Did you tell the doctor that you are circumcised before he examines you?

That happened to me yesterday for the first time, the urologist asked me, while I was still dressed, what illnesses I had and he asked me if I had some genital surgery, he cited as example the foreskin (he did not use the word circumcision).

I told him in advance that I had been circumcised in childhood. It was in Europe, circumcision is not so common as in the United States for men of my age.

I was asked to list all of the surgery that I had over my life. "Tonsils, appendix" When I responded "None" the nurse looked at me asked "Weren't you circumcised?" I responded "No". She looked at me puzzled.

My new urologist asked me if I was circumcised when she started her genital exam. I’m loosely cut, so when I’m soft, it looks uncircumcised.

I didn't have to. My primary doctor saw that I was when he was doing my first annual physical exam.

The only time I told a doctor I was circumcised was during a physical with a new doctor after I had an emergency circumcision a couple months before. She examined my penis then looked at the computer right away so I knew my records hadn’t been updated. She said oh ok I thought your record said uncircumcised then she asked what led up to it.

Do medical records usually state circumcision status? Like, if I seen a new doc will it pop up on their computer that I pack a turtle neck?

Lex: Medical records generally list all surgeries done, so a circumcision should appear in this list. Except that, I think, many people don't consider a circumcision, especially a routine one at birth, as true surgery.

I guess it's been don't ask don't tell for me. I have never been asked and I expected they would be able to tell from looking. I'm kinda like that old joke: Boy? I walk in here tripping over my foreskin and you call me "Boy".

Do medical records usually state circumcision status? Like, if I seen a new doc will it pop up on their computer that I pack a turtle neck?

The various urologists that I had always mentioned the circumcision on the reports, except one.

My former GP, who had received a copy of some of these reports, gave me a summary of my medical condition when I changed to a new doctor. He did not mention circumcision, but he never saw my penis. I do not think it's useful to mention it 60 years later.

I got an internship for the second semester of my junior (third) year in college. I was required to have a physical before I started. The doctor was really grouchy and he has asked me to list all the surgeries I had. I replied that I had oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth, but other than that I had never had surgery. When he got to my genital exam and saw that I was circumcised, he got cross with me and said "What about this surgery?". I honestly had not considered my circumcision to be "surgery" and have no idea how my mentioning this at the start of my exam would have been useful.

I got an internship for the second semester of my junior (third) year in college. I was required to have a physical before I started. The doctor was really grouchy and he has asked me to list all the surgeries I had. I replied that I had oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth, but other than that I had never had surgery. When he got to my genital exam and saw that I was circumcised, he got cross with me and said "What about this surgery?". I honestly had not considered my circumcision to be "surgery" and have no idea how my mentioning this at the start of my exam would have been useful.

You were completely reasonable and honest.

Your doctor was an asshole.

I don't even have to explain why.

No, I've never mentioned circumcision status to a new doctor when I've gone in for first physical exam with them. When they get to that part of the exam they find out and usually note it in my record.

The only time I was asked was when I started to see a urologist. I've been to two and both had it on the form.

My current urologist had a space on the form for age of circumcision. He asked about me being circumcised at nine.

I've never mentioned it to a doctor before geting an exam. But, after doing the genital exam he would make some notes on my chart.

They read as follows:

-Circumcisrd male

-Testes descending bilaterally

-No inguinal or femoral hernias

I have never been asked about my circumcision status, nor have I ever thought it was relevant to mention to a doctor before he performed an examination.

I have always had sexual health checks on a regular basis as I was raised in a family and a country that spoke about safe sex. Every time I have been (generally every year) they have always asked the same questions about frequency of sex, how many sexual partners, etc, and whether I have been circumcised.

I’ve never undressed in these check ups, it’s more a quick questionnaire, go to the private bathroom and provide a urine sample and then a blood test.

I have recently been talking with a group of people I know who also get regular sexual health checks and I thought I would ask my cousin who was part of the conversation if they ever ask him any more questions. He said that they usually ask him at what age he was circumcised and a reason- to which he always answers medical reasons.

and whether I have been circumcised.

Be circumcised doesn’t exempt to use condoms, but this question about circumcision was perhaps to explain that. Some people could think that circumcision protects against STI.

Be circumcised doesn’t exempt to use condoms, but this question about circumcision was perhaps to explain that. Some people could think that circumcision protects against STI.

A widespread illusion in Africa apparently. I fear that missionaries spread untruths and half-lies about the supposedly 'protective' aspects of circumcision that clicks in well with the propensity towards promiscuous behavior on the part of males in sub-Saharan Africa.

On the face of it, uncovering the glans via circumcision, hardly seems the way to protect someone against stds or hiv. But as a meme it is apparently hard to resist, as it then supposedly absolves one from using other more obvious protective measures, like a using a condom for instance. Sadly, many males seem to think that 'real men' never use condoms. Selfish, unthinking behavior ...

I never mentioned being circumcised anytime I was asked about surgery I have had nor have I seen my status listed on my chart.

I think the only time is when they ask me for list of surgeries. I listed being operated on for phimosis.