What embarrassing questions were you asked during a medical exam?

The most embarrassing question was when they asked me if I masturbated and how often.

I think my most embarrassing was any questions about my sexual development as I was growing up and comments he would make about how much I have developed since the last time I saw him. I think the most embarrassing was when he said that I had a healthy amount of pubes grown for guys my age. And then examining other parts of my body for my development.

When I was around 15 or 16 and I started growing facial hair the doctor said something like “probably time to start shaving” or “have you started shaving yet” and while it isn’t really an embarrassing question in concept, I was pretty embarrassed by it. Not too sure why but it just made me feel kind of like I did when I started puberty and the doctor commented on me starting to grow pubic hair.

I think are you ready for the prostate check is probably pretty high on the list.

Standing in the school nurses office with trousers and pants down being asked by the Doctor if it all worked.

With my sub's many health visits he has never been asked anything that was embarrassing.

When I was younger at the pediatrician in my teens, my pediatrician would get to the genital exam portion and would ask a few questions about my stage of puberty, if I felt I was developing normally and if I was sexually active. He would then start the genital exam and ask a few more questions such as “pain in your testicles?” “does this hurt?” “Anything leak or not work down here?”

Now as an adult, doctor asks bunch of questions before starting exam Most embarrassing is when he asks about if I am going to the bathroom normally.

The Dr who did my work physical the first time for my new job asked about the slight curve in my penis and if my testicles ever give me trouble

As a pre teen, teenager and when I was in my 20’s, anything about my cycle.

When I had testicles problems, he asked if I am practicing any sexual stuff that could be the reason for my pain

I'd say that the most embarrassing were questions relating to puberty that were asked in front of my parents.

Mine was aged 11, to my mother:

“Does he know when he needs to go to the toilet?”

Embarrassing on two levels; firstly by age 11 I'd developed quite reasonable bowel control skills (though mine were somewhat delayed thanks to previous surgical intervention) and secondly I was quite capable of answering such a question myself.

Other embarrassing questions as an adolescent were “How often do you open your bowels?” followed by “How often do you poo?” as if I'd not understood it, before I'd had a chance to answer the first one.

I can only hope that in the intervening 25+ years, the staff of that hospital have gained a bit more skill in talking to any patient that wasn't a very young child.

I had reoccurring strepp for years before finally having my tonsils removed at 25. The final incident that drove me to this solution was the 2nd to last time I had strepp…when the first round of amoxicillin didn't work. After four days of medicine and no improvement, I went into a second urgent care. The male NP/Doctor (can't recall which, he looked to be about 40 though) said that I could have a amoxicillin-resistant strain of the bacteria, or that there was a chance that I was suffering from a STI in my mouth/throat.

“Have you been doing anything recently that could have caused that kind of infection?” He asked in a very serious tone.

I turned beet red, I'm sure. I'd just spent most of the previous week in a rather amorous situation with a practical stranger. And yes, I'd gone down on her, a lot.

“Nah, not likely," I replied.

Thankfully, a Zpac cured what really was just a gnarly case of strepp. But for a day, I was deeply concerned that I'd just received a never ending gift.

During an official examination, which I didn't feel like doing at all, I had to strip down to my underpants. The exam didn't suit me at the time. In fact, it wasn't even necessary. In any case, I had to undress down to my shorts there. During this examination, I had to lie down on the table, and then the doctor listened to my heart very thoroughly. I was struggling to relax and I still remember the doctor asking me why I was so tense.

In retrospect, that was actually much more embarrassing than many other things, such as the urological exams that followed some years after.

Maybe it had something to do with my age. I was just a teenager then.

I was around 13 an my pediatrician asked me during he checked my genitals if i had yet my first ejaculation. This was very embarrassing for me.

@bernd123 Did he ask it as simply as that, or did he explain further? I ask because before I experienced it for the first time, I wouldn't have known what was meant by it. I had sex education but either I didn't pay attention or it was lacking in necessary detail, because the process of ejaculation was quite a suprise to me when it first happened, and I don't think it had even occured to me that masturbation was a thing before I did it!

I was around 13 an my pediatrician asked me during he checked my genitals if i had yet my first ejaculation. This was very embarrassing for me.

When I was 13, I wouldn't have had the faintest clue what an ejaculation even was. I was ridiculously naive about sexual matters for my age at times, but a few years later I tried to make up for it by reading as much as I could get my hands on.

During a prostate exam, my Dr., a female, advised my prostate was a bit enlarged. She then asked me explain how often, the amount and flow rate of my urine. She the asked me if I ever had an erection problem, how often I have some type of ejaculation in a month, and weather I would actually release semen [did it feel like a lot or a little or none] during each sexual encounter. She also asked if my ejaculations were from natural intercourse or a massage of my penis. She then gave me medical directions and said she wanted to recheck my prostate in the future

All throughout my preteen and teen years I was asked:

Do you or have you started masturbating?

Have you put anything inside you?

Are you sexually active?

After him showing me how to examine my breasts…Ok, now please show me what I just taught you? And on follow up exams Have you done breast exams at home?

One time I had an exam and my stepdad had spanked me the day before so my ass was still red…and the doctor asks What happened here? I thought I was going to die.

