Lift penis for testicular exam?

My doctor typically examines my penis first, then lifts my penis out of the way and examines my testicles and scrotum.

Never been asked to hold my penis. The doctors moves it to the side if necessary.

I've been asked to hold it up and I've had the doctor do it. I'm uncut so I've had them tell me they need to pull back the foreskin but also have asked me to pull back the foreskin myself.

I have not been asked to hold my penis up for a testicular or hernia exam. An urologist may be the only doctor who has handled my penis. My regular doctors don't physically examine my penis. They check my balls and then do the hernia exam but that doesn't require moving anything around to get to them. I guess a visual exam is good enough unless the patient has a specific complaint about his penis. The urologist handled it and then spread open the meatus at the tip to take a look.

Usually the doctor doesn't lift my penis up, but also doesn't ask me to move it out of the way. More commonly, the doctor will just slip his fingers under my penis to get a good grasp on my scrotum/testicles. If memory serves, when I was younger and still got my genital exams lying down, the doctor would occasionally gingerly move my penis out of the way. At this time also, though, I was never asked to move it myself; it was always the doctor who did all the handling.

During our school physicals,

I was never asked to lift up the penis,

the doc can feel the testicals also without lifted penis,

and to have a view, in my remembrance he/she quickly pushed the testical a bit aside

Well personally, even though I very much enjoy the idea of having my hand on there while the doctor check ups my testes, I would rather leave it to him or her to move, if need be, because as much as I would love option a, nothing would bring the chills down my spine more than if it was the doctor with their hands there moving it lol

I usually lift my penis up out of the way if it isn't already erect.

I like the concept of this topic. It's about the position the doctor is in. The doctor has to decide if your penis is in his/her way or it's not. And if your doctor feels it IS in his/her way, s/he must take the action of asking you to move it, or actually having to move it himself/herself. And which option they prefer in handling that "mild dilemma".

And then WOULD the patient actually want it to be in the way, and what the ideal scenario for him as a patient would be, regarding this.

The ideal title would seem to be "Your Cock and Your Doc"

It could also be a problem of hygiene. The doctor has gloves. If the patient lifts his penis and shakes the doctor's hand as he leaves, he could contaminate him. My dermatologist solved the problem like this: he does not shake hands with anyone, he explains why on a notice at the entrance. It is especially to not transmit the flu in winter more than for the penis exams that he does not make systematically.

I’ve had two testicular ultrasounds and both times I’ve had to hold my penis up against my abdomen with a blanket helping to pin it back

The doctor would always take charge down there. He would move my naked penis from side to side and feel my balls, roll them in his fingers. Taking his time doing it. With the nurse spreading my legs.

In the real exams I have had, the Doctor has asked me to lie down naked, taken hold of each testicle and let the penis drop to the side

In the real exams I have had, the Doctor has asked me to lie down naked, taken hold of each testicle and let the penis drop to the side

Does he examine your penis at all? Foreskin?

A very quick examination of the penis. Not a full retraction of the foreskin. I was surprised to be required to strip naked so don’t remember every detail.

My doctor would always lift mine up a little so he could take a better look at my testicles.

For me at my last exam I only had to strip to my boxers. Thus when it came time for the testicular exam my doctor just moved my penis to the side and gave me a testicular exam and then hernia exam

Doctor always takes care of that if it's needed.

The doctor has always taken care of that. Never had to worry about it.

When the pediatrician examines the testicles my son puts his penis attached to the abdomen and holds it with his thumb. Someone else did it like that?

When I get one the doc moves the penis but never exams it. He just seems to get it out of the way and quickly moves on!

I've had it go all different ways; doc lifting the penis and using the back of the hand to keep it out of the way or gravity or laying down, dr just letting it hang and working around it, and once asking me to hold it out of the way. It was weird when I asked to move it myself, and disappointing that she wasnt gonna touch it.

When I got such a exam doctor did all by himself. I had to drop my pants and he grab my penis and extarct skin.

When the pediatrician examines the testicles my son puts his penis attached to the abdomen and holds it with his thumb. Someone else did it like that?

I did the same during two examinations, when my penis got erect. The first time the doctor asked me to keep it out of the way, so he could properly palpate my testicles. The second time I did it kind of by reflex and also a bit out of shame.

If I am standing for the genital exam, I usually hold my penis out of the way during the testical exam. If laying down the doctor does all the handling. Usually I get at least semi-erect, ocassinally fully erect. Prefer when the doctor does all the handling and I love to watch.

Prefer when the doctor does all the handling and I love to watch.

Does the doc ask you to hold your penis out of the way? If you're not given specific instructions, let him/her do the lifting.

From my experience it depends on the doctor. I have had several cases. At my annual urological exam my doctor is handling everything. In this case it means my doctor lifts my penis for the testicular exam. Maybe it linked to a short penis exam.

At my family doc I had to lift my penis once I had a hernia exam.

At my dermatologist it was the same and I had to hold the penis while he checked my scrotum. During this exam i usually have also to pull back my foreskin and he checks the foreskin and glans as well.

For a testicular exam, the examiner just palpates each testicle one at a time, no penis lifting. Then my penis is briefly palpated to check for discharge and visually examined for any abnormalities. Then the hernia check to complete the genital exam.

In the 10 years that I saw him, my previous PCP never once performed a genital or hernia exam. My current PCP performs a genital exam while I am supine and he moves things around as needed for the testicle exam.

This has not happened to me. It would be nice to imagine that I would be so profoundly endowed. Normally, and when laying back on the table, my penis just falls to the left and can be a bit smaller if I am cold or nervous. The doctor will examine it and then examine my testicles. When I stand for hernia exam, it may now be feeling fuller as he has me cough etc.