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    So I woke up today with symptons of a UTI and so made a trip to the Drs where I had to do a urine sample and hand it in to the pathology section of the surgery.

    As I was peeing in the jar I was wondering in which way people usually hand the samples in as the area is not totally private.
    Even though Im fairly sure I didnt splash any pee on the outside of the jar I figured it was only polite to wash the jar anyway. I wiped it dry with a paper towel, but you know Im not sure if the paper label was totally dry or if I got right into the grooves of the jar. Then I wondered if most people wrap a hand towel around the jar or put it in their purses so as not to be seen strolling around the surgery with an obvious jar of urine. I decided Im really not phazed about being seen with a jar or urine in my hand, infact its quite punk rock :-P

    So I get to pathology and call out through the door and who should come to attend me but a girl I used to work with! I got caught up in saying hello and asking how she was and vice versa and forgot to mention that the jar was a bit damp because I washed it not becuse I pissed on it! Also with hindsight I might have drunk more water before I left had I known someone I know was going to see my urine. Dehydrated much lol!

    So anyway Im wondering how do other peoplehand over their urine samples when they have to provide one for whatever reason?

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    I just make sure the outside is dry/clean, the lid is on tight, and other than that well if people want to watch me hand over a cup of piss, they can.

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    Well, I just went to the hospital two days ago because my UTI got so bad. They gave me a dark colored plastic bag to put my urine cup in. If they don't give me a bag, I usually just wipe the outside with paper towels and carry it down the hall. I won't go through all the trouble of putting it in my purse or anything (it's not big enough anyway).

    The only thing that embarassed me the other day was when I turned in my urine, this cute guy was the one to take it out of the bag and the urinary pain medicine I was taking had turned my urine a bright bright red orange color. Haha.

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    I always just wipe the cup down w/ a papertowl and make sure the lid is tightly closed.







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    Default Re: Urine sample etticate?

    I tend to wrap mine in a tissue if I'm having a urine test. That way the receptionist doesn't have to touch the jar.

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    Im reminded of a urine specimen horror story I once had.

    Though I was pregnant, went to Planned Parenthood for a test. They have this little cupboard in the bathroom that after you pee in the cup, you just pace your sample in the cupboard for the nurse to retrieve. Well..there was already a cup of pee in there. No names on the cups. I made sure to put my pee on the left side, and told the nurse, there's 2 sets of pee in there, mine is on the left. She said ok.

    10 minutes later, she comes in and tells me Im pregnant.

    3 days later I start to bleed. Off to the ER I go, where afetr a blood test ( negative) an ultrasound revealed nothing was there. My uterous was empty. I was not having a miscarriage, I was on my period. So...was I pregnant, or not? I tend to lean towards not, I have a strong feeling they mixed up my pee. We may never know the truth.....

    But god, did I feel dumb in the ER when they said I was on my period, not pregnant. they made me feel like I was lying or making it up or something.


    but sorry for the threadjack. I usually wipe the outside of my pee cup off, wrap it in tissure to carry to the nurse.

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    I can imagine the nurses or assistants deal with this ALL the time so it probably doesn't even phase them. My mom (a nurse of 30 years) and I have had good laughs about urine tests. I had a bladder infection (yeah maybe tmi) a few years ago and was having tests done all the time. In her opinion there are faar worse things to deal with than a cup of urine.

    I'm sure they would appreciate you wiping the outside of it and keeping it neat at the very least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    Im reminded of a urine specimen horror story I once had.

    Though I was pregnant, went to Planned Parenthood for a test. They have this little cupboard in the bathroom that after you pee in the cup, you just pace your sample in the cupboard for the nurse to retrieve. Well..there was already a cup of pee in there. No names on the cups. I made sure to put my pee on the left side, and told the nurse, there's 2 sets of pee in there, mine is on the left. She said ok.

    10 minutes later, she comes in and tells me Im pregnant.

    3 days later I start to bleed. Off to the ER I go, where afetr a blood test ( negative) an ultrasound revealed nothing was there. My uterous was empty. I was not having a miscarriage, I was on my period. So...was I pregnant, or not? I tend to lean towards not, I have a strong feeling they mixed up my pee. We may never know the truth.....

