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

I still remember going to pediatrician at 17-18 yo. They still treated me like I was 7. Hop up on table. The nurse undressed as if I couldn’t do it myself. My mom sat in the room and watched. Nurse first took off shoes and socks, then my shirt and undershirt, then I was told to lay down in the table. Nurse unbuckled my belt and Pants and took them off leaving me only in tighty whities. As I laid on the table on my back My mom sat there and looked at me with my erection and I was so embarrassed. So nervous. I couldn’t help it but there was nothing I could do about it. Anyone else have a similar story?

I went to my pediatrician until I turned 20 because I was used to her and the way she did things since age 10, but once I was living off campus at college year round I stopped going to her. She always had her nurse in the room after I turned 16 to "assist", but more likely because my step mother now either waited in the waiting room during the exam or I drove myself. The nurse observed all exams just like my step mother had, but even at a prior pediatrician I was never undressed by a nurse or doctor except the doctor would always take down my underwear at the end even when I was an older teen. The nurse would instruct me to strip to my undies upon entering the room but I was never offered a gown but this was in the late 70s to 1980.

Yes, I went until 17. I especially hated the cartoon wallpaper that I was forced to look at while lying down being examined. The physical itself was nearly identical each year from about age 10-11 on. I was very cognizant of this when I’d notice that even at like 15 years old, I was being treated still like a 10 year old.

I know this sounds weird but as much as I complained to my mom about going to the doctor and being exposed and examined I really like it. I’m not sure how to explain that. I’d really like to know why or exactly what happened to me that caused this. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate it now but it has never ever gone away. I think about it a lot and I just don’t know why. And nobody really knows. We’re those of us with this just born this way? lol. Sounds like we are plagued or diseased.

I really hated going to the doctor as a kid. It was only when I was in my teen years and realized it turned me on immediately after the appointments.

Yes, I have similar experience as you @Medfun1957.

I went to the pediatrician until my freshman year in college. I remember hating being exposed and examined, but somehow I was turned on. I was eleven or twelve when I saw the exam scene in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. I immediately had a throbbing erection similar to those I experienced at the pediatrician. It was then that I realized that I had a medical fetish. Exams became more fun after that as I allowed myself to enjoy them and get swept up in the moment.

I went to the pediatrician until I graduated college. Every time I went in you would hear crying and screaming, most likely from kids getting a penicillin shot. It felt strange in the waiting room with a bunch of younger kids, although they were some my age as well. The nurse would always have me undress to my underwear. Gowns did not exist in that office. I needed a parent/chaperone through 18 years old. Sometimes the nurse would talk to you through your parent, such as have him undress down to his underwear. Also through 18 years old everyone got their temperature taken rectally, whether there on a sick visit, or routine physical. Even when in college and they started taken it orally, if my temperature was high, like 102 or so, they would “get another reading” rectally.

I could be wrong, but it always seemed like the nurses enjoyed shaking down the rectal thermometer, and they would always put a huge glob of Vaseline on the thermometer, far more than necessary. They would hold the thermometer in place, and from time to time pat your backside while waiting for the reading.

Doors were always completely or partially open, offering no privacy from anyone walking the hallway. I will admit I saw my share of kids as well in similar fashion. I always hated the words “I need you to lie down on the table and turn over on your tummy.” When you are in that position nothing good is going to happen.

After the temperature taking I would be told to remove my undershirt and sit on the table to wait for the doctor. They were very thorough back then. Everything was examined, and eventually you had to take your underpants off as well for further examination. I remember when the doctor seemed finished I was about to put my underpants on, and he told me not yet. The nurse is coming in with medication, which meant a shot.

It was always one embarrassment after another, and while I absolutely hated it, the fetish somehow kicked in, and it was most pronounced between 13-26 years old.

Now, while getting a bit older, I don’t really take my temperature everyday like some people here, but the memories will never fade.

The nurse would instruct me to strip to my undies upon entering the room but I was never offered a gown but this was in the late 70s to 1980.

I think that exam gowns were pretty much unheard of back then. I never was given one even when told to strip naked, and no one (boys) that I know ever got one. Perhaps girls did but I never talked to girls about their exams.

I still remember going to pediatrician at 17-18 yo. They still treated me like I was 7.As I laid on the table on my back My mom sat there and looked at me with my erection and I was so embarrassed. So nervous. I couldn’t help it but there was nothing I could do about it. Anyone else have a similar story?

I went to a pediatrician through the end of high school, so so almost 18 years old. The nurse did not undress me as you relate but I had to strip down to just my tighty whities or later, boxer shorts. Those came off almost immediately after the doctor walked into the room, which was not unusual back in the '60s and '70s. Lots of friends had their physicals that way, too. And like you, my mom sat in the exam room the whole time, too. The same was true for all of my friends at least until 16 so it must have been a statewide policy.