My most embarrassing question was at the dentist's office several years ago, but not most embarrassing for me. The dental hygienist was tasked with keeping my dental records up to date. When she reached the question about any recent surgeries I answered I had a urological surgery several months earlier. That was not enough for her. “What kind of surgery?” I answered that it dealt with how my urological system performed. Still not enough - she persisted. “Exactly what kind of surgery more specifically?” So I let her have it! “I had a prosthesis inserted in my penis so I will have no problem with erections.” Her eyes widened and she immediately scooted out of the room! About 5 minutes later she returned, quite recomposed by then. Well, she asked for it and she got it! She just had a hard time handling it. To this day I don't know whether she was too embarrassed to stay or couldn't stop laughing.

I don't remember any embarrassing questions - except maybe when a specialist asked me just a few years ago, ‘Are you still sexually active?’ I'm not saying that there weren't such questions, just that I conveniently can't recall them!

I never liked doctors or specialists looking deep into my mouth - such as an ENT specialist - and seeing that (a) my teeth weren't great, or all my own, and (b) that my tonsils and adenoids were likewise gone. And the specialist just smiling. Once, one accidentally gagged me, and although he apologised, and I smiled at him, I remember feeling a bit like a kid.

All the above embarrasses me - but you asked!

- Ken

Yes. These:

Have you ever rock climbed naked with wool socks on your hands?

Do you ever drive your combine naked? If yes do you do this while harvesting alfalfa hay or regular hay?

Have you ever pole vaulted naked onto a roof to retrieve a frisby? If yes, when did you start doing this and how often would say you do this?

Actually no, never been asked anyhing like this. But if I was a doctor or played one on TV, I would ask at least one question like this every patient visit.

I wonder what my yelp reviews would be like?

Talk amongst yourselves…

Exam was a couple of years ago when we moved up to a small country town from Sydney.

Had to find a new doctor and the first one I tried was prudish and was shocked by my answers to her questions.

Was I sexually active and did I use any sex aids. I told her I was bi and really had no inhibitions. Found a more forgiving doctor soon.

My Doctor is a female and she would ask that I relax as she would put her finger in my ass for an exam.

When I was 14 as my brother and I were being escorted to the exam room the nurse stopped at a closet and asked my mother ‘are your sons wearing underpants? Like briefs or boxers.’. I thought it was an odd question since she would see us in our Fruit Of Looms in a few seconds. But my mother replied 'they're wearing briefs'. The nurse replied ‘okay otherwise I would have gotten waist sheets for them ’. Since the office was small I wondered if everyone in the waiting room knew that we were getting undressed and we wore briefs.

A few years ago I needed to look for a new doctor as mine was retiring. I found a younger female doctor starting her practice and accepting new patients. At my first visit for my annual physical she asked me the following questions. Are you sexually active, Do you have any erection problems or maintaining an erection. I answered them but to be honest she caught me off guard and felt kind of embarrassed.

I had a physical exam when I was in my mid 20's by a doctor who was probably around 50. He was a little weird - the first odd thing was that I was fully dressed when he came in the room. After getting my initial history, he asked me to get undressed down to my underwear, and then stayed in the room and watched me while I undressed – weird.

When he got to the genital exam, he had me pull down my underwear. Once my penis was visible, he asked me, “Are you having any problems with your pecker?” I just said “no.” But it seemed to be a really weird and embarrassing question. First, ‘pecker’ seemed like an unusual word for a doctor to use. The term ‘pecker’ just means penis, and doesn't describe a state of erection, but it made me think about a chicken pecking at grain, and how hard the chickens beak is when it pecks. It also seemed strange to ask me a question about my penis while he had it exposed. I did not develop an erection, but I wondered if he was trying to increase my anxiety, perhaps to see if he could embarrass me enough to produce an erection.

“Are you having any problems with your pecker?” I just said “no.” But it seemed to be a really weird and embarrassing question. First, ‘pecker’ seemed like an unusual word for a doctor to use. The term ‘pecker’ just means penis, and doesn't describe a state of erection, but it made me think about a chicken pecking at grain, and how hard the chickens beak is when it pecks.

@Castro That “brain-fart” thought you had about the chicken is hilarious! 😄 Did you sniff glue as a child?? 😜😄😄😄

I have never been asked a question that embarassed me. Some I didn't want to answer - but not embarassing.

After starting my hormone replacement therapy and two months in after using testosterone blockers, my Dr. asked how my sperm is… liquid or thick etc… i told him I didn't know because I didn't masterbate and paid attention to that thing between my legs.

The opposite after my gender reassignment surgery, my Dr. asked me if there was still some sensitivity (pain wise) and I pointed to the top above the center of my vulva and told her: it feels like a bruised bone. She said, oh no that's your clitoris… focus on that area. 😃

... After getting my initial history, he asked me to get undressed down to my underwear, and then stayed in the room and watched me while I undressed – weird.

I had that at a dermatologists once. He just sat on his stool watching me take my clothes off. It was really weird, I never went back to that office.

... It also seemed strange to ask me a question about my penis while he had it exposed...

From my experience, this is normal. Most of the doctors that have examined me ask questions about the body parts they are examining at that moment. While examining my abdomen, they ask about my diet, how regular I am, heartburn, etc. Erectile dysfunction or testicular pain during genital exam. Every single time, moments before my rectal exam he asks if there's ever any blood on the toilet paper. When I hear that question, my butthole instantly puckers up in anticipation of the cold ky jelly.

Not an embarrassing but a funny one. The year I turned 31, my doctor started with the biological clock talk and my reaction to that was priceless that my doctor couldn't stop laughing… It's more of an in-joke now.