Gyno Urine Samples

When do you give a urine sample, before or after the exam? Do you use the wipes to “clean” yourself before collecting a sample?

My doctor has you give the sample before he sees you for exam. You are called be the nurse directed to a small bathroom and give the cup with your name on it. There is a printed sheet on the wall with instructions for both male and female . The male should retract the foreskin if not circumcised then wipe the penis with cotton ball with sterilizer. The start your stream in the toilet then stop and fill cup to line and finish in toilet. Almost the same to females but wipe the vagina area . And collect midstream aswell

Before the exam for both gynecologist visits and regular doctor visits. I always give a urine samole before. A nurse calls me back at both and hands me the cup and directs me to the restroom. I don't get wipes at my gyno just a cup with a label that is already filled out with my information. Normal doctor's office I get a set of wipes to give a 'clean catch' and the nurse gives all the instructions. I was embarrassed the first few times I heard the instructions, nothing like looking someone in the eyes as they tell you how to hold open your labia as you pee lol, but now I've been going to that office for years and it's been the same routine every time and I've gotten used to it.

At the gyno I do it as soon as I get to the office. I check in. They take me to a private bathroom. They give me a cup with a sticker with my name on it. I pee in it. Then set it on a shelf with a sliding door on it.

At a previous doctor they used to send me to the bathroom as they called me back for the exam. You think peeing in a cup is hard? It’s way harder while someone is standing outside the door waiting on you.

The ubiquitous sliding door, everyone seems to have one.

If you are uncoordinated like me and can't really manage the "clean catch" then you can ask for a "hat". It's a disposable plastic thing that looks like a hat that you put in the toilet and you pee into that and then pour it in to the cup.

If you ask me, they should do it like they "old days" (based on this video I watched) where the doctor took care of the clean catch so he could watch your stream flow, start/stop, etc.

My wife had bladder retention issues and could never pee at the lab. They sent us home with a few “hats” and specimen jars and we collected at home and ran the sample down to the lab. After the retention issue became serious, she got an Supra pubic catheter. Now they collect it directly from the cath when she gets a clean, sterile cath change. She usually only has to cough a few times to get an adequate sample. I haven’t had to provide a specimen for years.

Always before. I always wished they would ask me to do it during or right after the genital/rectal exam, because giving urine samples is a big turn on for me. The only time that actually happened was after a genital exam at Planned Parenthood for an STD check, and the sample showed I had a low grade UTI. Sometimes I use the wipes, sometimes not. These days, you are lucky to get any sort of exam, and the urine sample is collected in the lab after a blood draw usually, if it's done at all.

When I get called back to the exam room the nurse shows me the exam room and has me give the sample in the bathroom in the hall.