Who went to pediatrician as a late teen and how did they treat you?

I was born in 1968 in a small town outside of a city in Kentucky we had a couple Doctors. Most of use had the same pediatrician birth -18 or so I guess the last time I seen her I was 15 . Then when I was 17 I switched to a family doctor back then I really didn’t think much about it mom went back did most of the talking to the nurse and the Doctor so you just did what was told then about 11 or 12 they switched to oral temperature from the rectal thermometer still big on antibiotic shots and suppositories

My mother made an appointment with my pediatrician for my required college entrance exam - I was 17 or 18, & wasn't very happy to undergo the physical with him conducting. Not because he was in any way creepy or untoward but because some family friend of my parents had referred to him as a "baby doctor" (which he was). He did the full penis & sac look-over too, pulling my briefs down to my knees as he sat in his swivel chair in front of me. I'm sure I was half-hard, at least - just from being so openly exposed. I was a sort of exhibitionist from a very early age, God knows. He had a tight little smirk on his face when he looked at my young adult penis - I remember thinking to myself, I'll bet you don't see very many adult dicks or adult bushes of pubic hair do you. I saw that he wrote down on the Exam Form, after smirking at my penis, and this is an exact quote: "A healthy young adult male."

At 16, my pediatrician told me that I needed to be referred to an adult gp, and that was that. My pediatrician never treated me like a child, or with any disrespect. He was actually a very kind man. I knew a couple of people who were of college age, and still went to a pediatrician during their breaks, while visiting their parents. One of them was briefly hospitalized in the pediatric ward, and they took her temperature rectally, every day. She was around 19 or 20, and she felt humiliated, but the nurses threatened her, every time she tried to refuse.

I saw my pediatrician from birth until 15 years old.

While the treatment was mostly the same I can tell that he always treated me like a child even as a teen.

Despite his specialty being adolescent medicine the one thing that stuck out to me the most was the fact that he always pulled my underwear down for me if it was a physical exam or if i was wearing regular clothing for a checkup he would still undo my pants and pull my underwear down for me regardless of my age.

He always would check my foreskin and not wear any gloves for the exam. He would wash his hands before and after the exam and again before the genital exam but still no gloves.

When i switched to different doctors they wore gloves and once I turned 18 I went to a general practitioner who asked me to retract my foreskin for him.

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It seems that we all experienced the pediatrician taking liberties and removing our pants and underwear for the genital exam.

There is something about the loss of control and being exposed that I find highly erotic. Did you feel the same when you were examined that way?

I find it interesting that the pediatrician didn't just ask us to remove the necessary clothing to perform the exam. Instead, the pediatrician acted like we didn't have a say in the matter and compliance was understood.

I felt aroused by the pediatrician taking control and not asking for permission to disrobe me. Did you feel the same when you were forcefully disrobeed?

At the time I thought it was normal. I don't let people put wooden sticks in my mouth, but the pediatrician always used a tongue depressor. Pulling down my undies just seemed like one more thing that only the pediatrician did, and I'd never think of someone else doing that. Considering that the entire exam up to that point, I had only been in my white briefs, including the nurse taking me for height and weight to the hallway at the shared scale, the pediatrician pulling down the undies when it was just him and my mom in the room seemed minor.

That's another thing that seems weird now, being stripped to your underwear and getting weighed and measured in the hallway.

I remember getting excited when an older teen girl was called back just before me. It meant that you were likely to see her stripped down and getting weighed and measured in the hallway.

Now, the scale is still in the hallway, but there's no undressing prior to getting weighed. I can't imagine as an adult seeing patients stripped to their underwear in the hallway.

I remember a female coworker at a job I worked in high school showing me her new tattoo. I asked her what her parents thought. She said that they didn't know about it. I asked her what she would do when she went to the doctor, and she said that her parents didn't take her to the doctor. It was a shock to me, since my mom insisted on coming to my doctor appointments.

