First Time Hernia Exam at the Pediatrician

The first time I was examined for a hernia by the pediatrician, I was 11 years old. It was already an embarrassing experience having my underwear removed, my genitals examined, and my legs bent and stretched while I laid on the exam table. However, at my yearly physical that year, the doctor asked me to hop down from the table. I was completely naked and this would mean that my genitals would be on full display to my mother and sister who were in the room. I would be facing them with my genitals exposed and they would be watching. I remember the doctor performing another genital exam before proceeding with the hernia check. After that, I was told to turn around and touch my toes. The doctor felt my spine and then told me that I could get dressed. I hurried to put my underwear back on, but my throbbing erection made it even more difficult. I was embarrassed, but also aroused.

Does anyone else remember the first time the pediatrician checked for a hernia? Who else was in the room? Was your underwear pulled down or removed? Did you experience an erection?

The first time I was checked for a hernia was probably when I was in middle school. My mom was in the room, but I was positioned in a way where she didn’t see that part of the exam. My underwear was pulled down and I did not get an erection thankfully. It was a bit awkward to say the least. That was one of the last times that my mom was in the exam room with me.

In Norway we had annual school physicals fully in nude in the 1960es, so we did not go to pediatricians just for checkups, even though the doctors performing these physicals may have been pediatricians.

When I was 7 years old this doctor said to my mother that followed: "Does he have hernia?". But what then followed was not what I understand as a hernia exam. He feelt under my testicles, weighted them in his hand and lifted them someways up.

The first specific hernia exam I remember is when I was14 years old, by letting me tense my abdominal muscles, and the doctor inserting a finger up into the channels at both sides of my scrotum.

My first hernia check was when I was 11 in an exam at junior school. We were all stripped down to our boxers for the entire exam, but I was called to go behind a screen and the doctor asked me "Can your remove your boxers for me so I can check below?", so I was naked for the check as he got me to do a turn and cough check either side, but it wasn't very long and I was only exposed to the doctor. I didn't get an erection that first time, but I did plenty of times as a teenager.

The pediatrician I saw up until age 10 did not have me remove any of my clothes, but rather examine me around them. That doctor passed away and at age 11 I started seeing the pediatrician I continued to see until I was 18. The new doctor had me strapped to my underpants, white briefs, for every exam. For my yearly exams when I was 11 and 12, following the abdominal exam, he pulled the front of my briefs down and did an examination of the penis and testicles. Adding the visual examination of the genitalia definitely took the exam to a different level and immediately led to a medical exam fetish by me. Beginning with my examination at age 13, rather than have me lying supine, and him exposing the genitalia he completed the abdominal examination, and then said “stand down off of the table and slip your britches down for me.” He then proceeded to examine the testicles and check the glans and meatus. Then, the new experience was that he said, “turn your head to the side and cough for me” as I felt a finger introduced into my inguinal canal. He repeated the cough on that side, and then repeated the procedure on the other side. The embarrassment of having my genitals exposed while lying on the exam table was significant, but having to pull down my briefs and show my genitals to the doctor, made me an active participate and further enhanced the embarrassment of the process. I also think the necessary verbal commands for exposure, and, for the cough maneuver to facilitate the hernia exam, gives each physician a chance to put his own distinctive twist on the exam experience. I also find the verbal commands to be humiliating. The hernia exam was definitely a great addition to the annual physical exam.

My pediatrician actually never did a hernia exam. But did examine my penis and testicles each year with me lying on the table

My first hernia exam was at least done by age 11, might have been earlier, but I do remember the one at 11 years old. This was a new pediatrician that I was going to, after my family moved to a new town. My mother was in the exam room with me and he had me take off my briefs right after he came into the exam room. That was different from my previous pediatrician, who had me strip down to my briefs and did most of the exam wearing them, only taking them off at the end. Like the original poster my mother sat there watching as the doctor examined my genitals and then did the cough-cough hernia exam. I went to this pediatrician until the end of high school, and exams were always done full nude, and my mother always stayed in the room with me.

The first time that I can remember a hernia check was at the age of 12. This was also the last time that my mom was present for my physicals.

Right from from the start of the exam I had to undress down to my white briefs while the doctor and my mom were watching me. After the weighing etc, the doctor was sitting on a low stool and I had to come and stand right before him. He gripped and prodded me firm by the hips an upper legs. Then I was told to turn around and touch my toes, while he felt my spine. Once upright and facing him again, I was told to blow on the back of my hand. This was new to me, and while I was diligent doing as I was told, he quickly pulled down my underwear to my knees for the hernia check. Until that point, I had never expected that a physical would involve my underpants coming off. But now standing there butt naked, to my own surprise, I grew an erection with the doctor an my mom watching it. This experience was a leap in awareness and fascination of my own body. In the weeks after, I replayed the scene many times in my mind while also performing it in front of the big standing mirror in my parents bed room when possible.

