Women, how do you prepare for your gyno appointment?

I was discussing "birthing plans" with an OB/GYN friend over dinner tonight. We were laughing at the fact that the first thing on just about every one of them is that they don't want to be shaved.. yet they come in completely shaved! Um... ok... I'd say about 20% of our patients shave "down there"

Doc

It may depend upon where docinny and his friend are practising. There are almost certainly cultural differences - different cultural pressures and expectations - affecting the proportion of women who shave "down below".

I always shower before going for an exam and also make sure that things are nicely trimmed "down there." As for douching, I still use them fairly regularly, but don't douche for 48 hours before going to the doctor. As for an enema, I've never taken one as a prep for the ob/gyn.

My girlfriend always does an total preparation for her visit to the gyno.

She always want me to come with her.

She shaves her legs en pussy, not bolt but trimmed and she takes a shower.

Tomorrow morning she has to go to the gyno....and i am feeling very exiting to go with her....

greats Jo

My girlfiend never shaves her pussy totaly, just trim it very good

i'm also trimed intimate

we find that it is more sexy if it is not bearly naked

jo

Most women i know shower before their exam

it is more from a hygeine aspect because of what the exam involves

as for shaving i dont know any that shave specically for the exam rather shave as that is part of their routine

In a real exam it would be very unprofessional to make unnecessary comments about a patient's "hairdo". However, in a play exam saying something like "Hmm, you don't shave your pubic area?" in a slightly disapproving tone can increase the tension.

The advantage of a thick bush is the extra time needed to gently comb through it with two gloved fingers to take a good look at the skin in the pubic area.

Although shaving or heavy trimming has become the norm, i am not sure its the majority. From what i see in spas etc is 50/50

I think the shaving is necessary for an exam! hair can caused trouble in examination

SpecSteve, you made my day. Im slightly trimmed (so my bush has actually any shape at all) but apart from that i don't shave so i can match my pubic hair with my hair color. From new year till mid february i think that means black/green.

I always clip my bush before an examination, as i'm in a lesbian relationship i know its nicer to have a sleek entrance. It also shows off my moist clit and vagina as the nurse comes close.

:'( After having a bad experience with a bitchy old doctor when I was sent to her for a physical as part of a fellowship application while in grad school a couple years ago I now always make sure that I take the time to keep myself neatly trimmed. I'm sure that this lady who was nearing retirement age quickly did everything she could to embarrass and make me as uncomfortable as possible to the point of actually inflicting unnecessary pain.

She especially lectured me about having so much hair that she couldn't see enough to do a proper exam but grudgingly continued any way. Several times she pulled rather hard on my pubic hair under the guise of "trying to get a better look". When I complained she only tugged harder. Eventually she plucked some of the very fine hairs from the inside edges of my labia which was excruciatingly painful. Next it was onto my hands and knees with my ass high in the air for the obligatory rectal exam. This was a far more thorough exam and took much longer than any other rectal exam before or after this one. Of course before, during, and after there was plenty of bitching about the amount and length of the hair around my asshole.

When she was finally finished I was in tears and dressed very quickly and left the office without taking time to put on my panties or hose, stuffing them in my purse. Imagine my embarrassment when as I was entering the crowded elevator that lubricant from the exam was running down both thighs and my skirt was of a length that was about 5" above the knee.

That very afternoon I made a spa appointment for the next day specifically to have my pubic area and the area around my asshole groomed neatly and have not failed to keep them so since.

I use a depilatory cream to remove anything around the labia (and back 😳 ), and to shape the edges of the mons, and the use a clipper to keep the rest short. Think George Michael during his designer stubble phase 😁 !

I find the completely bald look too onerous to maintain, so go for a sort of halfway-house in terms of lady-garden topiary. It's a look I also quite like to see on others - well maintained but not too contrived!

I think its a lot more hygenic to shave, definately before any examinations. my doctor/nurse has never passed any remarks on my bareness.

Never had comments by either Doc or nurses about the fact i'm almost always clean shaven. Had one once from a nurse who was worried she'd catch my clit piercings in the speculum but i just laughed and told her i promised not to scream if she did..would have rather liked it had she done. Pity.

Shaving a women is nice and arrousend to do , but two day later kissing the shaved pussy is not so nice , OK I am a man and don't know what I need and what I want , well not , I like to shave a women and to take care of her , but I prefer to kiss and more a depilated women sex because it is more soft . I found very nice too to depilate a women , but the perfume of the cream is what it is , and certainly more strong than sexy 😉 but so good to 😘 and so nice to 😄

I agree, I think shaving your partner has got to be one of the sexiest things we have done for each other. There is just something very intimate about it.

I was discussing this with my friends a few weeks ago and they were laughing. They asked me how on earth I trusted him enough to shave my soft pink sensitive parts, lol. I simply replied, he's licensed to use a scalpel, I'm sure I can trust him with a razor. They just nodded and said, "yes, I guess he's trustworthy."

Mostly 80% of euorpean woman are shaved, so it becomes a very natural thing and not one doctor will make any remark r problem of that seeing that during an exam. I would say that it is more uncommon not beeing shaved at all

right ?

I keep mine partially shaven, just a little patch, and that I keep trimmed. I have gone completely bare before but didn't like the way it looked on me. I've never had a doctor comment on it.

My wife will shave the night before. Bald is beautiful. 😄

I have been completely hair free for the last fifteen years and will remain that way till it no longer interests my "friends". None of the doctors who have examined me have ever made an comments.

I had never thought I would find myself shaving but on the advice of some friends I thought I would give it a try. So I trimmed/shaved for the first time and I am still getting used to it. I will see if I will do it again, lol. And I will be interested in seeing if my real life doctor makes a comment when I see her in 2 weeks, lol.

To mehtap : you shaving or depilating for your gyno more than for your lover ? This let understand you have more care for a stranger of your close family as for your family .

To playtim3 , shaving is nice but do you try , trimming not to short , and after depilating , ask to your lover to help you to do this , this will open some more possibilities of higher complicity and intimacy . I can't understand to pay for depilate privates parts , and having a lover , you want to be nicer for him or her , ask her or him to help you for .

I have never been given advice other then at PP they told me once a really good shaving cream to use. I don't think there are any heath issues or concerns when it comes to shaving so why would they care 😜

To add to Arthur's great advice, have your partner use a comb and scissors unless they are "licensed to use a scalpel" like Mashie's.

Trimmed is just so delicious looking!

I must tell you in my opinion 80% of shaven is inaccurate. Maybe in europe but not here. I go to a lot of spas and gyms and have seen a lot of my gender nude. And i ...bristle (pun non-intended) that having a bush is non-hygenic? pullleaaase

You all are making me feel like a freak 😃

^^^^ OMG. angielouwhos is absolutely correct.

There is no way that 80% of American women--any age-- are shaved. Most women are trimmed. The ones who are "naturally bushy" are very far and few between, or at least they don't go to the same spas and gyms I go to.

I've been completely shaven for all my gynecologist appointments so far, though lately I've been letting it grow back in a little. No one has ever commented, unless you count just before my appendicitis surgery when the nurse seemed happy she wouldn't have to take the time to shave me herself!

The comment posted said "mostly 80% of euorpean (sic) woman are shaved" not American. While I do think more European women are shaven than USA women, I would like to volunteer to help on the statistical study to find out the truth.

Any other volunteers?

Any subject volunteers?

Remember, the condition must be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

So be naked and in the light please.

Ive been bald down there since i was a teen getting my first fuzz