Uncircumcised guys tell us if your doctor retracts the foreskin

I am uncircumcized and have quite a long foreskin. Everytime I had a medical examination at school, my foreskin was retracted by the doctor. I was then standing in front of the doctor, who lowered my briefs to my knees. Once my genitals were examined while I was lying on an examination table. The doctor - female - also rectracted my foreskin.

When I went for my army medicals (still had to do national service) I had to enter the doctor's office completely naked. He also retracted my foreskin maximaly ! It was embarrassing each time but I understood it had to be done !

My family doctor often rectracted my foreskin during home health visits when i was a child and encoraged my mother to do it regularly as he felt my foreskin was difficult to retract.

My roleplay doctor performs full retraction of my foreskin during my genital exam and holds it retracted while he stimulates me with his vibrating instrument to take my semen sample.

Only way to really examine the glans and urethra.

Mine was retracted several times by doctors during puberty, and you can't imagine how embarassing this was and how bad it felt (with still having a tight foreskin being still partly stuck to my glans).

Here also, during every school exam, development follow-up exam as well as military services exam, my foreskin was retracted completely at least once by the doctor

This didn't happen to me during school medical visits because after having had phimosis surgery at 6, it was clearly visible that I could easily retract my foreskin.

My primary care female doctor almost never inspected my genitals.

During a routine visit to my female dermatologist, a few days before I had noticed some redness on my glans and on the inside of my foreskin, so I spoke to her about it and at the end of her inspection she asked me to show her the problem. So I retracted my foreskin to show her. These rednesses were in fact due to the use of a too aggressive soap.

I'm not sure she would have taken the initiative to retract my foreskin herself...

I am already too young to have had school examinations during my school years.

But I had a check-up at the pediatrician when I was 13. And yes, the doctor pulled back my foreskin there. At the examination at 16, I was asked to do it myself. Both examinations were embarrassing for me, although the one at 13 was more embarrassing than the one at 16.

For the military examination, I was only instructed to do it myself. Since then, nobody has been interested.

However, I haven't been to a urologist yet.

Honestly anytime I had to have a genital examination I purposefully retracted the foreskin to appear cut prior to pulling down my underwear for the doctor. I didn't want them to know I was uncut because I was very embarrassed about it.

I pull mine back if need be before an exam that includes my genitals.

@Bluefire4 But there's still quite a visible difference between a circumcised penis and an uncircumcised one with foreskin pulled back isn't it?

@Jacana

You're right, but depending on a man's anatomy, a retracted foreskin might look like a very loose circumcision, especially if the man is a grower. So if the doc is not examining the penis itself (or just doesn't care enough to take a closer look or think about it), it might get unnoticed.

@Bluefire4 and @EnjoymentIsFun when do you retract your foreskin? As you are dropping the shorts or prior to dropping them? Do you think you appear to be circumcised?

@exam_doc I ensure that mine is pulled back while I’m in the exam room waiting for the doctor to come in, so it’s already done prior to dropping my shorts. I don’t think it appears markedly different from a circumcised penis, but it probably is more apparent that I’m uncircumcised upon close inspection.

@EnjoymentIsFun are you attempting to make the doctor think you are circumcised?

@exam_doc not at all, rather it’s because an examination of my penis, when done, has been focused entirely on the head. Having my foreskin pulled back beforehand simply facilitates that.

I can’t remember honestly at my last urologist visit. But since my foreskin retracts easily I tend to pull it back most of the time. So it might have been already retracted. At least I don’t recall my doc taking my penis and retracting my foreskin. Maybe be next time I should make sure to have it pull over my gland and see what happens.

I have experienced both, but more often than not, the doctor will retract it. I never was particularly embarrassed because it just always was that way. It might be embarrassing if I was not so scrupulous about penile hygiene. Not quite an obsession, but something I am very aware of.

At aged 4 I had X-rays and a VCUG for bed wetting. My foreskin was retracted at a children’s hospital visit beforehand.

Until puberty I had UTI infections and my family GP would retract my foreskin to check every few months. There would be return visits after antibiotics and an ointment if I had an infection.

He never carried out a full genital exam on me, only retracted my foreskin.

The first pediatrician I had from birth until I was 15 years old would always do it. If i was wearing clothes and it was a checkup he would undo my pants for me and retract my foreskin. If it wasn't perfectly clean he would point it out to my parent who was in the room until I turned 11. Once i turned 15 I went to a different doctor. He retracted it for me as well. at 16 I had a different doctor and he was the first to ask me to do it and the doctor I went to once i turned 18 has always asked me to do it. Not embarrassing because I was used to it happening at all ages.

I have never had my foreskin retracted during a medical examination. The few examinations I've had, the family or school doctors didn't look inside my underwear. Once at school, my testicles were palpated and then checked by the family doctor, but never my foreskin.

I remember once at primary school there was some sort of health check where we had to strip down to our undies. Then someone (a nurse or doctor, not sure which) basically went down the row of boys and examined our genitals. I remember both my testicles being manipulated and foreskin being retracted. Think I must have been quite young, maybe 6 or 7.

I can’t remember what happened when I was much younger, but all my exams since high school have been a quick testicular check followed by a hernia check. I wish they would do a more thorough exam of my penis, checking the shaft and pulling back my foreskin. But so far no.

I wonder when my phimosis was diagnosed; was it during one of these compulsory "scheduled physicals" that were mentioned in the health booklet or doing a school physical? I think there is one compulsory one at 6, which would be coherent.

As I've mentioned in a few posts, I've rarely been examined by a doctor.

I particularly remember the school doctor, a woman of a certain age, who examined me when I was 3 and 6. Without asking, she pulled my underwear aside with one hand, and I looked at my mother, who said nothing.

This doctor examined me with her other hand, first my testicles, then she retracted my foreskin, pulling it back as far as possible, while asking if it hurt. Then she put it back in its original position. Both of these situations were awkward and embarrassing.

A few months ago, my GP examined me, then my urologist, and finally my dermatologist. They retract the foreskin themselves. While it's true that it's a little embarrassing, this is different. On the one hand, I am the applicant, and on the other hand, they need to look into it to determine what my current illness is, and what its follow-up is.

I have never had my foreskin retracted during a medical examination. The few examinations I've had, the family or school doctors didn't look inside my underwear. Once at school, my testicles were palpated and then checked by the family doctor, but never my foreskin.

What you're describing here are differences in how doctors in different countries or regions approach physical examinations. Growing up in Europe, I do not remember a single time when a doctor asked me to remove my underwear, let alone examined my penis or testicles. Once or twice, he simply pulled on the waistband and looked inside.

American doctors are trained differently. Each time you go for a routine physical, you can expect the doctor to examine your penis and scrotum and check for hernias. If your penis is uncircumcised, the foreskin is often retracted as part of the examination to check for any abnormalities, including possible phimosis.

It was a completely new experience when I was examined for the first time in the US. It was also awkward and embarrassing, especially when the doctor retracted my foreskin, but it was part of the examination he was trained to perform.

I was circumcised as a baby . When i was around 13 the school Nurse examined me and explained ide been circumcised , and how it was done and keeping clean would be easier and when older ide be greatfull for haveing it done .

. How right she was