Adrenal Corticoids Profile
Test Details
Lab Company: Doctor's Data
Sample Type: Urine
Collection Location: At Home
The Adrenal Corticoids Profile assesses concerns particular to the HPA axis and corticoid health.
🔑 Key Details | 📦 Shipping |
⏰ Preparation & Timing | 📊 Results |
🧪 Collection Instructions | 📚 More Resources |
💳 Requisition & Payment |
💬 Questions? |
Key Details
- If you are a menstruating woman, you must collect at a specific time in your cycle.
- If you take hormones, you may need to time your cycle appropriately.
- You must avoid certain foods and activities for 24 hours prior to sample collection.
- Drink a normal amount of water before and during collection.
- Keep the cardboard kit box and the insulated cooler that come with your kit.
- Keep your samples in the freezer until you are ready to ship.
- Ship via FedEx as soon as possible, Monday - Friday only.
Preparation & Timing
- If you are a man or post-menopausal woman, you may collect your sample on any day.
- If you are a menstruating woman, you must collect at a specific time in your cycle.
- Regular cycle: Collect any day between Day 19 and Day 23 of your cycle (for a 28-day cycle).
- The first day of your period is Day 1.
- Irregular cycle: Contact your healthcare provider for timing guidance.
- You can also consult THIS GUIDE for timing guidance regarding long or irregular cycles.
- Regular cycle: Collect any day between Day 19 and Day 23 of your cycle (for a 28-day cycle).
- Topical hormones, injectable hormones, and patch hormones can be used as normal.
- DO NOT skip oral birth control pills unless instructed otherwise by your healthcare practitioner.
5 days before sample collection
- Stop taking any cortisol-containing products.
- Please do not discontinue prescription medications without consulting your healthcare provider.
3 days before sample collection
- Stop taking any oral or sublingual hormones.
- You may resume taking these hormones once your sample collection is complete.
- Please do not discontinue prescription medications without consulting your healthcare provider.
- Stop taking any vaginal hormones.
- You may resume taking these hormones once your sample collection is complete.
- Please do not discontinue prescription medications without consulting your healthcare provider.
24 hours before sample collection
- Drink normal amounts of fluid.
- Avoid the following foods and products. Do not consume them again until sample collection is complete.
- Alcohol
- Caffeine-containing foods and drinks
- Tobacco
- Nicotine-containing products
- Avoid strenuous exercise.
Collection Instructions
NOTE: Collect from a full bladder as much as possible.
Collection Schedule
Collection # | Sample Tube Color | When to Collect? |
1 | Orange | Collect 1-2 hours prior to eating dinner. Try to collect this sample 3-4 hours after your last urination. |
2 | Blue | Collect within 1 hour of going to bed. |
Midsleep (not required) |
Gray | Collect only if you wake to urinate while sleeping. This sample is not required. |
3 | Pink | Collect within 10 minutes of waking for the day. |
4 | Green | Collect 2-4 hours after waking. |
Collection Instructions
FOR EACH COLLECTION
- Collect a midstream specimen of urine in one of the provided cups.
- You may reuse a cup if necessary.
- DO NOT urinate directly into the sample tubes.
- Pipette the urine into the proper sample tube.
- See the schedule above to find the correct tube color for your collection.
- DO NOT touch the inside of this tube with your fingers.
- Fill the tube up to the "fill line."
- Discard any remaining urine in the toilet.
- Close the tube securely.
- Rock the tube gently.
- Write the following information on the sample tube.
- Your name
- Date of collection
- Time of collection
- Write the following information on the test requisition form.
- Date of collection
- Time of collection
- Place the urine tube back into the original plastic bag.
- Place the plastic bag into the freezer.
- (First collection only) Place the provided ice pack in the freezer.
ONCE YOU HAVE COLLECTED ALL OF YOUR SAMPLES
- Ensure the test requisition form is complete.
- Keep the samples in the freezer with the frozen ice pack for 4-6 hours prior to shipping.
- When you are ready to ship, remove the samples from the freezer.
- Place the plastic bag containing the frozen urine samples into the provided insulated cooler.
- Place the provided frozen ice pack into the provided insulated cooler.
- Securely place the lid on the insulated cooler.
- Place the insulated cooler into the cardboard kit box.
- Place the requisition form into the cardboard kit box.
- Close the cardboard box.
- Place the cardboard box into the FedEx Clinical Pak.
Requisition & Payment
- Your kit has been prepaid. You DO NOT need to pay anything extra.
- Instructions on how to fill out your requisition can be found HERE.
- Since you pre-paid for your tests, you do not need to fill in the payment information on any of these forms.
Shipping
- Ship your sample as soon as possible.
- Keep your samples in the freezer until you ship the test kit back to the lab.
- Ship samples Monday - Friday only.
- To prepare your samples for shipping,
- Remove the samples from the freezer.
- Place the plastic bag containing the frozen urine samples into the provided insulated cooler.
- Place the provided frozen ice pack into the provided insulated cooler.
- Securely place the lid on the insulated cooler.
- Place the insulated cooler into the cardboard kit box.
- Place the completed requisition form into the cardboard kit box.
- Close the cardboard box.
- Place the cardboard box into the FedEx Clinical Pak.
- Place the provided prepaid label onto the FedEx Clinical Pak.
- Make a note of the tracking number so that you can track your samples back to the lab.
- Ship using FedEx.
- DO NOT place your sample in a FedEx drop box.
- You can schedule a FedEx pickup by calling 1-800-463-3339.
- At the automated greeting, say, "schedule a pickup."
- At the next prompt, say, "schedule a pickup with a label or stamp."
- You will be asked if the waybill says "stamp" - say, "yes."
- Then give your address information.
Results
- Results should be released to your provider 3-8 business days after samples are received at the lab. We cannot guarantee processing time.
- Your provider will notify you when your results are in and schedule a follow-up appointment for you to review them together.
More Resources
Questions?
For general questions, email Rupa Health at support@rupahealth.com. For test-specific questions, contact Doctor's Data by calling 800-323-2784 or emailing customer support at info@doctorsdata.com.