    But god, did I feel dumb in the ER when they said I was on my period, not pregnant. they made me feel like I was lying or making it up or something.


    but sorry for the threadjack. I usually wipe the outside of my pee cup off, wrap it in tissure to carry to the nurse.
    Oh my gosh! You poor thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    I made sure to put my pee on the left side, and told the nurse, there's 2 sets of pee in there, mine is on the left. She said ok.
    She probably went by her left, not yours from inside the bathroom.

    But they should've had a marker so that things could be labeled...

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    WOW things are sure different all over for the same procedure!!!!

    Since I'm preggers now I have to do this test once every damned month...gonna be so accurate by the time I'm through...

    Here in Canada you are not only given the cup/jar to put your sample in but you are also given an antiseptic wipe to clean the exterior of the sample cup.

    Do your job then thoroughly wipe down the cup (I do it after I secure the lid), then wash hands and there is the cubby to place it in to be discreet at the hospital where they do the lab work. If I have to give samples in the clinic...again the antiseptic wipes are given to clean the cup...but I just carry the cup out and hand it to the nurse.

    They will also give extra wipes if you think you will need them.
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    Im a pro cup pisser. Hold cup to hole..pee half way into cup..stop then set cup on sink. Finish peeing, wipe, wash hands, and take cup to lab technician.
    Thats funny it was an old co worker..."hey how ya doing? Heres my pee"
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    Are you sure the antiseptic wipe isn't for you? We hand those out in the ER...you are supposed to wipe yourself well, pee a bit and then catch the pee mid-stream. The wipe is to clean off all the every day gunge that builds up and can alter the results of the urine test.

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    The antiseptic wipes are for the cup due to sterile procedures up here in Canada.

    We have one hospital completely shut down by the Alberta Gov't due to a super bug spreading through the hospital due to sterile procedures being lax in the Vegraville hospital.

    There is more care given to sterile procedures to prevent even lab staff from aquiring infections from samples given to them. It's not just the doctors/nurses/patients they wish to protect.

    Since the label on the cup is used after the sample collected they wish the cup to be semi-sterilized by the patient. Even though lab staff still uses latex gloves the desire is to eliminate all manner of risks of disease/super bug spread. Also the wipes I've been given are only the size of the wet naps you are given at rib restaurants...very small. Even a quarter of a baby wipe is huge by comparison

    When I was preggers with baby #1 I was instructed to pee a little , stop the flow, wipe (with TP) then give the sample or hold the cup enough away from the body so as to not make contact directly with the cup.

    The thought that any woman would let herself build up "gunge" during the day is such a disgusting thought !!! More so now that I am intimate with my hubby but even before I have always kept uber clean...Too many infection risks, and the pap smear alone is too much to take once a year!!!
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    Well, not gunge like in an ooky build up that you can see (OK, gross, but I've witnessed that as well), but more on a microscopic level....skin cells, minuscule amounts of vaginal secretions, normal vaginal bacteria, it can really screw up a urine sample...though I've found more than one case of chlamydia accidently because some chick couldn't clean herself properly.

    The wipes we use are about wetnap size as well...given the size of some of our patients, I usually hand out 3-4 at a time. They still can't get it right.

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    Hmmmm things sure are different. I have to take random drug tests working at a hospital. What i do is simply pee (yea with a stall door open so the nurse can see me) and hand it over wet or not. They wear gloves!

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    I'm sure aussiepunkshocker will find this funny- her spelling of "etticate" reminded me of the main beer brand of Northern Mexico, TECATE. Which is "piss beer"- very light and watery compared to the other top brand, Corona. This thread makes me smile! & Note to non-North Americans, avoid Tecate, it's not good!

    Back on topic- I'll wrap my cup daintly in a napkin to not offend the sensibilities of any nurse having to hand it off to the Lab.

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    I just wipe the outside of the cup dry. I assume they wear gloves when dealing with gallons of urine a day? Yuck!
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    my favorite doctor's office visit ever was when i had a UTI so bad i was pissing blood clots. I peed in the cup and gave it to the nurse, and she came back a second later to ask me if i was on my period.

    the look on her face when i said "no." was maybe more painful than my infection itself.

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    Nothing worse than chunky urine.

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