went to the lab for drawing blood for my H1AC and they scanned my paperwork and asked if I had my Urine sample. I usually dont give urine but sometimes my doc slips in something for fun I guess. I said no and the nice lady leaves and comes back w/ a red bucket and proceeds to explain the procedure for the 24Hr urine sampling. I have never had this test before and the doc didn't mention it at my last visit. nothing too terrible about the test except I have to pee in bucket and keep it in the fridge not exactly what I want to do at work so I'll try this weekend but will have to work around my long run and post run brunch.

Yes my doctor wants to do it once a year, he's barking about it now. I am not sure but, I believe that you shouldn't do any strenuous exercise a couple of days before the samples are taken. They are looking for protien and exercise can elevate the levels. Call your doctor to make sure. Ain't we got fun!

As diabetics a yearly urine test for microalbuminuria is essential. A routine urinalysis will not detect such small amounts of protein in the urine. This special lab test must be used. Protein and red blood cells, too large to pass through the kidney filtering system, normally stay in the bloodstream where they belong. But after years of hyperfiltration (caused by high sugar) damage can occur that then begins to allow protein to filter through, often a sign of stage 1 kidney disease. I was already at this stage 1 when I was diagnosed in '04 so tight control is important to me. I may have had my dx in the nick of time as my urine has been free of protein for a year now. I never thought that running may induce the passage of protein into the urine. I will definitely keep that in mind before my next test.