Hi!
So, I wanted to share a recent experience related to my favorite part of my medical kink (abdominal exam)
So this all started when I noticed my belly button would hurt a little bit from time to time. It felt like kind of a deep pulling pain, so I decided to get it checked out.
I went to my local urgent care and told the receptionist I was having some abdominal pain. She already had my insurance on file and had me pay my co-pay. I sat down in the waiting area and played on my phone for about 15 minutes.
Finally the door opened up and a young nurse with black hair in pink scrubs opened the door.
“Kathy?”
I stood up and greeted her.
She escorted me back and took my weight and height. She then led me down to my exam room and asked me to take a seat.
I hopped up on the exam table and she started typing on a laptop in the room.
“Okay, so you are coming in with some abdominal pain right? What is going on there?”
I told her I felt some pain in my navel, how long it has been there, if I’ve had nausea, vomiting, etc.
She took my vital and told me the doctor would be with me shortly.
I waited in that room for only about another 15 minutes until I heard a knock on the door and a man saying my name.
The door opened and walking in was a blad man who looked like he was in his late thirties to early forties.
He shook my hand and introduced himself. He then sat down and asked me some question about my diet and lifestyle.
He finally said “Okay, I’m going to take a look at you. Lie back for me.”
I later down and hear him pull out the table extension. He lifted my shirt up to my bra and asked me where exactly I feel the pain.
I pointed right at my bellybutton.
He nodded and started prodding his hands into my belly, very hard and deep though! It could me by surprise. He started feeling my upper abdomen, “no pain up here right?” I shook my head while I felt him rearranging my internal organs.
He started palpating lower, around my navel, again, very deeply.
“Do you feel any pain now?” His fingers were pressing right on my navel.
“A little” I think it hurt because he was using too much pressure, but I’m not a doctor.
He then pressed down to the left of my navel as a looked at my face.
“Relax, bend your knees” I brought my knees up. He then pressed both hands above my navel. He was measuring how large my aorta was, and I could feel it pulsating and pushing against his hands. I think my higher blood pressure made it a little earlier for him to feel.
He slowly felt it way up my aorta to my rib cage, and then he mushed around my lower abdomen.
He then took out his stethoscope and placed it under my rib cage, dead center. The room was dead silent for 15 seconds and I was trying to keep my cool. He then placed the bell a little lower to the left, then the right. He was listening to my blood vessels in my abdomen. He then placed the stethoscope right above my navel and pressed it in his his hand. He closed his eyes and listened for almost 20 seconds.
He opened his eyes again and looked like he was trying to reach under my shirt to listen to my heart, but he seemed worried to invade my privacy.
I broke the awkwardness by asking “do you want to listen to my heart?” While I lifted my top over my bra.
He nodded and then auscultation all over my chest. He lowered my top under my bra when he was done.
He then continued to listen for bowel sounds by placing his stethoscope all over my belly for another minute. He put away his stethoscope, and then placed a hand behind my back and dug his other hand under my left rib cage.
“Ok, relax” he prodded around there and then had me take a deep breath. He did the same to my right side.
He then had me sit up and kind of pounded my back. Then he asked me to stand up and jump up and down a few times and I told him I felt no pain.
He then ordered some blood work and a urine sample and said he would get back to me with results.
Hope you guys liked me sharing that! If love to hear some of your accounts with abdominal exams as well!
Kat XOXO