AIBU to think that they should urine sample pots...

[SparkyMcSparrow]

..specifically for women?

The sample pots they give you are stupidly narrow. Fine at home,can pee in a cup and pour it in, but when your asked to do one at the doctors, its bloody impossible to get the pee in without peeing all over the cup and your hands. Cue face when you hand it over.

Am I just doing it wrong? Is there a knack to it?

Although feel i should add, I virtually NEVER swear in rl/

batteryhen really? I am impressed by that. is it some sort of secret and you have to ask for one or do they give them out automatically to women? I'll be literally pissed off if I have missed out on this!

lesley

I think you are the biggest cunt here!

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At my hospital they give you piss pots with built in funnels that pull off - then you attach the lid. But then I do live in That London, they probably haven't reached the provinces yet.

I agree with kitkat

That London

I also live up London (or up Lunnon as my gran would say) and I have never seen these funnels of which you speak. You must be in K&C somewhere where all the posh things are

Do all hospitals have these piss pots with funnels attached?

No no, very un-posh - King's College Hospital is my local.

My last pee pot had a lovely clean, printed sticky label wrapped around it. I could have cried!

Had to produce a sample today. The pot I was given had a diameter of about 2cm - and no funnel. Wouldn't have been too bad if it hadn't been unexpected and I hadn't had a wee before I left the house (like a well dragged up girl). Had a tiny dribble of wee to catch in this minuscule pot and still manage to piss all over the printed label on the outside (surprisingly absorbent, no amount of wiping was going to dry that bastard). Was mortified handing the pathetically small soggy specimen to the dr

kitandkat You can ask for them - I think most surgeries do have them although they are probably more expensive. Next time I get one I will take a photo to show off show you all

Sparky Yes, YABVVU. What a pathetic thing to whinge about. Haven't you got anything better to do like chatting on a decent thread?!

I just wrap a paper towel around the pit before I pee to catch any drips.

the ones here are about 4cm across.

::smug about living somewhere with superior pee pots::

if the pot is in contact with your body you can't miss.

YABU, get a sheewee and quit complaining

Mine is in my bag and goes everywhere with me!

its not easy as a man either those pots can fill up fast and cutting off middway isnt an exact science. it can still go everywhere.

Here (East Midlands), they give you the tiny, 2cm diameter across pots as standard. And nope, I have never managed to do a specimen in them - as soon as I hold the damn pot in place I get perfomance anxiety and can't actually do anything, even if I'm bursting for a wee Have to do it in a cup and pour.

The ones with funnels are for sterile specimens - so if your little pot sample shows up positive for something then you often get sent to do a sterile sample in case the first one was just contaminated.

Also, I used to work in biochemistry in a hospital, and the stupid little pots weren't for our benefit - we had to pour pipette some of the urine into little vials for the analyser machines.

Most are supposed to be a mid stream sample. I start peeing, stop, line up and aim!

There are a few things around, but they need a mid-stream to get the right result. There's something called Peezy that's new on the NHS which means nothing gets wet and the right bit of the sample goes into the tiny bottle without you having to do anything - except wee. A friend's daughter got given one in Bromley but they are starting to be given out in more places.

Wrap the outside on the pot in a paper towels, so then the label doesn't get wet.

But yeah, they are stupidly designed.