Unnecessary Gyno Exams

Has anyone here had an unnecessary gyno exam performed on them? Or peraps the doctor did something questionable during the exam? For example, you went in for a cold and got a pap and pelvic? Or maybe the doctor left the speculum in a little too long during the exam.

A month after my six month visit to my Gynecologist my GP did a pelvic on me when I went to him for a bad case of the flu. "Lets just make sure" he said as he pulled out the stirrups

I have. I was in hospital for an unrelated issue but I had gone a long time without having an exam done (at that time it was incredibly upsetting because there were too many similarities to a traumatic experience I'd had). The day came, the exam was a disaster (for me), and then a few hours later I was told it was time to go in for my pelvic exam. I protested I had already had it in the morning. I think the nurse who took me probably had not gotten a chance to write all her notes since her shift hadn't ended yet, so there was no proof of the exam short of paging the nurse to ask her. Long story short, I got the second exam. They realized the mistake the next day when my main doctor got notes about me from two different gynecologists. Since the exam is fast and virtually risk-free, the unnecessary exam had little impact on me medically and the staff professionally. But having to go through that twice in a row, particularly when I wasn't expecting the second, took a while to rebound from emotionally.

I've also had exams (minus the Pap) when being seen for flus or similar, but in those instances I was having diffuse but very bad abdominal pain so the exam was necessary.

My wife said once her doctor took a phone call while the speculum was inserted and open. Was in there for abt 5 mins. He just came back in and said sorry about that and continued

My girl friend in college received an unnecessary pelvic and breast exam one time. I know it was unnecessary because she had been to her gyno just a few weeks earlier for her yearly physical. Anyway, she was having stomach issues and went to see a doctor. When he came in the exam room he was in his late 40s and I could tell he was glad to see her. She was very pretty. When he finished asking her a series of questions, one of which was when was your last pap smear, my girl friend told him that it was just a few weeks ago. He told her that it would be best to do a complete physical anyway. He instructed her to disrobe completely and left the room. When he came back he did all the usual stuff including palpating her stomach and listening to her heart, but he also did a very thorough breast exam with the gown lowered to her waist. When he was finished with that he reached down and pulled out the stirrups. He instructed her to put her feet up and slide her bottom to the end of the table. She sort of glanced at me as she propped her feet up and slid down. he performed a pap smear and them a bimanual exam. When he was done with that he changed gloves and performed a rectal exam. As he stood there, with his finger in my girl friend's ass he said to her jokingly, "we have to quit meeting like this..." When he was finished, he told her she was fine and probably had a spastic colon. He had no treatment recommendations. The rectal exam may have been on the up and up, but the breast exam and the pelvic were completely unnecessary given the fact that she had one just a few weeks earlier. That is when I concluded that some doctors are definitely will to take advantge of their position when the opportunity presents itself.

Maria Menounous talked about unnecessary exams on Howard Stern a while back. Here's a link to a sotry about it: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/maria-menounos-i-was-sexually-abused-by-two-doctors-2012116

Once I was visiting my grandmother who lives in a village. One day I felt a strong pain in my stomach. Perhaps it was because of the water that in this place has a lot of iron. After several hours of suffering I went to a local health worker. In this village there is no doctor. Only someone like a nurse.

He was an elderly man who had a small office in his own house. When I got he just was feeding chickens next to the barn. It seemed he was very displeased that I interfered with his work. He brought me into his office and told to lie on the couch. I was wearing a summer dress knee-length. I had to lift it up to show my abdominal area. I felt very uncomfortable in that position because he could see the pubic hair through panties. I did not expect a medical examination at all. At first he felt my stomach, and then started asking whether I have gynecological diseases.I said that I was healthy.

He said he does not see any problem with my stomach but probably I have a women's issues and asked to take panties off for brief exam. Then he inspected external genitalia and spread labia but did not insert fingers.

I think it was not necessary at all to see my private parts for abdominal pain.

Had a g/f go to her doc for a sore throat..no appointment..reg. doc not there. New Doc. He asked if she wanted to have her pap seeing as how she was due in a few weeks anyway. He did an exam then wanted her to see a gyno..(she had never seen one before). They had a cancellation and could see her right now. He did an exam too. Only a few minutes from her reg.doc to a gyno for the first time. She also had a final job interview at a big company about an hr after that. They said they needed to do a complete physical exam too..and could do it now or she would have to come back.She very reluctantly agreed..in anger..and refused to remove her panties..and said if they wanted her to remove her panties the doctor would have to remove them.The doctor did remove her panties(in front of a nurse..all very professional) lifted her legs into stirrups and adjusted them.Then of course examined her. I had/was sharing..she let me! my gyno fetish with her. Needless to say how aroused I was. She was too sore. The first doctor spread her too wide. The gynecologist..not that wide. The next doctor..wide until it hurt..then a bit more after she relaxed. She said it was just awful being examined again right after..with all the lube still there and so messy. And having 3 speculm exams and 3 internals by 3 different first time she saw them Dr.s,

I had a younger male doctor a few years ago..needless to say I fired him lol. No matter what I went in for he did pelvic exam.

