Guys with brothers, was your brother ever in the room during your physical exam?

Yeah both of them when present. At least one of them got examined too since we shared a similar birthday.

He may have been. If I had to be taken to the doc and there was nobody to care for him at the same time… I don't recall.

Yes. I was examined with my brother each year until I was 17 (except for when I was 16 they messed up and gave us separate exam rooms). Until I was 11, and we switched doctors, we were always down to briefs at the very beginning. He examined our penises and testicles lying down and then lying down then standing as we got older. There was no privacy. I was two years older and was always first. We are both circumcised. When he retired, we went to a new doctor who let us keep our pants on for the most part and only undressed as it went on (usually shirt off at the beginning then eventually down to underwear). When he did the genital exam, he always closed the blinds even though it was 3 stories up and then ask us to lower our under to our knees (I remember this specifically, because he'd always close the blinds first before telling us he was going to do the exam and he always specified to lower underwear down to the knees. We both wore briefs until after 18 because we just wore what our parents bought us and never thought to ask for something different). I remember at 13 he gave me a big speech about how at 13 he starts checking girls for breast cancer and that he thinks it's when boys should start checking for testicle cancer too, so in addition to a hernia exam, that visit and every subsequent one he'd feel both of my testicles thoroughly explain he was looking for lumps. He started to to do the same to my brother at 13 too. He always did the hernia regardless and I can't remember a time they didn't exam our privates. Edit for spelling and clarification. 17 was the last year we were examined together.

Oh this one brings back memories. I guess a physical was required for junior high school - can't remember the circumstances - but I had to get one when I was twelve and just starting puberty. My mom took my brother and I (he was eight) and we both had our check-ups. It was at the pediatricians where we had gone since birth. I always hated that place because of the smell of rubbing alcohol and early childhood fears about getting a shot. The doctor we saw was one I had seen all my life and he was the dad of one of the boys in my class at school. From what I recall, the check-up was pretty routine with the vital signs and rubbing around the stomach/torso with our shirts off. Then, the doctor asked my mom if she could step out while he “checked the boys for hernias.” I had no idea what a hernia was but when he asked my brother to lower his pants and underwear, I was mortified. I was up on the exam table and my brother's back was to me so I didn't see anything. It didn't take long and my brother quickly zipped up and left the room with a look on his face that could have cut stone. Then it was my turn and I was scared to death because at that age, I was getting erections constantly and was afraid the doctor would think I was gay. Sure enough, I got rock hard before I reluctantly lowered my pants and underwear. I wanted to die as he told me to turn my head and cough then held my hard, throbbing penis to look it over, much more carefully than he did my pre-pubescent brother. Shortly after that traumatic day at the doctors, I had my first wet ejaculation and in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't shoot off when the doctor was opening my urethra and looking inside. I never felt comfortable after that seeing the doctor again, nor being around his son at school.

Yes i was several times. Nothing unusual. But Kind of weird as we grew older.

I had to get examined with my brother until I was 15. We were rarely naked together after age 8 or 9, so going thru exams together until age 15 was uncomfortable. The nurse would lead us to the exam room and direct us to strip to our briefs. We waited for the doc to later enter the room. He would usually if not always examine me first while my brother watched, eventually the doc would pull the front of the briefs down and do a quick genital exam, but it was never quick enough as my brother watched. It was humiliating, and probably why I find exams a trigger after all these years. Anyone else go thru exams with your brother? Were you comfortable going thru it?

I was never in the same exam room as my brothers…and if I was either one was asked to leave when it was time for the exam.

My brother is 3 years older than I am . When we were very young we had our physical exams together at the same time. I am not exactly sure when that stopped but I do not remember him having any pubic hair at our last physical together so maybe we were 10 and 7.

My brother and I always had our physical exams together at the pediatrician. After getting called back to the exam room, we always had to take off all of our clothes except our underwear. Being older, I was the first one to reach puberty so it was more than a little embarrassing when I all of a sudden had to take off my underwear while the doctor thoroughly inspected my genitals. Looking back on it, I'm glad it happened because my embarrassment prepared him for what he'd have to go through in a few years.

When I was 15 and my brother was 7 we got a new male doctor. Some background, our old pediatrician was a lady who would examine us in our underpants. My brother found this terribly embarrassing ,having to undress and be poked and prodded by a woman. So my mom got us a male doctor in a larger practice. We got there and had our weight and BP done fully clothed. I was wondering if we were going to have to remove any clothes for the exam as my mother,brother and myself were escorted to a large exam room. Once the nurse left us and shut the door my mom ,who loved to tease us about how shy we got after we undressed, said ‘you might as well start removing your clothes’. I said I wasn't going to do anything unless the doctor or nurse asked to. She then ,in a fit of exasperation, ‘suit yourself I’m going to see it all in a few minutes' as she wheeled on my brother she added “I hope this new doctor gets rid of this modesty you seem to have”. She was finishing her sentence as the doctor walked in and after a few minutes of chit chat he said ‘I am going to have your sons strip down to the skin’. I was confused but my mom interjected ‘you mean make them naked’. As the doctor assented my mom quickly began disrobing my brother. She was whisking down his briefs while I had just removed my socks and shoes. As soon as my brother realized he was nude he began to cover up his penis and the doctor intoned ‘no need for that, we all know what a boy looks like without his clothes on’ I felt sorry for him but realized that I was in the process of stripping naked as well. The doctor started with my brother and then examined me.

I tell this story because a few weeks ago over Christmas holiday my brother mentioned that this doctor was still practicing at the same HMO where he took his kids. We talked about how embarrassing that exam was being completely naked in this room, worrying that someone was going to open the door and see us in the altogether and my mom teasing us endlessly on the ride homeabout how she never expected to see us both naked at the same time and how she hoped the room was warm. Then he said something nice. The next few years ,until I went to college, I was examined privately by the same doctor as my little brother was examined in a separate room. Even though the joint exam was humiliating he liked having us both naked in the same room, he said he felt more secure to know that his big brother was there feeling the same way as he did and was just as bare as he was. I was genuinely moved.

@medfetperson this is a really nice and touching post. I know that you had some traumatic experiences at the doctor growing up, but being there for your younger brother in that state of vulnerability was obviously very comforting to him during a very uncomfortable time.