Blood Drug Testing

is pregnancy something doctors have to look for specifically in urine/blood tests?

i was just wondering: when you go to your family doctor for a check up, they ask you to pee in a cup/ take a blood sample... is pregnancy something they test for or is that something you have to ask for specifically? because i know they take urine samples to test for certain things (like infections), but i didn't know if pregnancy was included. i mean, i would think they would for sure see pregnancy in a blood test, let alone a urine test... but i didn't if it was something to be tested for specifically.

Public Comments

1. depends on the doctor but most of the time it is standard to test for pregnancy.just ask the doctor if it's standard for them to test for pregnancy
2. They have to specifically test for pregnancy. Even in a blood test, if they are not screening for hormone levels, they will not "see pregnancy". If they're testing your blood for thyroid levels or iron or blood sugar, or testing your urine for protein or bacteria, they're not testing you for pegnancy. That is a different test. A pregnancy test would not be ordered unless you either ask for one, or you are showing symptoms (like an absent period).