How thoroughly does the doctor examine your penis during a physical exam?

He'd just unzip me and probe it around a little bit.

He doesn’t.

After recovering from a UTI my doc said he needed to check my penis. I dropped my pants and underwear and he palpated my testicles and then spent about 10 seconds checking my penis shaft and then the meatus. He said everything was okay and I could pull up my pants.

Not at all, still.

Unfortunately, I have not had my penis examined since I was under age 18 at the pediatrician. I've always wondered why this is not part of regular exams any more.

Another thing to think about is what the doctor does with your penis during the testicular/hernia exam. While we've established that for the adult circumcised male, the penis is most frequently ignored, it's still hanging out there right in the doctors face. He could hold/move your penis out of the way, sneak his hands under it so as it leave it undisturbed, or sometimes insert his finger in the inguinal canal with the penis lying right on top of his hand. I personally love the last option, as the penis is just right there on the doctors hand kinda in the way while hes doing the hernia exam. I've had exams where all three different ways were done.

He doesn’t. Anymore, he seems to be too rushed and more focused on clicking the boxes on the EHR than he is on the patient.

The four doctors I have seen for a physical exam never touched my penis. They only performed a testicular and hernia exam.

I had a visit with my urologist and he gave me a thoroughly examination of my penis which caused me an erection then he thoroughly examination of my prostate.

I had a visit with my urologist and he gave me a thoroughly examination of my penis which caused me an erection then he thoroughly examination of my prostate.

I get anxiety attacks when I go to doctors do to my past experiences so I am getting to the age now that I have to visit a urologist, my first initial visit was very interesting to say the least. The exam was very thorough and I also got an erection and he too thoroughly examined my prostate.

I have Kaiser insurance. I made an appointment to have a complete thorough physical with my doctor. The complete thorough physical consisted of me talking to the doctor while she typed on the computer. She did listen to my heart and lungs through my clothes, and palpate my abdomen through my clothes. Did she examine my penis? No, and no other part of me either. Next time I schedule a physical it may as well be a phone visit. It has been my experience with this plan they do not do anything regarding genitals.

Never. He asks if there are any urinary issue, I say no, because I have no issues and that’s the end of that part of the exam

He takes it in both hands and moves it all around and shines a flashlight down the meatus to look down both lying down and standing. I’m erect usually.

When I was a kid we never heard of pediatricians and nothing got checked unless you were sick and scared of dying. So nothing under my foreskin has ever been looked at. Now at 81 I have a new female doctor. I'm trying to figure out how to get her to check under my foreskin mainly because that is always wet and warm and it seems like a nice place to live if I was a germ. I have been getting the usual through the clothing checks. At my last "wellness check" I showed her the rash next to my scrotum. At the end of the checkup she thanked me for showing it to her. I got the feeling she was not in the habit of asking patients (guys?) to let her look at any bare skin but appreciated I volunteered to show her more. Like maybe it was a gender thing? For once in my life I would like to have a doctor look under there anyway. Peeling that back seems quite minor compared to what a GYN does to girls and I see no reason to go to a specialist when my regular doctor should be capable of doing that. But how do I get the conversation going with her? I think there might be an opening considering her “thank you” at our last meeting.

I think I've figured it out. Both her and him have me come in twice a year but he did the upper half first and the second time he did the lower half which meant me stripping naked to begin with and he did the DRE then I sat on the table facing him while he bonked me with his rubber hammer and asked questions for about 20 minutes. I don't know what she is going to do for the second exam but I think I'll just ask her why they do it differently now and describe the naked session to her. Then I should be able to work in that I'd like under the foreskin checked at least. I still feel there's a gender thing at work here plus some Victorian prudishness. If I can help her get past that maybe I'll get what I'd consider a real physical. I do think she's somewhat worried about how I'd feel if she asked me to strip naked for an exam.

My Urologist usually admits me to hospital ,does a thorough DRE of my enlarged prostate ,inspects my penis and testicles skin integrity and health followed by bladder and testes sonograms ,usually the evening before a plugged catheter is inserted so there's very little normal incontinence ,so I have a good amount of urine onboard that makes for better images ,after that the plug is removed followed by catheter and cystoscopy is done ,inspecting for urethral structures, bladder neck and the whole dog and pony show ,I am re diapered and dressed by nurses and assuming all is all right ,am placed back into sling put back into wheelchair have my restraints re applied and am discharged back to my aide to go home .