My Pediatrician subspecialized in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine so I saw her from age 11 until I finished college at 22. She treated me age appropriately and was very compassionate and kind. The foster care system system gifted me with anxiety, insomnia and low self esteem. She helped me develop some coping mechanisms. She also pulled no punches and was completely honest when an unpleasant course of treatment such as an immunization was on the agenda.

I don’t remember going to a pediatrician. Our family doctor saw all of us, my folks, sisters and me up until I left home. Apparently the GPs back then were more comprehensive, but less specialized.

Tighty Whiteis Now

same for me in France , we we were never given a gown, it was not the policy of doctors ( and it is the same today) either we were in just briefs either naked ( not much often ay a private doctor's office because we had each year a complete mandatory physical examination at school or for sport or summer camp, they knew it, so it was not necessary normally to perform a complete check up from head to toes, even if some did it nevertheless)

we were told by the nurse or the doctor to undress after 10 age but like you we were instructed to undress as soon as we engtered in the exam room and we stayed undressed for all the exam including parts which did not require it and even sometimes while sitting on a chait during questions of the doctor

normally our mother was always present, the doctors required generally her presence until 18 age

"Fontana"

it is true that in the 60's and 70's and may be even after , the most common way to take the temperature of a child or a teen or pre teen was the rectal way because it was considered as more accurate and easy and there was no concder about a boy exposing his butt

I don't know if the nurses enjoyed it but I remember well that they did like for you and were patting a little my backside while waiting for the result with the thermometer inserted in my butt

I could be wrong, but it always seemed like the nurses enjoyed shaking down the rectal thermometer, and they would always put a huge glob of Vaseline on the thermometer, far more than necessary. They would hold the thermometer in place, and from time to time pat your backside while waiting for the reading.

Before the age of 5 I don't remember any doctors or doctor visits. But when we moved our family had a General Practitioner who took care of all of us - adults through new born. With a small hospital in town we had most issues covered. With no specialist needed at that time.

Went to my pediatrician through high school, and yes it was always the same as when I was a kid for physicals. Taken to an exam room that still had the same barnyard animal wallpaper from when I was a kid. Usually had the same nurse for those and she'd tell me to undress to underwear and then she'd do the vitals, ask preliminary questions, ask for any forms I needed. She'd leave and doctor would come in later and ask a bunch of questions before doing a thorough and detailed exam with both the doctor and nurse in the room.

The main place my parents were taking me and my brothers by my teens was a large-ish clinic that had a bunch of doctors. Some were pediatric and others were more focused on adolescents, but a lot of the rooms had some pediatric decor and the waiting room had toys for younger kids and games for older kids.

"I still remember going to pediatrician at 17-18 yo. They still treated me like I was 7. Hop up on table. The nurse undressed as if I couldn’t do it myself. My mom sat in the room and watched."

No way I would have accepted either one of my parents being present during an exam like this at that age.

But being examined like a young child at that age.... Well yes. I'd probably have had butterflies in my stomach 😃

I went to my pediatrician through my early 20s. My experiences were pretty uneventful. Weight check, vitals, disrobe to underwear, go through the exam, then drop trou for the hernia check. Nothing too serious, and didn't have a medfet (or if I did, didn't realize it) at the time, nor had I come out to myself as bi. Had I had either of those realizations at that time, the exams would have been more exciting.

One of my last appointments with my pediatrician was the first time I was offered a gown. They asked me to disrobe to my underwear. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for me I had chosen to go commando under sweatpants that day, so my too-short pediatric gown was just long enough to conceal the boys down south, and created a slightly awkward situation when he asked me to drop my underwear.

I went all the way up until I was 18. Exams stayed pretty consistent throughout the years, strip to underwear, no gown. The only difference was I started Getting my testicles examined.

I went to the pediatrician until the end of high school. My last visit was my physical for freshman year of college, summer after I graduated high school. The thing I remember hating the most about going to the pediatrician as an older teen was the exam table was so small that I always had to bend my legs, but still I was a tight fit on the table and felt like I was going to fall off

