Urine samples

For my various doctor visits I do my sample at home and bring it with me. I give it to the nurse and get new sample bottle(s) for my next visit. With my shy bladder this works outs well - and now with the virus its even better since I don't have to go into another room were others have been.

I have done it often enough that I have done several ways always a little weird handing a hot nurse my warm cup of Urine.

These days I go to a lab for blood work and also a urine sample is provided whereby I leave it on a tray in the bathroom while I get a blood draw. When I did it at the doctor's it was done before I was weighed by sending me with a container having my name on it and told to leave it in the private bathroom on a tray and return to be weighed. Once all that has been achieved, I am then sent to the exam room and told to prepare!

I give the sample at the lab when I go for bloodwork. After peeing in the cup, we have to put it in a box in a small fridge just outside the bathroom door.

When I was pregnant at my obs office I had to write my name on the sample cup. At the last few primary doctors I seen they had the label printed on the cup.

Was hoping to see replies from those like myself who have a "shy bladder" and the experiences they had...

I actually have a terrible shy bladder. If it knows that it needs to give a sample and even if I haven’t had my first urination of the day, good luck. I used every bit of the four hours allotted for a recent drug screen, yet the whole time I felt like I had to pee. It was awful.

Once in a while on missing periods when I visit the gynecologist she asks for urine sample.

The staff at the reception hands me over a small container after I pay. They only label it. Then I head over to the washroom, give the sample and put it in the tray.

In the other city, the unmarked cups were already in the bathroom. I paid and the staff would give me a lable that I would paste on the container myself and then give the sample and keep it in the tray in washroom itself.

But in both the cuties this facility is not at the gynecologist. The urine test had to happen outside in a lab.

Also, in my earlier city, the gynecologist didn't ask for a urine test every time.

They will usually give me a label in the exam room and tell me to go to the bathroom on my way out and provide the sample there. The cups are already in bathrooms.

I was always handed a cup and then would go into the restroom. Afterwards would bring it out and hand to the nurse. I don't know why, but that was always an embarrassing part of the physical exam for me... just bringing a cup of my urine out of the bathroom and into the hallway where others might be walking by.

This seems to vary from office to office. I have done it in so many different ways, but he three most common seem to be to do it at home and bring the sample in when you have your exam. Another popular one is for the nurse to hand you a cup and direct you to a bathroom following your weigh in and then just told to leave the sample in the bathroom. The third is to just direct you to a bathroom where cups are already there and then to just leave the sample in the bathroom.

This seems to vary from office to office. I have done it in so many different ways, but he three most common seem to be to do it at home and bring the sample in when you have your exam.

That's the way I've been doing it. I also ask for a cup to take with me for the next time I come for a visit in about 4 months.

It’s probably been 30 years since I had the doctors nurse hand me a sample cup. That doctor’s office did their own blood draws and urinalysis. I don’t believe they marked the cup in any way.

Usually they hand me a cup and take to bathroom and fill up. Then leave on the back of the toilet. Then they go get and label and so on.

Except for one time, the urinalysis request is made in the lab where my blood is drawn prior to the scheduled exam. One of the technicians will give me a small plastic cup with a prepared label affixed to the side and direct me to a small restroom adjacent to the lab area. Once I have produced the sample, I leave it in a small box on the counter in the restroom.

During a non-routine appointment last year, the nurse gave me a cup and I went into a restroom down the hall to produce a urine sample. Afterwards, I walked the sample to her so they could do a quick onsite analysis.