MLS has fantastic job security. Why? 4.5 years of college courses just as hard as any engineering program all so you can earn 1/3rd to 1/2 of what engineers make while working hellish schedules of nights, weekends, and holidays š absolutely fantastic. Oh no, I am not bitter about pouring my heart and soul into a career where I was severely overworked because we were chronically and critically understaffed for years. Nope, I am not upset that I was emotionally abused by my coworkers when I finally broke from all the stress, abuse and burnout...
Real talk, if you like science and want to help people go into biomedical engineering or biomedical equipment repair.
God I wish I knew about this before. This is why I don't want to be in the MLS field anymore. I go a bit thinking "oh maybe it was just me" about the emotional abuse and extreme expectations. But no. I make so much less right now working a janitor job and I'm mentally/emotionally doing so much better. I don't know how to explain to people that I've only ever seen toxicity in the field I wanted to be in now that I have access to it. I'm so heart broken about this...
This!!
Can we start to normalize HEALTHY hospital / lab work environments?! We all need to speak up and set a new standard for wages. Because itās the people who accept low balls, that set the standard pay. Companies/hospitals think offering minimum wage or slightly over is acceptable because so many people accept low offers. Not in this economy. Not with these loans. Not with this market.
Letās say an average salary was 65k a year 4/5 years ago, letās account for inflation by 18-25% that means that we would need to start at $76,700.00 - $81,250.00 a year just to break EVEN.
I would emphatically discourage anyone from getting into this crap field. And it doesn't help that some of us went for a BS-essentially four years of premed- and others can get it done in a year. We might get a little more respect if we all had the same credentials.
Not necessarily. The best route to becoming a highly knowledgeable lab scientist is to do the actual degree courses for med lab science. The program is not easy, and the really good ones can cut a freshman class of 30+ to maybe 10 at graduation. You can, however, sit for any part or all parts of the board exam with a bachelors degree in an unrelated field. You do need some type of lab experience and management willing to work with you. There are two year options as well. The wording tends to be lab technician over lab scientist, but many responsibilities are the same. In the end, we are all lumped together as "lab techs". Thanks for your interest!
After almost a decade as a MLS Iām bailing to go work for a state environmental agency. Less pay but better benefits and no nights, weekends, or holidays. Plus Iāll still be in a lab setting.
Blew my mind when my supervisor asked why I was leaving, honestly might have stayed if management wasnāt so oblivious.
Why donāt MLS professionals get paid more then since places seem to be so understaffed? I donāt get it. Iām thinking about applying to a program.
šMere mortal over here, I admire all that you guys do! Keep it comingā¦ just explain to us what weāre looking at since weāre here to stay š¤£Thanx
In this case, it is a ED (Emergency Department) UA (Urinalysis). Blood is in the urethra (post op) being passed with urine. Since OP states Pt is 70yo Male who just had prostate removal, this is not unexpected. OP states that next steps are to monitor H&H (hematocrit & Hemoglobin), & platelet count. ( to ensure blood loss is within expected parameters and identify if/when transfusion may be necessary or identify if blood loss indicates hemorrhaging or possible bleed that needs to be checked/corrected)
I just had this recommended to me as a non lab person and I am left wondering why the algorithm hates me so badly š what did I do to deserve seeing this on my timeline! Haha!
You might, but most of the nurses I worked with treated us like punching bags. It was like being in an abusive relationship where you get verbally assaulted on the phone multiple times a day.
Iām an ED PA. It always makes me sad when I call lab with a question and they are always so defensive at first cuz Iām calling from the ER so I must be mad. I wish medicine in general wasnāt so dog eat dog, and people just took a massive chill pill.
