Penis Exams

The current state of affairs in the United States is to distribute medical care amongst the specialists. Your PCP is just a coordinator. It sucks. My complete physical includes a trip to the PCP, cardiologist, urologist, nephrologist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist and podiatrist. Did I miss someone? . . . .

I guess I am lucky. My hypertensive specialist (nephrologist) is also my primary care physician. Once a year he does a complete clothes-off physical (well, I get to keep my briefs on until he is ready to look / poke / probe down there). The only other specialist I see is my orthopedic surgeon for the follow-up to my knee replacement.

We used to be the greatest country in the world. No more. We're becoming a third world nation in denial. For health care, that's what happens when medicine becomes corporate and government caters to those corporations.

The government is catering to the insurance companies. Medical insurers used to be mutuals, now they are for-profit corporations and a significant portion of the premium dollars are withdrawn from healthcare to pay corporate executive'sf salaries. And doctors, hospitals and patients are forced to play their game.

^^^^ That sort of crap is keeping the best and brightest minds OUT of medicine. One of our friend's sons who is a high school senior was going to go pre-med and then decided against it because he said there wasn't enough money to be made after all the years in training. My father-in-law said he has residents who are $500,000 in debt when they finish their programs.

If anyone has any practical, real world suggestions regarding where I can get a truly complete physical

I guess I'm just lucky, because my female internist still does a fairly completely exam. That includes me stripped down completely, and her doing a genital, hernia, rectal and prostate exam.

My only advice is to try another doctor for your next exam. First do some research using your insurance provider directory. Look at the female doctors on the list (internist or family practice depending on your preference), then search the web for each doctor that you might consider. Look at their web site, read reviews, read their own comments on their approach to medicine (most will say something about that on their web site), all of that. Then give one a try for your next exam. If you don't like that one, then next time try another. Wash, rinse, repeat until you find one that you think is thorough and (more importantly) competent!

Good luck.

My doctor does not usually check my penis at all unless there's a problem with it. Usually, she does a testicular exam, though. (I'm in that age range where testicular cancer is most common.) That's because I have bad knees and she's rummaging around my legs anyway, but there was a year where she examined nothing below the belt at all.

As for income and debt, as someone who has been in the arts with friends in the arts, the fact that we can't earn enough money to live on, let alone explore arts, cover supplies, related things and education debt has yet to stop us. Agreed, the total debt load is different, but those going into medicine can eventually make real money.

My female doctor always palpates my penis although very brief and (never long enough for me) while looking for anything suspicious and asking me if I've had any discharge before she moves to the testicular exam. I like it and I'm always semi erect by the time she finishes the testicular exam. I never had it done before I started seeing her. She's a keeper for sure!?

I seem to remember, my doctors always palpating my penis during a physicals. Some doctors more thoroughly, a couple mainly just retracted my foreskin. My current doctor palpates whole shaft (base to tip) then retracts my foreskin a few times. With my foreskin pulled back checks the glans and spreads open the meatus. Then checks if I have any discharge from my penis. After that, he checks my testicles, usually asking me I regularly check my testicles ending with the hernia check.

The only times a doctor has manipulated my penis was during an STI check.

I had some weird redness on the head of my penis a while back, so I went to a local STI open clinic. It turned out to just be caused by the harsh bodywash I was using at the time.

After taking a brief history, the doctor (40-ish mustached man) asked me to "go ahead and slip down your pants"

I stood up and complied, holding my tshirt up and out of the way, exposing myself from about my knees to my nipples. He held my penis in his hand for a long time, looking at the various trouble spots.

When he was done, I pulled up my pants, and he actually called in a second, much younger doctor in the clinic into the room for a second opinion. I thought he was just going to describe the problem, but to my surprise, the second doctor asked me to "please lower those, if you wouldn't mind"

Now I had two entirely clothed doctors, one older and one younger looking closely at my penis while the younger doctor held it and moved it around in his hand.

My first annual physical with my current PCP, he did a complete and very thorough genital exam. He started by asking me questions while looking, poking, and prodding my pubic hair and the area all around my genitals and lower abs. Then here grabbed my penis with both hands and moved it around in all directions, looking and gently palpating the entire length before he separated the urethral opening and looked inside. Next was a thorough testicular & scrotal exam, followed up with the hernia exam. He finished with me bent over the exam table for a prostate exam.