It's the most efficient,effective plumbing inspection for me .

No one ever checks my reflexes unless they are pranking a new guy ,as I don't have any ,it's highly amusing to watch the FNG try to figure out what they are doing wrong ?

I provide a genuine teaching moment for new docs ,the bizzare stuff they may never see again in there careers .

The last time I had it inspected was for a really bad fungal infection several years ago that gave me a huge rash, but beyond that an exam of my penis has never been a part of a normal physical exam in my adult life…

I have Kaiser insurance. I made an appointment to have a complete thorough physical with my doctor. The complete thorough physical consisted of me talking to the doctor while she typed on the computer. She did listen to my heart and lungs through my clothes, and palpate my abdomen through my clothes. Did she examine my penis? No, and no other part of me either. Next time I schedule a physical it may as well be a phone visit. It has been my experience with this plan they do not do anything regarding genitals.

I wanted to add – I have them too. They only seem to want to something if you are really in trouble. Otherwise they really play hands off sometimes. I had an exam with a new primary doctor last week and I have several chronic medical conditions right now, and at this point the only thing she checked was my heart and lungs with a steth, and my blood pressure, which they want to check again in 4 weeks.

One of the chronic conditions I have requires home health nursing visits 3x a week btw so its not like I'm exactly the picture of health😜

Lately? Absolutely nothing.

I can’t remember too many occasions, but I had a hernia when I was about 13 so had lots of exams prior to the surgery. I remember having a school medical exam just before my 15th birthday. I had my surgery scars checked and had to cough out loud a few times as the doctor pressed my groin area. I remember the doctor palpating my testicles too and also the shaft of my penis, they also felt the glands under my foreskin. All incredibly embarrassing at the time.

The last time I had my genitals examined was during my pre-teen years, back in the 1980's.

Annual physical examinations just aren't a default thing in the Netherlands, unless you actively book one yourself, or if your profession demands one (when you're a pilot, police officer, fire-fighter, or another job that requires a certain level of physical fitness). And even with those, you keep your pants on 😜

If someone finds something out of the ordinary with his genitals during the daily routines of toilet, shower / bath, and what not, I expect them to book an appointment to have it looked at.

My last exams of the Penis were also when I was pre-teen (foreskin retraction). Then I had inguinal hernia tests up to an age of 25 years. The doctors were able to do a visual exam of the penis during these tests.

Up until I was 18 at my pediatrician my doctor just lifted up my boxers and lowered them while laying down and felt around my penis/testicles. I started going to a more adult doctor a few years ago and he is more thorough. At the end of the exam he has me stand up as he sits in a stool and pulls my boxers down to my knees. He then does a hernia exam, lifts up my penis, feels the shaft, the head and asks questions.

During my genital exams I always had to retract the foreskin. I dont remember the doctor ever touching my penis. There was more attention towards my testicles.

About 35 years ago, when AIDS and safe sex were first widely publicized, my family doctor at the time began stretching my soft penis WAYYY out, pulling up with his thumb my head & frenulum, and mumbled “hmmmm…..no herpes, no lesions” (I'd had my first sexual experience just three or four months before.)

Never the penis itself. Just the testicles and a hernia exam.

My regular doctor usually lifts my penis and squeezes the tip to check for anything Like rashes or leaks he says. Then he checks my scrotum and then the testicles are checked. After that he usually checks for a hernia and asks me to cough a bunch of times.

My female physician does a thorough pelvic exam, opening the meatus,holding penis by head straight up and moving it in a circle, testical exam, hernia, looking in My pubic hair for skin abnormalities (She says)

I think she examines my Penis very thoroughly. Ther were times she would actually give me an erection, and help me to give her a sperm sample.

It all depends what your in for a regular physical. They won't look at usually. If pain or rash in or on penis they examine thoroughly. They just might do a swab of the inside of penis.