Shaving your Vulva for a Gyno Exam

What a stupid question by the OP. As you state you are in the UK you would know that doctors over here do NOT shave women's pubic hair (unless perhaps for surgery).

Goodness, and those who say the doctor does shave them at their gyn exam are living in cloud cuckoo land.

What a stupid question by the OP. As you state you are in the UK you would know that doctors over here do NOT shave women's pubic hair (unless perhaps for surgery).

Goodness, and those who say the doctor does shave them at their gyn exam are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Maybe a special procedure in the UK ?? - but it would not surprise me !! - Great Britain is well known for self willed decisions !!

Otherwise it will not be important for the doctor !! - i would agree with that !!

NO special procedure, it doesn't happen - end of

I don’t like to shave down below, as it irritates my skin and becomes uncomfortable as stubble grows back. My OB/GYN has never had a problem with me having my natural pubic hair at an exam. They see many different variations of hair grooming preferences every day.

I am lucky, my hairdresser has a rooms in the back of his salon to shave or groom all private parts including the Vulvas.

I like to be nice and tidy and very clean down there and I go once a week and he does a really good job for me for the whole area including my anus.

He has a staff of eight which also administers multiple deep colon tube enemas I find all the treatments very rewarding, and my Doctor says he he really appreciates the car I take.

Gomba.

What a polyvalent hairdresser that person is. 😄

I've been shaved for surgery (after I was unconscious) before, but twice recently I've had a nurse shave [part of] my vulva while awake. Recovering from surgery to that area and they do it as part of the dressing changes at follow-up visits, so that the tape doesn't yank out the hair and so it will stick better. (They did offer to let me do it myself if I felt more comfortable with that, to which I said "heck, no." That's an awkward bit of shaving yoga at the best of times, never mind when everything is swollen and cranky from surgery...) It didn't feel particularly more or less embarrassing / intimate than the rest of the procedure, though. Besides the nurses matter-of-factly moving my labia hither and yon to clean the wound, it's apparently standard for wound care clinics to take regular photographs to document the wound healing, so they can compare to see if it's improving, and so they don't have to take as many physical measurements of the wound to document it. (If you've never experienced someone sticking a (small, sterile, but not soft!) measuring stick in an open wound, let's just say it gets your attention.) Once you've had a mug shot of your crotch taken, the shaving part is an afterthought. 😄

I wouldn't think of going to a gyno exam without shaving my vulva entirely less than a few hours before going to the doctor's office...but then I keep mine shaved all summer anyway for the nude beach so I only have to shave it for exams in winter.

She is always shaved when she goes. Usually shaves the night before

I always make sure I’m clean shaven and smooth before I see my gynecologist. It makes me feel more comfortable when being exposed for the exam.

Well, I am sugared/waxed anyway so I am always clean and bare

I usually shave myself before a gyno visit but have never been asked by a doc to do so

I don't generally shave before a gyno visit. However, my playdoc will usually shave me before conducting his exams.

I try to be tidy when I go to the gynecologist, so I definitely cut along the groin, only once did I go completely hairless

I am lasered so I dont need to worry about shaving

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I do not shave before a real exam but before a play exam my hubby usually shaves me.

@JuditL what it painful? Can you describe please? My wife doesn't like and cannot endure even a bit of pain. Thanks!

I get a Brazilian done before any gynecology appointment

The opposite. I usually let it grow out a little. I think the landing strip look at a gyno exam would be more embarrassing

Tonykiko67 it pinches defiantly quiet a bit and can be a bit painful also on some spots