Urine samples

Has anybody had the humiliating experience of having to tell the doctor or nurse that you cant urinate? In my doctor's bathroom, there is a sign that says if you can't leave a sample, tell someone at the front desk.

For my annual exams I am handed a cup. After my husband and I are called in, we do individual health questioners, weighed, and go separately to give urine samples. The cups are prelabeled with with our names and patient ID. Last year, we were both given bracelets with our names and ID. Prior to each of our exams, Dr. H scanned our barcodes before going on with the exams. It is a new system. They scan everything by patient. So the urine samples were scanned, blood samples scanned. We were told it was to improve billing coding, and prevent errors.

Normally, the nurse will take my weight and height the scaleis located outside the restroom. Then I'm usually handed the Dixie cup and wipes to clean my penis. Depending on the nurse, she'll tells me to follow the directions (poster) located above the toilet. Then other nurses explain the midstream urine sample: wipe the penis tip & hold your penis by shaft, start peeing in the toilet, stop, fill the cup and finish in the toilet. Once done, go to the lab next to the bathroom where she checks the temperature of the sample. Next, you witness them preparing the sample to be sent to the outside lab. The lab tech and you have to sign the seal on the container and the seal on the clear bag which the sample is put into for pick-up. Then I'm off to have the rest of my physical.

A humiliating experience my first-time having to provide a urine sample. Either the person filling out my pre-employment paperwork or the doctor made an error. I never knew I was going to have to give a sample during the physical. Due to an increase of people cheating on drug test the doctor's office collected your urine sample at the end of the physical. I was told to strip down to my underwear and the doctor would be in shortly. At the end, the usual the doctor said " stand up and drop your boxers." As he feeling my balls and begins check for a hernia the nurse walks in the room. I do the "turn and cough" then was told to pull-up your underwear and the nurse will take you to the restroom. I told them both I'll try but nobody told my about the pee test because I went before the appointment. So, down the hall she hands me the cup and wipes she waited outside for a few minutes. I could pee, it got worst because now the nurse and the doctor are watching me try to pee, nothing. Finally, they let me go home with the condition that a family watches me pee to prevent cheating. The only person home was my mom watching her 18 son pee into a cup.

The only reason to go through all that BS should be for an employment drug screen or an athletic physical. A normal physical exam should be voiding a urine sample without a laundry list of instructions or observation. Piss in the container. You are done. End of story.

She passes me a cup that already has the label on it.

When a U/A or Clean Catch is needed it is done at the testing lab usually prior to a blood draw or other testing needed. I am given a container with a label already on it and after filling it I place it in a metal slot in the wall of the bathroom.

I am given a sterile cup with the label attached, a swab, and specific directions as to how to fill the cup. I take it into the bathroom, deliver the sample as requested and return it to the shelf by the lab.

Srg Rik what's the swab for?

I'm always given a cup with a sticker that has my name, date of birth, and all that stuff. I'm usually asked to confirm the information. She then hands me the cup and directs me towards the bathroom, instructing me to follow the directions they have on a poster and leave the sample in the box behind the door. The little alcohol wipes are in a basket on the counter.

The only time I have given urine samples is when taking a drug test from my job. One time when I was around 20, I went to the pediatrician for a check up and the nurse told me that I was to go and pee in a cup but, I was too tense so the nurse told me that they will need that urine sample before I left. The nurse said something to the pediatrician and the doctor told the nurse not to worry about it and that I was only be there for 5 minutes.

After the exam, my mom asked me if I was going to give them a urine sample but, I told her that I was too tense. When my mom took me back to my job, my mom said, "You really embarrassed me when you would not give them a urine sample". I just minded my own business. Then she looked at me and said, "You don't seem to care, do you?" I did not say a word, my mom said to herself, "I guess not." Subject dropped.

I give a lot of urine samples when I am taking a drug test.

One time, the nurse wanted me to pee in a cup but, my nerves were shot up and the doctor told the nurse not to worry about it.

I used to get a glass for urine samples on my annual visit at pediatrist, but to do it in bathroom... After that I expected the results in few days.

The doctor I get my yearly physicals from has a little metal window for you to put your sealed, labeled specimen cup in. That's the least embarrassing in my opinion. When I was a kid my pediatrician operated out of an old building that wasn't really designed to be a doctor's office, and you had to awkwardly march from the single-occupant restroom through the waiting room where there was a shelf with a post-it note for every patient having a physical that day. When I was little my mom would carry it. Once I was able to collect the sample by myself I had to walk in full view of everyone and deposit my cup of warm pee next to the note with my name.

