My Dr has asked me to do a urine sample to send off to the hospital to test for diabetes. When do i do this sample, is it first thing in the morning before i eat and drink! Must it be the first wee! But surely if its the first wee in the morning that will contain all the sugars from the night before!!
Does anyone know when i do the sample!

Huh? I have never heard of this...doing a urine sample at home, and then sending it in to be tested. In fact, they don't even use urine testing anymore to diagnose diabetes.

Now, if he's looking for protein in your urine, that's a whole different story, but here again, I've never heard of it being done at home and then "sent in" unless you're doing a 24-hour urine collection, and they would have given you explicit instructions (and a huge container!) for that. Regular urine samples are usually done right in the doctor's office or at the lab. If it's not being tested right away, there may need to be special preservatives in the container. And, looking for protein in the urine is to see if diabetes is affecting your kidneys...it's not the first test they do to actually DIAGNOSE diabetes.

Have you had blood tests done? Fasting blood glucose? Glucose Tolerance Test? HbA1c (or A1c)? All of those would be a lot better in terms of diagnosing diabetes.

Ruth

I'm doing one at home this week but it's not for diagnosing diabetes. It's just a general screening because I've been showing ketones in my urine for a long time. Didn't do it while at the office because I had not eaten yet and they wanted to see the ketones after I'd eaten. So I have my little specimen jar and at some point I'll fill it up and rush it over right after. Suppose they could have asked me to come back and do it there but that would require maybe even another appt. but for sure waiting in que.

Having had a kidney issue dog though I am assuming it needs to be relatively fresh for them to process. With him I got it there in about 30 minutes or it had to be refrigerated.

You should call your doctor and ask what it's really for and about timeliness and when to do.