Toilets at your doctors office

Before your exam, are you asked to empty your bladder or for a urine sample? Ever wonder how many women before you have sat on the same toilet? Do they have seat covers or do you sit bare butt? Are the toilets clean? Whats the worst thing you have seen?

At my doctor's office they usually keep their bathroom and toilets nice and clean. It usually smells nice there! Now, being the keyword "usually" there were a few times when things weren't so nice. Once when I went to leave a urine specimen, I happened to be the next in line to use the bathroom after a woman who had a bought of food poisoning....I won't go into details...but...uhm...yeah, that was pretty much the grossest thing I've seen in the bathroom.

Not to mention the 4 of 5 cups of other pee in the "pee door"...ewww! Hahaha!

Always clean, always. Never any other urine specimens as we bring them right to the small lab area before we go to an exam room.

At some offices I've know of they leave a can of Lysol in the restroom.

If you are worried about catching anything you're free to use the lysol.

Basically spray the area you want to clean, wait like 30 seconds then wipe.

This should sanitize the surfaces.

There used to be a poster in my doc's bathroom that showed how to get a clean catch urine sample. It gave all the steps and said, "Fill cup until it is half-full." Underneath, someone had written, "For pessimists, fill until half-empty." I always giggled when I saw it.

The bathrooms at all my doctors' offices are spotlessly clean, even at the Gastroenterologist's office. At my gynecologist, they even have a little wooden table with a basket of potpourri and one of those electrical candles. There is also a cloth-lined basket with the wipes that you use before a clean catch specimen. Hey at least they're trying to make it nice.

I hate it too when I open the "pee door" (love that) and there are several in there. Someone's taking too much time chatting, and not enough time dipping sticks.

The restrooms in my doctor's offices are always very clean.

I haven't been to a doctor in the past 10 years that still had the little door where you put your specimen. They ask that we write our name on the cup and hand it to a person instead of leaving it. I wondered if everyone was doing that now but guess not.

TG

The restroom at my doctors office is always very clean and i have to take the cup with me to the exam room to give to the nurse

Ladydocisin,

I think that your GYN must know my GYN and GP! You perfectly described their restrooms.

I also hate opening the "pee cabinet" and seeing other cups full of pee. Ewwww! Its annoying when you know it is because its toooo much chatting as the excuse vs just being very busy with assisting the physicians and patients in the exam room and the myriad of other duties that take place in the back office.

I always ask if a urine sample is needed if I know I am getting a pelvic. >😢 I hate being told they want to do a UA after I have completely emptied my bladder. I already know I won't even have to pee after the physical for a while. Then I have to stay in that area of town to go back and give a sample or take a specimen cup with me and return it at "my" convenience in the next few days.

I always ask the receptionist or nurse for a specimen cup if I have to pee while at the doc, when I think that they might run a UA. That way I don't have to wait around until I have to pee again or return when a time is more convenient (usually never). There is a chance that if a doc wants to run a UA on you and you've already peed and don't think you can pee again, that the doc with cath you to get a sterile sample. This is usually done only by ER docs, urgent care centers, urologists and possibly ob/gyns, depending on the reason for your visit and if they suspect you may have a UTI or other urological concern.

About the pee box, I don't like seeing anyone else's urine in there, either. I'm sure my urine looks real interesting to strangers now that I'm taking a medication that makes it come out blue or green. I never know what color is going to come out of me.

I was recently diagnosed with interstitial cystitis and have had to leave several samples in the pee box at my urologist. The door is broken so it is possible for them to see inside if they reach from the other side to retrieve a specimen. It freaks me out. The first time I tried to leave a sample, I was so disturbed by it that I couldn't pee. I have a shy bladder at the doc's office but don't mind peeing in front of lovers, go figure. The second and third time, I wedged a piece paper towel between the wall of the box and the door of the box so no one could see me pee. I don't care if it is just the nurse. It makes me nervous. Especially when I'm trying to start the flow of urine - which is rarely easy for me since I never seem to relax - and they clang the thing open to check if I've peed yet. They're so impatient.

My urologist specializes in interstitial cystitis so when she said she was going to cath be so I could receive a bladder instillation cocktail, I expected her to have expert hands and the cath to be so gentle that I didn't feel it. But actually, my lover has cathed me more gently than she. But I didn't dare tell her so.

You girls seem to have it lucky I've had a nurse come into the toilet to watch me pee so that she could 'observe my flow' this meant standing facing her with my shorts round my ankles holding the cup in one hand and my penis in the other. It took quite a long time for me to start to pee while she watched.