Pediatric genital exam at beginning or end preferences.

For all school medicals and others I had to have when I was growing up, the genital exam was always the final part.

In my own experience, I would prefer it at the end. I was 6 years old when I had my first complete school exam. I had my underwear on the whole time and suddenly at the end, the doctor put his hand under my briefs and felt around. The most traumatic was how hard he squeezed my testicles. I was still reeling from that on my way home. If I had experienced that at the beginning, it would have felt like forever to get the whole exam over and done with.

The first genital exam that I recall ever having was as a young adult at a pre-employment physical. In fact, until I began seeing my current PCP the only time I had genital exams was at military physicals or pre-employment physicals. This is the part of the whole exam that causes me the most angst. I think about it from the time I make the appointment until a couple of days after it’s over. It’s always been at the end or near the end. Honestly I’d rather have it first just to get it over with and done. Currently he does the genital exam, then the DRE, then a quick but through full skin exam then I stand for the hernia exam and we are done. This year for some reason it wasn’t as distressing to me. Once he came into room and we started talking I was totally comfortable.

It is the final part of my exams.

As far as I recall it was near the end. I would be laying on my back on the exam table and the doctor would pull my briefs partway down my thighs and examine my penis, feel and squeeze around at my testicles, and then do a hernia check. I usually had an erection throughout the whole process.

This is the part of the whole exam that causes me the most angst. I think about it from the time I make the appointment until a couple of days after it’s over. It’s always been at the end or near the end. Honestly I’d rather have it first just to get it over with.

Of course this the the part of the exam that causes the most “angst.” It is the part that I dread from the time the appointment is scheduled, am anxious about beginning a day or so before the exam, and feel total embarrassment when it happens. Regardless of how many times you try to convince yourself that the doctor is not concerned with seeing one more penis and pair of balls, he may well be comparing yours to all the others he has seen. I agree that it would be much easier to get it over with at the beginning but I think the tension that builds up by having it at the end makes it a more satisfying experience. All of my genital exams beginning at age 11 to the present have occurred at the ends of exams.

My pediatrician did it at the end right before any shots. I hate it cause I knew it was coming I think she did it on purpose that way lol. She was definitely a firm stern doctor.

Mine always took place towards the end of an examination. While doctors differed as to precisely when this would happen and how undressed I would be at the moment it was done, it was for me a defining moment of the examination. My preference was with my doctor who saw adolescents. He required me to strip to my briefs for each exam. When asked to lay back down, he would feel my abdomen and listen with his stethoscope before reaching the waistband of my briefs. Then he would push them down some to feel my lower belly before announcing that I should "Lift up your hips," and feel my briefs slipping past my butt down to my knees and off. There I laid, naked, and now he asked me to spread my legs wide so he could examine my genitals. It seemed like "forever" and then asked to stand and given a hernia examination followed by having to turn and face the table so he could spread and open my butt cheeks. The obligatory look and request to pulse my anus made me totally self conscious as a prelude to evaluating my posture. While the exposure was in reality brief, it surely felt like "forever." It wasn't until a few years later, my senior year in high school, when the spread also resulted in a prostate exam! At this point, the process from head to toe seems to have been worth it. I don't think I could just go in and start at the end!

Nick

Not the very last thing but the last thing he did on the exam table.

The genital part was at the end

This was at the end of my school exam. I had to wear pe kit for the exam and after all the usual tests he got me on the table to check my appendix scar then felt abdomen and pulled down shorts leaving me naked. He then felt all genitls everywhere and of coure being a young teenager i got erect very quickly. He tested my foreskin with erupting consequences! I to this day stilll fantasise about it and would love a doctor to do the same here but they all seem to be very professional. Any play docs in uk who would re-live this for me?

When I had to go to the pediatrician for my check ups, The genital exam was the last thing that the doctor did. I didn't dread it actually, I kind of thought it was weird that the doctor would lift up the elastic of my underwear and stick his hand inside and feel my private parts. As I got older, but still going to the pediatrician, I realized that I kind of enjoyed it when the doctor did that at the end of the exam. To this day, at age 51, I still look forward to my doctor asking me to slide my boxers down so he can examine my genitals and prostate.

My pediatrician visited my genitals at the end and i think it was the best idea.

My yearly exams never made me do more then removing my shirt. However when I was 12 I got the drop your pants at the end.

It was always at the end of the exam. I believe one doctor I saw until around high school would check my posture after the genitals, but it was pretty much at the end.

My pediatrician would always perform genital and rectal exams towards the end, building up suspense, but they took up over half the appointment because of how long and thorough he was with them, having me get into different positions and such. It was a large part of the doctor visit.

The genital exam is the last thing done.

Like nearly everybody else, my genital exams have always been at or near the end of my physicals. Doesn't matter if we're talking about pediatric exams or as an adult. As for the original question, no, I don't think I would want to move it to the beginning to get it over with. To me, the nervous energy and anxiety I get from the anticipation of the embarrassing parts of a physical are one of the biggest parts of my medfet. I don't think I would want to shorten that wonderfully painful emotion I feel during my physicals.

But to be honest, I just can't imagine what it would be like to have it at the beginning since I've never experienced it like that. At the doctor's office I get extremely nervous and my BP and HR are really high. At the time, I really don't like any aspect of a doctor's visit. I'm not getting off at that moment at all. It's thinking back and remembering all the details, emotions, and events that happened, or could have happened in different scenarios, that I enjoy fantasizing about. So it is possible that I would still get all I needed to fulfill my fantasies, and lessen my anxieties if the genital exam was done at the beginning. I guess I'll just never know.

I would like to get that done at the beginning. The anxiety of the genital exam was more than the actual exam. It kept on ticking in the mind, when will the underpants be lowered and genitals be exposed.

Mine were always towards the end, right after the doctor examined my stomach. I never really thought about what it would be like to have it at the beginning. I’m also not sure how that would work since my doctor usually started at the head and then worked his way down.

Always at the end. The exam was laying down in which my underwear was pulled down to my knees. The hernia exam and testicles were checked in this position.

At the end. Always lying down. Underwear pulled down. He never wore gloves for it.

I only remember one exam at the pediatrician where my genitals were examined and it was done at the very end. I had to lower my boxers and he felt my testicles and I had to pull the foreskin back for him to check.

I've had a few different genital exams as a teen in terms of thoroughness but they always came at the end of the exam.

Mine was always at the end and it was better that way. Allowed me to get semi. Dr always used a cloth to cover up the area and would pull my boxers down then lift the cloth as needed for testicular exam.

I only ever had this once, and it was a ‘specialist’ rather than a GP. As my parents were both with me in the room, he positioned himself between my mother and me, so that she couldn't see what he was doing, and put his hand down the front of my trousers. This was in the middle of the consultation.

At the paediatrician's and family doctor's, it was at the end. At the school and professional medical check-up often in the middle of the examination. And once, at a school medical visit (I was 19), at the beginning of the examination, the doctor pulled down my underwear and examined my genital

Mine was always at the end.

In my experience, the genital exam has always been at the end. The doctor works from head to toe, and then circles back to the penis and testicles.

Mine was always at the end. Would usually work head to toe. Ending with the genital exam.