Is it normal to feel this humiliated walking infront of other ppl w/ ur urinesample?

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All my life, whenever I’d need to do a urine sample I would get a cup for it in a mostly private way w/o other people seeing me with the cup before I go in the bathroom

and no one would see me with the cup afterwards bc there would always be a cupboard in the bathroom I could put it in.

But the other day I had to do a drug urine test under very different circumstances at a pain clinic:

1st, while in the waiting room, I was told I needed to do a urine sample, was given a cup and even asked if I wanted a hat, all in front of the other people there. (I was dying of embarrassment.)

Then, after I did it, I had to walk across the room (in front of everyone) with my freshly filled cup in a clear ziploc bag.

I now feel so humiliated by the whole situation that I have a hard time relaxing. It’s like most of what I can think about is how humiliating that was, and traumatized at how I’ll have to do that each time I see my new pain doctor. I feel like I can’t handle it. I sort of want to just give up on pain medication if I have to go through that kind of humiliation on a regular basis.

PS All my life I’ve always felt embarrassed by giving urine samples but this walking w/ the cup (empty + full) in front of everyone thing is completely putting me over the edge.

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  • Boojum
    2 years ago

    Perhaps you're not aware of this, but every living human being is constantly producing urine. It has to be expelled from the body somehow, and therefore every single person in that waiting room urinated countless times long before they saw you with your cup, and they've done it regularly ever since.

    In fact, considering the setting, I suspect that if you hadn't been so self-absorbed in your social anxiety attack over this trivial incident, it's likely that you would have seen others in that waiting room doing the same as you had to do.

    Lots of Americans - which I assume you are - are incredibly prudish about normal bodily functions. It's almost like they believe that really good and holy people never shit, piss, fart or sweat, and they should feel guilty about doing those things.

    If this is something that you know is going to happen every time you visit the clinic, one solution seems pretty obvious to me: take some sort of opaque, disposable bag with you so you can hide the evidence that you do indeed urinate as you take that walk of shame. If anyone notices what you're doing, they may conclude you're an incredibly fragile, prudish little snowflake, but maybe you find that preferable to them actually seeing your *GASP* pee.

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    2 years ago

    The doctors offices I've gone to have me pass through the waiting room with my cup of piss. It's really nothing to be upset over. Everyone else in that waiting room had to go through it too. XD

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  • charli.m
    2 years ago

    I had to a cortisol test a few years back. They gave me a gallon jug to collect my pee for a 24hr period.

    That was super embarrassing to take in via public transport...

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    • hauntedbysandwiches
      2 years ago

      Could've just said it's lemonade ;)

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    • GaelicPotato
      2 years ago

      I'm actually impressed.

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      • charli.m
        2 years ago

        How so?

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  • LloydAsher
    2 years ago

    The military would be the worst for you. Since you got to have someone observe your peeing and walk through the dozen other people waiting for their turn.

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  • DADNSCAL
    2 years ago

    Wrap it in a paper towel next time.

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  • GaelicPotato
    2 years ago

    My doctor has me piss in her mouth in front of two nurses. So embarrassing!

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    2 years ago

    i get drug tested regularly under federal rules

    you can pee in privacy but gotta bring the sample out to the lab tech (no flush or handwash allowed) in a cup with a temperature sensitive label in fronta everyone

    the tech then pours the pee into vials for transport and i gotta sign that i witnessed the sample get poured & sealed

    then i can wash my hands

    then theres more paperwork but the samples are sittin there in clear vials in clear sealed plastic bags

    i guess the first few times i did it were embarrassin but decades later doin it over & over its just routine

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  • hauntedbysandwiches
    2 years ago

    Go to another doctor that's really strange and I've never heard of that before.

    I'll share something I experienced that left me feeling totally gross for an entire two months that might make you feel a little better. I went to a doctor to get a check up while there he had a student with him shadowing. He said is it okay if she stays I said it's fine but I had no idea that meant both he and her would examine my body together. I'm a female so already a male doctor examining me makes me uncomfortable but then the added female my age touching me at the same time was so uncomfortable. I was also surprised when he said I'm going to do a breast check and I had to lift up my shirt while he touched one and the girl touched the other. I felt so humiliated and disgusting for weeks. I couldn't stop thinking and ruminating about it, totally uncomfortable.

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