Quick question re urine test

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Hi

Is there any way it is possible to get an accurate urine test when you have your period?

I'm only spotting now, and cleaned before doing the test, but got a strong (+++) result for blood in my urine. I have pain in my kidney and a tendency towards regular UTI's so I'm a smidge paranoid, but I have no pain on urination. I was hoping for an accurate idea before speaking to the dr, but don't know if the potential small amount of period blood has contaminated my sample, or if I am indeed pissing large quantities of blood?

If the blood had contaminated it, does anyone know if that would be eg a small positive rather than a large, or is large possible?

I'm immunocompromised, so would rather not wait a few days before retesting (and chance being neenawed off to the hospital with sepsis again!)...

Thanks :)

I can't help much sorry but could you hand it in and mention that you're on your period, though I would assume it wouldn't contaminate it too much

I'm testing it myself - no need to hand it in as I have the same strips here that the gp uses, and they are unlikely to send it off for culture anyway (of course if they wanted to, I'd send a sample in)

I’m not sure if there is a way or not, but I did a urine test once when I was in hospital to check for uti and it showed no infection but blood in my urine. I was on my period but didn’t have a uti. I would think it’s probably hard to test without it showing.

Funnily enough the time I was hospitalised I had my period, but then my diagnosis was before a culture anyway, as I wasn't passing any urine at all

I'll try again in the morning, hopefully the last dregs of period blood will be gone by then

Sorry I should have said, I was in hospital for something unrelated but felt like I might have a uti coming on so asked them to do a dip test. That’s when they told me no infection but traces of blood.

I’ve never had a kidney infection before but when my mum had one she said she didn’t have pain but felt wiped out tired.

Take care of yourself OP, I know that if you say yes you’re having flank pain then drs are keen to get you seen but appreciate that you don’t want to go down that route unnecessarily.