First Medical Instrument you Bought?

Mines was Stethoscope. Use it plenty in my examinations

A stethoscope, though I'm not sure how much I really understood this interest at the time. Back then I was only interested in listening to my own heart, I don't know if I really thought about ever doing an actual role play and certainly hadn't found this site. I think a BP cuff was the first thing I bought after I started to actually understand that this was a broader thing.

Not sure if this would be called a medical device, a 24Fr. rectal tube and glass connector which I attached to tubing from an enema bag (open top fountain syringe).

Purchased at a medical supply store in the mid-1980s after a home health nurse who cared for me post-surgical recommended that I have an enema bag. I was in my early 20s and embarrassed to ask at the store, but the clerk, a retired nurse in her 60s (I was 22), quelled my embarrassment and matter-of-factly explained how to attach and use a rectal tube.

She opened a drawer with packages marked rectal and colon rubber tubes, and I was surprised (make that “shocked”) at the length of some. She called me “dear” like I was her daughter. She picked out a tube that was about 16 inches long, not the scary-looking longer ones. “Dear, those plastic tips won’t get the water high enough where you need it to go. This will work better for you.” That’s pretty close to what she said, and I’ve always remembered it. She was right.

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Yes they are classified as medical implements. Both the Colon Tube & the Rectal Tube (closed distal tip) do feature amongst numerous medical text within the framework of Hospital care products

As do Surgical books pertinent to a variety of procedures illustrate them for referencing purposes

Nursing training manuals the same applies

The most commonly used by name in illustrated form is the Jacques (closed distal tip) for rectal washout

Other names are The Coude, De Pezzer, Foley, Malecot, Hirsch,

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To answer the question i cannot really say in all honesty as i had a number of stainless implements given to me well before I left home ... mainly a couple of clamps and some forceps incl locking

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First medical instrument I bought was a rectal thermometer.

First for me was a stethoscope. I’ve bought a few stethoscopes since then as well as many other pieces of medical examination kit

First was a stethoscope, Have added a couple since. Plus several other medical devices. Best $ I ever spend

I was once an EMT and for as far back as I can remember I have always had some basic medical equipment. The first “kinky” equipment I purchased was an anoscope … thought I should try it on myself before I used it on a “patient”, then I would know what it felt like… OMFG! I was soo turned on I went right back on line and bought a proctoscope. My first “patient” received the most thorough exam of his life. I'm still adding to my medical equipment collection. When I'm finished with an exam there is NO part of my patient's body I haven't explored in detail.

The first thing I bought by request of someone I used to play online with was a tens unit it was my first foray into masochism and the intensity was awesome. Because at the time online play was the only option the machine's ability to set a function on a time allowed me to pretend like I didn't have control.

A Collins Speculum! Favoured by me and many others.

For medfet specifically, I bought a stethoscope and blood pressure cup and a pulseoxmeter. And of course gloves. Have toyed with the idea of getting some various rectal instruments.

My stethoscope from Amazon. Just an inexpensive Sprague but I love it and it works well.

Pretty sure it was a Collins speculum from a sex shop. I went whole hog immediately haha.

I never bought anything myself, I stated in another thread, I was given a stethoscope by my pediatrician. that's about the only Medical equipment I own. still debating if I should buy a new one.

I bought a stethoscope and if you ever truly are going to listen well and want to get the best and most clear sound possible. Littmanns are really good. They are very expensive relatively to the cheap store ones, especially if it is just for medfet but it is very worth the price for the quality you get and how well it works long term.

Years ago I bought a job lot of medical stuff in a cardboard box of all places at a county agricultural show where it was on a stall amongst a load of junk. Quite a lot of the contents were old one piece scalpels & dental instruments but the real gem was a large duck billed metal & perspex speculum along with a set of clear acrylic anal dilators. I seem to recall I got change out of a £5 note.....

A speculum from an antique store.

Oxygen mask for me

A couple of nice glass syringes (2 and 5 cc as I recall) and an assortment of needles. I was probably about 10 I was friends with the local pharmacist in my small rural Oregon town -- bugged him all the time with my questions. He didn't seem to have a problem with my purchases and I was fascinated with injections.

Littmann Stethoscope and mercury column blood pressure cuff

Vintage glass rectal thermometer and otoscope set on eBay.

Stethoscope for me. But then as interest grew, we have accumulated a remarkable inventory from Ebay, estate sales, antique stores, and a treasure trove when we attended a sale of a medical supply company that went out of business. Everything was out in the open and they were practically giving things away. The big prize there was a Welch Allyn kit with metal sigmoidoscope, proctoscope, anoscope, and lighted handled with inflater. We also got a full case of disposable 25cm sigmoidoscopes that also fit the lighted handle.

I think the question could be slightly reworded. I suppose for most people here the first medical instrument they bought was a thermometer, but it's normal to have one in a household… Enema bags were also quite normal decades ago. So I wonder if what is meant includes these kind of "family medicine" items that people, especially parents, were expected to buy, or if it is restricted to instruments that non professionals were not expected to own.

When I was 18 and had gone to uni I bought my first equipment which was a cheap Sprague Rappaport style stethoscope off Amazon. When it arrived I felt excited and horny to get it out of the packet and try it out and couldn't wait to whip my shirt off and listen to my heart beating away, took really deep breaths in and out hearing my lungs, and the gurgling sounds coming out of my belly. I also tucked it down my pants to listen to my femoral pulse. I was really pleased it was ice cold as it didn't have a non-chill rim which reminded me of my exams at the docs as a kid. 🙂

Enema/douche combination when I was 16

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Stethoscope, followed shortly after by a small endoscopic camera that hooked to my laptop.

After that, was a plastic speculum stolen from the Dr.’s office while attending my girlfriend’s appointment there.

I can't remember if it was a thermometer or a stethoscope. Probably a thermometer as it would have been less expensive to own. After that it became an obsession to own more and more medical instruments.

Rectal thermometer, later a stethoscope

I bought a Blood Pressure Monitor, i love the feeling, when my upper arm get squeezed.