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reminds me of that great scene in "porridge" when Ronnie Barker is 'admitted' for his physical - he enters the doctors room and the doc says see that glass over there I want you to pee into it - "what from here says Ronnie"? standing five fee away!
My gp surgery gives a small plastic cup, on request. UCLH gave me a big plastic jug (sterile and wrapped), on both occasions.
I got a device similar to that, on scrip from the gp, (in fact they gave me two), but don't know if it would be classed as sterile enough to pass urine through for a test.
What bugs me about this sort of thing is, whenever us ladies need to give a sample, we are mostly given a stupid, narrow receptacle, no wider than a test tube, and expected to aim !!! Hasn't any bright spark designed a fool-proof receptacle for women in this day and age?
There is a much better "catching" container for bitches for veterinary use than there is given to us!
It always rather amused me that though, as you say, we get these silly pots to pee into, but the army is supplied with things like the she-wee for this purpose. Funding issues, anyone?
As a frequent Guinness drinker I never had any problems when I had to stand and deliver, it keeps all the body fluids circulating properly then it's a simple matter of turn on turn off.