Hi everyone,
I have suffered from paruresis to varying degrees my whole life. I mostly have it under control now. What I find helps is just being completely honest and open about it, for example, if I am out with friends I will say to them ''I need to wee, don't wait for me or I won't be able to go, just walk ahead'' and then I am able to go. Just to be encouraging this condition used to ruin my life all the time now I have it mostly under control and it is usually a non-issue, it is 100% definitely possible to improve.
However there are certain situations I am not able to go, 'high pressure' situations, you know the kind I mean.
Recently I have been thinking of immigrating to Canada and as part of the process you have to have a medical examination which includes giving a urine sample. I am about 90% positive I wouldn't be able to produce one on demand. I have read various scenarios one is they give you just 4 minutes to produce one, I would find that impossible.
Has anyone else been through this kind of thing and if so what happened? Was anyone able to get an exemption or anything like that? It is so frustrating. I understand it is to check for gnooreha which I am 100% sure I don't have so it is annoying that this stupid condition could literally prevent me from immigrating.
I have already emailed several panel doctors who carry out the exam but haven't recieved a reply yet, I was just wondering if any of you guys had dealt with this and what happened. Can you get an exemption from the urine test?
Hope you are all well, many thanks.
6 months 1 week ago