Physical exam at psychiatrist

Has anyone received a physical exam at their psychiatrist?

I have heard, that due to the nature of prescribing medicine or the connection between physical and mental health that psychiatrists will ( rarely) examine patients.

Id love to hear anyones experiences. Even if it’s just viral signs or weighing etc .

Pyschiatrists are MDs and are qualified to give exams - but rarely do so. They may do a complete physical during intake at a mental health facility if a medical doctor is not present. Checking BP and lungs is not a physical. Following an accident, a psychiatrist reviewed my wife's meds and prescribed an an ti-depressant. When he asked her if she felt suicidal she told him to not to come back!!!

In 1968 I was held at a mental health facility for repeated runaway . I was intensively And I mean intensively examined for sexual child abuse . It was two sessions over two days of about four hour's a day . Much of what was done was worse then what i ran from . I was held down for enema's , I was held down for repeated observed damage to my “rear ” I lost count of how often fingers and “things” were shoved in me . I know that they gave me at least three enemas over those two days . That is three enemas with two holding my upper body , two holding my legs and one giving me the enema . It was the first time I had ever seen or heard of a balloon nozzle . It doesn't matter that a “certain woman” trained me almost from birth to accept what she was going to do to me with out complaining , I could not help but to try to fight them off . From that time to now , touching me with out my permission will get you hurt .

I had a psych nurse practitioner give me a check up at an initial visit a few years ago. Very brief, blood pressure, and heart and lungs through my shirt.

My psych never did because I was referred by my PCP and psych just did assessment and wrote initial rx but pcp refilled and managed from there.

My daughter’s psychiatrist always did weight and vitals at each visit with her. We signed a release for him to have access to any of her medical records but as far as I know he never got anything except what I brought in (which wasn’t much).

I know a guy who got full physical exams from his psychiatrist in high school. Seemed like it was basically the same thing that he got from his regular doctor. He did think it was odd that his psychiatrist was doing that.

In the 50s and 60s if a minor was held at a mental health facility for 90 days or more they did a very intensive exam looking for every thing . One girl after her exam had to moved to a locked ward for 30 days and when let out still would brake down crying from time to time . I heard from others that those five doctors were sadist perverts , two male and three female doctors . They would all work together if they thought they might have a “problem” child .

so think a kid taken into a doctors office in the corner of the yard , Striped nude in front of four or five people who then hold them down and do all these things from weight and height standing to height laying down . spinal check made to walk nude back and forth leg and arm movement , enema and how much they can hold is measured , how much comes out is measured then repeated .The kid didn't really matter . usually they weren't even asked to do anything they just held them down or moved them into what ever position they wanted . pee sample “taken” not given . {my first catheter} then my first anal speculum and over hearing questions on weather or not this or that was caused by sexual abuse or this or that drug abuse like pot or acid use .

I can only Imagean what some of the girls went though {this place was co-ed } I used to know at least two that it affected them so much they were never released and if still alive are still there .

Is it any wander why I don't like doctors and if any one says “this is for your own good” is going to get “trouble” from me . It doesn't help that in my old age I need medical help and now need a catheter full time .

I usually just have my vitals taken At the office. nothing major.

I’ve never heard of that before, but I’ve known people who were admitted involuntarily to psychiatric facilities, and they were forced to submit to bloodwork, and in one case that I’m aware of, rectal temperature monitoring.

I'm not sure if psychiatrists do it now, but it's part of the initial visit to listen to a patient's chest, lungs, and examine his/her abs, at the very least (what's now called a "wellness exam). If someone would come in for hypnotherapy, he would sometimes induce the trance by relaxation while performing the exam.

I've been seeing psychiatrists since the late 80's. I'd see one for a while, stop for a while, maybe go back, maybe see someone else. Examinations used to be more common and more thorough, but only once did I ever even take my shirt off. The advent of useful electronic medical record sharing pretty much did away with the need. They can see what your other doctors did, and if anything concerns them, they order lab tests. The only exams I get from my Psychiatrist now are from her nurses, and they only check for known side effects of whatever the doctor is prescribing. It's still my favorite wanking fodder though.

I think any MD feels the need to listen to lungs these days- must be what is needed to change the billing category?

I've had major depression, seen 3 different psychiatrists as outpatients, for 28 years or so. Got numerous prescriptions. Never had a physical. No vital signs, height weight, much less stethoscope. I think they forgot how

I had a suicide attempt (botched it up luckily, or I wouldn't be posting on zity) I got a thorough physical by the Nurse Practitioner when I was admitted. However the shrink types, social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, seem to lose interest in anything outside of the brain.

A Psychiatrist is an MD so technically they are qualified to administer a physical examination but typically they do not do so.

I saw a psychologist as preteen/teen who would check my vitals: BP, pulse, respiration, height and weight (I believe at the request of my pediatrician: Best Doctor Ever) because my anxiety issues affected my health. I was underweight and asthmatic.

I saw my brother's psychiatrist once as a kid because she wanted to talk to me about him. Despite not technically being the patient, she still recorded my height, weight, and blood pressure before we talked. It was probably just standard procedure since that information would be important for prescribing meds.

An appointment reminder card came for both me and my brother the next month, so I'm guessing she was hoping to make some extra money by seeing both of us, but I never saw her again.

How different / awesome!