@sensei1980 - very interesting question, thanks. Erotic? Yeah, I was certainly aware of the eroticism - if I remember right, it was already fairly erotic just standing in front of him in my briefs, as he was seated in his swivel chair & his natural eye level was at the crotch of my underwear anyway. (It would be later on in thinking about it all that I would wonder if the eye level was a preferred CHOICE of his. From his smirking, I tend to think now that it must have been. I mean, he could've been placed in front of me or over me in some other manner for the genital check if he had chosen. He was entirely in charge.)

When he pulled my briefs down in silence, there was definitely a feeling that I was onstage - being put in a situation where I was supposed to show off my pubic bush & penis & sac. Forced, basically - although I simultaneously understood that this was a standard, normal part of the Physical & there was nothing untoward. Even when his hand took hold of my cock & inspected the shaft & urethra thoroughly.

I remember two distinct positions that the doctor assumed during the standing genital exam. The doctor either sat on the swivel chair or stood facing me while examining my genitals. They both seemed equally erotic.

The standing position meant having to engage in small talk while standing naked and having the doctor examine your genitals. The conversation would abruptly stop when the doctor would announce, cough for me. Everyone in the room knew what was happening.

The seated position meant looking down at the doctor examining your genitals. It was very impersonal having the doctor eye level with your genitals. The silence would be broken when the doctor would announce, cough for me. Everyone in the room knew what was happening.

I changed from a pediatrician to a family doctor at 15. They were always good with me.

18 was the last time a saw the pediatrician back in the summer of 1980. It was just before I headed off to college and the college needed a copy of my medical records. Was given a quick check over and that was it. My 20 year old niece still sees her pediatrician and that will last until she is 21 at which point she will "graduate" to GP. Her pediatrician was an elementary and high school classmate of mine, and his mother had been my mother's Master's advisor in college. Small world.

I went to my pediatrician until I turned 17.

she still did all the things a ped does. Undressing from start, remove underwear, take temp in bottom. Like I’m still the little boy

At 17 age she took always your temperature rectally ? was a nurse present ?

did you have tried to complain and told to her to take it orally ?

what did she uses as argument to maintain the taken rectally in the butt?

in what year was it ? was it still common to take temperature recttally in family and doctor's offices ?

Well like I said before my pediatrician was a woman who crossed the line or at least was right on the edge. I believe she got pleasure from treating me like that.

For my mom doctors were like saints. What ever they said was.

I tried to argue but she said it is the most accurate way and I never knew it in a different way.

The same was with nudity. She said she seen boys many times and the results need to be accurate.

Back then I was not mature enough to question it.

I presume that she had been used to see boys naked , especially you if you went to see her each year until 17 age, it was not for her nor for you the first time ,so it was not so much embarrassing than with witth a new doctor

So at that time, she was not wrong when she answered to you that it was the more accurate way to take temperature , I Dint know if it was true or just a common idea but at my time of childhood and teenagehood, every medic person and parent thought and told that to justify the rectal temperature, may be it is diffent today since it is almost always orally ?

And she was used also to see your bare butt if you might strip completely at the start of the exam

How old was she ? rather like a mother ? if so , I presume that she patted a little yout butt in a maternal way ?

She was also right to say that she had seen a lot of boys butts and naked if she performed the exam in that way with all male teenagers.

Once you changed of doctor was it very different, you were no more instructed to strip immidiately at the start of the exam ? woman or man ?

You have had no mandatory school physical examinations as a teenager ?

I guess you are right. She was used to naked boys.

She was like 50 or so.

The exams were for school just not in school.

When i changed the doctor. I did not even have to take off anything. Maybe just shoes. So it was something very new

It's good to see that I'm not the only one who continued seeing a pediatrician well into my teens. I saw mine up to age 18 for my college physical.

While the doctors and nurses at the office mostly seemed to attempt to treat me in an age-appropriate way, there were certain details that proved to be infantilizing.

