Asking For Specific Exam

Have any of you asked a doctor to do a specific exam during a visit?

I would ask my doctor to do a Prostate Exam. I'm only in my 20's but, curious and haven't gotten one yet. In my head the doctor would have me in Sims Position with my pants or shorts and underwear around my ankles. He would insert his gloved and lubricated index finger into my rectum. While he presses on my prostate I'll feel the urge to urinate/cum and become erect as well. And at the end of the exam he'll give me tissues to wipe the lube from my butt crack before leaving the office.

During a real exam? Probably will not fly.

I have requested a DRE for the past several years. I do not trust the non-specific PSA test, as it has too many false positives to be an accurate screening test. A rapidly enlarging or lumpy prostate is much more specific for a clinically significant cancer. At the same time, they should be able to take a stool sample for FIT for blood, to screen for colon cancer in low risk individuals. This is the way I treated my patients, and the way I want to be treated.

Depends on the context. I would say that since the doctor is not a consenting play partner do not ask for something "just for fun." If you have a legitimate reason go ahead. I had to switch doctors recently and after the first exam realized that the new one didn't give my skin the once-over. I'm at higher risk for skin cancer, so I probably should have asked for at least the upward-facing parts to be checked and probably will if I remember next year.

I have never asked for a specific exam during my physical. I do ask what he is going to check before he starts the hands on part of the exam. He will then tell me what he is going to examine. This year when I asked him what he was going to check his answer was, I am going to check everything. Then he asked permission to check my prostate. But I have never asked him to specifically check anything. If I were having a issue with something or concerned with something then I would feel comfortable asking to have whatever it was examined.

I think I'm correct in saying that a PSA test is recommended for most men over the age of 50 here in the U.K. (even younger if a history of cancer runs in a family.) I am older than that, and once a year ask my doctor for a PSA test, which results in him asking to see me personally for a 'face to face' talk. I know he is of the opinion that the test is not fool proof, and always asks if he could do a physical examination of my prostate then and there, and this I am more than happy to agree to. I've covered part of this question in a similar post some time ago, but if I'm seeing my doctor about anything that could result in him wanting to do a DRE, I'd normally give myself a douche before seeing him as I'd hate for him to get a dirty finger from feeling around inside of me.

I asked for my doctor at the time for a prostate exam, I wasn't sure what age in my 40s that started so it didn't hurt to ask. She did it for me no problem

I asked my doctor to do my first prostate exam when I was 35. He said he normally doesn't start doing them until age 40, but agreed to do one on me then. I've been getting them yearly ever since

I think I was in my late 20’s when I asked for a DRE and testicular exam I truthfully said I was concerned about cancer and had a family history. The doctor had no issues. A few years later same practice different NP she declined saying I was too young (in my early 30’s at this point) to worry about cancer. Last time I ever went to that practice.

Why don't you just find a play doc that does realistic exams? I'm sure he would take more time and give you the type of exam you are hoping for. I'm sure you will be disappointed in a prostate exam from a real doctor... quick in and out and you're done.

I went to the urologist with kidney pain and took the opportunity to ask for a PSA test. When I came back with the test ready, the urologist saw my PSA test and did a rectal examination, thank God everything was normal.

I have never needed to ask the doctor to do a specific exam, but I have thought about it before, just out of curiosity to see if they would insist on getting back on the exam table and prolonging the exam a few moments more. But I could never come up with a good reason for needing to have anything checked out that wasn't already normal.