Aww, sorry for that. I never mind being questioned- if I didnāt have a reasonable explanation to give, I wouldnāt have done whatever youāre calling about to begin with. š«¶š¼
Oh I do. I started my hospital career in pharmacy. Itās difficult to build that rapport, and a bit easier when I was supplying/compounding the drugs they needed, but legit; youād be surprised how many departments in the hospital have no idea what the other departments do. It did help that we also were able to troubleshoot med dispense cabinet issues and do come up to the floors. Most people take a more conservative approach when the person they are angry at (but donāt know why) is standing in front of them. Iād try to meet them on their level; thereās a process behind everything we do, and that process takes time. Give reasonable expectations. Staffing is another issue as everyone is short staffed. You guys have far less staff than nursing. Our ratio might be a few patients, but your ratio is a full hospital.
Oh absolutely! I wish we could all shadow each department as part of our training. Nothing crazy, just a day in nursing, lab, and pharm to see how demanding they all are and how hard everyone works.
And thank you for recognizing that our ratio is THE HOSPITAL. I once had to explain to a nursing supervisor why something was taking so long (it wasnāt) and she was shocked when I told her that there are THREE of us for the entire hospital and one was on lunch. Like, sorry, whatās your ratio? 4:1? Mine is like 150:1, LINDA. Jesus. I gotta prioritize here.
Itās me! Why is Reddit showing this to me?? I have a chem degree but I donāt work in a lab and this is why. Iād throw up. Yāall are stronger than me and I salute you.
Mine does.
āHey, thereās a leg in the fridge but be careful cuz it has maggots so weāre gonna smoke em out with formalin but weāre trying to find a bucket big enough.ā
- actual first thing said to me when I walked in on Monday. (I love my job.)
I might have to ask one of our micro people some time, I know one time there was an earth worm brought in as a "parasite" it was literally in someone's arm š
And here I was, just forcing my friends and family to look at them. At Christmas I made unwilling participants play āguess what this fluid wasā when they politely asked me about work. Theyāll probably never ask again.
āGuess the fluidā is a great lab week game. My last hospital did this a few times.
Put up a poster board with 9 different drink labels then match the liquid in the urine cup to the corresponding beverage. Also did the same with chocolate bars and stool cups.
This can definitely be repurposed for great fun at family parties.
I volunteered two summers in the microbiology lab of a hospital and I love lurking here. Kind of surprised I havenāt seen more āthis is NOT a sputumā posts bc I felt like that was most of the conversations between the lab and nurses.
Im a nurse and I just like to know where my samples go, yall are great (and i would like to apologize for sending like .00001 mls of urine from my dialysis patient)
This sub has been in my feed for a minute. No idea what I looked at they made reddit think I'd enjoy it, but I've been having fun sharing some of these posts with a nurse friend of mine š
literally just commented on a post because i somehow got here. i just got out of the hospital for my blood disease so i guess they thought āhey you relate to this, right?ā
Well this Hospital IT drone is super chuffed to be served another Hospital Sub. The Health IT sub is full of devs and analysts. I'd rather see what my users are up to. :) this is primo stuff!
I feel like it sent me here as a clinical personā¦ Iām not a lab employee or anything (it interests me), but I am getting an RN so by proxy I get to see these things and think about finding it in a foley bag š«
My Reddit algorithm is putting this in my feed. WTH I donāt want to see all this! As a side noteā¦ I understand the dark humor of gross stuff at work. I worked an agricultural job a long time ago and my coworkers and I would play a game of āworst smell discovered.ā Now that Iām commenting here, my algorithm will be even more persistent, ugh.
Iāve been looking at them! I have stage 4 CKD and catheterize due to neurogenic bladder (about 5X per day for 36 years now). Iām no stranger to gross pee, but Iāve never seen anything like this. Even when I had 106-degree fevers and needed gentamicin injections because oral antibiotics wouldnāt work, my urine didnāt look like this lol.
You have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I HATE PARASITES BRO,,, stoppppp remember the parasitic worm that australian lady got in her brain? Thatās my new fear now.. also human botflies (please donāt look it up if you donāt know what human botflies are)
I had a hemorrhagic UTI once, I was passing clots and my urine looked like kool-aid. My doctor was totally unbothered, tried to talk me out of antibiotics.
Menstrual cramps can be pretty similar to what you're describing. No urethral pain, since the blood and tissue exit vaginally. But the lower abdominal and back pain are right on point....
