Cold or warm KY?

When you examine or are being examined , if you use lubricant do you prefer warm or cold ?

I prefer to use medium. If it is cold it may make her uncomfortable. But sometimes cold feels good and is fun. If it is warm I find that it thins out. It also makes whoever is getting examined the urge to pee.

I keep it at room temp

I prefer cold.

I like it on the cooler side. So when you first make contact there's that little jolt of excitement of what's about to happen.

For play exams, my wife and I use room temp KY on each other. For our real physicals, our PA uses lube that is kept in the warming drawer under the exam table with the specula.

When doing my wife's play exams, I leave the KY at room temperature. She likes the instruments cold, however, so once the KY is applied it becomes cold itself. She loves the jolt of cold as it takes her breath away.

I prefer warm lubricant. It feels very nice.

Warm, as it is at the GP practice when the Nurse does a smear test. Couldn't bear the thought of it being cold!

I like the lube to just be room temperature. I like the wet feeling but I do not want it to feel very cold like it has been in a fridge. I have had a plastic speculum in me 4 times and they were at room temperature too so they did not feel too cold. My husband warms up my steel speculums at home when he is going to give me a play exam. I do not put them in the fridge before to make them freezing cold. The lube does not get turned cold by having cold speculums put in but maybe I will try it colder if we get some really hot weather.

My husband takes my basal rectal temperature with K-Y, kept in a bedside drawer. So, it's room temperature. Both of our thermometers, basal and rectal fever, are kept in the same place!

When I applied KY vaginally, my wife used to complain about the coldness.

I prefer room temperature when being examined. My doctor is sensitive about this -- the KY is just a little cool, not bad. At home, if it's cold (as it often is for several months), I'll immerse a tube of Surgilube or Vaseline cap-down in a glass of warm water for a few minutes before giving or taking an enema. "Mom, that feels nice and warm," my older daughter said, surprisingly, one rainy night at 3AM, while lying on the bathroom floor on some soft towels. However, not for a rectal temperature, as the warmth I think could affect an accurate reading.

Every 6 months, I get an aortic ultra sound and the techs. always have a warming shelf to keep the ultra sound gel nice and warm, as they cover my abdomen with it. I appreciate that.

I don't use K-Y on rectal nozzles: I use Vaseline on straight nozzles and Palmer;s Cocoa Butter on fluted or balloon nozzles.

I've had two ultrasounds and the gel has always been warmed. That's a nice touch. I've never had anything other then room temperature lube for rectal exams, but it's nice to hear that a number of gyns seem to offer warmed lube. Women have to put up with a lot more than guys, so every little consideration helps.

Room temperature lube always feels so cold when the doctor's finger first touches my puckered up anus. I love it! For my first ever rectal exam, the only thing my doctor said to me before doing it was, "This might feel a little cold". Such fond memories.

Intimate examinations such as vaginal or rectal are uncomfortable for most patients, so by using warm KY or other lube such as vaseline it is possible to make patient somewhat more comfortable. If lube is cold most patients would try to clench their vaginal/anal opening and that would make more discomfort for him/her as doctor would have enough muscle to push instrument/finger in anyways.

Always seems to be room temperature. He uses these individual packets which seem to offer enough lube. It's a gentle cool in a way; not sure how warm would compare since for me the initial contact is important.

Room temperature for my exams, although the ones my doctor use tend to feel cold after being kept in that freezing cold exam room.

It is room temperature though my intimate places are much warmer. Hence it still feels rather cold when I am penetrated.

Room temperature when being examined at the doctors office.

At home room temperature as well

I have had several scrotal ultra sounds. Each time the lube was at room temperature, which in a doctors office is cold. Would have been nice if they warmed it up before putting it on my scrotum. I think if it was warmed up it may have relaxed my scrotum. I don't know if its easier for the tech to have the ball sac up and tight or hanging loose.

I have not noticed that the lube is cold. It shouldn't be cold unless the exam room is unusually cold. I had a physical several years ago where the nurse brought a small heater into the exam room because she said that it sometimes gets cold in here. It was my first time to have a physical at that office so I wasn't sure how much I would be undressed or whether I would be in a gown. She plugged in the heater and let it warm up while she did the preliminary stuff like blood pressure and temperature. Then she told me to undress to my underwear and have a seat on the exam table. She left the room and I undressed and took a seat on the table. I had to wait 30 minutes for the doctor so I was glad for the heater. But that is the only time that any doctor's office has done that.

My physician assistant is female. She has me bend over the exam table with my chest flat at the side for rectal and prostate exam. She pulls the KY tube out of a warming drawer. She tells me to relax and take slow deep breaths. She inserts her finger all the way in and slowly rotates it. She then tells me to squeeze around her finger to check rectal tone.

She pulls her finger back out a bit then says, “ I am now going to check your prostate.” She feels around it and then says , “you will feel some pressure” and presses down on it. Then asks” is that painful”?

The warm KY seems to relax my anus.

When I had my exam the lube was warm and I like that even though the exam was uncomfortable

For all of my exams the lube has been room temperature. Upon touch with the lubed finger its felt cool but not cold.

My wife told how much she appreciated her new ob/gyn warming the lube and tools before starting her annual exam.

Warm for sure!

For real exams...I go along with the lube being room temperature.....play exams....one can be accommodating and set the tube in a glass of warm water beforehand....or...if your "patient" is being recalcitrant....I will put the lube in the freezer just to let it get cold....not long enough to freeze it....just to let it get thick and to feel cold on her flesh

The embarrassing parts of the male physical come at the end of the examination. First a man has to expose his genitalia to be compared to every other man the examiner has viewed. Then he gets to have the testes palpated and his groins probed for the hernia exam. Then, while still feeling the humiliation, he has to bend over and have the anus exposed and then entered with a probing and violating index finger. This final humiliation is worsened by the discomfort of the finger in his hole and probing his prostate sending uncomfortable sensations out through the penis. Cold or room temperature KY adds a fitting touch to a miserable few seconds and makes it more memorable.