Age during first rectal exam

I was 16 and it was part of my first pelvic exam as well. It was kind of a surprise (and not a very pleasant one) as my doctor told me about it. This part of the exam was over in a "few" seconds, but still, back then it felt way longer than that. To this day I really don't like that part of the exam, even so I now know what to expect.

I was 19, when I had my first rectal exam. I went to a urologist because I faced some problems like burning and pain while urinating. So I decided to go for exam. The doctor then performed a complete in order find the reason for my pain.

Never had a rectal examination (DRE type) until I was in my 50s (prostate check). However, as a child, school doctors did an annual visual check of the anus. I aways found it horribly embarrassing, having to bend over (naked and showing my bottom to the doctor),then pulling my buttocks apart whilst the doctor was literally shining a light up my hole!! At that young age, I can only think that they were checking for haemorrhoids.

Schoolmedboy, Maybe they were checking for trauma. Like rape etc.

@1ofmany .....In routine school medical exams (1960s)?? I would not have thought that was ever on their agenda?? School doctors I encountered back then (being a very working class boy from a rough neighbourhood) always seemed to to speak with 'cut glass' accents. They often spoke in the third person too ('Right, now let's just take the rest of our clothes off, shall we?'). They were always jolly, jovial and breezy and would use phrases like: 'All very good. Splendid. Now, get dressed and run along, there's a good chap*.' They also always used euphemisms. The two I shall never forget:1) They would never say: 'I am going to examine your penis and testicles.' It was always. 'I'm just going to check you down below.'. Likewise 2) They would never say 'I want to look at / examine your anus.' No, it was always: 'Now...bend over, there's a good chap*, I just want to check your back passage.'

*Occasionally they would substitute boy or lad.3

I was 15 and a dermatologist said he was checking for hemorrhoids and gave me a rectal exam.

I had my first rectal exam at age 40. I went to see the proctologist due to an external hemorrhoid. The examination was performed in the lithotomy position on a special proctology chair. The doctor did a digital rectal exam and proctoscopy.

I got my first rectal exam when I was about 9-10 years old. my parent go with me to the routinary anually exam. Remember them wait out and nurse had me take off my dress and underpant. Was really humillatin on the examination table. Doctor palpated my abdomen, and rectum. I do not remember something more embarrassing

Maria fetish: It's not usual to perform a rectal exam on a child during a routine exam. Were there special circumstances warranting that? chronic constipation or bedwetting, maybe?

I was 28 and it was during a hospital admission. It was done to check for occult blood prior to starting anticoagulants.

I don't think I've ever had a rectal exam yet. Not as far as I can remember.

I believe I was about 16, during a regular yearly check.

I was about 32 - 35 years old in the early to mid 1970s when I got my first rectal exam. I was in the hospital to have a cyst removed from a testicle and the urologist who was going to operate on me did an rectal exam the night before surgery. I am sure he also palpated my prostate gland in the process. Later that night the nurse came in and gave me a Fleet Enema as part of my prep for the surgery, while my wife watched from in front of me, and later a male orderly came in and shaved my whole pubic area for the incision, which my wife did not watch, though it would not have bothered me if she had. I wish she had watched, too.

In the late 1990s I was not given any enemas to prep me for my major kidney surgery. I have to say that I was looking forward to a big soap suds enema. The times had changed and it was and is all about time and money now.

Regular physical exams were not something I grew up getting as a kid or a man either. I was in my late 50s before I had a doctor who did yearly physical exams. Going to the doctor was something we did only when we were really sick. Common childhood diseases like mumps, measles and whooping cough, all of which I had as a child, were just something you had, put up with and just got over eventually. It was not a good way to raise kids, but doctors were expensive... still are, too.

I fully expected to receive one during my first visit to the gyno/pap, and I was beyond nervous. It was one of the first times a major medical fantasy of mine had the potential to be reality.

However, my doctor informed me that based on recent research, no significant benefit to women comes from it compared to other existing parts of the exam; with that, she performed the exam (no rectal) and I went on my merry way. Perhaps it is better to keep the fantasy separate from the health-centered approach, I have come to realize.

I was 11 and it was the first time it was just me and the doctor in the room. He told me to roll over onto my stomach and then he spread my legs a little bit. He parted my cheeks like every other time but this time he rubbed something on my asshole, I didn’t understand what was going on as it felt cool and slimy. Then he said to take a deep breath and when I did he slid his finger into my ass. Omg the feelings of pain, embarrassment, and confusingly enough excitement.

SassyCat: Did your doctor tell you that because you asked for a rectal?

Only Visual, first one (I mean with me being aware of it) was with me aged 11, Examination with a DRE ,at 22.. A very Painful one!

Gonzalo: Why a rectal exam at 22, and why was it painful?

I was 16 it was my yearly physical exam. She had huge thick fingers i remember her saying relax and act like your going number 2. I remember yelling take it out take it out like 5 times and she just kept saying relax honey i am almost done. What made it worse was her saying i felt a bit impacted in front of mom. When we got home out came big red as mom liked to jokingly call her enema bag.