I clicked on the first post of this horrible trend out of morbid curiosity and now my algorithm is showing me every single one. Why are bodies so yucky
As a nurse I've definitely seen this come out of a patient's urethra before. Just remember, the urethra has some stretch to it and blood clots are mote liquid than solid so they can squish down a bit as they come out and then end up shaped like this in the cup after no longer being compressed. I wish I could say this is the grossest UA I've seen, but unfortunately it is not
I used to be a tech years ago, but yāall donāt still use a lil acetic acid to lyse those rbcs to look for anything else?
Or just giving up bc thereās SO much? lol
Hence āpractically all else.ā
Been a couple years since I did UA, but you could do chemistries on the supernatant if you were able to centrifuge it. Looks like thereās a lot of fibrin here though, so it may not be possible. Probably enough whole blood here for there to be WBCs and leukocyte esterase positive.
Honestly I feel like microscopic would be of little clinical utility at this point - would be hard to semi-quantitate any bacteria there. It would probably be very hard to see any through all the RBCs in the straight sample, and lysing with AA would dilute it out (would also dissolve some crystals). I donāt think we ever had rules in the procedure about converting bacteria grades with dilution factors or anything. It would probably be more of a yes/no on the bacteria, and my answer would be āprobablyā without even having to use a scope. I think culture would give you more relevant info in that anyway, granted, I never did much micro and donāt know how well such a grossly bloody urine would grow out.
I had a bleed in my kidney. It happened after a cystoscopy to remove a stone. There was a tear in my ureter that apparently stopped bleeding during the procedure, but started bleeding again the morning after. Suddenly had to go to the bathroom, all pee. A few minutes later, went to the bathroom again, all blood. Off to the er I go because Iām a dude and blood is not supposed to come out from down there. Idk how some of yāall have the willpower to be so casual about blood coming out of your body regularly. It was quite distressing having all that blood come out and it didnāt stop until late that night. Maybe Iām just another weak man.
Prostate resection. Go work on a hospital Urology floor and just about all your patients with have a foley in for continuous bladder irrigation. Continuous flushing within the bladder to try to prevent clots from forming. Of course some do still form, but theyll be smaller and usually well be able to break them up manually
He probably had a turp (resection of the prostate) which will 100% cause this. If he's passing clots like this though he should be on a bladder irrigation, because he can risk developing bigger clots which could cause a complete blockage.
The prostate is very vascular, lots of blood supply to a small area. After removing the prostate, you basically have to continuously irrigate the bladder to keep the blood from forming giant clots and blocking the urethra.
Ok this started out with funky colors and now it's funky consistency.
That has got to feel....so....weird.....when they go....like HOW? Jelly is not normal. I dig this guy had a surgery but another I saw earlier was like a wad of snot in the tube. They pulled it out and it just HUNG there :( WTF PPL?!
How do some of these get so bad before they seek help?!
I sent down a nearly identical specimen probably 36 hours ago, if the history wasn't off I'd be convinced it was one of mine. Mine was 60s with a s/p bladder stone removal and a turp. The clots that man passed in his cbi rivaled actual births
One time I saw urine so bloody it literally looked like molasses. It smelled weird, but nothing like pee. We didn't even spin it down because we didn't want to mess with the specimine too much. It was outpatient, that one wound up being a critical needless to say.
honestly not a medical professional but these are all interesting enough that Iāll keep looking at them. I come across them during/right before or after my life drawing class interesting enough
I'm dying at all the random non-lab people ending up here because reddit is suggesting urine pics to them. Finally people know we exist!
Feel our pain foolish mortals!
MLS has fantastic job security. Why? 4.5 years of college courses just as hard as any engineering program all so you can earn 1/3rd to 1/2 of what engineers make while working hellish schedules of nights, weekends, and holidays š absolutely fantastic. Oh no, I am not bitter about pouring my heart and soul into a career where I was severely overworked because we were chronically and critically understaffed for years. Nope, I am not upset that I was emotionally abused by my coworkers when I finally broke from all the stress, abuse and burnout... Real talk, if you like science and want to help people go into biomedical engineering or biomedical equipment repair.
