First Medical Instrument you Bought?

I’d have to say the same, an enema bag. At a drugstore. Also bought my wife a sits-bath after her first pregnancy an 36 hour labor and delivery - if that’s considered a medical device.

Many years ago gloves, speculum, proctoscope and lube…..first exam was upcoming….never stopped buying since!

I have BP cuff, stethoscope, reflex hammer.

A set of 7 hemostatic forceps various shape/application/anatomical district. Used for the first time on my female patient of the time, she is in gynecological tortures and loved multiple clamping of labia minora. I also used smaller ones for dilatation of her clitoral hood and clitoris pulling with a rubbed tipped one, when she was restrained. She returned the favour using four of them on my penis exactly as it is done in a dorsal slit circumcision, clamping the prepuce in four different points to keep it separated from the glans and massively dilated. Using a long clamp forceps she also made the dorsal clumping of the prepuce which is used to cut blood perfusion on the dorsal area and reduce bleeding for the cut to split the prepuce. It was trying for the pain. She kept the clamp in place for 1 minute but I suffered a marking from teeths of the clump for several months. Fortunately she did not have yet scalpel and scissors and have to desist to complete the operation 😃

It was a stethoscope. 😊

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.

@Vicki_V

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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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

My first purchase was a rectal thermometer and a some Vaseline when Moved away for college at 17. Would lay on my back in my dorm room and take my temp when my roommate wasn’t home.

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.