Only just had my first sometime in my mid 50's. This was when they started introducing this routine into the annual physical several years ago. I'm on my back with feet in stirrups and after they do the vaginal digital examination they then move to rectal. It does not last long and I have not found it painful at all.

As I said previously, my first actual digital examination was when I was 40, although school medicals sometimes, though not always included a visual inspection where the doctor quickly parted my cheeks to check me.

I had numerous visual exams as a kid growing up during routine physicals. When I was 16. I had already been exploring kinky things and had given myself a nice UTI inserting things in my cock. Didn't tell my mom where the infection came from but had to tell her about it, so off to the urologist we went. He was an older guy and I actually was friends with his son as we were school mates. Fortunately my mom waited outside as it was a long examination starting with a series of questions like "now we aren't doing anything strange down there are we?" I never admitted to shoving stuff down my slit. I am a very small guy and at the time weighed about 80lbs. I had been shaving since I started growing hair and was virtually hairless all over, he spent a long time with me naked on the table, examining balls and penis with a lot of attention the the head and slit. I actually was very humiliated but allowed him to continue as he was the doctor. The stimulation from the exam was making me harden somewhat though not fully. He then said "Ok, I need you to get on your elbows and knees for me", I had no idea what was coming. No clue whatsoever. I thought he would be looking at things much like the many times previously. I heard the glove snap on, heard the lubricant jar lid hit the table, didn't know what either was until I saw them afterwards. "Take a breath for me" which I did and with one hand on my back just above my buttocks, he slipped in a finger. He was a rather large man with large fingers so I felt it, it was a deep searing pain like I had never felt. I felt total and utter shock as I never even heard of doing this to someone, I cried real tears, "What are you doing?" "Relax, it is called a rectal exam and I am checking the prostate and anal area for problems". The exam lasted for a very long time and he spent a long time feeling my prostate and massaging it. I had that feeling of peeing but couldn't stop it and was dripping cum by the time he was done. I tried to hide it, but couldn't. I was mortified, "Quite normal when palpating the prostate" he explained then squeezed the remaining cum from my hanging dick. A light slap on the ass and he told me to get dressed as all was well. Antibiotics for the infection and instructions to make sure to always sanitize things before experimenting. He then proceeded to tell my mom he had done a full exam including digital and all was fine. I was beyond humiliated but as time wore on and it replayed in my mind, I enjoyed it too.

28 as part of a routine exam.

I was 22 at my first during my exit physical from the armed forces. It was a very,very thorough physical exam; one on one, with a full colonel. He took nearly an hour with me did things to me I had never before had done to me during a physical. I only had on underpants. He had me lower them and spread my legs a bit, bend over, and rest my elbows on my knees and rest my chin on my hands while he examined my rectum and prostate. I remember when he pressed on my prostate what a strange but very nice feeling it was and the feeling I urgently needed to pee.

SassyCat posted on 2019.05.02 01:15

"However, my doctor informed me that based on recent research, no significant benefit to women comes from it compared to other existing parts of the exam; with that, she performed the exam (no rectal) and I went on my merry way."

One good reason for doing a rectal exam is to check for hidden or occult blood in the stool with a very simple and easy test. Even young people can get colon cancer, which is curable if found early enough.

Evidently her gyno doctor didn't do a recto-vaginal exam on her or she possibly could have checked that finger for fecal occult blood.

Checking for fecal occult blood is a good reason not to give yourself an enema before going to the doctor. I don't know if it would or could mess up the fecal occult blood test, but why take that chance.

Does anyone in the medical profession on here know about this matter and can answer that question?

I was about 60 yrs old I was having a bleeding problem when I Peed The Dr cked my prostate and found Cancer Which was treated Everything is fine now I go for a yearly checkup

40 years old.

It depens on what you call a rectal exam :

if it was a visusal inspection of the anus, butts cheeks being separated to let the doctor have a good view inside the anus area, it was often done at school examinations middle and high schools with a female doctor assisted by a female nurse.

if it is a finger inserted in the anus for a real DRE, it was a mandatory physical examination in a pre-induction military center for the mandatory military service and same two years of other physical examinations before being eventaually declared fit for military service and therefore a fews years after superior students at the physical examination before induction and also after the arrival at the barracks during induction process

Esaterman: You got a rectal exam during military induction? That seems unusual, did you have any condition that may explain that?

No, there was nothing particular in my medical form which could justify it only for me, it was done to all draftees in the pre-induction military center where I might go for my examination in 1967 -( it was not done at physical examinations in front of the draft board where it was only a visual examination of your asshole while you were bending over and speading your cheeks but without any finger inserted in your rectum)

And if I was posponed for physical reasons two times, it was only for a lordosis in the spine and a a little too low weight under standards. So it could not be a reason to perform a DRE.

I don't know if it was unusual or common at that time but at that center, it was a common practice of the military doctor who did it to all draftees. May be it was his decision to do it, who knows?

But It was the same a few years after at the physical examinations after induction, the military doctor performed also a DRE to all inductees.