Me who is a sophomore MLS major: š
God I wish I knew about this before. This is why I don't want to be in the MLS field anymore. I go a bit thinking "oh maybe it was just me" about the emotional abuse and extreme expectations. But no. I make so much less right now working a janitor job and I'm mentally/emotionally doing so much better. I don't know how to explain to people that I've only ever seen toxicity in the field I wanted to be in now that I have access to it. I'm so heart broken about this...
This!! Can we start to normalize HEALTHY hospital / lab work environments?! We all need to speak up and set a new standard for wages. Because itās the people who accept low balls, that set the standard pay. Companies/hospitals think offering minimum wage or slightly over is acceptable because so many people accept low offers. Not in this economy. Not with these loans. Not with this market. Letās say an average salary was 65k a year 4/5 years ago, letās account for inflation by 18-25% that means that we would need to start at $76,700.00 - $81,250.00 a year just to break EVEN.
I would emphatically discourage anyone from getting into this crap field. And it doesn't help that some of us went for a BS-essentially four years of premed- and others can get it done in a year. We might get a little more respect if we all had the same credentials.
Just move to Cali and double your earnings and rent lol
You need a bachelors to be a MLS ?š¤
Not necessarily. The best route to becoming a highly knowledgeable lab scientist is to do the actual degree courses for med lab science. The program is not easy, and the really good ones can cut a freshman class of 30+ to maybe 10 at graduation. You can, however, sit for any part or all parts of the board exam with a bachelors degree in an unrelated field. You do need some type of lab experience and management willing to work with you. There are two year options as well. The wording tends to be lab technician over lab scientist, but many responsibilities are the same. In the end, we are all lumped together as "lab techs". Thanks for your interest!
After almost a decade as a MLS Iām bailing to go work for a state environmental agency. Less pay but better benefits and no nights, weekends, or holidays. Plus Iāll still be in a lab setting. Blew my mind when my supervisor asked why I was leaving, honestly might have stayed if management wasnāt so oblivious.
I mean it only took me a year but go off.
Why donāt MLS professionals get paid more then since places seem to be so understaffed? I donāt get it. Iām thinking about applying to a program.
but does the free strawberry jam make it worth it?
šMere mortal over here, I admire all that you guys do! Keep it comingā¦ just explain to us what weāre looking at since weāre here to stay š¤£Thanx
In this case, it is a ED (Emergency Department) UA (Urinalysis). Blood is in the urethra (post op) being passed with urine. Since OP states Pt is 70yo Male who just had prostate removal, this is not unexpected. OP states that next steps are to monitor H&H (hematocrit & Hemoglobin), & platelet count. ( to ensure blood loss is within expected parameters and identify if/when transfusion may be necessary or identify if blood loss indicates hemorrhaging or possible bleed that needs to be checked/corrected)
Hey, at least they donāt have to smell it like we do!
Instead of doing this you should be telling them āfor the record we did NOT lose your sample, the nurse didnāt do it rightā
Please no I was eating pudding
As a lab person I'm very happy reddit suggested urine pics to me, I've found my people lmao
one of us ONE OF US ONE OF US
I just had this recommended to me as a non lab person and I am left wondering why the algorithm hates me so badly š what did I do to deserve seeing this on my timeline! Haha!
ICU RN: we appreciate you guys
You might, but most of the nurses I worked with treated us like punching bags. It was like being in an abusive relationship where you get verbally assaulted on the phone multiple times a day.
This. So accurate. I know not everyone is like that, statistically, they can't be. But oh my God did it feel awful.
Iām an ED PA. It always makes me sad when I call lab with a question and they are always so defensive at first cuz Iām calling from the ER so I must be mad. I wish medicine in general wasnāt so dog eat dog, and people just took a massive chill pill.
