Physical Exam Question For Men With Foreskin

This topic may have been covered before, and if it has, please forgive me for asking another time around. I was wondering if your doctor asks you to retract your foreskin in your genital exam for your doctor or if your doctor just goes ahead and retracts it in your exam? Perhaps he/she doesn't even bother to have it retracted at all? It often seems that at least in the U.S. seems to be only a brief exam for a hernia check and that is it when it comes to the male genital exam.

I haven't had a real genital exam since I was a teenager, but the doctors always pulled the skin back themselves. I guess it's less awkward than asking the patient to do it.

It has always been the doctor who pulled back my foreskin. It was like that during the school medicals, which we had every two years. And it was also like that during my army medical examination.

It’s been a while, but when my penis was examined, the doctor always retracted my foreskin.

In UK it is very rare to get a full physical exam - it is so difficult to get an appointment and most are done on line. However when I was 19 and having my last school medical my school doctor checked if my foreskin was tight several times causing me to get and erection and he checked everything out with a final surprise

Female school doctor did.

Now a days it’s almost only a hernia exam. They don’t really examine penis or testicles beyond that.

As others have commented, last time I had a full physical was a school exam. However, for school exams, and the childhood exams with my GP, the doc always retracted my foreskin. Sometimes pulling back very hard so it pulled on the frenulum and caused glans to “bend” downwards.

I had exam only once at urologist and he retracted foreskin himself.

Always my doctor retracts it.

Now a days it’s almost only a hernia exam. They don’t really examine penis or testicles beyond that.

@joesmoe You get a yearly hernia exam?

My doctors have always retracted my foreskin. Whenever I had a physical with my pediatrician or for a school, sports , college and employment exam all included retracting my foreskin and glans/meatus examined. For me, it‘s totally normal actually I think it could be a little awkward instructed to retract my own foreskin. Only once did a doctor cause discomfort when he quickly retracted my foreskin back with more force than normal. Then he checked my testicles and a hernia check with the same forcefulness as when he retracted my foreskin.

You get a yearly hernia exam?

@Exam90 My current doctor checks me for a hernia at all of my annual exams. Either just before or just after checking my varicocele and my testicles.

As a child my pediatrician always retracted my foreskin then as I got older doctors either asked if they could do it or asked me to do it.

Any time my penis has been examined, the Dr has always retracted it. As other responders have mentioned, it’s rare to have a full genital exam from a Dr these days unless you have an appointment with a urologist

In the past ten years, if my penis is examined at all, it's been 50-50 on who retracts mine. Either doctor or patient (me).

There's another thread on this very same question in the circumcision sub-forum here.

My last year’s real physical include a DRE and genitals exam. He rolled and felt each of my testicles, and then pulled back what’s left of my foreskin as he rolled it in between his fingertips. It was full service.

My urologist of course also performs full service procedures. I‘m never asked to assist.

It was full service.

“full service”? I've never heard that term used before in connection with a physical or any kind of exam.

When i was teen the doc asked for me to pull it back myself but docs now usually pull it back

Its always been the doctor who has retracted mine. At my last exam, when it came time to examine my glans the doctor used both hands at the same time to slowly push the skin back.

No one ever checked under there in the 82 years I've been on earth until a few months ago at my first appointment with a dermatologist and only because I mentioned something on the intake paperwork. She told me to show it to her in whatever position was easiest for me.

The only time I had a genital exam as an adult, the doctor felt my testicles but did not pay attention to my foreskin.

I cannot ever remember a doctor examining my foreskin. Now I suppose it must have been examined at some time. At the very least when I was young and my father wasn't reconciled to me being uncut. But even so, I really and truly cannot remember.

Perhaps I have sublimated it somehow?

In any case, certainly from high school on, no doctor ever did this or asked me to.

My physician does the retraction. She is primarily examining for phimosis and so retraction is a vital part of the exam.

Mine retracts my foreskin during the exam.

Sadly it is many years since a real Dr has examined my penis. When I have been examined the Dr has been the one to retract my foreskin.

During play exams I often find the “Dr” firstly asks, does your foreskin retract and when I respond that it does they then promptly fully retract it

Had it retracted by nurse doing a urethral swab for VD check before marriage back in 98. Only time I can remember.

My last foreskin exam was during a military investigation. I stood completely naked in front of the doctor and he retracted my foreskin as much as possible.

@bernd123

Same thing happened to me during my military examination. Had to enter the doctor's office completely nude … and after bloodpressure, stethoscope etc .. I had to stand in front of the doctor, and then he felt my testicles and peeled back my foreskin twice. And just at that moment, the next guy entered the room.

Mine always retracts my foreskin. Last few times he looked in the meatus with a light