I went to my pediatrician until I was 20, my last appointment at the office was almost a year ago. I was treated normally and was seen to a room by a nurse like always. I did start to feel a little to old to be there tho. The room had cartoon characters posted on the walls and kinda childish graphics abt washing your hands and stuff. There was even a scale and table for what seemed like infants, super small and in the corner of the room. The nurse took all my vitals and asked if I was taking any new meds. When she got up to leave she told me that everything had to come off expect for underwear while I wait for the doctor to come in. She asked me if I wanted a gown to change into or if I was ok in my underwear. I told her I was fine to wait in just my underwear since it felt kinda inconvenient to have her go grab a gown for me. Plus I’ve gotten used to just being in my underwear for my pediatrician who is a middle age guy and I didn’t really care since it was just him that saw me in just my briefs. I had just came back home from school and didn’t pack that many pairs of underwear so I was sorta only left with these CK white briefs. They aren’t the old grandpa ones tho more like hip briefs but still. Anyway, after taking off my clothes I was kinda embarrassed to just be sitting on the exam table waiting in only my briefs. After like 10mins my pediatrician knocks on the door and asks if he can come in. The physical goes normally, asking about drugs/sex etc, checking breathing and heart, having me stand and bend so he can check my spine. Then he asks if he can preform a Testicular check and I say that’s fine. He puts a glove on his hand and with the other hand he grabs my waistband and pulls my underwear down so that he can feel for “lumps and bumps” and then he checks for a hernia asking me to cough. After he’s finished he lets go of my waistband and says that all I need is a booster shot and I’ll be good to go. He tells me that a nurse will be in shortly to give it to me and to wait on the table. At this point I haven’t really processed what he meant. I was sort of in patient mode and just doing whatever he said without much thought. So I just chill on the table while he leaves. A minute goes by and I’m wondering if I have time to get my pants on before a nurse comes in and sees me in these tighty whites. I’m starting to get anxious just thinking abt it. I was deciding if it’s worse to be caught in my underwear messing w my pants or just sticking it out on the table when the nurse knocks and opens the door into the room. I impulsively move my hands to cover my crotch area where the white fabric didn’t really hide a whole lot. Bad decision. I think I caught the nurse glance at me and smile while looking away but it was hard to tell with the mask over her face. Regardless, at this point I can’t be more embarrassed and I do my best to cover it. The nurse is a complete professional while giving me the shot and then says I’m all set to leave after she’s done. Kinda wish I took her up on the gown if I knew she was gonna be seeing me in my underwear as well 😭

I went until I was 15. Around that time I started going into the exam room alone. I wouldn't have had a problem continuing to see a pediatrician until I was 18, though.

I went to my pediatrician throughout most of college...I changed a few years ago to an adult doctor when I was around 21...for my pediatrician experiences you can check my posts

I also went to my pediatrician as a late teen.....even into early adult. I saw him until I was 21. I wasn't suppose to see him at 21 but I need a physical for camp and there wasn't any doctors upstairs (where the Internal Medicine Doctors were) so I was able to get away with seeing him but they said that was the absolute last time. And my physicals then were just like the ones with him I had growing up, stripped to my underwear, pulled back the front of my underwear while I was lying there, and asking all the embarrassing questions. Hernia was the same as when I was a teen, he'd pulled down the front of my underwear as I stood in front of him; a couple times he'd ask me to pull them down myself.

I went throughout college to my pediatrician. There were two docs in that practice, a husband and wife. In addition to their normal office they along with a group of other pediatricians, I recall five or six of them, had an after hours (and weekends) clinic in another location. As a teenager the doctors always saw me in the exam room alone and would chat with whichever parent drove me to the appointment after the exam was over. When I started to drive in high school I went to appointments on my own.

Whether you were at an appointment for an annual physical or an illness the routine was the same. Nurse told me to strip down to underwear, no gown, she would be back to do vitals before the doctor came in, nurse would leave the exam room to let me undress. When she came back in, pulse, blood pressure and rectal temperature.

It was always a toss up if I saw husband or wife doctor. Annual physical included testicular exam and hernia check with underwear pulled down.

If you needed to get a shot, it usually went in you butt.

On a regular basis, 16. However, home from college I suffered an minor eye injury from a low hanging tree branch. My mom called and he was able to see me immediately. He gave me some eye drops which stopped the pain, an eye patch, and a tetanus shot in my arm which hurt a lot.

Some of the experiences posted here sound like horror stories, but I remember a girlfriend from college who was 19, and had minor surgery during her summer break, while living with her parents, in another state. I drove out to visit her, and was shocked when she told me that she was in the hospital pediatric ward, and had her rectal temperature taken every day. I was 20, and she and her mother were surprised, when I told them that my pediatrician stopped seeing me after my 16th birthday, and insisted that I be referred to an adult general physician. She told me that she was humiliated and embarrassed being with children, and having to submit to rectal temperature checks, which she never had at home after age five, or at any other time.

Although I didn’t see a paediatrician as such, I was examined regularity all the way through school until I was 18. The process was very similar throughout, stripped to underpants before the exam started, examined from head to toe, including dropping my underpants for a genital exam.

I saw my pediatrician until I was 19. He was always respectful and I didn't have any issues with him. He pretty much treated me like an adult after I was 16.

I like others saw mine up until my 19 year old

Physical. There were only a couple differences from what I could tell. I was given the choice to have a parent. I went alone since the first physical with her at 13. Which brings the next big difference no gowns the physical in your underwear, until it was time for the genital exam. The underwear came completely off to finish out the physical. The other significant part was there was always one of the nurses chaperoning.