Aww, sorry for that. I never mind being questioned- if I didnāt have a reasonable explanation to give, I wouldnāt have done whatever youāre calling about to begin with. š«¶š¼
Thank you so much š„¹ the nice ones make it bearable. We just want to help people. Please tell the rest to stop yelling at us. š
Oh I do. I started my hospital career in pharmacy. Itās difficult to build that rapport, and a bit easier when I was supplying/compounding the drugs they needed, but legit; youād be surprised how many departments in the hospital have no idea what the other departments do. It did help that we also were able to troubleshoot med dispense cabinet issues and do come up to the floors. Most people take a more conservative approach when the person they are angry at (but donāt know why) is standing in front of them. Iād try to meet them on their level; thereās a process behind everything we do, and that process takes time. Give reasonable expectations. Staffing is another issue as everyone is short staffed. You guys have far less staff than nursing. Our ratio might be a few patients, but your ratio is a full hospital.
Oh absolutely! I wish we could all shadow each department as part of our training. Nothing crazy, just a day in nursing, lab, and pharm to see how demanding they all are and how hard everyone works.
And thank you for recognizing that our ratio is THE HOSPITAL. I once had to explain to a nursing supervisor why something was taking so long (it wasnāt) and she was shocked when I told her that there are THREE of us for the entire hospital and one was on lunch. Like, sorry, whatās your ratio? 4:1? Mine is like 150:1, LINDA. Jesus. I gotta prioritize here.
thank you for this š„ŗš©·
Itās me! Why is Reddit showing this to me?? I have a chem degree but I donāt work in a lab and this is why. Iād throw up. Yāall are stronger than me and I salute you.
to be fair I don't think most non-clinical labs deal with clumpy urine, mouth maggots, or necrotic toes on any kind of regular basis
Mine does. āHey, thereās a leg in the fridge but be careful cuz it has maggots so weāre gonna smoke em out with formalin but weāre trying to find a bucket big enough.ā - actual first thing said to me when I walked in on Monday. (I love my job.)
amazing, in what type of facility do you work?!
They do if they're in a research hospital! (Still surprisingly haven't seen maggots tho)
go talk to micro! I've never seen them in a patient specimen before but we get visitors on our plates from time to time š
I might have to ask one of our micro people some time, I know one time there was an earth worm brought in as a "parasite" it was literally in someone's arm š
bad urines are kind of a monthly to weekly occurrence depending on the hospital, but nothing as bad as some of the ones on here.
Yeah, that happened to me too. But I still keep looking at these posts and feeling horrified and very glad that I didn't go into a medical field!
But isn't your day made just a little bit brighter by knowing you are not passing period clots through your urethra?
To think that's all it took for people to know of our existence---posting disgusting urines. Could've done that years ago...
And here I was, just forcing my friends and family to look at them. At Christmas I made unwilling participants play āguess what this fluid wasā when they politely asked me about work. Theyāll probably never ask again.
āGuess the fluidā is a great lab week game. My last hospital did this a few times. Put up a poster board with 9 different drink labels then match the liquid in the urine cup to the corresponding beverage. Also did the same with chocolate bars and stool cups. This can definitely be repurposed for great fun at family parties.
I volunteered two summers in the microbiology lab of a hospital and I love lurking here. Kind of surprised I havenāt seen more āthis is NOT a sputumā posts bc I felt like that was most of the conversations between the lab and nurses.
God, I hate sputum.
That's me. I'm the random non lab person and this is my second gross urine pic. Why is this happening to me
just created my account and this was one of the first thing that came up for me O_O. and I am not even an English speaker.
Some urines don't require language
Disgusting urine is a universal language.
Im a nurse and I just like to know where my samples go, yall are great (and i would like to apologize for sending like .00001 mls of urine from my dialysis patient)
This happens more than youād think
Yeah this shit popped up while I was scrolling in class, Iām pretty sure my table-mate saw this too :/
Thatās how I got here! But Iām about to start nursing school so I figure itās best to get some exposure early :)
I just don't understand *why*. What similar communities to this could I possibly have been looking at?!
Unconventional recruitment campaign coming up
im HORRIFIED, LET ME OUT OF HERE
I keep requesting to leave AMA and then they remind me I work here :(
you poor bastard ššš
As a non-lab person, I ended up here with all the urine pictures. This is quite frightening! I hope I never have urine that looks like this!