During later physicals I always had a full erection, but to start flaccid when naked and have the doctor watch it grow , was always the most embarrassing.

I was 11. I was getting to know my foster parents and my new doctor. I had to remove my underwear, place my hands behind my head with my feet shoulder width apart. My doctor palpated my lower abdomen, checked my femoral pulses then examined my head and shaft all the while my FP's had a view of my naked backside. My doctor then gently rolled each testicle and checked me for a hernia. Initially I was very stressed about this but as time went by and I grew older I got used to it.

I would have been about 7, when I was being examined by my GP for early puberty. As he was performing the genital exam (which seemed to take forever, with all the examining & measuring he was doing) I had already become very erect. All of a sudden, with no warning 😡, while examining my testes, he shoved his finger into my groin and told me to cough. Then repeated on other side. Think it was the shock of him doing it that made it seem more painful than it actually was. This became part of the regular exams I endured every 2 months, as he monitored my development.

@daltonclancy I know this question isn’t immediately relevant to the thread topic, but how was it for you having your foster parents in the room for those exams? Was it awkward? Comforting? Some other feeling?

Mine would be probably 10 or so. The Doctor was very aggressive with his squeeze and I would always wince.

. That was different from my previous pediatrician, who had me strip down to my briefs and did most of the exam wearing them, only taking them off at the

I had a similar experience to that. Where I had to visit another pediatrician than my normal one. He was very thorough for the exam. But instead of letting me stay in my underwear and just pulled them down as needed. He had me get fully out of them for the end of the exam. Which was so humiliating.

@daltonclancy I know this question isn’t immediately relevant to the thread topic, but how was it for you having your foster parents in the room for those exams? Was it awkward? Comforting? Some other feeling?

@daharfldy9. I actually wanted my FP's present. I had been roughhoused and mistreated by some medical professionals up until that point. I was so stressed out I had an asthmatic attack during my physical. A doctor's examination room was a very terrifying place for me.

I don’t remember when my hernia exams started. But I don’t remember not getting them, so I must’ve been young. Up until I was 11 or 12, it was me, my female pediatrician, and my mom in the room. Sometime around 13, my mom would stay in the waiting room. The doctor would sit on a rolling stool in the middle of the room, have me stand in front of her, and then tell me to lower my underwear to my knees.

I was born with a hernia so it was discovered when I was about 3 or 4. I had to wait until I was 7 before it was operated on at the local cottage hospital. I remember being given what I thought was an anemone! I was very scared at the time and visiting hours were very minimal but having said that I do remember with great affection my scar being examined after the operation by the local school doctor and hence my medfet beginning I still enjoy the feling of cold hands examining there especially on the testicles

Technically I’ve never had a pediatrician perform a hernia on me, but I did start having them at 11. The doctor was a regular physician though. The first time was during a physical I needed for junior high. He had me standing up while I took my shorts down to my ankles. He performed the exam with plenty of attention being paid to how embarrassed I was. Something he actually pointed out to me and I think he slightly enjoyed. Every exam after that one went much smoother.

He performed the exam with plenty of attention being paid to how embarrassed I was. Something he actually pointed out to me and I think he slightly enjoyed.

@Meritsboy I think that many doctors enjoy having the ability to make patients feel nervous or embarrassed. This definitely seemed to be the case as a teenager going to the pediatrician. My female pediatrician loved to call attention to my embarrassment. Whether It was my erection or having to be naked in front of my mother and sister. It seemed that she derived pleasure from making a teenager, who was becoming a sexual being, embarrassed by his reactions to seemingly nonsexual stimuli.

I was nearly 12 and required to see a new doc by my parents. He was hardly sensitive to my embarrassment and I think had zero experience with a prepubescent male. He was largely a doc for adults so I think he treated me like a child, which included being fully undressed and subjected to a rectal temp from his nurse. He did then whole genital thing.

The first time was when I signed up for middle school football at 12 years old and even though I had to be examined at school before starting my step mother told my female pediatrician I had signed up so she added the hernia check while lying on the table after she removed my underwear. It just added to the exposure time in front of her and my step mother. I had already started getting erections the year before.

First was at age 12. Then was done again at 14 where he repeated the left side a few times. Now when I have a physical examination that’s always an area of interest saying not sure there’s a hernia but that canal is very tight and the left testicle is extremely retractile which needs to be frequently checked.

I was 13, turning 14. The physical was right before my birthday. My dad took my brother and I together for our pre-camp physicals. We were all in the same room. My brother is two years younger. The doctor examined him first. I remember he pulled my brother’s underwear down to his knees and examined his penis and balls. I remember being surprised my brother had such a big cock and so much pubic hair for being 11. It was more than I had at 11, but about as much I had then at 13. Then it was my turn. The doctor performed the same exact physical on me and even pulled my underwear down to my knees to check my cock and balls. Then he said, “oh, I have to remember to check you for a hernia.” I knew what that meant. He had me get off the table and pull my underwear back down to my knees. My dad stood facing me behind the doctor, smirking. The doctor checked each side and had me cough. I was hard and sticking straight out by the end of the exam. It was so embarrassing. If it had just been my brother it would have been one thing but my dad getting such a front row view was demolishing. Still, I was so horny I had to jack off ass soon as we got home and I could get a minute alone. And that’s all it took lol

I was born with a hernia and now I am thirty-six years old. I have to have surgery again.