The nurses weighed and measured me in a separate room (fully clothed except for shoes), but I was instructed to get down to my underwear as soon as I was taken to an exam room.

They were good about allowing me to go back alone without a parent accompanying me, which was nice, but the office had undergone a redecoration when I was around 14. Prior to that, it was very bland -- maybe a medical poster on the wall if you're lucky -- but after the redecoration, I had the pleasure of enjoying choo-choo train wallpaper and teddy bear paper on the exam table.

I saw a few different doctors there, and they all talked to me in an age-appropriate way. I felt mature to be able to answer all of their questions myself, but it felt weird talking about the dangers of drugs and unprotected sex while sitting in my underwear.

Two doctors there did the genital and hernia exams with me standing during my exams there as a teen, which feels more "adult" than the one doctor who always did it with me laying on the exam table (when I was 16 if I remember correctly). But I actually preferred the laying down position. It seemed like it was easier for the doctor, and it always just felt awkward to me to have it done standing.

Only once (at 14) was I asked to lower my underwear myself. Every other time the doctors did it for me, though sometimes they did it in such a way as to minimize how much I was exposed, which seemed considerate.

At the time, I never even really thought about "graduating" to a grown-up doctor. This was my doctor's office, and since they were willing to continue seeing me, it never really occurred to me that I should maybe move on.

Mine in Mass. was an old lady, and she was a non nonsense kind of a doctor who had her practice running from her large house. She believed that video games are bad and waiting room only had books and few toys. I know they provided exam gowns for females but not for male patients. I was never examined with or in front of my sister, but I know that she was provided with a gown, and I always ended up completely undressed. She definitely differentiated treatment between genders.

whether it was a nurse or the doctor herself, I always had to strip to the skin for the exams. I ended up undressing to the skn even if I went for something else, like the cauliflower ear. I remember she also made detailed notes such as tanner stage and noted that I was uncircumcised on the exam form that I needed to participate in wrestling in high school. She always checked the foreskin every time, even when I was there for pus in my earlobe from wrestling.

I always tried to keep my briefs on, but I was always told to remove them before the exam, whether by the doctor herself or the nurse. She told me that since I wrestle, I should be checked for skin conditions, and probably that was an excuse. I remember she did make a comment as to how fit I was, and that it is good to see me physically active during one of the exams.

Definitely looks like the took advantage of her position. Getting a genital exam when you're having a problem with your ear seems rather ridiculous.

Mine in Mass. was an old lady, and she was a non nonsense kind of a doctor who had her practice running from her large house. She believed that video games are bad and waiting room only had books and few toys. I know they provided exam gowns for females but not for male patients. I was never examined with or in front of my sister, but I know that she was provided with a gown, and I always ended up completely undressed. She definitely differentiated treatment between genders.

whether it was a nurse or the doctor herself, I always had to strip to the skin for the exams. I ended up undressing to the skn even if I went for something else, like the cauliflower ear. I remember she also made detailed notes such as tanner stage and noted that I was uncircumcised on the exam form that I needed to participate in wrestling in high school. She always checked the foreskin every time, even when I was there for pus in my earlobe from wrestling.

I always tried to keep my briefs on, but I was always told to remove them before the exam, whether by the doctor herself or the nurse. She told me that since I wrestle, I should be checked for skin conditions, and probably that was an excuse. I remember she did make a comment as to how fit I was, and that it is good to see me physically active during one of the exams.

That is my fantasy exam. Being totally taken care of and babied.

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when you were examined by that old doctor, was the nurse also present beacause you said that sometimes it was the doctor who told you to remove your underwear and sometimes the nurse ?

Since you need a medical paper for high school wresling, did she performed a thorough exam of the skin ?

at high school did you have nevertheless other exams for being in the wrestling team ? or just before a meet with other teams, certainly a check of weight ( how was it performed in the nude or underwear? in private or in plain view of eveybody in the room, coaches, referres and son on ... and also a skin check ( how was it done in private or in public openly ? ° by female nurses ?)