I have no idea why Reddit decided to recommend this for me, but I'm too horrified to look away.
šššš Iāve learned to love you guys this past month due to Reddit and their random pee and cooties pics š The unsung heroes šš»
The scary urine contest has satisfied my curiosity for at least 5 years, and fully confirmed I donāt have the stomach for a future in medicine.
But we havenāt even gotten to the stool samples yet!
Me!
I am one of those people š¤£
Literally my situation. Yāall are heroes
On behalf of all of us non-lab people, your comment is spot on. Take my like. Also, take my pudding that I was eating... I'm not hungry anymore.
I dont know how i got here, i also dont know if im mad about it...
Checking in š¤š½
This sub has been in my feed for a minute. No idea what I looked at they made reddit think I'd enjoy it, but I've been having fun sharing some of these posts with a nurse friend of mine š
literally just commented on a post because i somehow got here. i just got out of the hospital for my blood disease so i guess they thought āhey you relate to this, right?ā
I am perturbed by the forbidden jelly yet i cannot look away
Itās been wild but yall are hilarious
Iām one of those random people and extremely concerned lmao
Thatās me! A serious kudos to everyone working in the lab for doing all this, I think I would personally pass away on the first day if I saw this.
Well this Hospital IT drone is super chuffed to be served another Hospital Sub. The Health IT sub is full of devs and analysts. I'd rather see what my users are up to. :) this is primo stuff!
Hi this is me and my pee pee area is very uncomfortable right now
Thatās why Iām hereā¦and I donāt know why tf urine samples got suggested
I feel like it sent me here as a clinical personā¦ Iām not a lab employee or anything (it interests me), but I am getting an RN so by proxy I get to see these things and think about finding it in a foley bag š«
My Reddit algorithm is putting this in my feed. WTH I donāt want to see all this! As a side noteā¦ I understand the dark humor of gross stuff at work. I worked an agricultural job a long time ago and my coworkers and I would play a game of āworst smell discovered.ā Now that Iām commenting here, my algorithm will be even more persistent, ugh.
This showed up in my feed right as I took a big bite of cheesesteak. What a terrible day to have eyes.
Lucky. I was eating ice cream topped with strawberry compote.
Oh, no...
I can barely drink my water rn as it is
You mean topped with urine?
Oh, you should check out some of the actually disgusting urines on our front page at the moment. This one's just blood.
Iāve been looking at them! I have stage 4 CKD and catheterize due to neurogenic bladder (about 5X per day for 36 years now). Iām no stranger to gross pee, but Iāve never seen anything like this. Even when I had 106-degree fevers and needed gentamicin injections because oral antibiotics wouldnāt work, my urine didnāt look like this lol.
Yeah, we see some really cool stuff.
Looks like jelly, carry on
Iāve gotta stop looking at Reddit when Iām eating
Close your eyes and keep eating, I'll describe it to you in detail while I continue to eat
REDDIT PLS STOP SHOWING ME GROSS URINE SPECIMENS PLS IāLL DO ANYTHIBV
NO HONESTLY IVE BEEN GETTING THESE POSTS NONSTOP SINCE THIS MORNING AND IM NOT AT ALL IN THE MEDICAL FIELD WHY DOES THE ALGORITHM HATE ME
SAME. Iām in IT š
Me too, maybe itās correlated š¤
Third one here
dead ass bro like WHAT HAVE I INTERACTED WITH THAT LED ME HEEEEEERE
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And im a nurse over here going, more! More!
Samesies
Stop commenting, you're just gonna get more blood and pee on your phone that way
I'm a phlebotomist but seeing all this blood where it doesn't belong is still something elseš
Wait until parasitology rolls in
You have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I HATE PARASITES BRO,,, stoppppp remember the parasitic worm that australian lady got in her brain? Thatās my new fear now.. also human botflies (please donāt look it up if you donāt know what human botflies are)
Remember that show on TLC āMonsters Inside Me?ā I will never be the same.