My second, most recent exam with him, he only did a hernia exam and prostate exam. So even with the same doctor, same reason for appointment (annual physical), it's a crap shoot what your going to receive. Although, I don't really mind this too much. I kinda like not knowing what's going to happen for sure until the big moment when it's all unfolding.

Like Bendover, my doctor spends a fair amount of time conducting a thorough genital exam for my annual physicals. He doesn't seem to deviate when seeing me for this type of exam. When I leave, I realize that I received a complete exam and still feel the KY between my crack.

I don't have any suggestions to your question, but I feel your disappointment. I have been seeing the same physician for 25 years and never once has he done an examination of my penis. He regularly examines my testicles and prostate and does a hernia check but no penis exam. I have to admit, I feel kind of frustrated about this.

I can't really recall having this as part of a normal physical exam (in fact the last few physicals they didn't even make me take my underwear off), but because of a reoccurring skin issue I've had down there, I've actually had a couple different doctors have to handle my penis to inspect the skin in that area. My regular GP was one of the ones who looked at me, and he actually stretched my penis out a little to be able to see more of the skin. after that I felt myself get a little bit hard, and after the exam was done I even noticed a bit of pre-cum had seeped out. Huff....

My female doctor always palpates my penis although very brief and (never long enough for me) while looking for anything suspicious and asking me if I've had any discharge before she moves to the testicular exam. I like it and I'm always semi erect by the time she finishes the testicular exam. I never had it done before I started seeing her. She's a keeper for sure!?

You sure do have a keeper. Mine will do a DRE only if I ask her to and never checks anything else but what she does with a stethoscope on top of my clothing. My previous doc had me strip naked and sit on the table while he checked me out but he never looked at/touched my penis.

I just got out of the hospital due to cellulitis and "severe sepsis" and went to "my doc" for a follow up. Actually I saw an ARNP not my doc. I have a sore spot on my penis behind the glans on the inner foreskin. I think I caused it using the plastic jug they called a urinal in the hospital trying to blindly get it positioned under my penis. After that I never peeled it when using that jug again. I want to show her the sore spot for professional advice but don't dare to because she will probably just want to send me to someone else. So I will just keep putting Cortisone 10 on it at home.

She just palpates it very quickly

Growing up I don't recall the doctor palpating my penis and had it happen maybe briefly once as an adult. I'm sure if I was uncircumcised it might have been a different story. I do wonder sometimes how the palpation would have felt like as a teen since I was either hard or at least semi during the genital exams. I'm sure I wouldn't have minded it 😉.

My internist has always palpated my penis during my yearly physical. Growing up, my pediatrician always examined my penis as well.

I can't say I have had this happen, up until I was a teen it was nothing more than a peak into the underwear, since then there have been a few physicals (definitely not once a year or even two years or three years), and this has never happened to myself.

The most a dr has done this to me waa my urologist. Always had hernia testicle exam. But something was different about this exam. Had a different doctor ended up pinching open the uretha tip of the penis looked in. Was suprised by it but ive been wanting an exam like that.

Almost something appeared in my left testicle, so I got scared and went to the urologist, but fortunately there was nothing dangerous, only a varicose vein, which should not be a problem, said the urologist.

I have had a few doctors spread apart the meatus which I like because it emphasizes the fact that my penis is being inspected. I have never had my penile shaft palpated however I did have one doctor take the shaft in his left hand and pull the skin taught by pulling down toward the base and then using the right thumb and index finger to spread the meatus.

For me, a typical physical always includes a penis exam. My doctor always thouroughly examined my penis beginning around 12. The exam would begin with having my penis palpated from the base to tip. He also moved my penis around in every angle. Since I’m uncircumcised, he’d ask if my foreskin was tight/loose then proceed to retract it 1 or 2 times also if my foreskin would automatically return covering my glans.

Most of my doctors would spread apart the meatus to me it emphasized the fact that my penis is being examined. Usually, with my foreskin pull back he’d spread or pitch open my meatus with his thumb and index finger. I had doctor that would spread my meatus open then run a finger down the opening across my urethra opening. I did enjoy it was an amazing feeling.

Once he was done he moved on to checking my testicles and give me a hernia exam,.

