Guys: WHERE was your first rectal exam?

First one was at primary care. Yes it was expected as I went in for hemorrhoid problems.

When I was 20 years old I hadn't had a physical since I was in high school, like 16 years old. Maybe they thought I deserved it. It was a lady doctor and she saw it that I got everything that I deserved. Before she did it she said okay here comes the embarrassing part and I replied I'm not embarrassed at all do what you have to do. I didn't tell her that I really loved every minute of it.

Since my first one of 20 years old I have had I bet you at least 30 - 50 rectal exams. When I was a teenager I came down with irritable bowel syndrome was constipation and slow Transit constipation. I had a lot of rectal bleeding. So every time I went to the doctor they give me a record exam and they wiped the finger on that card that turns blue and shows that you have blood in there.

My first just before my prostate was operated so i was already old

Went to an ER for a terrible case of food poisoning while on vacation. Was horribly dehydrated. P.A. wanted to check for occult blood I believe. Just ad me pull pants down and roll on my side, quick in-and-out with a lubed finger.

Drs. Office during a routine physical, in my early forties.

At a Police Station i was 15

My dad's doctor, for s required school exam, in my early 20s. Totally unexpected!

Company's complementary annual physical. All of a sudden one year, they started doing them to me

Mine I was 13 and it was at the emergency room, I was severely constipated, I was having abdominal pains. A female pediatrician came in an asked me about bowel movements, palpitated my abdomen, and concluded I was very backed up. She wanted to do a rectal exam just to confirm, my mom stepped out, the dr called for a nurse to bring a tube of jelly, and she told me to take my pants and underwear off and get in the knee chest position on the bed. As I was getting in the bed the nurse arrived, the dr told me to relax as I hear the nurse squirting the lube on the drs finger. Told me to try and relax, it would be cold wet and some pressure. She’s asked me to bear down and in went her finger, she felt around and confirmed her findings ,told the nurse to get me a gown and that I would need an enema, she explained that to me or the alternative was manual extraction which sounds far less fun then the enema that didn’t sound fun either.

A while later I was taken up to the procedure room on the pediatric floor. I had to wait a few minutes before a slightly older girl was wheeled out, I heard her nurses tell her to use her bad pan if she wasn’t done so Im pretty sure she had just gotten an enema herself. They brought me in and had me back in the knee chest position hung the liter bag and inserted the nozzle. The one told me to try to relax and if the cramps got too much she could stop it for it to subside. Told me to take deep breaths and she started the flow. I had to have her stop it a couple times. I was told I needed to hold it 5 minutes, at 4 it became a struggle. At five minutes the nurses assistant was like you can go but if you can hold it a bit longer that would be better. I immediately carefully made my way to the pottie chair and let loose. The nurse returned and both checked the results and told me to try again. There was some more. They took me to a room with another boy about my age and told me I may still have some left and I would need a hour and half. I got a bedpan just like the girl before me. I ended up using it once and was taken back to the er. The dr came in asked if I felt better. She told me she was gonna check me again, she just had me roll on my side and did a very quick rectal and the ordeal was over.

A few years ago, the first test of this kind wasn't planned, and it was done in the hospital emergency room.

I was experiencing some symptoms, and the doctor (a woman) explained that she needed to perform the test to confirm the diagnosis.

I was ashamed of the situation.

My first was in my primary care physician's office, and since I was only 28 or 29, it was not expected.

It was 1973: Mine was in the emergency room of a children’s hospital. It was totally unexpected. I saw the nurse hand over a sheet to the doctor, which was a pop out plastic glove. The nurse then opened up a tube of cream which she applied on the tip of the doctor’s index finger. The doctor then disappeared from my sight but a moment later…

At my Doctor’s surgery when I had a fissure.

At my doctor's office during my annual physical.

I believe it to be when I got a thorough physical when I was 20 or 21. An object was inserted into my rectum, but not a finger.