Hi, I went there until I was 14. The doctor was a young woman. It always made me feel really embarrassed, especially when she examined my penis.

Related to this subject, this article appeared in The Washington Post several years ago and focuses on the trend of young adults continuing to see their pediatricians well into their 20s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/hes-26-years-old-but-still-sees-a-pediatrician-why-some-young-adults-dont-move-on/2019/08/16/2bcbbe4e-b92f-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

It's an interesting read, and it makes me want to talk to the people interviewed to learn more about their experiences, their thoughts, and their perspectives.

My pediatrician was creepy.

It was bad enough having her squeeze my testicles when I was a child. There's no way I would have let her do that as a teen.

At sixteen, my parents asked me to return to my old pediatrician for one last examination because he was about to retire. It felt rather strange to have a pediatric visit at my age, but I agreed, partly because he had followed me since early childhood.

The examination was surprisingly similar to the ones I remembered from when I was a young child. He asked me to undress completely as was customary during my childhood examinations.

He examined my penis and foreskin, assessing their condition and retractability, and then examined both testicles, checking their position, consistency, mobility, and volume with an orchidometer. He also asked me questions about my pubertal development and compared his findings with those recorded during my old records.

The most unusual part was the feeling of being treated, for the duration of the examination, almost like years earlier. I was sixteen and felt quite self-conscious, particularly because my parents were present, yet the examination followed the same orderly and careful approach I remembered from childhood and my phimosis issues.

At the end, he explained that my development was normal and that no further pediatric follow-up was necessary. It felt like both a medical examination and the closing of a chapter with the doctor who had looked after me throughout my childhood.

He treated me as he always had, friendly, professional, thorough. When I last saw him at 18, I assumed I wouldn't be getting the usual exam, that we'd just have a chat about navigating my health going forward, at college and beyond. We did talk about that, but he still did the same physical exam he always had. Still embarrassing after all those years 😇

I had the same doctor until she retired. She had been treating me since I was little, and she was a pediatrician (although she wasn't specifically just a pediatrician).

Her attitude clearly changed over the years. I saw her often, like 3-4 times a year, for various reasons, but I had a general check-up at least once a year.

I remember some things well, such as the fact that she only took my temperature rectally. Whenever I was sick, whether at the office or when she came home, she always took it rectally.

Another detail, however, was specific to me: since I often took enemas, at every check-up she would ask me (and often also the person I was with) about my bowel movements, when and how I took the last ones, and how I was doing. All of this was always followed by an external rectal check, sometimes an internal one. When I was very little, this happened in the diaper position, later in the knee-chest position.

I also wrote about it here...

https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=blog;ox=showpage;pg=9200

My pediatrician was creepy.

It was bad enough having her squeeze my testicles when I was a child. There's no way I would have let her do that as a teen.

@Yevgrov What exactly made her creepy? I think I might know, but I'd like to hear it from you.

@Yevgrov What exactly made her creepy? I think I might know, but I'd like to hear it from you.

@sensei1980 Her office was dimly lit, smelled strange. She was really short and cold, never explained anything.

She shared an office with her husband, a different specialist, who was sort of a gnome, slowly creeping along the wall in the hallway.

She would do the usual exam stuff, then tell me to lie down on the table. Then she would roughly shove her hand inside my underwear, squeeze one testicle, and then the other. No explanation, nothing.

After a few years, I sort of looked forward to it, but as I got older, I decided, nope, no more.

She would do the usual exam stuff, then tell me to lie down on the table. Then she would roughly shove her hand inside my underwear, squeeze one testicle, and then the other. No explanation, nothing.

@Yevgrov The without warning and without explanation part was always embarrassing and weird for me. It made me feel like a piece of meat. I did eventually come to enjoy it.