At my gynocologist, I have to bring the urine sample with me from home. Then at the end of the appointment I get an empty sterile cup with a seal for the next year's sample. Every year I get a phone call beforehand reminding me to collect my first morning urine on the day of the appointment (I guess your first pee of the morning is the most concentrated) and bring it in.

Usually, the nurse hands me an empty cup with an attached label containing all of my information. The nurse then directs me to the restroom and asks me to provide a sample of urine. This part is usually very humiliating as I am only in my gown as I am guided to the restroom. The halls are full of other people, of course. After I awkwardly pee into the cup, I step outside the restroom. The nurse takes my warm urine sample and continues the humiliation process by guiding me back to my examination room.

Hand me the cup when I check in. They write my name on it.

I had to take a urine sample with me to my high school physical which I though was ridiculous. And besides, I had to look around the kitchen and find something that I could pee into, never get back, and my mother wouldn't notice it was gone. And it was terribly awkward walking into the doctor's office holding a brown paper bag at somewhat of a distance.

The nurse always hands me a cup to fill about halfway and then leave it in the bathroom. Once I finish, I head into the exam room.

At my annual exam the nurse will walk me to the bathroom while I am still fully dressed. There is a table where they have cups laid out with lables on them. All my patient information is on the cup. Funny thing is my husband never has to give a urine sample, just me. Maybe more can be deciphered from female urine??

I’ve had several different experiences when required to give an urine sample. After being weighed the nurse hands me a cup, alcohol wipe and directs me to the restroom. Usually, the nurse gives some quick instructions: wipe my penis tip & it’s mid-stream collection. When I’m finished, she attaches and seals the container for the lab.

I was asked to give a urine sample at an sti check recently. I'd been there a month before for the first of three injections so was back for the second but as I didn't need to pee last time I was asked to give a sample.

The nurse printed out a label and stick it on the tube and I was given some instructions about how it should be taken. She then walked me to the toilet and showed me the hatch where I should leave it once I was done.

Think I definitely preferred leaving it there to having to hand it directly to someone.

At every yearly physical that I have had (including when I saw my pediatrician growing up), the nurse would always just instruct me to go into the bathroom and urinate into a styrofoam cup. Once I did, I was told to hand it to her and then to follow her into the exam room.

Usually I’m told to leave it in the bathroom.

They bring it to me and expect me to do it right there

Lol.

I just get a cup and then go to the bathroom.

These days, the urine sample is always taken at the lab where the blood work is done. After drawing blood the tech hands me a labeled cup and tells me where to leave it. When I was a kid, the nurse would hand me cup and tell me to fill it and leave it on a tray in the exam room.

Today I go into a bathroom and take a clean sample cup, break the seal and pee. I put my name and date of birth on the label and leave it in a sample space to go to the lab.

They always hand me.the urine sample.cup I write my name and date of birth on it and then wrap it in a paper towel and then sit it on shelf or if hospital take it back to my room and sit it on the sink.

I have had both the nurse give me a cup and where there was a cup in the bathroom. Lots of time I would get a sample and then just put in the window

Every Three months when I get my blood drawn.

sometimes she hands it to me sometimes she leaves in the bathroom but I always leave it in the bathroom.There's a circle on the counter where it's supposed to go.

I have had to give urine samples lately fairly oftem/ I get my blood drawn, she hands me a cup with a lable with my name on it and a small brown plastic bag to put the cup in and then put it in a door when I am done. The last time she also added the towel in a package and I told her, that won't work. Once I start, I don't stop. She smiled and laughed a tad.

Then I go into the restroom produce the sample and seal the top and put in the bag and put it into the place where they come and get it when I am done.

I get a blood draw every month to check my clotting time and every 3 months for my A1C number. So I am now getting used to blood draws over and over.

Come January I have to have another blood draw and urine sample. Now I am wearing a catheter and leg bag and I wonder if they want the sample from my bladder or from the leg bag. I have to go this coming week for a blood draw and I will ask what they want. I don't care what they want, I can do what they want.

It will be interesting to hear what their answers are. I don't have a problem asking the question as to what do they want. I do like wearing a catheter since I am on water pills and I don't have to get up every couple of hours to go pee.

They don't get a clean catch urine sample from me. Once I start to pee, it comes out, I don't pinch it off to fill a sample bottle.I figure that the lab can figure out what is in my urine.

All the supplies (individually wrapped cups, 'hats" for collection and wipes) are in the restroom. I'm instructed on what to do (some offices have me write my name on the label, others do not) and then leave the sample in the little door/window for the tech to run the UA.