I’ve seen four different doctors for my yearly physical and all four examined my testicles, but never touched my penis.

When I was a child, in the annual exams with my pediatrician I always examined my penis, he pulled back the skin, looked at the meatus and the glans with some detail.

From the age of 14 there were no more examinations with the pediatrician, you were already going to the general practitioner and even on some occasions I examined the penis in one of the exams he did.

My genitals have never been examined in my job exams.

A few years ago, I underwent urgent phimosis surgery, several doctors came to see and thoroughly examine my penis in the emergency room, and it also coincided that the practice doctors had just joined the hospital and a few came to see it too. Later in the operating room he was also examined again in detail and other doctors in practice also came to see him. Then with the postoperative period, my penis was seen by many people, from nurses to doctors, in the hospital and in the outpatient clinic.

After this, I have never been tested in any of the exams I have ever had.

The truth is that it is a shame because it is one of the exams that I like the most.

When I was a teen my pediatrician always examined my penis and balls with the young nurse watching, in the room. Of course I was always naked laying on the table. With his cold hands and stethoscope bell. It was always a thorough examination, it seemed like forever but it wasn't. I was embarrassed and felt humiliated.

My doctor always examined my penis when i was a child. my foreskin was tight so at every exam he would try to retract my foreskin. I cried every time because it was really painful having my foreskin retracted.

They never spent that much time looking at my penis unfortunately. Usually they would just feel each testicle one at a time, then grab my penis and pull back the foreskin. Sometimes they would ask me if there was any discomfort while they were holding my foreskin back, which was embarrassing.

My penis and testicles were visually examined when I was a child but not handled. Adult exams included hernia check and manual inspections of both testicles and penis with a chaperone present. She opened the meatus of my urethra to look for discharge. She then examined my anus, anal canal, and prostate. My NP's no longer do that.

Well, I think men are lucky in that regard. Almost all women undergo a gynecological exam every year. But men—unless there is a very specific reason—hardly ever have to show their penis, I imagine, let alone have a doctor do anything to it. In my case, the last time was back in my school days; during the mandatory medical exam, the doctor or nurse would briefly pull down my underpants and take a quick look at my penis—quickly retracting the foreskin and sometimes briefly palpating the testicles. It was all over in less than 30 seconds. But as an adult? I’ve never experienced it since.

I can remember STD checks years ago towards the end of high school, in college, and in my 20s where my penis was thoroughly examined usually by a woman nurse practitioner which was mostly visual but occasionally one of them would squeeze the glans or other area to look at it more clearly unless I had an erection. The foreskin was always either pulled back by the NP or I was asked to do it as well. I hadn't had an exam like that until I saw a woman PA in my urologists office a few years ago and she said she wanted to feel for lumps or masses.

When I was in the Navy, every physical included a full genital exam, including retraction of the foreskin, checking patency of the urethra and condition of the glans, penile palpation, testicular/hernia and rectal exams. After I got out, usually on the initial visit, they would check the foreskin and glans, urethral patency, hernia/testicle/hernia/prostate exam. After that they may or may not do them all, unless there specific issue. When I went to a urologist, I got the full exam due to BPH and LUTS. Now, since my PSAs are normal and stable, they don't usually do DRE's and often skip the genital. My urologist monitors me via ultrasound after a bout of kidney stones that required laser removal, and that shows her my prostate size.

My penis and testicles were always thoroughly examined at my annual checkup when I was growing up. The doctor would pull down my underpants as I was laying on my back on the exam table and feel up and down the shaft of my circumcised penis which was usually erect by then after he'd pressed hard all around my belly feeling my intestines. Then he'd spread the tip to examine the meatus. Next he'd squeeze each testicle and dig his finger into the inguinal canal on each side and have me turn my face to the side and cough several times to check for a hernia. Then he'd lift my legs when I was younger to examine my anus or have me kneel on the exam table after I was about 4 years old for the anal exam. At first it was just a visual check but after I was about 4 years old he'd put on gloves , lubricate a finger with Vaseline and push his finger fully into my rectum, twisting his finger and feeling around inside. If my mother told him I was getting constipated quite often he'd recommend giving me a laxative or a glycerin suppository and if that didn't work to give me a hot soapsuds enema.