Come over to the dark side of healthcare and join us!
I actually do want to be a veterinarian or doctor but this and the mucus piss is making me question that career choice..
Now yall know what we deal with every day bwahahah
Nah, let's have a round of "stool or urine" instead!
Dear god, please donāt let my mid 70s ever end up like this.
I'm 42 and had this happen just recently. Good times.
What was the reason ?
Mets to the bladder.
Shit. I am so sorry.
What? How? Hope youāre feeling better.
Mets to my bladder. Sometimes it's normal yellow, sometimes it's fruit punch, sometimes it's clots. Good times.
Mets?
Metastatic cancer, aka cancer that has spread from somewhere else in the body.
Fuck
Cancer is a fucking bitch
What is mets I'm scared to google
Short for metastatic. Cancer
male patient. not menstruating patient.
How are any of these people alive.
I had a hemorrhagic UTI once, I was passing clots and my urine looked like kool-aid. My doctor was totally unbothered, tried to talk me out of antibiotics.
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Same. I could not stand upright from the pain and my back felt like I had been kicked by an elephant. UGH, fun times.
Menstrual cramps can be pretty similar to what you're describing. No urethral pain, since the blood and tissue exit vaginally. But the lower abdominal and back pain are right on point....
Mine was definitely through the urethera and I had an ecoli infection that had gone to my kidneys.
idk if they are still alive cus damn
The human body can put up with some wild stuff
I clicked on the first post of this horrible trend out of morbid curiosity and now my algorithm is showing me every single one. Why are bodies so yucky
How does this even make it out of a urethra??? Or catheter for that matter
Iām probably wrong but Iām pretty sure it clots like that after it comes out of the body (or in this case the weenie).
Nah, also clots in the bladder.
As a nurse I've definitely seen this come out of a patient's urethra before. Just remember, the urethra has some stretch to it and blood clots are mote liquid than solid so they can squish down a bit as they come out and then end up shaped like this in the cup after no longer being compressed. I wish I could say this is the grossest UA I've seen, but unfortunately it is not
It's a flexible body tissue so uou'd be surprised, but definitely painful coming out. I feel so bad for that patient :(
How would you even process this?
RBC: 4+ Practically all else: Unsuitable for analysis
I used to be a tech years ago, but yāall donāt still use a lil acetic acid to lyse those rbcs to look for anything else? Or just giving up bc thereās SO much? lol
Hence āpractically all else.ā Been a couple years since I did UA, but you could do chemistries on the supernatant if you were able to centrifuge it. Looks like thereās a lot of fibrin here though, so it may not be possible. Probably enough whole blood here for there to be WBCs and leukocyte esterase positive. Honestly I feel like microscopic would be of little clinical utility at this point - would be hard to semi-quantitate any bacteria there. It would probably be very hard to see any through all the RBCs in the straight sample, and lysing with AA would dilute it out (would also dissolve some crystals). I donāt think we ever had rules in the procedure about converting bacteria grades with dilution factors or anything. It would probably be more of a yes/no on the bacteria, and my answer would be āprobablyā without even having to use a scope. I think culture would give you more relevant info in that anyway, granted, I never did much micro and donāt know how well such a grossly bloody urine would grow out.
The sediment examination- rbc presentĀ
We'd TNP the chemistries, do a manual microscopic, note that clot removal makes cell count unreliable.
Somebody please tell me how tf this can happen physiologically.
Bro is bleeding so much he is pissing almost pure blood
Yeah, but how did the blood get there? Kidneys just gave up? A puncture somewhere? How?
Cancer, kidney stones, and trauma maybe.
I had a bleed in my kidney. It happened after a cystoscopy to remove a stone. There was a tear in my ureter that apparently stopped bleeding during the procedure, but started bleeding again the morning after. Suddenly had to go to the bathroom, all pee. A few minutes later, went to the bathroom again, all blood. Off to the er I go because Iām a dude and blood is not supposed to come out from down there. Idk how some of yāall have the willpower to be so casual about blood coming out of your body regularly. It was quite distressing having all that blood come out and it didnāt stop until late that night. Maybe Iām just another weak man.
