Age during first rectal exam

I was around 28 in the military

I wanna get one so freaking badly!!

If you mean DRE, I was 13. Visual rectal checks since I can remember.

19 after complaining to the doctor about constipation issues. Learned my lesson 😉

I was 31 and was as at a new doctor. I was not expecting it but wasn' Aposed.

I was twenty-four. I had been married for several years and I was having no luck getting pregnant. Went to the hospital for a full examination and a d & c. Had a rectal exam as part of the whole experience. It didn't bother me - probably because of all the enemas I had taken. Did not get many answers. This was over forty years ago.

A few years later I diagnosed myself wth polycystic ovarian syndrome. About seven years ago a doctor confirmed my self diagnosis.

Now there are interventions available. We adopted. Worked out rather well.

I've only ever had one. It was during a routine physical whe I was about 29 or 30 yrs old. That was almost 20 years ago. I suppose I'm due for another.

I go for a routine physical about every 5 years and am surprised and a little disappointed that I haven't had a DRE since turning 40. Are they considered obsolete these days given the blood tests to detect prostate cancers that are readily available?

I was about 22 and went for a graduate school medical, to my dad's doc.

After the genital and hernia.check, he told me to grab my knees and I felt a cold surprise.

There is another reason for a rectal exam that has nothing to do with checking the prostate. Men get colorectal cancer too. Tumors can form in the rectum. So even a male who is not old enough to have a prostate exam should get a rectal exam just to be careful

There is another reason for a rectal exam that has nothing to do with checking the prostate. Men get colorectal cancer too. Tumors can form in the rectum.

Exactly right. Which is why a thorough doctor won't go directly to press on the prostate. First they'll sweep 360 degrees inside the wall of the rectum with their finger to feel anything unusual.

I was 27

My first and by now only DRE was about a couple of years ago, so I was like 26.

I noticed I had hemorrhoids, which appeared when I would bear down. I didn't want it to get worse, so after some time I decided to have it checked.

I called the clinic to make an appointment with proctologist first thing in the morning. They had surgeons who dealt with procto issues, so I had my visit scheduled. I could see the doctor info and pics on the website, so I knew who I was going to see...

I was told on the phone to do a fleet enema before the visit. But instead I used the regular enema bag.

So the day came, and I entered the exam room. There was the doc and a nurse who was preparing some instruments, but soon she left, and it was me and the doc. It's not common here to have chaperones.

After we talked about what brought me there, he told me to take off my shoes and jeans and come up to the exam table. He then said "Lie on your right side, panties down to your knees, knees up". I thinks it was right instead of left side because of the table positioning, and also maybe he was left-handed.

I slid the panties just below my buttocks, and he slid them further himself - so embarrassing... He then parted my buttocks doing the visual check and also touching around. And speaking to me at the same time, like "yeah, I see some minor hemorroids"... He was literally talking to my ass, I didn't know how to react! So I mumbled something like uh-huh.

And then without any warning and even without a pause, he slid his finger inside! He didn't even take time to lubricate the finger - maybe he did it in advance, I didn't see...

He started feeling around, and it felt strange. Like something soft and moving inside my ass... I tried to stay relaxed, but must have tensed at some point, and he said "Relax". It was over in less than a minute I think. He said I had no internal hemorroids - maybe this is why he skipped anoscopy, which I was expecting with both dread and excitement. He told me I could get dressed, which I did very fast.

Then another embarrassing part was discussing the treatment... He told me to come back in five days, but I didn't show up...

I was 14

I have never had one.

Mermaid1, what was the treatment you discussed that was so embarrassing? Now I'm curious...

The treatment was just pills and cream)The discussion was embarrassing - like how to apply the cream etc

I was 18 when i received my first rectal exam

I've only had one and that was by the gastroenterologist prior to a colonoscopy which diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome. I was 46

I was 15. It was a young nurse and it was actually to lubricate me for a suppository. When her finger came out I thought it was her being finished inserting the suppository and started pulling my pants up, she said that was just her lubricating me and she still needed to insert the suppository.

My first was at forty years old during a yearly physical. I can remember getting rectal temps and suppositories as a child.

I was 19 and suffering from pain in my colon, thats was when I was diagnosed with IBS.

I was 15, had a bad pain in my groin and the doctor was a female in her 40's her daughter went to my high school and was in a grade above me. She had me take off everything downstairs and checked it all out, then made me go on all four's and did the rectal exam. I wasn't expecting it and when she stroked my prostate I got super hard then she kept rotating her hand to check the rest of my rectum then back to prostate. When she was done she had me lay back down on my back and she saw my raging erection which was overflowing with pre-cum, I was so embarrassed about that I nearly passed out but she reassured me and told me it was okay. Then she took some tissue to clean it off and as soon as she grabbed my penis which was still rock hard, I came and shot a load of cum, but she reacted quickly and used her other hand to cover my load from spraying up. She turned a bit red but neither of us spoke as she changed her gloves and cleaned up the mess I caused. I had to see her a few months later for same reoccurring pain only this time she decided to not do the prostate exam.

I was in my early 20's probably about 22. I had to get examined by a Urologist because my girlfriend had to have two genital warts removed. I did not have any warts or symptoms and she had caught this from her high school boyfriend. The doctor examined my penis and then had me turn around, bend over and used his gloved hand to examine my rectum.

I am 33 and have yet to receive my first DRE. At every physical exam that I can remember, my doctor has always just done a visual examination of my anus. I have never had a doctor insert a finger into my rectum yet.

I will be 36 when I will geht it.

I was in my early thirties. It was one of the longest I've ever had, at a routine physical. I remember worrying I was going to pee.

I'm in my mid-thirties now and I never have expirienced a rectal exam, just given several of them to play dates. All of them really seemed to enjoy it.

For me like I guess for many men of my age, it was in the mid sixties in a pre-induction militazry center at a draft physical examination.

We were called to report at the center once we reached 18 age, it was a group exam, we were naked for almost all a morning ina large group , around 100 young men, gathered by smaller groups of 20 or 25 draftees.

First we might go in group to a shower room with gang showers, then we dressed again and we went to an other part of the building where the physical examination took place.

we were instructed to,undress in a locker room which was locked after our exit and then it began with several medical stations ..

It included at one station a genital inspection which was performed mainly like it was at our annual school physical examinations but we had after to turn around, to bend over and to spread our butts to let the military doctor perform a visual inspection of our asshole and anus area ( I guess he was checking for rushes, moles, marks and so on ..)

To make us stand up again, he gave each of us a strong smack on the butts.

But it was not finished and we had after to sit on all fours on a table and to bend forward the head and the shoulders and to spread the legs with our butts in the air.

Without any explanation about the reason of this examination, the military doctor performed a digital rectal examination, he inserted his fingers into my rectum and it lasted a long time in my memories ( at least it seemed to be a long time even if it was certainly rather short), he did it without using a vaseline substance and he pushed deep inside of me and turned his fingers on all sides before taking them away.

it was a little painful because he did it too brutally.

Like for the visual examination of the anus, he gave me an other smack on the butts to make me lift and he told me that I could get out..

I learned later that he did it to check the prostate.

Later in my life I have had several times a DRE but they were performed often differently less brutally and with vaseline or any other lubricating substance.

I was 36. I had problems with my lower digestive tract, and the doctor wanted to make sure that everything was normal.

I was 18 when I had my first rectal exam. It was a weird, but exciting experience.