for a urine specimen was when she complained about a UTI. I have a Dr. appt coming up, I'll ask why they no longer check.. For drug testing, both urine and blood tests can be used - but urine test results are (supposedly) available much faster. Although when I get blood drawn in the morning, I usually see results on line by early afternoon.

Due to difficulty transferring my wife at the lab - the techs provided us with some toilet “hats” -inserts that you put in the toilet to catch the urine, then dump it into a specimen container and get it to the lab within an hour or so. She had bladder retention problems and often was not able to provide a specimen at the lab. Having a collection mechanism at home made it simpler, easier, and more reliable with no embarrassment about not being able to “perform”.

Giving a urine sample during a role play examination whilst being observed is very embarrassing!

Don't know about you but i can not wee if told to or if i am being watched i just shut off , but that's just me

My sub has no problem or embarrassment when giving his urine sample (about every 8 months). It is the blood draw and knowing he has another kidney doctor visit that he dislikes more.

Not embarrassing at all. I give a urine sample everytime I see my urologist

Wife and I bring our samples with us to lab. The lab give us new sample bottles for our next visit. Speeds things up and makes it easier for me with my shy bladder.

Not really except if someone has to watch.

Not embarrassing but extremely hard when they want you to do it in from of them…it just won't happen.

I used to be required to have supervised and unannounced drug tests. It's terrible enough having to give a urine sample when someone is watching and then having to do it while on my period. Then the person was still watching while I wiped. Once I got blood in the sample because I was wearing a pad and not a tampon.

I no longer have to worry about that and I haven't had to do any mandatory urinalysis in a long time. Now my urine tests are only for health checks, my labs are done a few days before my exam and I don't have to have an observer. There are wipes available in the lab restrooms and instructions posted each wall on how to do a clean catch.

Not very embarrassing for me.. but that can change very embarrassing when someone see that directly or doing that In front doctor or nurse.

Not very embarrassing, but lately pretty frustrating. Dealing with prostate and bladder problems recently. As I told one physician's assistant at my GP's office earlier this year, “I'm sure that I have enough urine for a sample for you. Producing it is the current issue.”

Only needed to give a sample 3 or 4 times at my GP surgery

The embarrassin thing is that I am in the Dr office, when she decides she needs a sample, gives me a sample bottle, I needed to walk through the waiting room to use the loo.

Than back , trying to hide the bottle lol

Only needed to give a sample 3 or 4 times at my GP surgery

The embarrassin thing is that I am in the Dr office, when she decides she needs a sample, gives me a sample bottle, I needed to walk through the waiting room to use the loo.

Than back , trying to hide the bottle lol

@Secret_sub Wonder if anyone has dropped the bottle/container in the hallway. I know it's happened in the lab bathrooms on occasion (a nurse told me).

I haven't had to do so in quite some time, but once as a kid, they wanted one before I left the clinic, and I couldn't pee for quite a while. So it was an embarrassing wait, but the process itself wasn't anything - just did it in the privacy of the bathroom.

What was embarrassing was when i couldn't pee, and drank a lot of water and had to be detained for like an hour. I had to pee bad before leaving the house, so i was empty when i got there. The thing to do would be to keep drinking water after you pee so you can pee again in another 40 minutes, which is the average digestion time of water in your body.

When i had consumed so much water, by the time she let me try again, I had more than a cup's worth, AND it also led to me having to let go of emergency diarrhea. When I gave the cup to the nurse in the next room, I didn't even pull my pants all the way up, as i desperately needed to get back on the toilet. THAT was a bit embarrassing.

I was embarrassed the other day giving one because mine was really dark. I thought I might have a UTI and I was trying to save the first one of the day for the clinic. It turned out negative.

I wasn't about to drink a lot of water before bed. It takes me an hour and a half on the bus. I got there as soon as they opened. There were still a lot of people when I came out of the restroom. I don't know why they have chairs that close to the restrooms.

I've had 3 pre-employment urin tests. All had female aid observers. I don't guess it was any big deal. Everybody pees

Kinda funny. During the physical, she reached under my gown to do the genital exam by touch.

If it were a supervised sample, then yes. But I've never had to provide one of those, not even the one time I had to provide a sample for a drug test for an internship.

I don't find going into a restroom and putting a cup in a cabinet very embarrassing.

It depends on the reason. If it’s related to a medical issue, I’m fine with it. If it’s employment related, I find it very offensive. I understand the employer’s position, but substance abusers are employed everywhere, many in government organizations. I’ve personally witnessed this.

I'm prior Navy, they used to do random drug tests in which the observer had to physically watch urine leave your body. So someone watching me pee is about as embarrassing or sexy as as someone eating in the same room as me.

What was kinda funny was after the Navy most jobs I worked required a drug test and I was kinda surprised the first few times when they didn't have to stare at me.

I don't find going into a restroom and putting a cup in a cabinet very embarrassing.

There's no cabinet at my clinic. We have to walk out of the restroom holding our sample. Then we have to place it on a table in a shallow bin which sits outside of the entrance where the blood is drawn.

I guess I could wrap it in a paper towel the next time.

That’s never embarrassed me because I do it in private in another room. I just don’t like holding the urine to wait to do the sample.

Not entirely embarrassing when you're given the means to do it privately.

When I visited a urologist for the first time, I didn't urinate before going into the office. I thought they would ask me after going back right away, but it wasn't until after talking with the doctor and during the cystoscopy that they would take the sample via the scope essentially a visual catheter.

Strange sensation watching the your own bladder empty on the screen at the same time not in control of your own urethral sphincter.

To give a urine sample is very embarrassing for me!! And worse, a fecal sample!!

Yes, I too find it embarrassing, but I'm not really sure why. I have had various methods and procedures used to acquire the sample at different doctors and offices.

My first few were when I was young and had to bring the sample with me from home. I think that's how my embarrassment started. It's so awkward to walk in through the waiting room and hand a container of pee over to the receptionist.

Most of mine were for sports or pre-employment physicals. So I was already embarrassed being there and knowing what I was about to go through. I also find it embarrassing that the nurse also knows what I'm about to have happen to me. So maybe I just associated that embarrassment over to the urine sample as well.

Like I said, most have been just prior to a physical exam, and a couple after an exam when I was sick to diagnose the illness. But there have been two that were slightly different. I've had one supervised sample that was extremely embarrassing and unexpected. That was for a job. The other was also for a job, but it was given, along with a blood test, a week before the physical exam. When I went back the following week the doctor had a report 3 pages long from the two previous samples. That was actually very interesting.