Testicular Exam Yesterday

I have been having swelling and pain in right testicle for a few days and scheduled a doctor’s appointment yesterday to have it checked out. I arrived at the doctor’s office, got taken back to an examination, had my vitals taken, and was told to change into a gown with my pants and underwear off. A few minutes later, the doctor knocked on the door, came in the exam room, and asked me what was going on. After talking with her a few minutes, she said “let’s see what’s going on down” and proceeded to lift my gown up and give me a testicular exam.

I have been seeing patient for a number of years and never had her be quite so forward before. Normally, I lift my gown up for genital exams.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

What else exactly do you think she was going to do????????????

Yeah Dan, I have to agree with Susie, What the heck are you talking about????????

I think Dan was just commenting that his doctor normally asked him to uncover himself for her, that normally she would not do so herself.

I think that is just a very insignificant degree of difference in how to go about a genital exam.

I've never had that happen to me. Once when I had a nodule on a testicle I had a first digital exam performed on me by a female doctor. She told me to drop my trousers and underwear and then proceeded with exam. Subsequent echographies were also done like that. The doctors, all female, were not as straightforward as Dan describes. They acted as if they were afraid to embarrass me or else with the echography I had the impression that the female radiologist was wary of something - either that I would become aroused by the procedure (of which she had probably seen more than she cared to) or maybe that I was faking, as it was a very difficult little lump to find in the end.

In any case, none of the doctors took the initiative to lift or remove my clothes ... nor would I have noticed it except for now reading this post ...