How would you find out you were going to have a physical when you were a kid?

How did you find out you were going to have a physical exam when you were a kid? How much warning were you given? Did you see it written on a wall calendar? Did you know your birthday was coming up so it was going to happen soon? Did you unexpectedly get picked up from school and told in the car on the way there?

Mine were usually a within a week or so after my birthday, but I didn't usually know the exact day until it arrived. My mom would usually just tell me the morning of the appointment that she would be picking me up from school early.

And I thought I was the only petrified to go to the Doctor! I soon learned that marks on the calendar would mean certain things for my mom and I always inquired if I saw something. She would usually just lie to us (me and my sister) but when she would pick us up from school and turn left we knew that was not the way home and questions were immediately raised. IF it was indeed a doctor visit she would always ''assure us'' it was just a quick check up with 'no shots'. Wow, how many times did we fall for that lie!

I don't think I saw a doc allot as a kid. When I did, mom always made sure I had a great bath prior and usually told me the day before...

When I had physicals at school we were told the day before, they always took place during PE and we were told we didn't need to bring our PE kit for that day as we would be having a physical. When I had a general exam at the doctors, not quite a full physical but involving me stripping down to my briefs and checking out my height/weight, examining me all over except for my genitals, I didn't get any prior warning. I would be there because I was unwell and the doc would simply say to whichever of my parents was there "can you strip him down to his underpants for me?". It came to be that I would be prepared for it being something that might happen if I went to the docs.

When I was in grade school, it was normally more of a surprise. As I got older, I got more notice, sometime a day or two. When I turned 16, my Mom told me we had an appointment a day or two before, and I got sandbagged with a visit to her gynie. That was definitely an experience!

My physicals as a kid were nearly always in early summer, to get forms filled out for summer camps. I usually had at least a few days' warning by mom that it was going to happen, and though I hated the experience as a younger kid I started to get excited around age 10 or so and seriously aroused from age 12 on. The anticipation of what I knew would be happening got very exciting as puberty advanced and I was allowed to see the doctor without mom in the exam room.

I think to tell a child or youngster, that a doctors visit is necessary, is ususl. It shortens the time for wild fantasies and fear.

So a doctors visit will be for the most people an experience.

My mum would just say,you are seeing the doctor today for a check up and that would be it.

As far as I can remember, my routine physicals as a kid were either after school, or I was picked up a little early from school toward the end of the normal school day. I always found out about my upcoming exam from my mother. She would typically tell me a couple of days beforehand, and then remind me the night before and also the morning of my exam.

Once I entered high school and started to play sports, I also had sports physicals. Those were always group physicals done at the school on a Saturday morning. I usually found out about those several weeks in advance when I brought home the paperwork for my mother to fill out and sign. Then I was reminded of it a few days before the exam and then, of course, the night before.

When i was younger, sealed brown envelopes used to arrive in the school register to be taken home to inform your parents that you needed to attend a school medical.

These were handed out at registration so all your class knew who would be going to see the school doctor and have to strip completely naked.

As I've said in a previous post , all school medicals in our area involved full genital exams.

I was terrified of these, especially once l reached Senior School. I remember that l brought home a form for my parents to sign and then lied to the teacher that they didn't want me to have such an exam. Perhaps l never even gave the form to my parents in the first place - l just don't remember, including about what happened to the form. (I had already missed a lot of school because of illnesses, so perhaps the teacher assumed that was the reason my parents didn't want another physical exam for little Kenneth!)

Go on, tell me l was a coward and a wimp. I probably was. But l did manage to do quite well in my schoolwork and some sport.

- Ken

I didn’t care what they did. Just wanted to be cleared for sports.

My first serious exam was at age 15 . Known locally in the school as “the balls test” . Had about two weeks notice and I was so worried leading up to it because I was sure the Dr would find out I’d been wanking . And of course no one else did that.........so niaeve ! Should add the medical was known because of a letter to parents where they had option to be present . Fortunately they said no , but allowed exam to go ahead without them .