This is very common in the US, we tend to be so "over-cautious" here that in *some* cases, it becomes unnessesary. Like have exams every 4 months for common birth control.

After a mix-up with my urine culture, my GYN's office asked me to come back and provide another urine sample. After I did, the nurse walked me into a room and instructed me to disrobe from the waist down. I asked why and she said the NP on call needed to do a quick exam since I wasn't her patient. When the NP came in she asked me about my symptoms (typical UTI), thumped on my kidneys, and then had me lay down.

She pulled the sheet completely off me, leaving my lower half naked. She did an abdominal exam and pressed down hard over my bladder, then she had me get into stirrups. She spread my labia and just stared for what felt like an eternity, then asked me to bear down, then sneeze. I felt her fingers just under my clit and she asked me to bear down and sneeze again, and then without warning, she popped a finger deep in my rectum and told me to bear down and sneeze again. After quickly pulling my finger out, she told me she didn't see any urine leakage and that I could get dressed and pick up a prescription at the front desk.

I've never had to do anything besides pee in a cup for a UTI before, so it seemed totally unneccessary to me.

I just wonder how common the abuse of patients is by doctors or other medical professionals.

I have just read an account here in the UK about a GP who videoed his examinations via a wrist watch camera and it got me thinking how common is this abuse. It harder now to get away with it, but back in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's I bet it was more common then you first think. I know one of my girlfriends had to strip naked in the 70's and be examined before going on the pill as did many other woman she knew. She told me he took a very long time to examine her breasts and even longer on the internal. (that got me turned on by the way!!) - see was 19 years.

I also remember over hearing my mother and sister chatting about her going to see a doctor and my sister not wanting to go and see a particular GP because he always insisted on giving most woman an internal for almost any complaint.

So how common is it or was it??

Here is a thread regarding a recent event in the US...

http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=71346.msg504679#msg504679

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http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=4796.0

There's more, but I did not spend time looking for them. You can do a search and continue the discussion there.

Once my girlfriend, she was 23 at that time went to her GP. She had a yeast infection a month before and the same problems startetd to come up again. Therefore she decided to go to the GP to get a new prescription of the medication her Gyn had prescribed before. When the doctor welcomed her she told him that she had the same symptoms as a month before and that she needs a new prescription. He said that this is no problem asked her which medication she used and gave her the new prescription. She held the paper in her hands and was about to leave. In this moment he changed his mind and said, well I will take a quick look on that. He told her to undress from the waist down and to lay down on the examination table. He then told her to let her legs fall apart and took her fingers with his hands. He said that she should not be afraid and that he is not going to touch her. Then he directed her own fingers to spread the lips of her vagina apart. He said that it looked a bit reddened and told her to put her clothes on again. After she redressed the doctor washed his hands and then she left the room. When she told me the story I was not quite happy because I think that this was unneccessary. She told me that she left her socks on so it was not erotic for the doctor. I have to mention that she is 1.80 m tall and very slim and that he definitely enjoyed it to look at her shaved pussy.

If it was a quickly recurring problem the Dr could have just been verifying it was in fact a yeast infection and not something else. He could get in trouble himself for just blindly handing out a prescription again w/o validating the reason for it.

When I think back now the doctor definitely had a reason to take a quick look to not miss the diagnosis. But at first I had the impression that it was completely unneccessary.

I know a girl who went to see her doctor for abdominal pains when she was 18 years old. It was her family doctor whom she'd been seeing since birth. She had not had a gyno exam before.

He had her undress above the waist, then examined her breasts for several minutes, then her abdomen.

Then he got her to remove the rest of her clothing and performed a pelvic exam. A very thorough visual exam of her labia, which included touching her clitoris, was followed by an internal digital and speculum exam.

This was followed by a brief recto-vaginal exam, which really surprised her.

He found nothing wrong at all, but surprisingly didn't refer her to a hospital for any further tests.

As luck would have it, she thoroughly enjoyed the experience of being so exposed and vulnerable, and has become a fan of medfet.

I started to look into older Zity threads, and I actually find them much more interesting than majority of today's threads. Like it focuses more on medical fetish, and less about medical procedures, and that's what this site should be about. It also seems that more women commented back then, and more men commented on their wife/gf exams.

But to continue this thread, it is sure that there are a lot of unnecessary private exams of women by male doctors. They have the power, so some use it. One of my ex girlfriends' female gynecologist was ill, so she was redirected to a male gyno. He did a pelvic, but he also insisted to perform a breast exam, which wasn't unnecessary, but she was sure she wanted to see her without clothes. So she remained naked for the rest of the exam, no gowns here. Another ex gf had a mandatory exam for a job. In the end she received a breast, pelvic and rectal exam.

