3rd Trimester
sleepingbeauty825
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My doc doesn't make me pee in a cup.
sleepingbeauty825
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Anyone else? I've been grateful about it for the most part, but after reading about people finding worrisome things in their urine, it's making me feel like he could miss something important. I will definitely mention it to him at my next appt, but I'm wondering how many of you have to pee in a cup every time.
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Re: My doc doesn't make me pee in a cup.
With my DD I peed in a cup...and sometimes on my hand...at every appointment. To me it was useless until the very end when I started showing more protein in there and my BP was going up. I think I was on my way to pre-e but I ended up getting induced for being overdue anway.
Steal my kids picture or pretend they are yours, I will find where you live and ship all of their dirty diapers to your doorstep. Promise.
Every single time. DH actually asked me one day if they were going to do a pregnancy test every time... he thought that's why I had to pee in the cup. LOL! I had to tell him that it was for the dipstick to test for sugar, protein, blood and bacteria.
I'm sure they would have said something by now if you were supposed to do that.
And LOL to the PP whose DH thought they were doing a pg test at every appointment. That is SO something my husband would say!
Every appt. And once the nurse's asst ask me to pee in the wrong type of cup and they asked me to do it again! It didn't happen....but yeah my Dr. is like a pee Nazi. Whenever she comes into the room at the start of an appt, the first thing out of her mouth is...."you made sure to leave a sample right?"
I might ask your Dr. why you haven't had to do it. Although, the only thing they've ever told me about my urine is that I'm dehydrated....which I know. But if you're really up on your fluids...you're prob fine.
I pee in a cup AND do my own dip test at my MW. It is easy in that I put a stick in the urine and then wait 60 seconds to see if there is any change in the color. Then I weigh myself. When I see her, I tell her what my test said, and what my weight is.
So far all looks good.
I have to do it every time, of course, by the time I get there, it's off to the bathroom anyways
They're looking for a bunch of things. (I go to a midwife who also happens to be a doctor, so she lets me test it myself and goes over the results with me right there.) They look for protein, urine concentration (hydration), sugars, leukocytes and bacteria for possible UTI/infections, ketones (if you're eating enough or burning your own body fat, kidney functions) among other things. I swear, if they charge more than 10 cents at the doctor's office for doing that test for insurance, it's a total rip off. It's just a dip stick with about 10 test squares on it.
At my last appointment, she saw some leukocytes/bacteria and prevented a UTI before it got bad. Good timing anyways because hubby came home with a terrible cold 3 days after I started the antibiotics, half his department is ill, and I'm not feeling sick at all.
This for me too. They always tell me if everything looks okay or not - they dip it while I am in the room.
This exactly. I go to a Naval Hospital and they never make me pee in a cup unless I tell them I think I might has problem down there. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they don't do any testing at the OB office. All the preggers would have to go down to the lab, and to say their slow is giving them credit. lol
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This. There's never been an issue, but at the same time, I don't have to worry that there is because they test it every time.
I gave up trying to pee in the cup. I make them give me a specimen hat to pee in and then I transfer it to the tube. It's just too hard to work around the belly these days.