My mom had a calendar on the wall in the laundry room. I would see "Dr Joe 1030" written on it as I passed by. My heart was start racing as I stared at it knowing that by 1130 that day, Dr Joe was going to have examined my always hard penis. I remember routinely checking the calendar dreading seeing that every year or so

Great post! This is something I think about a lot to this day. Our appointments would be marked on a calendar in the kitchen like "Danny and Jake Dr 9:00 AM." But I also remember seeing paperwork about it that was sent to parents (more for school physicals). But one time, I recall our grandparents visiting. It was summertime and they had invited my brothers and me to come back with them to their place and stay over for week. Our mom said, "can't. they are going to the doctor on Tuesday." My grandpa asked what was wrong and dad said "nothing. they're just getting physicals." I have never forgotten that.

Another time, in my teens, I remember my dad telling me "don't make plans for after school tomorrow. you're going to the doctor."

My mom told me the same day. She used to say "today you must have a shower because we have got a pediatric appointment".

Great post! This is something I think about a lot to this day. Our appointments would be marked on a calendar in the kitchen like "Danny and Jake Dr 9:00 AM."

Did you get exams done together? If so, would you see each other naked?

I think I'd know a week before, or I pretty much went on my birthday.

My school physicals were always announced a couple of weeks in advance during class by a school teacher. Then about a week in advance my parents would get a letter from the health department with the exact date and time for my physical. My parents always showed the letter to me to read it when I was in my teens.

Of course the whole class would be in a buzz with stories and expectations when the announcement of the upcoming school physicals was made. However, a lot of boys in my class would not visit the dr. anyway (or so they claimed at least) since it was not mandatory.

I always got excited and fanatasized about my upcoming physicals from the day it was announced in class. Reading the letter that was sent to my parents actually aroused me even further since it mentioned the fact that I was supposed to strip down during the physical.

Like someone else mentioned in this thread before, I was also always afraid upfront that the dr. would find out that I masturbated (a lot) so I always stopped to masturbate a couple of days before my appointment....which of course didn't help me much for my other fear to have a rock hard erection during the entire thing 😉

When I was a teenager I noticed the appointment for physicals for my brother and I on a calendar we had in the kitchen. Just before we got in the car my mother took out a new never worn pair of briefs and had us change into it. She also insisted we wear new socks even though every exam we had we were barefoot. She would also insist we bathe before we dressed for the doctor. I never understood this because the doctor met my brother and I in nothing but underpants. By that time all our clothes were mixed together on the chair

The morning of the exam I’d be told I have a doctors appointment that afternoon, never knew ahead of time

My mom always told me a few days ahead of time.. usually at the dinner table. LOL

As a kid I would be so afraid that my mom learned not to tell me. She pulled into the parking lot a dragged me in kicking and screaming because I was afraid of shots or rectal exams

Mom or dad told me we had a doc appt. made sure I had clean under ware that day. No big deal.

As a kid I would be so afraid that my mom learned not to tell me. She pulled into the parking lot a dragged me in kicking and screaming because I was afraid of shots or rectal exams

@Reluctantbbygrl

Same

As a kid I would be so afraid that my mom learned not to tell me. She pulled into the parking lot a dragged me in kicking and screaming because I was afraid of shots or rectal exams

Never had a rectal exam as a kid. Why?

We had school exams from the local authority every year around October time. After a couple of years it becomes part of the routine but we would be reminded the week before and told when our date and time was the day before. We were assembled as a class group so no need to do anything except carry on as normal until we were called.

Outside of school I had exams and treatment every month for about 18 months at a clinic and confirmation of my next appointment would come by post about 2 weeks before in a brown envelope addressed to my parents.

I'd be told at least a few days in advance. I'd always get very anxious, usually for fear of injections.

I remember once when I went to work with my dad we drove over to the building where my pediatrician was located (it's a fairly big building that was only medical offices, and pretty close to his office), and I got very nervous when we pulled up and asked what we were there for, and if it was for him or for me. He left me hanging for a while, but we were just going there for breakfast as there was a coffee shop in the lobby. I was relieved. :-)

My mom told me whenever the appointment was made. I started to get nervous and to think on and off until the actual appointment. Thoughts, feelings and fantasies came up.