I never had hernia exam at the pediatrician, at least I dont remember it that way

The first time I had to cough was when I was 11. I had no idea what the dr was doing when he started feeling my scrotum.

The first time I had a hernia exam was when I was 16. My normal pediatrician was on vacation or something and another doctor in the practice was filling in. I already had a lot of anxiety going to physicals so it was even more amplified since it was someone I didn't know...I was especially nervous about the genital exam. My normal pediatrician did the genital exam lying down...he would be feeling my abdomen and getting lower and then say "okay just stare at the ceiling and try to relax for this next part" as he would lift up my boxers and pull them down below my testicles and penis and then feel all around down there. This new doctor had me lying down and was feeling my abdomen and then kind of said okay just a quick peek down here for a second and lifted the waistband up for a few seconds and just looked with no touching and put my boxers back down...I was very relieved hoping that was it. However after he did that he then said okay hop up from the table and stand up in front of me...which I never had done before so I was very terrified. He then said alright I know this is the part nobody likes but I need to take a closer look at your privates...so stand up straight and you are going to feel me pull your boxers down to your knees. He then proceeded to walk over and pull them down to my knees completing my humiliation as I never had a genital exam standing up to that point. He then proceeded to feel my pubic hair, testicles and the shaft of my penis asking if I had any concerns about anything. Finally at the end he said okay have you had a hernia exam before to which I weakly mumbled no...and he said alright we are going to do one today so turn your head and cough as I push in here...which he then did to both sides...the whole situation at the time was really embarrassing and I never had a hernia exam up to that point but it's fun to think about now

The first time I had a hernia exam was when I was 16. My normal pediatrician was on vacation or something and another doctor in the practice was filling in. I already had a lot of anxiety going to physicals so it was even more amplified since it was someone I didn't know...I was especially nervous about the genital exam. My normal pediatrician did the genital exam lying down...he would be feeling my abdomen and getting lower and then say "okay just stare at the ceiling and try to relax for this next part" as he would lift up my boxers and pull them down below my testicles and penis and then feel all around down there.

This completely reminds me of my exam with a random doctor ALSO at 16. I was so nervous. So instead of allowing me to stay in my underwear the entire time, after he asked me to hop of the table, he also told me to take my underwear completely off. I was so mortified. I kept trying to cover myself and he kept telling me to keep my hands to my side. There was nothing to be shy about as I have everything every other boy he's seen has.

16 was also my first time get the hernia exam. As my regular pediatrician didn't do it to me until i saw him again at 17. About six months later after this, I saw my school doctor for a sport physicals and he did the hernia exam on me then too.

I think I was about 10 or 11 the first time I had a hernia exam. When I first got to the exam room the nurse gave me a gown, told me to remove all of my clothes and put the gown on, and then the nurse and my mom left the room. After I put the gown on, my mom and the nurse returned and the nurse checked some things, temperature, etc. Then the nurse said the doctor would be there soon. I was sitting on the exam table when the doctor came into the room and he started doing the exam. Checking my eyes, ears, throat, and listening to my heart and breathing. The doctor had me lay back on the table and he did the normal checking and pushing on my stomach. Then he had me stand up on the floor in front of him and I knew what part was going to be next. I was standing in front of the doctor and my mom was sitting in a chair behind me, which I was glad that she wasn't going to be able to see everything going on. The doctor had me lift up the gown and hold it above my stomach while he examined my penis, checking the glans too. Then he did the testicular part of the exam. After that, he said he was going to check me for hernias and if I had that done before, I said no. So he explained that he would have me turn my head and cough. He pushed his finger into the inguinal canal and told me to turn my head and cough, then repeated it on the other side. I didn't get a full erection during this exam but I do remember that during the penis, testicle, and hernia check I did start to get a little hard, which was embarrassing. I was just glad that my mom was not able to view this part of the exam from where she was sitting.

I sort of knew what to expect during the hernia exam from talking with friends who had gone through it. They had explained what was done and joked about the whole turning your head and coughing thing.

I think My first actual hernia exam was probably when I was Around 17. Prior to that my dr would just press around my groin and feel my testicles while I was Laying on the table.

@thereluctantpatient I too masturbated after every exam. I've had some of the most intense orgasms masturbating while recalling my exams. A big factor for me was the humiliation of having my mother and sister in the room watching my exams. Was the humiliation of being viewed by family members while stripped and examined the reason for your arousal? Was it also arousing seeing your brother subjected to the same type of exam?