Once I heard a colleague from work talking to her friend about her exam for job that she just had, and that male doctor insisted on breast exam, so after some heated discussion, she got topless and let doctor examine her.

Also, there are a lot of shy doctors who should do a private exam, but they just write the medication without a proper inspection. (For example urinary infection I had)

I'd really love if more women talked about their routine exams getting thorough. (And men's too).

Although Ive never been subjected to an unnecessary gyno exam…thankfully..I did have an experience with a doctor that was , I would say, questionable although I didn't even think that until quite a bit later after I'd experienced a few more medical check ups. I moved to a new town for university and had to register with a local doctor surgery and have a new patient medical. The doctor was a guy in his late 50s I would say…he checked eyes, ears, throat, blood pressure..asked lots of questions about my health generally, asked me to step on the scale..then he picked up his stethoscope and asked me to take off my shirt. He listened to my chest for a minute or so, then stood behind me to listen to my back asking me to breath in and out deeply. Then he asked me to undo the top button of my jeans..and still standing behind me slipped his fingers down my abdomen to the top of my knickers asking me to breathe deeply again. Then he moved the stethoscope up my back again, asked me to raise my left arm and he placed his hand pretty much on the side of my breast (I was still wearing my bra) as he asked me to breathe deeply again. This stethoscope exam lasted probably 4 or 5 minutes and has never been performed in that way since. I don't know if it was all necessary but I started to think that it probably wasn't entirely standard procedure

@Laura_L sounds like a strange exam and experience to happen and the doctor was certainty inappropriate

I wasn't pretty so this never happened to me. When I went in for a sore throat that's what I was examined for. My actual gyno exams never even lasted that long. Maybe the doctors added that time he or she saved to someone else's exam.

After reading these posts, I'm wondering if it's happened to my sister. She's the pretty one in the family. Maybe in our older ages I'll ask her.

I refused an internal by a rheumatologist. It just seemed completely bizarre and he was definitely abusing his position. He spent a long long time feeling my tummy. For joint pain. He kept pressing hard low down and asking if I’d had any issues with that area. I kept saying’no’ but he kept on and on ….

however, in England, we don’t have any checks unless there’s something wrong. Even with tummy pain an internal is rarely suggested. I think this has gone too far as its difficult to know whether it’s gastric or reproductive systems playing up.

I have recently had some low tummy and back pain. My GP has not laid a hand on me as my ultra sound was negative. I went to the sexual health clinic today and had swabs, external and internal exam. The dr there is not sure what the problem is and said I should request a gynaecologist referral.

unfortunately I didn’t enjoy the exam. It was performed by a lady and was painful

@Daisymay how old were you when you were examined by that rheumatologist? From my experience, doctors usually take advantage of young girls (18-23) who are still naive and trust doctors blindly. Older women simply refuse the exam or they even threat to sue them, so doctors usually don't risk it.

From my forum reading where women share their experiences from the gynecologist office in the region, women who are 40+ almost always have a shirt during pelvic, and they also have a paper skirt. However, some of 18 - 23 girls who come for a routine exam, get tricked into questions such as: do you have painful breasts during menstruation?, which is normal, but then they say they have to perform a breast exam too. A lot of those girls complain that they are then instructed to be nude for the rest of exam. I haven't read any similar statement from mature women.

Except in France of course 🤣 They are always naked there according to other's experiences. 😅

@Dr_Davian Gynecologists asking women to disrobe completely for an examination in France is I think very, very old fashioned, I mean, that was I think a thing in the 1920s-1970s. I'm not sure it's still done. If a male gynecologist asked a younger female to completely disrobe I would find it very suspicious.

@Laura_L very interesting examination, clearly made up though !?

@Pecan_nutjob Ok, thanks for info that it's not so common even in France. I have read a lot of articles about shock Americans get when they come to France, but maybe because they're used to gowns, and there are no gowns in Europe.

But I have also read that when woman in France comes to a full checkup, not just pelvic, they usually just remove bra without putting kinckers and pants on, so techically they are nude for the breast exam part. My past partners told me sometimes this can happen here in Croatia too. I

It just depends on a doctor I guess.

@Dr_Davian It's true there are no gowns, and no chaperone. Medical practices run leaner than in the US, no extra staff. The costs are also much lower.

I read about this the other day and this feels so wrong. For a female pt. to go in and have be put to sleep and not know medical students are performing pelvic exams on them (sometimes 5 exam back to back while unconscious)while not being aware and awake and without consent!!. And how this was okay for so many years and still not banned from all US states yet. What are your thoughts?

Hospitals Are Allowing Medical Students to Perform Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women — Without Their Consent

Part of the below article reads, “A recent survey of 101 medical students from seven American medical schools found that 92% had performed a pelvic exam on anesthetized female patients, 61% of whom reported not having explicit consent from the patients.”

https://www.healthywomen.org/your-care/pelvic-exams-unconscious-women

What are your thoughts?