What is the moment you most anticipate in an exam?

What is the moment you most anticipate in an exam- the taking off of clothes? The questions? The hand slipped into the band of your underwear? The cold of the stethoscope on your chest? The gentle push of the finger into your anus?

When the dr tells me to lay back and open my knees, then I see him looking at me there.

For me, it's the verbal description of something intimate.

I vividly recall a doctor telling me "lower your pants and underwear to around here" and demonstrating with her hand around mid-thigh, and immediately my heart started racing as I knew it was going to be an intimate exam.

The verbal element is always most exciting to me, the little word choices, comments, instructions. That's what stands out in my mind.

Definitely the stethoscope exam. I’m sure my doctor can tell my hear beats irregularly due to the sight of stethoscope around her neck.

To me, the most anticipated moment is when I lie back, typically wearing only underwear, and prepare for the abdominal exam. I love the feel of a cold stethoscope and then a hand pressing deeply on my stomach.

And of course, the abdominal exam is usually the gateway to the genital and rectal exams.

So the abdominal exam is when you know it's "getting good." 😉

When i was younger it was when the doctor either lowered my underwear or asked me to lower it. Now that only happens in the occasional play exam.

Honestly it’s a tie between finding out how much they ask me to undress from the start, as well as that moment when the waistband is moved/touched

Warm fingertips inching lower on my belly, approaching the waistband of my panties.

The spreading of the buttocks, then the insertion of the finger in the anus.

I always get the most anxious of having my boxers lowered...I am lying down and know it's coming but always hate the anticipation because of how embarrassed I am and nervous for that part.

Leaving with no bad news!

A few things for me. Being listened to over my chest, it's rarely cold these days, but airing there being asked to take deep breaths in and out a my chest moving up and down as the doc moves their stethoscope about.

Then the abdominal exam. Them saying in a childish way "OK Scott, I'm just going to have a listen to your tummy now".

Finally when they say "I'm going to examine your genitals now, could you take off your boxers for me please."

I have not had as through exam as I have always wanted ever but I feel like the part I would most anticipate would be the rectal/prostate exam! I would love to feel the clinical feeling of having my butt penetrated and my prostate rubbed as they commented on it in a super clinical way.

It can depend on the exam. For all exams, I would say it's the entrance of the doctor into the room. In my gown, maybe just panties on underneath, sometimes nothing underneath, and I'm sitting on the edge of the table, legs dangling, anticipating what will come next in my examination. My heart races every time! It doesn't matter if I'm familiar with my doctor, have a good synergy with them, or they're completely new, my heart races fast just the same, especially knowing that all I've got on is my gown.

It's the vulnerability, I believe. It's also the uncertainty. Now, if it's a rather intimate exam, like a gynecological examination, I further anticipate that moment part of my gown has to be parted, lowered, raised, etc. Now I'm having to remove the only barrier I have and expose a part of me to my doctor. Certainly if I'm in stirrups, and then the drape that was placed over my lap is now raised. Again, it ultimately comes to the feelings of vulnerability, that I anticipate the most.

It's a two fold set of expectations. First is the awareness that I will hear, "Let's have you undress for the doctor. You can leave your briefs on for now." As the process continues, the moment arises when I am told, "Lift up with your hips (as my briefs are lowered) to the pivotal moment of "Remove your briefs."

The moment of anticipation when the doctor first hints that a genital exam is going to be happening is exciting. The last few times I was fully clothed and the embarrassment of unzipping your pants in front of her and pulling your underwear down, holding them for her to look and touch you

When the urologist tells you to take off all your clothes and put on the examination gown.

For me it’s the moments when I’m supposed to remove my underwear while she puts on her gloves.

I watch the gloves go on, knowing what they’ll touch, have to undress, and confront my penis, often pulled in from the cold of the office, all in a few brief moments.

For me its the cold hands on testicles moment- especially if they are freezing cold- bringing back memories of my school medical where I was eventually naked on the couch after my doctor examining me on the pretext of checking my appendix scar and eventually removing my pe shorts to get me completely naked. Then the anticipations of "I'm not going to get a hard on" but the inevitable eventually happened and he proceeded to caress my testicles as well as examining the tightness of my foreskin and of course the unavoidable happened! He congratulated me on being well developed!

When I have to remove my underwear and understand I shall remain naked until the end of the examination. During the examination when the penis is retracted.

To get out of a changing cabin completely in the nude because it was required by a paper on the wall if I had not seen before the doctor woman or man and felt very vulnerable

it happened only when I was a young man !

The most anticipated moment is when I get the instruction to expose the penis and scrotum for examination. As @KC_Patient mentioned, the abdominal exam usually directly precedes the genital exam, so when I am told to lie back, I begin to have this anticipation. I am waiting to hear the exact phrase the doctor uses to instruct me to expose my genitalia.

I would say the genital examination. My primary care physician is rather young and I always did think she was pretty even when I was younger. I always anticipated the part where she has me lay back on the examination table while she fondles my penis and testicles.

Having to remove my underwear exposing my genitals to be examined by the female pa who does my physical. This is followed by bending over the table for the dre/ prostate exam.

It's definitely the moment the genital exam turns into the DRE for me. "Ok, lean in all your elbows. sorry about this. A little cold gel. keep breathing for me". I'm initially facing away as he prepares. I can hear the cap of the lubricant flip open behind me and my doc rolling his stool back over to the exam table. The initial insertion feelings of wet cold pressure, followed by pressure on my prostate.

When I was at school, it was the anticipation of having my underpants being lowered and the doctor examining my genitals. Now I’m older, the genital exams are more an examination of my testes, but the anticipation is for the rectal exam.

Leaving with no issues or follow ups.

When my blood pressure and pulse get taken or when the exam gloves get put on by my doctor.

Waiting for the doctor to come in and then the feeling when he/she opens the door. Also undressing and putting on the gown/vest.

At our PCP it is that everything is okay, no outstanding issues to deal with. Also anytime she better explains an issue. Puts it in simple, normal people speak.

The kidney doctor, nephrologist, saying all is well or at least stable. Blood work is just fine. "See you in 6 to 9 months."

The cardiologist is the same. He hears or sees no issues in the blood work, echos, EKGs, or any test he has performed.