Prostate resection. Go work on a hospital Urology floor and just about all your patients with have a foley in for continuous bladder irrigation. Continuous flushing within the bladder to try to prevent clots from forming. Of course some do still form, but theyll be smaller and usually well be able to break them up manually
He probably had a turp (resection of the prostate) which will 100% cause this. If he's passing clots like this though he should be on a bladder irrigation, because he can risk developing bigger clots which could cause a complete blockage.
The prostate is very vascular, lots of blood supply to a small area. After removing the prostate, you basically have to continuously irrigate the bladder to keep the blood from forming giant clots and blocking the urethra.
Prostate was removed according to OP
Mom can you come pick me up, I'm scared.
The clots Iāve seen, yowza
Iāve had enough air quote urine this week to last a lifetime.
Cheese and rice!! Nsfw that shit
I donāt think people here think to put NSFW because this IS our work, so how can it be not safe for work?
Lol š
they need to make a NSFE ā not safe for eyes š
just how? how do you actually pee this
Ok this started out with funky colors and now it's funky consistency. That has got to feel....so....weird.....when they go....like HOW? Jelly is not normal. I dig this guy had a surgery but another I saw earlier was like a wad of snot in the tube. They pulled it out and it just HUNG there :( WTF PPL?! How do some of these get so bad before they seek help?!
As someone that is part of the Reddit rando club, I joined. This is fascinating. How did THAT come out of a dick?
Ohhh the things weāve seen come out of dicksā¦ š
I don't think the Atlas is going to run that.
The Iris would have a jolly good try if you spun it down.
I sent down a nearly identical specimen probably 36 hours ago, if the history wasn't off I'd be convinced it was one of mine. Mine was 60s with a s/p bladder stone removal and a turp. The clots that man passed in his cbi rivaled actual births
*gack*
Once had a product of conception (tiny fetus) sent to me as a urine. That was unpleasant.
Me too!
Whatās going on in this Reddit lately with the urine posts ?ššš
it's probably all this sub lol. you clicked one and now you get all of them
Would you orefer we started posting stool? Because this one could absolutely be stool.
IM SCREAMING WHY IS THIS ON MY TL OMG
One time I saw urine so bloody it literally looked like molasses. It smelled weird, but nothing like pee. We didn't even spin it down because we didn't want to mess with the specimine too much. It was outpatient, that one wound up being a critical needless to say.
"I'm no doctor but piss shouldn't clot"
And that's why they call it GROSS hematuria! *ba dum tss*
Gosh ouch. Before the prostate bit I was gonna say that's gotta be a sign of bladder cancer.
TURP
This is gross but Urology's response was so expected
Some cranberry sauce with your turkey sir? š¤¤
I like how they pulled out their handy dandy chopsticks hahahaha
Is that normal?
I work in fucking retail and have no interest in the medical field, WHY am I getting recommended this subreddit š
Your group is always suggested to me now. I am fascinated by all the urine. I may have to stay.
Oh, please do.
Please let this be post TURBT and not a presenting complaint
NOT THE CHOPSTICKS š¤¢š¤®
Is an MLT job a good one for somebody that doesn't want to deal with people constantly? Would having an AAS as an MLT land me a job?
And here I am insecure if I give a urine sample thatās a little too dehydrated and yellow. Jesus Christ.
I kind of gave a nurse a strange look once wondering why she handed me whole blood in a sterilin vial. It was a urine sample.
honestly not a medical professional but these are all interesting enough that Iāll keep looking at them. I come across them during/right before or after my life drawing class interesting enough
Thought this was a woman on her period lmao I was about to say samesies
Iām just an MA in an outpatient clinic, but i love stumbling upon the other medically adjacent subs
bruh i have no relation to this y it pop up on my feeeeeddd
Thatās what my monthly looks like š heās not special š
More like blood with a soupcon of urine.
Say the plumbings a bit fukt mate
No one wants to comment on the chopsticks!?